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Law and Iranian women's activism / Louise A. Halper -- Gendered space and shared security: women's activism in peace and conflict resolution in Indonesia / Etin Anwar -- Failures of solidarity, failures of the nation-state: nongovernmental organizations and Moroccan women's activism / Rachel Newcomb -- Beyond personal belief? The role of religious identities among Muslim women respect activists / Narzanin Massoumi -- In search of faithful citizens in postcolonial Malaysia: Islamic ethics, Muslim activism, and feminist politics / Azza Basarudin -- Muslim women's scholarship and the new gender jihad / Roxanne D. Marcotte -- New expressions of religiosity: Al Huda international and the expansion of Islamic education for Pakistani Muslim women / Khanum Shaikh -- "Women's spirit" and spiritual matter(s)": gender, activism, and scholarship in an Ethiopian eco-spiritual system / Patricia H. Karimi-Taleghani -- Staging politics: new currents in North African women's dramatic literature / Laura Chakravarty Box -- Indonesian women: activist and Islamist spiritual callings / Nelly Van Doorn-Harder -- The dialogs of a new Orientalist discourse: telling tales of Iranian womanhood / Kahani Beguum -- Religious practice and worldview of Muslim women in western Europe / Kari Vogt -- From ritual to redemption : world view of Shi'a Muslim women in southern California / Bridget Blomfield -- Religion as a spring for activism: Muslim women youth in Canada / Katherine Bullock

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Working women today: a wasted resource -- 2 Pre-industrial woman -- 3 The Industrial Revolution -- 4 Trade unions: men only -- 5 The professions close ranks -- 6 The two world wars: votes and jobs -- 7 Women's attitudes to work -- 8 Work's attitudes to women -- 9 Women and the professions today: too little, too late -- 10 Married women: burying the talents -- 11 Second thoughts set in -- 12 Equality and the law -- Notes to chapters -- Index

Introduction / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith -- Part I. From words to deeds : between genres -- War, speech, and the bow are not women's business / Philippe Rousseau -- Women and war in the Iliad : rhetorical and ethical implications / Marella Nappi -- Teichoskopia : female figures looking on battles / Therese Fuhrer -- Women arming men : armor and jewelry / Francois Lissarrague -- Woman and war : from the Theban Cycle to Greek tragedy / Louise Bruit -- Women after war in Seneca's Troades : a reflection on emotions / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris -- Love and war : feminine models, epic roles, and gender identity in Statius' Thebaid / Federica Bessone -- Elegiac women and Roman warfare / Alison Keith -- Warrior women in Roman epic / Alison Sharrock -- Part II. Women and war in historical context : discourse, representation, stakes -- War in the feminine in ancient Greece / Pierre Ducrey -- To act, not submit : women's attitudes in situations of war in ancient Greece / Stella Georgoudi -- Women's wars, censored wars? : a few Greek hypotheses (eighth to fourth centuries BCE) / Pascal Payen -- The warrior queens of Caria (fifth to fourth centuries BCE) : archeology, history and historiography / Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet -- Fulvia : the representation of an elite Roman woman warrior / Judith Hallett -- Women and imperium in Rome : imperial perspectives / Stephane Benoist -- The feminine side of war in Claudian's Epics / Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer -- Index locorum -- Index nominum -- Index rerum -- Index vasorum

In this book, Suzanne Franks looks at the key issues surrounding female journalists--from on-screen sexism and ageism to the dangers facing female foreign correspondents reporting from war zones. She also analyses the way that the changing digital media have presented both challenges and opportunities for women working in journalism and considers this in an international perspective. In doing so, this book provides an overview of the ongoing imbalances faced by women in the media and looks at the key issues hindering gender equality in journalism." (Back cover)

The martial virtues--courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength--were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer's epics and the major tragedies in Greece to Seneca's stoic writings in first-century Rome. They consider a vast panorama of scenes in which women are portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and beneficiaries of war. This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies.--Provided by publisher.

"Women and Leadership explores the causes and consequences of the underrepresentation of women in America's leadership roles. Drawing on comprehensive research and a survey of prominent women leaders, the book describes the reasons for gender inequity in leadership and identifies compelling solutions. It is essential reading for anyone interested in leveling the playing field for women"--

1. An Overview: What We Know About Incarcerated Women and Girls -- 2. Pop Culture and Perception -- 3. Female Perpetrators: Risks, Needs, and Pathways to Offending -- 4. Criminal Justice Processing and Procedure, Generally and for Justice-Involved Women -- 5. The Female Prison Experience -- 6. Justice-Involved Girls: Women, Health and Pregnancy, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Concerns -- 7. Sexuality and Gender: Locked In, and Out -- 8. Intersectional Pathways: The Role Victimization Plays in Women's Offending and in Prisons -- 9. Educational and Vocational Programming in Women's Prisons: History, Gender Disaparities, and Promising Progress -- 10. Women Working in Male Prisons and Jails -- 11. Concluding Remarks.

"Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the gendered phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history, and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers the tools to understand women's (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life"--P. [4] of cover

This empowering volume presents current empirical findings and rich personal insights into the evolving challenges women face in attaining--and thriving in--leadership positions. Contributors add new voices to emerging and familiar topics, including leadership styles and traits, growth and learning experiences within career paths, mentoring and entrepreneurial aspects of leadership, and workplace and societal resistance to women in roles of power. Representative first-person accounts shed significant light on real-world double standards and double binds (including the unique obstacles faced by minority women), why the glass ceiling still exists, and steps still needed to dismantle it. Coverage also addresses related legal issues, such as the ongoing fight against pay inequities and conflicts between the DeVos rules and Title IX regulations in the schools. Included among the topics: · · Turn ah-ha moments into pivotal learning. · The important role of women in social entrepreneurship. · Focus group becomes support group: women in educational leadership. · Issues confronting women leaders in academia: the quest for equality. · Leadership means using the courts to demand equal enforcement of and protection for women's constitutional and civil rights. · Organizations concerned with women and leadership. Whether one's interest is local or global, scholars and students in courses on leadership, career development, and women's studies will find Women and Leadership inspiring and stimulating in myriad domains, from research and business to politics and policy.

This book begins with an examination of the numbers of women in physics in English-speaking countries, moving on to examine factors that affect girls and their decision to continue in science, right through to education and on into the problems that women in physics careers face. Looking at all of these topics with one eye on the progress that the field has made in the past few years, and another on those things that we have yet to address, the book surveys the most current research as it tries to identify strategies and topics that have significant impact on issues that women have in the field

Have you ever experienced a job loss, an empty nest, menopause, childbirth, marriage, divorce, infertility, retirement, a career change, a geographic move, a change in health status or other similarly weighty life event? Each one can begin a transition, a unique opportunity to realign your life, nourish the person you are, and live the life you imagine. This book helps readers understand transition and presents a unique step-by-step roadmap every woman can use to make transition positive, optimistic and approachable throughout her life. Even with a Harvard MBA and a track record of great success behind her, author Linda Rossetti faced a wrenching transition after realizing the career path she had spent years building was no longer suitable or sustainable. She was in her mid-forties, a senior executive at a Fortune 500 Company with countless hours logged in conference rooms, hotel rooms and on airplanes, when both her family and professional life began to unravel. She sought out change - like many women - a new job, less travel, more time at home, but quickly realized this was not the answer. Rossetti's transition story coupled with the frustration felt by millions of women with similar experiences set Rossetti on a course to search for answers. Rossetti found the answers in the transition experiences of hundreds of women whom she interviewed over three years. WOMEN & TRANSITION was born out of those conversations. The story is told in the author's own voice and the voices of many of these women who shared their heartfelt transition stories with her. WOMEN & TRANSITION defines transition, introduces a toolkit for transitioning, and delivers a roadmap for women from all walks of life to take the next steps on their own journey. Woven throughout this valuable transition blueprint are real - human - stories that constantly inspire and remind us that we are not alone in this journey. WOMEN & TRANSITION is a chronicle of modern day women's experience and an irreplaceable guide that will help women of all ages. This book was created for women to take on transition and to find a path that opens opportunity. For more information please go to womenandtransition.com: There you will find tools, resources and interviews to help you navigate your own transition.

The paper focuses on women and radicalization within the context of Muslim societies (majority, minority, and half Muslim) societies and groups, mainly in Asia and Africa. The basic argument advanced in this paper is that Islamic feminism with its gender-egalitarian discourse and practices has a major role to play in the empowerment of Muslim women—and of men and society as a whole—and should be brought to bear in devising policy, strategy, and tools.