Tells the story of how women's organizations got savvy - framing the issues strategically, seizing political opportunities in the international environment, and taking advantage of mobilizing structures - and overcame the cultural opposition of many UN-member states to define the two issues and cement women's rights as an international cause.
Chronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating symptoms that plague some breast-cancer survivors long after their treatments have officially ended. This book is filled with portraits of more than seventy women who are living with the aftermath of breast cancer.
Fatigue. Chronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating symptoms that plague some breast-cancer survivors long after their treatments have officially ended. This title is filled with portraits of more than seventy women who are living with the aftermath of breast cancer.
Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical lens, the collection interrogates the ways in which women construct new ways of telling the ......
Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
African Women Writing Diaspora examines the works of contemporary African female writers through diaspora perspectives on the constructions of identity in transnational spaces. The collection interrogates the ways in which women construct new ways of telling the African story in the global age of social, economic, and political transformation.
This multidisciplinary book explores African women's networks and their interventions as they work to achieve social and political change. Such networks - historic, real, virtual, and imagined - expose existing gender hierarchies, while also making progress toward gender equality.
This book highlights significant contributions of African American women in education, their successes and challenges in the human sciences/family and consumer sciences profession, and the impact of historically Black colleges and universities throughout American history.
This book highlights significant contributions of African American women in education, their successes and challenges in the human sciences/family and consumer sciences profession, and the impact of historically Black colleges and universities throughout American history.
African American Girls and the Construction of Identity explores identity formation among African American adolescent girls through the lens of socioeconomic class.
