Women's Studies
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Rymph, Catherine E.

“We Need Homes.” Cornelia Ougheltree’s Finding Foster Homes detailed strategies for recruiting African American foster families. But how were agencies to get black families interested in fostering in the first ...
( Category: Women's Studies January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-07 | Author:Yasmine Ergas & Jane Jenson & Sonya Michel

CONCLUSION My focus has been on the circumstances under which postadoption visitation agreements are entered into and the circumstances under which they are enforced. Whether an analogy to plea bargains ...
( Category: Social Policy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Barbara B. Oberg [Oberg, Barbara B.]

[S]ome days we have a number of cannon and shells from Boston and Bunkers Hill, but it does not seem to surprise any one but me; I confess I shudder ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-04 | Author:Kali Nicole Gross

Chapter Six A Most Revolting Deed Dr. Formad, the Coroner’s physician … concluded that the deceased had been butchered while still alive. —Evening Bulletin, Thursday, June 2, 1887 George S. ...
( Category: Minority Studies January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Marilyn French [French, Marilyn]

CONCLUSION AN ANALYSIS OF THE STATE WHEN LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE DECLARED “L’état, c’est moi,” he said what many heads of state assume—that they personally incarnate the state. Because people ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Laura Briggs [Briggs, Laura]

GAY AND LESBIAN PARENTS For the courts and queer folks alike, one of the most important questions animating the quest for gay marriage has been the protection of gay and ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-10-26 | Author:Cynthia Enloe [Enloe, Cynthia]

On what terms shall we join that procession? Above all, where is it leading us, the procession of educated men? . . . But, you will object, you have no ...
( Category: Feminist Theory January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:Leela Fernandes

All three organizations used concepts of discrimination, inequality, deprivation, exploitation and oppression to justify the need for change. ForWfW, “women’s empowerment” was close to women’s development and gender equality. BMP ...
( Category: Feminist Theory January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Scott, Joan Wallach; [Scott, Joan Wallach;]

Freedom of Religion In March 1946, British prime minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in which he coined the phrase “iron curtain” to refer ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Abigail T. Brooks

“It’s Stupid Not to Do Everything You Can” I heard a lot from women who embrace intervention about how looks matter—and how looking young matters—particularly for women. Women repeatedly expressed ...
( Category: Women's Studies January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Asma Barlas

Thus, religious, racial, and linguistic differences are all divinely ordained and are “Signs For those who know” (30:22 [Ali, 1056]). By representing differences as expressions of God’s will, the Qurʾān ...
( Category: Women in Islam January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-14 | Author:Romi Neustadt

DO THE HARD STUFF FIRST Humans will go to great lengths to avoid what’s hard, which is why our to-do lists are often filled with the same labor-intensive and scary ...
( Category: Work Life Balance January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-05 | Author:Tsedale M. Melaku [Melaku, Tsedale M.]

Boys Don’t Cry As mentioned earlier, affiliation with the boys’ club bears a direct correlation to the allocation of substantive work assignments, secluding particular contacts and channeling access to those ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Donna J Haraway [Haraway, Donna J]

Fractured Identities It has become difficult to name one's feminism by a single adjective - or even to insist in every circumstance upon the noun. Consciousness of exclusion through naming ...
( Category: Feminist Theory January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-15 | Author:Donna Gehrke-White [Gehrke-White, Donna]

26 ZULY: A LATINA FINDS ISLAM A LATINA TEXAN, Zulayka Y. Martinez (nicknamed Zuly), has discovered cultural differences at her mosque and a backlash after 9/11. In her own words, ...
( Category: Women in Islam January 18,2020 )