Gender

This book showcases sociology at work, making sense of complex and shifting dynamics of class, gender and intellectual labour.  It explores what does social equality mean now in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge.

Charlotte Gilman (1869 --1935) was one of the leading intellectuals of the American women’s movement.  This autobiography traces her unconventional journey and contributions to the struggle for the rights of women.

 
This book explores the intersection of gender stratification and economic variables with, and within, the family or household.  All its chapters present interesting theories and data on the interrelationships between economic, gender and family. The chapters consider this “triple overlap” at both the micro and macroeconomic levels

 
This book introduces a gender lens into debates around social protection.  It draws on empirical evidence and data from poor households and communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America and provides an insight into the effects of a range of social protection instruments.  The book concludes that with relatively simple changes to design and with investment in implementation capacity, social protection can contribute to transforming gender relations at the individual, intra-household and community level.

 
This World Bank MENA Development Report notes that the MENA region has closed many critical gender gaps, especially in ensuring equal access for girls and boys in education and health care and in decreasing maternal mortality rates.  The report also points out to key gender inequalities notably in employment and political participation and refers to women’s unmet aspirations and untapped potentials in the region. aspirations

This is the third edition of this book which was initially published in 1986 and which seeks to analyse the “reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery”.
According to the author, “embroidery brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the public eye thus fostering the emergence of today’s dynamic and expanding crafts movement”.
 
 

This book seeks to enhance understanding of the constraints and barriers that confine women to more poorly remunerated, more casual and more insecure forms of waged and self-employment, and of what this implies for women’s ability to provide for their families and cope with this insecurity.

This volume argues that the public/private divide as framed and analysed by feminist theorists remains central to the organization of modern societies and to reinforcing gender roles and gender relations. The authors address strategies, mechanisms and struggles for challenging the public/private divide in order to achieve gender equality