Books On Gender And Women

Gender and Women, Glass Ceiling Hypothesis, Gender Roles, Abstracts, Bibliography, Syllabus, Journals, Women's Movement

Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances

Gender And Planning: A Reader Book by Susan S. Fainstein, Lisa J. Servon (Editors)

Dialogue and Difference: - Book Edited by Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos

Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology, Culture) Book by Sharon R. Wesoky

Sexuality and Gender (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) Christine L. Williams, Arlene Stein (Editors)

Dancing on the Glass Ceiling : Tap into Your True Strengths, Activate Your Vision, and Get What You Really Want out of Your Career Book by Candy Deemer, Nancy Fredericks

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of Americas Largest Corporations? Book by Ann M. Morrison, Randall P. White, Ellen Van Velsor

Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail by Deborah Barndt

The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, & Behavior by Rose Weitz (Editor)

The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy Book by Roger N. Lancaster (Editor), Micaela Di Leonardo (Editor)

Glass Walls and Glass Ceilings : Women's Representation in State and Municipal Bureaucracies Book by Margaret F. Reid, Brinck Kerr, Will Miller

Negotiating the Glass Ceiling: Careers of Senior Women in the Academic World Book by Miriam David (Editor), Diana Woodward (Editor)

Reviews:

Gender And Planning: A Reader Book by Susan S. Fainstein, Lisa J. Servon (Editors)
Experts recognize that gender has affected urban planning and the design of the spaces where we live and work. Urban and suburban spaces support stereotypically male activities and planning methodologies reflect a male-dominated society.
To document and analyze the connection between gender and planning, an interdisciplinary collection of influential essays by leading scholars. Contributors point to the ubiquitous single-family home, which prevents women from sharing tasks or pooling services. Similarly, they argue that public transportation routes are usually designed for the (male) worker’s commute from home to the central city, and do not help the suburban dweller running errands.
While the essays call for an awareness of gender in matters of planning, they do not over-simplify the issue by moving toward a single feminist solution. Contributors realize that not all women gravitate toward communal opportunities, that many women now share the supposedly male commute, and that considerations of race and class need to influence planning as well. Among various recommendations, contributors urge urban planners to provide opportunities that facilitate women’s needs, such as childcare on the way to work and jobs that are decentralized so that women can be close to their children.

Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization - Book Edited by Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos. Provides students with groundbreaking essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists who stress the need to put different approaches to reality and to scholarship into relation in order to build coalitions across the usual North/South, East/West divides. Contemporary feminists face the labor of moving beyond the dominant paradigms of knowledge and communication that drive corporate globalization. Modeling ways to weave these connections, the authors take difference, rather than isomorphic similarity, to be the basis for effective anti-imperial feminist theory and practice. These dialogues among women's movements bridge profound differences in historical, economic, and political circumstance, language, culture, and fundamental "cosmovision." Such differences are welcomed by contributors as practical resources, rather than as obstacles, in feminist challenges to corporate globalization. Dialogue and Difference is an essential collection for professors and students interested in globalization, development, gender studies, and activism.

Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology, Culture) Book by Sharon R. Wesoky
Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also places this emergence in the context of theories of social movements, civil society and globalization.

Sexuality and Gender (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) Book by Christine L. Williams (Editor), Arlene Stein (Editor)
As society shapes the expression of sexual desire through cultural images and social institutions, sociologists examine how sexual behavior shapes, and is shaped by, social norms. Several of the most eminent and readable social theorists drive this important new line of sociological thought. Gathered here are thirty-two of the best essays on the sociology of sex and gender.
Essays included here reflect differences in race, gender, and class and demonstrate how different social groups experience different sets of social norms. Topics include gender and sex theory, identity, childhood and adolescent sexuality, the objectification of women, sexuality and religion, leisure and recreation, politics and social change, and the possible future of sexual relationships. These essays also explore contemporary issues that remain relevant to students and to current theoretical debates. Editorial introductions give further direction and insight, making this an ideal introduction to sex and gender.

Dancing on the Glass Ceiling : Tap into Your True Strengths, Activate Your Vision, and Get What You Really Want out of Your Career Book by Candy Deemer, Nancy Fredericks
How to play it like a woman and succeed. "The authors have written a wonderful, insightful book to guide women to the top of the pyramid, and to their fullest potential as leaders and women in the fullest sense of both terms."­­Mark Bryan, author of The Artists' Way at Work
"Any woman who reads this book will be forever changed by it."­­Patricia Aburdene, author of Megatrends for Women
"Dancing on the Glass Ceiling is a joy of discovery for professional women." ­­Rikki Klieman, anchor, Court TV
Dancing on the Glass Ceiling contends that women have been shooting themselves in the foot by trying to play like a man. Backed by research, interviews, and real-life experiences, authors Candy Deemer and Nancy Fredericks explain why relying instead on feminine-based skills such as intuition, relationship building and communication is more likely to get a woman where she wants to go in business­­above the glass ceiling.
Read and experience Dancing on the Glass Ceiling; learn to celebrate the powers you already possess and use them to make your dreams come true.
Go against the grain--and win--with the acclaimed wisdom of Dancing on the Glass Ceiling
"The authors have written a wonderful, insightful book to guide women to the top of the pyramid and to their fullest potential as leaders and women in the fullest sense of both terms."
--Mark Bryan, author of The Artists' Way at Work
"Freeing, insightful, validating, and, best of all, practical. Any woman who reads this book will be forever changed by it."
--Patricia Aburdene, author of Megatrends for Women
"Dancing On the Glass Ceiling shatters the old paradigms about women not being able to truly thrive in the male dominated corporate hierarchy. Congrats on a refreshing approach to success by showing that women can be women in business...you go girls!"
--Neale S. Godfrey, author of New York Times #1 bestseller, Money Doesn't Grow On Trees: A Parent's Guide To Raising Financially Responsible Children and Mom, Inc.: Taking Your Work Skills Home and Making Change--a woman's guide to designing her financial future
"Dancing on the Glass Ceiling" is one of the most unique guides available for working women. It's a great read and an even better practical resource.
"Dancing on the Glass Ceiling" is somewhat different in that it explores how women can benefit from their femininity in the workplace: e.g. how women's unique communication and managerial skills can be harnessed for success. To my knowledge, "Dancing on the Glass Ceiling" is special in this respect - I haven't seen any other titles that would so broadly pull together issues of women's work, their values, and their goals.
As a working woman, I found it liberating to read how I could incorporate my femininity into who I am at the work place. I would highly recommend this title for any woman who is interested in advancing her career and "staying true to herself."

Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail Book by Deborah Barndt
Tangled Routes follows a corporate tomato from a Mexican field through the United States to a Canadian table, examining in its wake the dynamic relationship between production and consumption, work and technology, health and environment, bio-diversity and cultural diversity. Three case studies--a Mexican agribusiness, a Canadian supermarket, and a U.S.-owned fast-food restaurant--offer a view of globalization from above (corporate profiles), globalization from below (stories of women who plant, pick, pack, scan, slice, and sell tomatoes), and the other globalization (acts of resistance and alternatives to the corporate model).

The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, & Behavior Book by Rose Weitz (Editor)
This anthology describes three themes: the social construction of ideas about women's bodies, the impact of these ideas on women's lives, and the potential for and limitations on women's resistance to these ideas. Selections cover a wide range of topics and disciplines, and were selected for their accessibility and for their attention to issues of class, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation. With the exception of two classic articles, all articles were published in the last decade. On-quarter of the articles are new to this edition.

The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy Book by Roger N. Lancaster (Editor), Micaela Di Leonardo (Editor)
A lot of books in the field give lip service to the idea that gender, sexuality, race, and class are somehow "connected" or "interconnected." This big book shows, convincingly, how they're connected--both historically, and in the present. The text includes stimulating essays on the history of colonialism and modern medicine; well-wrought ethnographic case studies on gender, race, and sexuality; and content-based theory (i.e., theory based on some empirical evidence). An indespensible resource for courses in gender, sexuality, lesbigay studies, and critical race studies.

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of Americas Largest Corporations? Book by Ann M. Morrison, Randall P. White, Ellen Van Velsor
This far-reaching study of female executives indicates progress in their status, but not enough in light of equal employment laws. Although women have reached management levels, only a miniscule minority in the Fortune 500 companies hold top positions1.7%. Frank responses from women and their male associates interviewed here illustrate factors that work for and against those trying to break sexist barriersthe glass ceiling between women and the top. Capable women can be limited as well by lack of drive, failure to get and give help or exhaustion caused by their responsibilities as wives and mothers. The authors' findings are buttressed by statistics, as well as psychological/behavioral evaluations of men and women candidates for promotion. The book also speculates that females will advance further when they achieve recognition as individuals in their own right.

Glass Walls and Glass Ceilings : Women's Representation in State and Municipal Bureaucracies Book by Margaret F. Reid, Brinck Kerr, Will Miller
Reid, Kerr, and Miller provide the first book-length, systematic national analysis of female representational patterns in state and municipal bureaucracies. They find that despite three decades of affirmative legislation, women remain underrepresented in the highest and best-paying positions in administrative and professional posts. These findings are critical to the democratic legitimacy of public agencies at a time when trust in public institutions is low..

Negotiating the Glass Ceiling: Careers of Senior Women in the Academic World Book by Miriam David (Editor), Diana Woodward (Editor)
Why is it that in many universities the number of women professors can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand, while the number of men number in the hundreds? Why are women academics so relatively disadvantaged and men so firmly in control?
In an attempt to find answers to these questions Negotiating the Glass Ceilinggathers together the unique personal reflects of 16 eminent women working in higher education across the world. These personal reflections document some of the changing patterns of women's lives in higher education since the war, a time of massive social change within the education itself, as well as in women's lives outside higher education.

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