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Occupational Ghettos : The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men
Maria Charles
Paperback - $42.95
The last half-century has witnessed dramatic declines in gender inequality, evidenced by the rise of egalitarian views on gender roles and the narrowing of long-standing gender gaps in university attendance and labor force participation. This develop ...
Negotiating Conquest : Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia
Paperback - $50.95
Conquest usually has a negative impact on the vanquished, but it can also provide the disenfranchised in conquered societies with new tools for advancement within their families and communities. This study examines the ways in which Mexican and Nativ ...
Beyond Bad Girls : Gender, Violence and Hype
Meda Chesney-Lind
Hardcover - $216.95
< P> In this important new work, two respected criminologists challenge the characterization of the new 'bad girl' arguing that it is only a new attempt to punish girls who are not the stereotypical depiction of good. Through interviews with yo ...
Real Heat
Carol Chetkovich
Paperback - $44.95
In the struggle over affirmative action, no employment setting has seen more friction than urban fire departments. Thirty years of legal and political efforts have opened the doors of this historically white male preserve, but men of color have yet t ...
Making of Anti-Sexist Men
Harry Christian
Paperback - $96.95
that "make" pro-feminist men, and whether they can be trusted as allies for feminists.
The Age of the Bachelor : Creating an American Subculture
Howard P. Chudacoff
Paperback - $67.95
"What a wonderful book! Who would have expected that a history of bachelor subculture would illuminate so much of the nation's past? . . . A major contribution to a hitherto largely unexamined subject."--Benjamin G. Rader, author of American Sports: ...
The Struggle for the Breeches
Anna Clark
Paperback - $71.95
"In its analysis of gender and class relations and their political forms, in giving voice to the many who have left only a fleeting trace in the historical record, Clark's study is a pioneering classic. . . . It also has a salience for many of our pr ...
Divided Houses : Gender and the Civil War
Catherine Clinton
Paperback - $90.95
No American needs to be told that the Civil War brought the United States to a critical juncture in its history. The war changed forever the face of the nation, the nature of American politics, the status of African-Americans, and the daily lives of ...
Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel : Women, Work and Home
Monica Feinberg Cohen
Paperback - $92.95
Revisionary study of how domestic work gained social credibility through the language of professionalism.