This book examines the status of women in different eras and in different areas of society. The contributors draw on their international experience to consider how women are viewed and treated in society today and offer perspectives on why the status of women and girls has not changed in some areas.
- 287 pages
- English
- PDF
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND PERMISSIONS
- ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
- SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- Dedication
- CHAPTER ONE A woman surgeon: her story
- CHAPTER TWO Simone de Beauvoir and the trauma of sexism
- CHAPTER THREE “Pure heroines” on campus: new wave feminism and popular culture
- CHAPTER FOUR Pregnancy: a clinical and cultural experience of pregnancy in the Middle East and North America
- CHAPTER FIVE Women and migration: “children on the move”
- CHAPTER SIX Women and power: a developmental perspective
- CHAPTER SEVEN Maternal genealogy: narcissistic identification in three generations of women
- CHAPTER EIGHT Abuse of women: relation to the maternal representation
- CHAPTER NINE Atrocities against mother and child re-presented in the psychoanalytic space
- CHAPTER TEN Machismo and the limits of male heterosexuality
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Women and activism: a long history, a complex problem
- INDEX
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