Roadblocks to Equality : Women Challenging Boundaries

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ISBN: 9781551643168 | 1551643162
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Copyright: 1/30/2009

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Covering a wide range of topics, and dealing with real-life issues, these international contributors, who are both male and female and who cross a variety of boundaries-social, cultural, and political-examine various dimensions of women's lived experiences so that they might address the challenges that arise from women's contemporary struggles in relation to globalization, human rights, and a political economy. Book jacket.

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Dedication	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xiii
Women and Political Economy
An Introduction	p. 3
Enforcing Boundaries: Managing the Separation of Public Economy and Privatized Care Work	p. 4
$7/Day, $7/Hour, 7 Days a Week: Juggling Commutes, Low-waged Shift Work and Child Care in a Changing ('New') Economy	p. 26
Ripping in Half: A Political Economy of Women's Everyday Lives	p. 41
Women and the Culture Industry
An Introduction	p. 61
Consuming Desires: Reflections on Women and Advertising	p. 62
Invisible Ink: Women and Global Communications	p. 81
Just Prudes? Feminism, Pornography and Men's Responsibility	p. 88
Women, Violence and Human Rights
An Introduction	p. 103
Globalization and the Sex Industry, Violence and Commodification of Human Beings	p. 104
Custom Against Women	p. 129
Marc Lepine and Me: What I Learned from the Montreal Massacre	p. 133
Women's Experiences of Separation/Divorce Sexual Assault in Rural Ohio	p. 155
Politics, Knowledge and Age
An Introduction	p. 181
The Raging Grannies: Meddlesome Crones Protest with Wit and Flair	p. 182
Crossing Borders of the Mind: Women in Higher Education	p. 205
Girl-Method: Placing Girl-Centred Research Methodologies on the Map of Girlhood Studies	p. 214
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