Gender Studies

Presenting a rich account of women's faith lives and, mapping women's meanings in their own right, this book offers an alternative to dominant accounts of faith development which failed to account for women's experience. Drawing on Fowler's faith development theory, feminist models of women's faith..

Women-owned businesses are the fastest growing segment of new business start-ups, and black women’s businesses are a larger share of black-owned businesses than white women’s businesses are of all white firms. Most studies compare men’s and women’s businesses, but few examine differences among women..

This new volume explores the limits and possibilities of economic change in transforming the lives of women in rural Greece at a time of great economic and political change. Through her rich and fascinating account of the changing dynamics of rural life in a still-remote part of Europe, Lazaridis pr..

This new volume explores the limits and possibilities of economic change in transforming the lives of women in rural Greece at a time of great economic and political change. Through her rich and fascinating account of the changing dynamics of rural life in a still-remote part of Europe, Lazaridis pr..

This volume uses empirical studies of gender differences in family responsibilities and time allocation to demonstrate how such differences affect women's wages and analyses pay structures and wage mobility throughout Europe...

Drawing on the work of Bourdieu and the concepts of field, capital and habitus, this book shows the inequalities that fracture the racing field, both historically and currently, by illustrating the classed and gendered nature of horseracing and how it has developed since the eighteenth century when ..

Theories on the eradication of poverty abound. Self-help, self-reliance and self-sufficiency are touted as solutions, and are indeed critical to an economically stable life. Yet, for economically disadvantaged women (America’s poorest citizens), self-help is not as simple as grabbing sturdy boot str..

This book offers an analysis of women in horror films through an exploration of ‘gynaehorror’: films concerned with all aspects of female reproductive horror. Some of the topics include: the intersection of horror, monstrosity and sexual difference; the relationships between normative female sexuali..

This study examines the position of women in the paid workforce in a variety of developed and developing countries and identifies the common cultural and economic factors which create a disadvantage to their advancement...