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Despite continuing equal opportunity approaches, women are still significantly under-represented at senior management levels and earn less than male colleagues. The author questions whether competence systems - developed and implemented in the workplace to provide objective measurement of management performance - contribute to, rather than improve, women’s disadvantaged position in the workplace.

Drawing together the threads of critical theory, feminism and post-modernism into a new conceptual framework, the book provides an exciting departure from existing methods of analysis and points a new and challenging way forward for future researchers in management.

The Construction of Management is a rich and lively work, providing innovative theoretical and methodological approaches as well as practical solutions. In this way, the book will appeal to scholars of business and management, industrial relations and gender studies as well as business managers and consultants. ... Read more

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Published in Association with the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah ... Read more

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With a focus on missionary women and men in the Norwegian Missionary Society in Madagascar and Norway, this study provides an in-depth examination of how gender relations are negotiated in a religious organization. The time period covered (1860-1910) coincides with colonial efforts of major European states. The book also discusses how aspects of class, race and sexuality must be taken into account in studies of gender relations in the missionary movement. It shows, for example, how marriage propositions and sexual relations between white missionaries and black converts were dealt with by the mission organization in Madagascar. Other topics include the attempts of Norwegian missionary women to impart a form of domesticity to Malagasy girls, their efforts to establish direct links with the broader feminist movement, and the gradual democratization of the mission organization both in Norway and Madagascar. ... Read more

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The essays in the volume are yet another attempt at re-opening gender issues which have gained ground in this post-feminist era. Despite half a century of debate and rebellion there is still an unevenness that disrupts smooth sailing. Women have not entirely come into their own and the stigma of being born one persists to plague.What is the nature of pressures and obstacles and how and where the hurdles lie is being explored afresh. The space is the literary and the socio-political; the time frame is contemporary; and the analysis is topical. ... Read more

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This international collection examines a wide range of psycho-social aspects of AIDS and HIV infection, including prevention, education, healthcare and policy in terms of gender challenges. ... Read more

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This work offers a gendered analysis of Third World politics. It uses a wide definition of the political to examine both "high politics" and political activity at the grassroots, focusing particularly on women's organizations. It also examines the impact of policy and politics on gender relations and on different groups of women. After a general discussion of the major theoretical questions involved in the study of gender in Third World politics, and the nature of the Third World and development, the analysis is developed through the in-depth study of different political formations. These are colonialism, revolution, authoritarianism, and democracy and democratization. Examples are taken from much of the Third World. ... Read more

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Contributed conference papers with reference to developing countries. ... Read more

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Although women's status has improved remarkably in the 20th century in many societies, women continue to lack access to power and leadership compared with men. This book reviews research and theory concerning women's leadership. The articles included in the book provide evidence of bias in the evaluation of women, discuss effects of gender stereotypes on women's influence and leadership behaviors, and evaluate strategies for change. ... Read more

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Title: The Social Issues Shelf.('Sound, Space, and the City,' 'Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty,' and 'Black Rednecks and White Liberals')(Brief article)(Book review)
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For afficionados of the movement rather than beginners.
As someone else said in a review of another book, it's symptomatic of where we are in the gender debate these days that you have to be a woman tocritique feminism.A man who has the audacity to do so is immediatelylabeled "angry" or "bitter" or some such discount. That men even have a valid viewpoint, much less a right to have it, ishardly on the radar screen.The so-called debate is really a monologue,with women laying out to men how it's gonna be: their way or the highway. It's as if these things only affect women.

Consequently, powerful andprivileged women get juicy book deals with big publishers and teams ofeditors and researchers, while qualified men like Rob Mazzeo are lefttrying to find some out-of-the-way publisher in more of a do-it-yourselfeffort.It wouldn't be the first time: many other books expressing a maleviewpoint read as if they came out of an underground press.(Zubaty's"Surviving the Feminization of America" comes to mind.)Thisalone is a powerful testament to men's second class status.Heck, JackKammer's excellent "If Men Have All the Power, How Come Women Make theRules?" is only available in digital form on the I-Net.

If you canget past the effects of these things on a book (numerous typos, many commasin the wrong places, sections which need re-writing or at least seriousediting, etc.) Mazzeo's book is quite good at living up to its title.It'sas long on content as it is short on polish.

While some of Mazzeo'sphraseology is lifted directly from Warren Farrell's work, especially"The Myth of Male Power" (sadly without attribution), and much ofwhat's said here will be more or less familiar to anyone well-read in themen's rights genre, there is a unique angle that the author brings to bearon the topic.Plus there are tons of real-life stories from what must be aquite extensive news clippings file (20 pgs of footnotes).It's hard tothink of another book which argues so strongly for the need for fairnesstowards men and for men's equality with women on such a wide gamut oftopics. ... Read more

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Defining Women is a major in-depth analysis of the social, economic and political position of women in contemporary societies. It explores the ways in which social institutions, practices and discourse define women and their position in present-day societies.

The book examines the essential debates about the social construction of gender divisions in and by the key institutions of the labour market and the state. Focussing on notions of power, dependence and equality, it addresses questions of the differences between women and men, and between women themselves, in the economy and civil society. Women's political struggles to challenge their subordinate position are also assessed. The recognition of the diverse interests of women currently poses a real challenge to the central project of feminism, but Defining Women confidently argues for it's future.

This book will be widely used as a text book in feminism and women's studies and will have a broad interdisciplinary appeal. ... Read more

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This volume explores the relationship of citizenship and gender across a range of regions, nations and historical time periods. At the heart of each case study is an exploration of how gender shaped citizenship as a claims-making activity, and how women, often aligned with immigrants and minorities, took a leading role in articulating these claims. ... Read more