An analysis of women's unpaid role in the home. Written from a feminist perspective, Housewife aims to challenge the set of conventional values which label work a masculine activity and assign women to the home in the role of wife, mother and housekeeper. Oakley traces the historical development of the housewife role, explores the influence of industrialization and examines the situation of women today. Her analysis is illustrated with four case histories.

Uitgave rond het thema Oude Rijn met luchtfoto (fold-out) van het stroomgebied, een fietsroute, bewonerservaringen, fotoboekje van Ellen Kooi en brochures geschreven door Aleks Droog en Karel Tomei, losse ansichtkaarten.

Records the stories of thirty-six Hmong immigrants who came to California, showing how their traditional ways have been replaced by the American way of life

Engl Zusammenfass.

Examines how young women balance family and career goals, and argues that practical constraints and opportunities are influential factors

This fascinating book tells the stories of four women who became deeply involved in crime, giving vivid chronicles of the times in which they lived.

De effecten van biotechnologie op de voedselproduktie en de rol die de overheid hierbij speelt.

This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.

Studie over de ontwikkeling van het denken over internationale samenwerking in de afgelopen twee eeuwen en het streven naar een mondiale bestuursvorm.

"Narcissus and Echo" is about romantic confessional fiction, in which the woman dies and the man lives to tell "his" tale. Whether femme fatale, nun, sister, aristocrat or fallen women, she is always somehow blamed for her own destruction. What motivates the man's narrative and how does the women's voice, curiously, survive the text? Naomi Segal brings insights from feminist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on writers such as Chateaubriand, Musset, Prevost and Gautier. Running throughout this lively and provocative study are dichotomies between speech and sight, male "doubles" and female "mirror", the narcissism of nostalgia and the paradoxes of undesire.

You might not suspect it, but we are currently living through a revolution in scientific knowledge. What we know about the human brain's workings and about the earliest history of our distant humanoid ancestors changes almost weekly. This book looks at current scientific theory.

Nederlandse vertaling met overzicht van de Babylonische wereldkaart tot Manhattan in luchtfoto's.

American edition of French original tells the story of Bibendum, the Michelin man in advertising.