Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective - Softcover

Burn, Shawn Meghan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072826738 ISBN 13: 9780072826739

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2004

Synopsis

This text examines and documents the issues women face in terms of lower status and lower power around the world and across cultures. The book then discusses what is being done from the local to the global level to address women's issues, empowering women and promoting women's equal rights.

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From the Publisher:

Offers a very strong account of women's second-class status worldwide in terms of the male-dominated institutions of family, education, politics and law, the economy, and religion.
Makes connections between women's status and power in the United States and in other parts of the world, highlighting important similarities as well as differences.
Provides a strong basis for shared political action across national, regional, and cultural lines. This activist perspective offers the reader a clear understanding of the similarities of women across cultural and political lines, and the steps that can be taken to improve their circumstances.
Explores many explanations for women's inferior status and power worldwide, including biological, sociocultural, historical, and religious bases.
Includes end-of-chapter discussion questions and activities, key terms, marginal quotes and observations, a table on women's status across the world, and an extensive annotated list of established Web sites and links.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0072826738
• ISBN 13: 9780072826739
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416