Women across Cultures: A Global Perspective - Softcover

Burn, Shawn Meghan

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9781559349901: Women across Cultures: A Global Perspective

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559349905 ISBN 13: 9781559349901

Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Co ,U.S., 1999

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This text examines the role that culture plays in women's past oppression and future equality, but argues that the most important issue facing women - their lower status and power - is universal. After a thorough explanation of why women lack equal power, Burn suggests what we might do to change this condition. This activist perspective offers the reader a clear understanding of the steps that can be taken to improve the circumstances of women's lives.

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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.

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