Women's Almanac 2002 - Hardcover

Weatherford, Doris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573565105 ISBN 13: 9781573565103

Publisher: Oryx Press Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Women's Almanac 2002 is a first-stop reference source that combines news, issues, statistics, and a resource directory along with historical information and analysis from both the U.S. and international perspectives. No other resource offers this unique combination of information, complete with annotated list of Web sites, charts, statistics, and graphs. The Almanac is unique for its U.S. information, where women's history is profiled state by state. Acclaimed women's studies author Doris Weatherford, editor-in-chief and major contributor to the book, presents cutting-edge information about women in the United States and throughout the world.

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Review

.,."the Almanacs will become valuable snapshots of women's history."-Feminist Collections

Synopsis

Presents a tremendous amount of information about women in this country and throughout the world, covering news, contemporary issues, statistics, profiles of notable women, women in U.S. and world history, and provides a bibliography and lists of organizations and Web sites. Women's Almanac 2002 is a first-stop reference source that combines news, issues, statistics, and a resource directory along with historical information and analysis from both the U.S. and international perspectives. No other resource offers this unique combination of information, complete with annotated list of Web sites, charts, statistics, and graphs. This Almanac is unique for its U.S. information, where women's history is profiled state by state. Acclaimed women's studies author Doris Weatherford, editor-in-chief and major contributor to the book, presents cutting-edge information about women in the United States and throughout the world.

Women's Almanac 2002 presents a thorough round-up of news about women for the past two years, both worldwide and from the United States, and presents a digest of more than 30 crucial issues facing women today, including abortion, AIDS, clinical trials, depression, education, female genital mutilation, human rights, pay equity, poverty, and many other subjects. Sections on statistics about conditions for women worldwide, as well as a statistical portrait of U.S. women, provide valuable information that is nowhere else available in one place. Users will find other useful information for further research and study in the substantive bibliography of books included, as well as in a comprehensive list of organizations and an annotated list of the best Web sites about women. Students from high school through university and anyone interested in women's issues will find Women's Almanac 2002 an important resource.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oryx Press Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1573565105
• ISBN 13: 9781573565103
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376