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Deniz Kandiyoti was formerly a member of the Social Science Departments of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara and Bogazici University in Istanbul, and she served as chairperson of the research committee on women and society of the International Sociology Association from 1982 to 1986. She currently resides in England.

There is a growing movement among corporations to provide family benefits in order to attract and retain women workers. This book provides an inside look at life in a major US corporation, focusing on the impact of workplace culture on the use of parental leave and those who use it.

Provides a picture of the complex dynamic among individual biography and sociological practice, personal growth, and institutional change. This volume is written by eighteen senior women sociologists who engage in analytic reflections on interconnections between their personal lives and their research, teaching, and activism.

Although caregiving is predominantly women's work, care for the elderly is largely absent from the feminist agenda in this country. This book presents a compelling and sensitive report that describes the experience of caregiving from the perspective of adult daughters.

Radical changes have occurred in the personal and corporate lives of Roman Catholic nuns in the United States; in their institutions and ministries; in their relations with laity, clergy, and hierarchy; and in their presence in the public sphere. This book explores this transformation, the experiences that marked these changes, and more.

Offers a full-length study of the Australian femocrats published in the United States. This book analyzes the implicit political theory of the femocrats and addresses the issues of strategies for social change, class, race and racism, sexuality and sexual politics, "gendered" experience, and accountability to the women's movement.

Traces how lesbian feminism came to be defined in uneasy relationships with the Women's Movement and gay rights groups. This book explores the tension between liberal ideals of individual rights and tolerance and communitarian ideals of solidarity.

Explores women's place in the US political economy at the beginning of the twentieth century, viewed from the national level, but also highlighting the variations in women's experiences according to racial ethnic background, class and geography.

Takes readers into the interconnected worlds of Turkish maids and the women who employ them, tracing the incorporation of rural migrant women into the interiors of the domestic spheres of the urban middle-classes. This book forges an understanding of the complex interaction between gender and class subordination.

Analyzes the dramatic developments in the lives of contemporary Southern women. This title include case studies that portray women's diverse circumstances and activities from rural African American women in the Mississippi Delta taking on new roles as community builders to female textile workers in North Carolina.

Attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, political, and cultural contexts. This book explores the ways in which family life is gendered and reflects on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change over time.

"Women and Stepfamilies: Voices of Anger and Love" describes the experiences of women in stepfamilies as told by the women themselves.

Women who grow up in poor families begin childbearing at a younger age than nonpoor women, attain less education, work less, earn less, are dependent on federal aid, have less support from a husband, have more children, and spend more time as single mothers. This book reveals the relationship between Black teenage mothers and the welfare system.

By chronicling the everyday experiences of women in a rural Head Start program, this book examines the processes of underprivileged women working to make a better life for themselves and their families. It explains that in order to empower its participants, the Head Start program allows many women to work as aides or on advisory boards.

Whether temp life is a preferred choice or grudgingly accepted as the last option when 'real' or permanent work is unavailable, all temps must confront issues of gender, identity, and self-esteem. This book examines these issues, documenting the concerns and interpretations of temp workers about their own work lives.

Examines the choices and compromises of a generation of women who came of age after World War II. This study traces the experiences of twenty-two middle-class women from childhood to adulthood and their evolution from traditional wives and mothers to career women at midlife. It explores the tensions of combining work, marriage, and family life.

Using twenty-nine interviews with women involved in eight local sanctuary sites, this work explores the workings of the sanctuary movement; the reasons for their commitment to this illegal activity; the relationship between their activism, liberation theology and feminism; and the tensions among the women and between women and men in the movement.

The demand and need for maternity disability and parenting policies have increased enormously in the United States. Addressing key public policy issues, this work serves as a useful resource for those who are considering laws to establish parental leave and legislation on child care provision.

Since the 1960's, academic and activist women have been challenging the conventional wisdom about political life and the study of politics. This book provides a comprehensive critical history of the changing research on politics and the changing nature of the political science discipline. It analyzes the course of women's political activism in US.

Many new mothers and fathers are surprised at how they change as individuals and as couples after a baby is born. This title includes various interviews that explore the tendency for men and women to experience their transitions into parenthood in different ways - a pattern that has been linked to marital stress.

Reveals the previously overlooked and underestimated depth of cultural meaning behind contemporary American advertising. Focusing mainly on ads for beauty products directed at women, this book demonstrates how stereotypical gender identities are emphasized and how advertising itself creates a gendered relationship with the consumer.

Interviews the women in one US Region to study their roles, activities, and self-images. The author shows that although these women are economically and socially powerful, they are for the most part, unliberated, being subservient to their husbands and to their duty to bear and raise children.

A controversial interpretation of women's dramatic inroads into several male occupations

Offers a discussion of one of the most important movements in legal scholarship: feminist legal theory. This book examines theoretical issues about the interaction between law and gender. It addresses issues of equality, difference, separate spheres, essentialism, legal methodology, and theories of law.

Gives accounts by women on active duty, retired officers, women who have worked for the armed forces in a civilian capacity, and civilian academics. This book dispels many of the myths about women and the military and explores the reasons for the persistence of misconceptions in the face of increased female participation.

Examines the pressing issues that affect women pornography, prostitution, battery, rape, pay equity, sexual harassment, motherhood, abortion, adoption, reproductive technologies and considers them through the lens of feminist legal theory. This book features more than sixty articles.

The radical feminist movement has undergone significant transformation from the direct action of the 1960s and 1970s to the backlash against feminism in the 1980s and 1990s. This title traces the changing definitions of feminism as the movement has evolved. It documents subtle variations in feminist identity.

Looking at feminist organizations, the twenty-six essays in this title deal with how they've survived, the effects of their work, the problems they face, the strategies they develop, and the direction of the women's movement. The feminist scholars from nine social science disciplines present the struggles of feminist organizers and activists.

Features research on the roles of women in Japan and Korea.