Product Description: This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period.

Product Description: Hoffman and Averett introduce a broad range of topics in an accessible manner, applying basic economic analysis. Contemporary social, racial and economic issues are examined, using a unique mix of storytelling, empirical evidence and theory...read more

Product Description: Hoffman and Averett introduce a broad range of topics in an accessible manner, applying basic economic analysis. Contemporary social, racial and economic issues are examined, using a unique mix of storytelling, empirical evidence and theory...read more

Product Description: A Naval Pilot's Vietnam Diary-A Classic of America at War- An Intensely Moving, Graphic Account of Vietnam Combat Experience

Product Description: Gender matters in economics--for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics, this textbook provides a rigorous economic look at issues confronting women throughout the world--including nonmarket scenarios, such as marriage, family, fertility choice, and bargaining within households, as well as market areas, like those pertaining to labor and credit markets and globalization...read more

Product Description: Launched in 2007, the Results-Based Initiatives (RBI) aimed to provide comprehensive, coherent, and rigorous evidence on effective interventions that foster the economic empowerment of women. The RBIs comprised five small pilots with a built-in impact evaluation designed to identify the best method to promote better outcomes for women as entrepreneurs, wage earners, or farmers―under different country contexts...read more

Women and Poverty analyzes the social and structural factors that contribute to, and legitimize, class inequity and women's poverty. In doing so, the book provides a unique documentation of women's experiences of poverty and classism at the individual and interpersonal levels.  Provides readers with a critical analysis of the social and structural factors that contribute to women's poverty Uses a multidisciplinary approach to bring together new research and theory from social psychology, policy studies, and critical and feminist scholarship Documents women's experiences of poverty and classism at the interpersonal and institutional levels Discusses policy analysis for reducing poverty and social inequality

Research has highlighted the central role that teachers play in determining the quality of learning in classrooms. Teachers exert a powerful influence on both student achievement and motivation, and these influences are more convincingly documented in the research literature that they were a decade ago. Knowledge of the research will make teachers more effective professionals inside and outside the classroom. Expert authors have over 40 years of combined experience teaching and researching. The goal of this book is to translate the results of research into methods that teachers at any level could use to increase their learning. It brings together two areas of educational literature: 1) research on how teaching influences learning and 2) teaching methodology that stresses desirable teaching procedures. This book is aimed at teachers of any level - elementary, junior high, middle school, and high school. It also is appropriate for school libraries and district personnel responsible for teacher, professional, or staff development.

Product Description: Tax policy frequently targets the choices that women face in many aspects of their lives. Decisions regarding working away from home, having children, marrying, registering a partnership or cohabiting with a partner all entail tax consequences...read more

Product Description: Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times explores the ideas and institutions that were framed at the 1994 United Nations population conference in Cairo and traces their trajectories sixteen years down the line...read more

Product Description: Finally, here is a book that gets to the heart of what professional women want. Like most of us, you've had enough of the sixty-hour workweeks, the day-care dash, and the vacations that never get taken. You want to work, but on your own terms and in ways that make it possible to have a life as well...read more

Product Description: Mainstream economic analysis has traditionally overlooked gender. The individual―the basic category of analysis―was regarded as genderless. Neither gender discrimination nor segmentation and segregation within the labor market or within the household was present...read more

Product Description: The current share of women in the world's international migrant population is close to one half. Despite the great number of female migrants and their importance for the development agenda in countries of origin, there has until recently been a striking lack of gender analysis in the economic literature on international migration and development...read more

Presents practical methods for teaching, organizing the discussion around the themes of diversity, motivation, and technology.

Product Description: Credit can be instrumental in equalizing opportunity and alleviating poverty, yet historically men and women have not had the same access. Partly because of this, women have been excluded from many previous economic histories. This book fills a significant gap in exploring the vexed relationship between the women and credit across time and space...read more

Product Description: Contemporary theory has been exercised by the question of the gift - whether there is some mode of relation that escapes the dominant paradigm of market exchange. This work focuses both on the latter part of the 20th century and on the key pre-text of the Enlightenment, a moment in which the market economy as we know it today was becoming established and the terms of today's debates were being shaped...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A Naval Pilot's Vietnam Diary-A Classic of America at War- An Intensely Moving, Graphic Account of Vietnam Combat Experience