Product Description: This volume is about the ways of promoting women's participation in the affairs of Muslim societies: from raising conciousness and changing codes of law, to penetrating the economic markets and influencing national and international policies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of essays by a Muslim woman and Dutch parliamentarian criticizes the treatment of Muslim women and the western world's tolerance of such treatment, in a volume that includes the script for her film, 'Submission.'

Product Description: The Politics of State Intervention: Gender Politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran examines how three culturally and religiously interconnected neighboring states have sought to regulate the lives of their female populace in order to gauge how successful, or unsuccessful, these efforts have been at the grassroots level...read more

This revision of Woodside and McClam's highly successful text continues to provide a solid introduction to the profession of human services. Readers explore such concepts as serving the whole person, using an interdisciplinary approach, interacting with helper and client, training generalists, and empowering clients. Intended to be introductory rather than encyclopedic, the book presents basic information and includes brief case studies, primary source material, and suggested readings that encourage students to use other books, electronic materials, and media resources to enrich their knowledge of the introductory course content.