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US feminists have become divided over the issue of military conscription of women. Examined is the mainstream liberal feminist position as exemplified by the policy statement of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Though opposed to a draft in principle, NOW offers three main arguments for drafting women: (1) US defense needs require obtaining the most skilled personnel, regardless of sex; (2) nonregistration of women contradicts principles of equality of opportunity; & (3) restricting women from the draft is an arbitrary restriction of their citizenship. These arguments are criticized, & it is suggested that they divert attention & energy from more important tasks such as attacking discriminatory institutions, policies, & labor market structures. Drawing an analogy between racial & sexual integration in the military, doubt is raised that conscription would increase equality of women in civilian life. K. Hyatt

The collection of papers in this volume is an introduction of legal problems facing women in the Southern African region. The position of women in Southern Africa is closely linked with the whole socio-economic fabric of the society. This book is a contribution to a process of change

Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Elizabeth S. Cohen and Margaret Reeves; Part 1. Concepts and Representations; 1. 'A Prospect of Flowers'; Concepts of Childhood and Female Youth in Seventeenth-Century British Culture; Margaret Reeves; 2. A Roving Woman; The Rover, Part I and Hellena's Self-Creation of Youth; Sarah Morris; 3. 'She is but a girl'; Talk of Young Women as Daughters, Wives, and Mothers in the Records of the English Consistory Courts, 1550-1650; Jennifer McNabb; 4. Flight and Confinement; Female Youth, Agency, and Emotions in Sixteenth-Century New Spain; Jacqueline Holler

Studies have shown that the experience and consequences of unemployment affect people differently depending on, for example, age and gender. The purpose of the present study was to identify factors that contribute to unemployment among young women aged 20-35 in Mahalapye village, investigate the effects of being unemployed, determine sources of support available to unemployed young women, and identify the gaps in state assistance in this regard. The study utilized a survey research method and adopted a descriptive research design. Cluster sampling was used with the sample size being one hundred (100) unemployed young women in Mahalapye. A face-to-face questionnaire method was adopted to collect data and the study was cross sectional. Since the research was quantitative the Statistical Package for Social Sciences was used to analyse data. The results showed that unemployment among young women in Mahalapye is a problem and young women are seriously affected by being unemployed. The study also revealed that high poverty levels result from unemployment and that this is linked to young women becoming engaged in criminal activities. A number of programmes have been put in place by government and other stakeholders to curb unemployment but the study indicated that a majority of the respondents have not benefited from these programmes. Low coverage, limited information about programmes, complicated help seeking processes, and lack of resources were identified as gaps in the provision of these programmes. Further research is needed to describe and elucidate in greater detail the effects of unemployment on young women of different ages and in different contexts.

This book examines representations of Muslim women as speakers of English in the context of a language ideological debate in the UK in 2016. The author shows how Muslim women are stereotyped as non-speakers of English through the manipulation of census data, and how this supposed lack of English is discursively constructed as an index of their supposed oppression, complicity in the threat of extremism emanating from their sons, and limited participation in the labour force. The book aims to complement a growing body of research on raciolinguistics and language ideologies. It illuminates the intersection of language, Islamophobia, and securitization, and will be of interest to postgraduate students and academics working in applied linguistics and discourse analysis, and interdisciplinary audiences in studies of race, Islamophobia, and gender. Madiha Neelam is a postdoctoral fellow in the Linguistics Department at Macquarie University, Australia. She has worked as an English language teacher for more than ten years. Her research interests include applied sociolinguistics, second language learning and Islamophobia.

This research project as a qualitative approach, anchored in the theoretical-methodological perspective of life-histories, and aims to reflect on the aesthetic-political activism of female Brazilian activist artists with a history of migration, in order to understand the meanings, concepts and processes of said activism, as well as the representations reflected in different experiences. The study may offer clues to think about the situation of women and, above all, discuss the importance of the arts in the emancipatory processes of migrant women. The research instruments adopted were: semi-structured interviews, field diary and photographic records. Five interviews were conducted via the web, which were transcribed and analyzed in the light of content analysis. The results reveal a multiplicity of experiences that are expressed through performances, occupations of the urban space, music, netativism, video-installation, among others. Aesthetic-political activism is conceived as an action that materializes in aesthetic expressions with an inherently political character, centered on the fight against social inequalities and oppression relations, as well as the creation of other discourses, representations and spaces capable of subverting the instituted social order.

Understanding women's psychological responses to various forms of patriarchy / Holly F. Mathews and Adriana M. Manago -- Historical circumstances and biological proclivities surrounding patriarchy / Naomi Quinn -- Growing up female in Sorth India / Susan C. Seymour -- To make her understand with love: expectations for emotion work in North Indian families / Jocelyn Marrow -- Perspectives on gender roles and relations across three generations of Maya women in Southern Mexico / Adriana M. Manago -- Contested terrains of female education in rural muslim Pakistan / Ayesha Khurshid -- Moving beyond notions of resistance and accommodation: understanding how women navigate conflicting models of marriage in rural Mexico / Holly F. Mathews -- What women's experiences in disadvantaged families in Ankara, Turkey, have to tell about patriarchy / Gülden Güvenç -- Theorizing female consent: familism, motherhood, and middle-class feminine subjectivity in contemporary South Korea / Kelly H. Chong -- Property, patriarchy, and the Chinese state / Leta Hong Fincher -- Reflections on kidnap and rape culture: a cross-cultural comparison of patriarchy / Cynthia Werner -- Charting a way forward / Holly F. Mathews and Adriana M. Manago.

Women's attitudes and opinions regarding war, peace, and military service.