"Growing the size of the black woman" : feminist activism in Havana hip hop / Fari Nzinga. The cost of being a girl : gender earning differentials in the early labor markets / Yasemin Besen-Cassino -- Retail on the "dole" : parasitic employers and women workers / Lynn S. Duggan -- Economic development policies and women workers : Filipina workers in a Japanese transplant / Niza Licuanan-Galela -- The rise of the Bangladesh garment industry : globalization, women workers, and voice / Fauzia Erfan Ahmed -- Wading through treacle : female commercial school graduates in Egypt's informal economy / Moushira Elgeziri -- The gender gap in patenting : is technology transfer a feminist issue? / Sue V. Rosser -- Is sisterhood conditional? white women and the rollback of affirmative action / Tim Wise -- Progressive or neo-traditional? policewomen in Gulf cooperation council countries / Staci Strobl -- Motivational and attitudinal factors among Latinas in U.S. electoral politics / Sonia R. García and Marisela Márquez -- Feminists and the welfare state : Aboriginal health care workers and U.S. community workers of color / Nancy A. Naples and Marnie Dobson -- Lesbians in academia / Esther D. Rothblum -- Secretarial work, nurturing, and the ethic of service / Ivy Ken -- Between L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and lyric : the poetry of pink-collar resistance / Karen Kovacik -- "Growing the size of the black woman" : feminist activism in Havana hip hop / Fari Nzinga.
Summary:
Drawn from almost two decades of the Feminist Formations journal, the essays in this book critically examine assumptions about access and the ways in which women affect and are affected by work in three major spheres: economic, social, and political. This book focuses on how access-based feminism, a term developed by the editors, has both failed and succeeded in achieving equity and justice for women and looks at how transnational feminism has addressed these concerns using a global, fundamentally transformative approach. The contributors consider a wide range of topics, from an examination of the male/female wage gap that starts when girls are teenagers, to policewomen in Persian Gulf countries, to Latinas' politics, to Aboriginal health care workers, to secretarial work, and to feminist activism in Cuban hip hop.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.