Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are prerequisites to the realisation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This Guidance is a practical handbook for development partners supporting those global ambitions.

Gender equality and environmental sustainability are gaining political momentum as global challenges that require urgent action at the national and international levels. Both figure prominently, albeit with limited interlinkages, in the United Nations Agenda 2030, and gender equality...

Nghana Lewis offers a close reading of the works and private correspondences, essays, and lectures of five southern white women writers: Julia Peterkin, Gwen Bristow, Caroline Gordon, Willa Cather, and Lillian Smith. At the core of this work is a sophisticated reexamination of the myth of...

Writing with a keen eye for detail as well as a real empathy with the first generation of wage-earning women, Tentler reconstructs the day-to-day realities of life on the job, in the home, and in the industrial neighborhoods of major cities

The book turns conventional scholarship on its head by asking whether lineages, Confucian morality, and the cultural orientation of merchant families might have provided an unusual space for women's action in South China from the late Qing to the present.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Abstract -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Zambian Country Context -- 3. Research Approach -- 4. Profile of the Women Entrepreneurs -- 5. Profile of the Women's Businesses -- 6. Process of...

"Kapchan's splendid enthnographic study of women's performance genres in Beni Mellal, Morocco, is an outstanding contribution to gender studies and to the understanding of Middle Eastern society."--Choice.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Working Women and the Question of Care and Culture in Europe -- 2. Cinderella and Snow White Are Fairy Tales: Linking Care and Citizenship -- 3. Policy or Culture? Explaining Women's Employment Differences in Europe --...

This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in...