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UNINA9910786039403321 |
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Titolo |
Women at the margins : neglect, punishment, and resistance / / Josefina Figueira-McDonough, Rosemary C. Sarri, editors |
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New York : , : Haworth Press, , 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-56023-972-7 |
0-203-05768-6 |
1-283-96249-7 |
1-136-57824-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (441 p.) |
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Collana |
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Haworth innovations in feminist studies |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Figueira-McDonoughJosefina |
SarriRosemary C |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - United States |
Women - United States - Social conditions |
Women - United States - Economic conditions |
Sex discrimination against women - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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section I. Increasing the dual control of women and distorting their strength -- section II. Blockages to autonomy -- section III. Gender, age, and health interactions -- section IV. Bad women, undeserving mothers -- section V. Pragmatic knowledge, legal redressing, and women's solidarity -- section VI. Action strategies for today. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A compelling look at the crisis of disadvantaged women This powerful document takes a sobering look at the phenomenon of marginalized women pushed to the edges of society, holding on with the barest of hope and extraordinary bravery. Handicapped by the increasing societal inequality they face as an everyday fact of life, these women (and in many cases, their children) have been disconnected from the mainstream for reasons of age, race, gender, health, incarceration, domestic abuse, unwanted pregnancy, unemployment, and economic circumstance. They are poor in an affluent society, powerless in |
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