The Meaning of Success

The Meaning of Success
Author: Jo Bostock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1107428688

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The Meaning of Success: Insights from Women at Cambridge makes a compelling case for a more inclusive definition of success. It argues that in order to recognise, reward and realise the talents of both women and men, a more meaningful definition of success is needed. Practical ways of achieving this are explored through interviews with female role models at the University of Cambridge. First-person stories bring alive the achievements and challenges women experience in their working lives, and the effect gender has on careers. The book stimulates a debate about how to bring about a more inclusive working environment.

The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900

The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
Author: Laura Hamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2021-05-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108470289

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An overview of women's work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.

Women at Cambridge

Women at Cambridge
Author: Rita McWilliams Tullberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1998-09-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521644648

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A study of women's education at Cambridge, first published in 1975 and now reissued with new material.

The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women

The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women
Author: Fanny M. Cheung
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1524
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108602185

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There is a growing knowledge base in understanding the differences and similarities between women and men, as well as the diversities among women and sexualities. Although genetic and biological characteristics define human beings conventionally as women and men, their experiences are contextualized in multiple dimensions in terms of gender, sexuality, class, age, ethnicity, and other social dimensions. Beyond the biological and genetic basis of gender differences, gender intersects with culture and other social locations which affect the socialization and development of women across their life span. This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource to understand the intersectionality of gender differences, to dispel myths, and to examine gender-relevant as well as culturally relevant implications and appropriate interventions. Featuring a truly international mix of contributors, and incorporating cross-cultural research and comparative perspectives, this handbook will inform mainstream psychology of the international literature on the psychology of women and gender.

Women, Power, and Property

Women, Power, and Property
Author: Rachel E. Brulé
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2020-10-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108870600

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Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.

A Century of Votes for Women

A Century of Votes for Women
Author: Christina Wolbrecht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107187494

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Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
Author: Dale M. Bauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2001-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139826085

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Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this 2001 Companion establishes the context in which this writing emerged, and traces the origin of the terms which have traditionally defined the debate. It includes essays on topics of recent concern, such as women and war, erotic violence, the liberating and disciplinary effects of religion, and examines the work of a variety of women writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis and Louisa May Alcott. The volume plots new directions for the study of American literary history, and provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading.

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-03-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107016681

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A wide-ranging and accessible account of the pioneering professional women writers who flourished during the Romantic period.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
Author: Carolyn Dinshaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003-05-22
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780521796385

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.