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A War on Global Poverty

The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

By: Joanne Meyerowitz

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A War on Global Poverty

The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

By: Joanne Meyerowitz

A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernization programs to the rise of microcredit, Joanne Meyerowitz looks beyond familiar histories of development and explains why antipoverty programs increasingly focused on women as the deserving poor. When the United States joined the war on global poverty, economists, policymakers, and activists asked how to change a world in which millions lived in need. Moved to the left by socialists, social democrats, and religious humanists, they rejected the notion that economic growth would trickle down to the poor, and they proposed programs to redress inequities between and within nations. In an emerging “women in development” movement, they positioned women as economic actors who could help lift families and nations out of destitution. In the more conservative 1980s, the war on global poverty turned decisively toward market-based projects in the private sector. Development experts and antipoverty advocates recast women as entrepreneurs and imagined microcredit—with its tiny loans—as a grassroots solution. Meyerowitz shows that at the very moment when the overextension of credit left poorer nations bankrupt, loans to impoverished women came to replace more ambitious proposals that aimed at redistribution. Based on a wealth of sources, A War on Global Poverty looks at a critical transformation in antipoverty efforts in the late twentieth century and points to its legacies today.

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Princeton University Press

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0691206333

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9780691206332

Women Adrift

Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930

By: Joanne J. Meyerowitz

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Women Adrift

Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930

By: Joanne J. Meyerowitz

A sociological study of independent women employed outside the home in the years between 1880 and 1930 when women were traditionally expected to stay home until they married.

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249

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University of Chicago Press

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0226521982

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9780226521985

Domestic Cultures

By: Joanne Hollows

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Domestic Cultures

By: Joanne Hollows

Although ‘home’ is central to most people’s experience of everyday life, the meaning of home is often taken for granted. In this accessible and student-friendly introduction to domestic cultures, Joanne Hollows surveys current thinking and approaches to demonstrate why home is so central to our lives. Domestic Cultures examines which meanings and values have been associated with home and demonstrates how these have been transformed and reworked in different historical contexts. The book shows that while certain meanings of domestic culture are frequently produced ‘for us’, these can be negotiated and resisted through everyday home-making practices. She demonstrates how elements of domesticity have been dislocated and mobilized within public life. This wide-ranging text challenges a range of ideas about domestic culture. It examines how the meanings of domestic life are produced across a range of discourses and practices, from architecture, lifestyle media and advertising to home decoration, cooking and watching television. The book demonstrates how domestic cultures are not only linked to particular ideas about gendered identities, but how they are also differentiated by class, race and sexuality. Domestic Cultures is a key introductory text for media, sociology and cultural studies students.

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184

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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033523481X

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9780335234813

Summertime

By: Joanne Dugan

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Summertime

By: Joanne Dugan

Summer is the best season of all, with its long days, blue skies, and endless horizons. Summertime collects more than 100 photos that capture the essence of the season from such highly acclaimed photographers as Joel Meyerowitz, Martin Parr, and Peter Marlow. Quotes from luminaries intermingle with dreamy pictures—sandy toes, empty docks, blue water—that instantly evoke the perfect summer moment. A jacketed hardcover, Summertime is casual, elegant, and ideally sized for the summer cottage coffee table—the perfect gift for weekend hosts, or those who long for an escape to their favorite season all year round.

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Chronicle Books

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1452132259

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A War on Global Poverty

The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

By: Joanne Meyerowitz

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The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

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Princeton University Press

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0691250286

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Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform

Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929

By: Joanne L. Goodwin

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Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform

Mothers' Pensions in Chicago, 1911-1929

By: Joanne L. Goodwin

The first study to explore the origins of welfare in the context of local politics, this book examines the first public welfare policy created specifically for mother-only families. Chicago initiated the largest mothers' pension program in the United States in 1911. Evolving alongside movements for industrial justice and women's suffrage, the mothers' pension movement hoped to provide "justice for mothers" and protection from life's insecurities. However, local politics and public finance derailed the policy, and most women were required to earn. Widows were more likely to receive pensions than deserted women and unwed mothers. And African-American mothers were routinely excluded because they were proven breadwinners yet did not compete with white men for jobs. Ultimately, the once-uniform commitment to protect motherhood faltered on the criteria of individual support, and wage-earning became a major component of the policy. This revealing study shows how assumptions about women's roles have historically shaped public policy and sheds new light on the ongoing controversy of welfare reform.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226303918

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9780226303918

Changing the Game

Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990

By: Joanne L. Goodwin

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Changing the Game

Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990

By: Joanne L. Goodwin

The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought an influx of both women and men looking to work in the expanding hotel and casino industries. In fact, for the next fifty years the proportion of women in the labor force was greater in Las Vegas than the United States as a whole. Joanne L. Goodwin’s study captures the shifting boundaries of women’s employment in the postwar decades with narratives drawn from the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. It counters clichéd pictures of women at work in the famed resort city as it explores women’s real strategies for economic survival and success. Their experiences anticipated major trends in post-World War II labor history: the national migration of workers during and after the war, the growing proportion of women in the labor force, balancing work with family life, the unionization of service workers, and, above all, the desegregation of the labor force by sex and race. These narratives show women in Las Vegas resisting preassigned roles, seeing their work as a testimony of skill, a measure of independence, and a fulfillment of needs. Overall, these stories of women who lived and worked in Las Vegas in the last half of the twentieth century reveal much about the broader transitions for women in America between 1940 and 1990.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874179610

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9780874179613

Encyclopedia of Women in American History

By: Joyce Appleby,Eileen Chang,Joanne Goodwin

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Encyclopedia of Women in American History

By: Joyce Appleby,Eileen Chang,Joanne Goodwin

This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women in every era of American history, from the colonial period to the present. It not only covers the issues that have had an impact on women, but also traces the influence of women's achievements on society as a whole. Divided into three chronologically arranged volumes, the set includes historical surveys and thematic essays on central issues and political changes affecting women's lives during each period. These are followed by A-Z entries on significant events and social movements, laws, court cases and more, as well as profiles of notable American women from all walks of life and all fields of endeavor. Primary sources and original documents are included throughout.

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1438

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Routledge

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131747161X

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9781317471615

Feminism, femininity and popular culture

By: Joanne Hollows

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Feminism, femininity and popular culture

By: Joanne Hollows

Accessible, introductory student guide which identifies key feminist approaches to popular culture from the 1960s to the present.. The only introduction to both feminist cultural studies and feminism and popular culture published in the UK.. Presents its information in a reader friendly series of case studies on: women's film romantic fiction soap opera consumption and material culture fashion and beauty proactices youth culture and popular music. Will appeal to students across a wide range of disciplines as a variety of popular cultural forms are discussed.

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Manchester University Press

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1526183900

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Persuasion in Society

By: Herbert W. Simons,Joanne Morreale,Bruce E. Gronbeck

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Persuasion in Society

By: Herbert W. Simons,Joanne Morreale,Bruce E. Gronbeck

Persuasion in Society provides a comprehensive guide to the understanding, practice and analysis of persuasion in society and its psychological dynamics.

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SAGE

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0761919082

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9780761919087

The Field of Blood

Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

By: Joanne B. Freeman

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The Field of Blood

Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

By: Joanne B. Freeman

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374717613

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9780374717612

Women Adrift

Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930

By: Joanne J. Meyerowitz

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Women Adrift

Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930

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A sociological study of independent women employed outside the home in the years between 1880 and 1930 when women were traditionally expected to stay home until they married.

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0226521974

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Summertime

By: Joanne Dugan

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Summertime

By: Joanne Dugan

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Book's by Joanne Meyerowitz

A War on Global Poverty

A War on Global Poverty

Women Adrift

Women Adrift

Domestic Cultures

Domestic Cultures

Summertime

Summertime

A War on Global Poverty

A War on Global Poverty

Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform

Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform

Changing the Game

Changing the Game

Encyclopedia of Women in American History

Encyclopedia of Women in American History

Feminism, femininity and popular culture

Feminism, femininity and popular culture

Persuasion in Society

Persuasion in Society

The Field of Blood

The Field of Blood

Women Adrift

Women Adrift

Summertime

Summertime

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