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Union Women

Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America

By: Mary Margaret Fonow

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Union Women

Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America

By: Mary Margaret Fonow

For more than a quarter century, steel mills in the United States and Canada have produced more than metal: they have produced a new kind of worker and union activist -- "Women of Steel." In an era labeled postfeminist and postindustrial, women have created spaces in this quintessentially male-dominated workforce from which to mobilize for their rights as women and workers. In Union Women, Mary Margaret Fonow captures the stories of the women of the United Steelworkers. She focuses on a tenacious group who used their developing power in the union to challenge sex discrimination and to advocate for women's rights, and applied their transnational resources to construct a feminist response to globalization and economic restructuring. In the process, they have transformed the organizations, resources, and networks of both the labor and women's movements, and have in turn transformed themselves into feminists. In Union Women Fonow uses statistical, archival, and ethnographic research methods to provide a broad historical account of women in the steel industry. Fonow's sweeping approach allows her to examine several key issues in social movement, feminist, and political theory, and to show that insights from these fields shape each other. She explores how social movements are gendered, how working-class women develop a feminist consciousness, and how this process is informed by intersecting demands of race, class, and gender. As a comparative, cross-national study, Union Women also demonstrates how different political and social cultures affect women's organizing and strategic decisions. Finally, Fonow emphasizes that economic restructuring and globalization pose immediate challenges forwomen as laborers and activists, and that, in order to survive, all unions must develop organizing and mobilization strategies informed by feminism and other social movements.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816638837

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Making Feminist Politics

Transnational Alliances Between Women and Labor

By: Suzanne Franzway,Mary Margaret Fonow

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Making Feminist Politics

Transnational Alliances Between Women and Labor

By: Suzanne Franzway,Mary Margaret Fonow

In this timely and detailed examination of the intersections of feminism, labor politics, and global studies, Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow reveal the ways in which women across the world are transforming labor unions in the contemporary era. Situating specific case studies within broad feminist topics, Franzway and Fonow concentrate on union feminists mobilizing at multiple sites, issues of wages and equity, child care campaigns, work-life balance, and queer organizing, demonstrating how unions around the world are broadening their focuses from contractual details to empowerment and family and feminist issues. By connecting the diversity of women's experiences around the world both inside and outside the home and highlighting the innovative ways women workers attain their common goals, Making Feminist Politics lays the groundwork for recognition of the total individual in the future of feminist politics within global union movements. --Publisher description.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252035968

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9780252035968

Making Feminist Politics

Transnational Alliances Between Women and Labor

By: Suzanne Franzway,Mary Margaret Fonow

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Transnational Alliances Between Women and Labor

By: Suzanne Franzway,Mary Margaret Fonow

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University of Illinois Press

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Beyond Methodology

Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research

By: Mary Margaret Fonow

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Beyond Methodology

Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research

By: Mary Margaret Fonow

A stellar cast of authors discuss and describe feminist research, reflecting the state of feminist discourse in sociology. . . . its high quality makes it a must in sociology and women's studies collections." —Choice " . . . empowering . . . thought-provoking . . . " —Gender & Society " . . . a valuable addition to the literature on feminism and method that reveals important discrepancies and shared themes in its chapters." —Contemporary Sociology In this interdisciplinary collection of articles by internationally recognized feminist scholars, the authors examine efforts to apply feminist principles to the research act. Each stage of the research process is examined, from sampling techniques to mass media packaging and marketing of feminist research. The essays address both abstract philosophical questions and the more practical ways theories are translated into feminist inquiry.

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Indiana University Press

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0253206294

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9780253206299

Union Women

Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America

By: Mary Margaret Fonow

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Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America

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Looking South

Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization

By: Mary E. Frederickson

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Looking South

Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization

By: Mary E. Frederickson

In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labor are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women who have watched their own wages decline and jobs disappear. Looking South examines the effects of race, class, and gender in the development of the low-wage, anti-union, and state-supported industries that marked the creation of the New South and now the Global South. Workers in the contemporary Global South--those nations of Central and Latin America, most of Asia, and Africa--live and work within a model of industrial development that materialized in the red brick mills of the New South. As early as the 1950s, this labor model became the prototype used by U.S. companies as they expanded globally. This development has had increasingly powerful effects on workers and consumers at home and around the world. Mary E. Frederickson highlights the major economic and cultural changes brought about by deindustrialization and immigration. She also outlines the events, movements, and personalities involved in the race-, class-, and gender-based resistance to industry’s relentless search for cheap labor.

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University Press of Florida

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0813042941

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9780813042947

On Becoming a Teen Mom

Life before Pregnancy

By: Mary Patrice Erdmans,Timothy Black

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On Becoming a Teen Mom

Life before Pregnancy

By: Mary Patrice Erdmans,Timothy Black

In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as "I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen" and "Honestly, Mom, chances are he won’t stay with you." Campaigns like this support a public narrative that portrays teen mothers as threatening the moral order, bankrupting state coffers, and causing high rates of poverty, incarceration, and school dropout. These efforts demonize teen mothers but tell us nothing about their lives before they became pregnant. In this myth-shattering book, the authors tell the life stories of 108 brown, white, and black teen mothers, exposing the problems in their lives often overlooked in pregnancy prevention campaigns. Some stories are tragic and painful, marked by sexual abuse, partner violence, and school failure. Others depict "girl next door" characters whose unintended pregnancies lay bare insidious gender disparities. Offering a fresh perspective on the links between teen births and social inequalities, this book demonstrates how the intersecting hierarchies of gender, race, and class shape the biographies of young mothers.

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Univ of California Press

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0520959280

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9780520959286

The Grasinski Girls

The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made

By: Mary Patrice Erdmans

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The Grasinski Girls

The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made

By: Mary Patrice Erdmans

Annotation Using the oral histories of her mother and aunts, Erdmans explores the private lives of these working-class women in the post-World War II generation and shows how gender, class, ethnicity, and religion shaped their choices.

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Ohio University Press

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0821415816

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9780821415818

The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed

Uncovering Liberating Possibilities for Women

By: Katherine Marie Dyckman,Mary Garvin,Elizabeth Liebert

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The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed

Uncovering Liberating Possibilities for Women

By: Katherine Marie Dyckman,Mary Garvin,Elizabeth Liebert

An engaging and practical resource appropriate for both guides and seekers that brings women's perspectives to the Spiritual Exercises.

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Paulist Press

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0809140438

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9780809140435

Frankenstein

Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

By: Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein

Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

By: Mary Shelley

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together creature can be read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris. Victor, “the modern Prometheus,” tried to do what he perhaps should have left to Nature: create life. Although the novel is most often discussed in literary-historical terms—as a seminal example of romanticism or as a groundbreaking early work of science fiction—Mary Shelley was keenly aware of contemporary scientific developments and incorporated them into her story. In our era of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate engineering, this edition of Frankenstein will resonate forcefully for readers with a background or interest in science and engineering, and anyone intrigued by the fundamental questions of creativity and responsibility. This edition of Frankenstein pairs the original 1818 version of the manuscript—meticulously line-edited and amended by Charles E. Robinson, one of the world's preeminent authorities on the text—with annotations and essays by leading scholars exploring the social and ethical aspects of scientific creativity raised by this remarkable story. The result is a unique and accessible edition of one of the most thought-provoking and influential novels ever written. Essays by Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Heather E. Douglas, Josephine Johnston, Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, Anne K. Mellor, Alfred Nordmann

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MIT Press

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0262340275

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9780262340274

Daughters of the Tharu

Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls

By: Mary Ann Maslak

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Daughters of the Tharu

Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls

By: Mary Ann Maslak

This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the relationship between the social structure and individual agency conditions and governs girls' educational participation in Nepal.

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Routledge

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1135952221

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9781135952228

Feminism and Christian Tradition

An Annotated Bibliography and Critical Introduction to the Literature

By: Mary-Paula Walsh

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Feminism and Christian Tradition

An Annotated Bibliography and Critical Introduction to the Literature

By: Mary-Paula Walsh

This annotated bibliography, a volume in the Greenwood series, Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, provides access to the numerous writings, from the 1960s through the 1990s, on feminism and Christian tradition. Major feminist theologians and sociologists are represented. As a guide to further research, this cross-disciplinary approach presents themes and issues in both a historical and a topical framework. An extensive overview of feminism in relation to the women's movement, women's studies, sociology and American religion introduces the literature and provides a historical context for the nearly one thousand entries that follow. Cross-referenced throughout, the literature is presented in six thematic categories that include introductory and background materials, feminism and the development of feminist theology, topical literatures in feminist theology, feminism and womanist theology, religious leadership of women, and responses and recent developments. Separate author, subject, and title indexes complete the volume.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313371318

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9780313371318

Book's by Mary Margaret Fonow

Union Women

Union Women

Making Feminist Politics

Making Feminist Politics

Making Feminist Politics

Making Feminist Politics

Beyond Methodology

Beyond Methodology

Union Women

Union Women

Looking South

Looking South

On Becoming a Teen Mom

On Becoming a Teen Mom

The Grasinski Girls

The Grasinski Girls

The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed

The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Daughters of the Tharu

Daughters of the Tharu

Feminism and Christian Tradition

Feminism and Christian Tradition

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