Women Books

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1. Social Justice in Group Work: Practical Interventions for Change

   Edited by Anneliese Singh, Carmen Salazar

   This book spotlights the unique contribution of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work to the social justice literature, and of group work to a social justice agenda. Although the term social justice may be relatively new in the counseling and psychology literature, the underlying values -...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57681-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Abortion Law and Policy: An Equal Opportunity Perspective

   By Kerry Petersen

   After at least half a century of political and legal agitation for the liberalization of abortion, most liberal democracies make provision for lawful abortion, but retain criminal penalties for unlawful abortion practices. Legal solutions which have redefined abortion as a health matter represent...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-49474-8 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Women and Therapy in the Last Third of Life: The Long View

   Edited by Valory Mitchell

   What is distinct about the last third of life, about women, that makes psychotherapy different? In this diverse collection, the psychological meanings and challenges of the last third of life are explored, as the capacity of the psyche expands, sense of time changes, and some questions take on new...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-56757-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Women, Clubs and Associations in Britain

   By David Doughan, Peter Gordon

   Women have been consistently excluded from all manner of clubs and associations over the years, whether as the direct result of an anti-woman policy or indirectly through prohibitive entry requirements, social constraints, or conflict of interests and tastes. Retaliation from women has...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-55135-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Women, Identity and India's Call Centre Industry

   By J.K. Tina Basi

   This book examines the concept of globalised identities and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India’s transnational call centre industry. Drawing on qualitative empirical data and extensive original fieldwork, the book provides a nuanced analysis...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-48228-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Safe Motherhood in a Globalized World

   Edited by Barbara Wejnert, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Nirupama Prakash

   This book provides cutting edge information on safe motherhood in a global context. The chapters focus on research, program development and implementation, and policy dealing with various aspects of pregnancy, labor and delivery. Safe motherhood is a critical issue since healthy, safe motherhood is...

   March 2009 | 978-0-415-48816-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine: Empowering Discernment

   By Patricia Elyse Terrell

   Examine the impact and importance reproduction and genetics have on religious valuesCounseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine: Empowering Discernment explains the mystery of the God-human relationship so ministers, priests, and pastors can follow the ethics and mechanics of counseling human...

   2007 | 978-0-7890-3045-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Women, Employment and Organizations

   By Judith Glover, Gill Kirton

   This book brings together the latest European and North American research on a series of key topics in the field of women's employment. Drawing on published and easily accessible statistics, it sets the topics in the appropriate policy contexts and systematically appraises them from the viewpoint...

   2006 | 978-0-415-32839-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Reinventing Gender: Women in Eastern Germany Since Unification

   Edited by Eva Kolinsky, Hildegard Maria Nickel

   Since the unification of the DDR and the GDR, women living in the former East Germany have lost many of the advantages that came with a planned economy. This collection of essays examines the reinvented meaning of gender and the experience of East German women since unification....

   2002 | 978-0-7146-8311-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Women's Health In Mainland Southeast Asia

    A thought-provoking look at women’s health in developing nations! This book shows how war, military regimes, industrialization, urbanization, and social upheaval have all affected the choices Southeast Asian women make about their health and health care. When you read these first-person accounts...

    2002 | 978-0-7890-1989-9 | Paperback (Routledge)