• Section 1. Understanding human resource skilling through vocational and Training programs.
• Chapter 1. Gender gap in skill development: an analytical review ;
• Chapter 2. Youth participation in the national development plan through technical and vocational education and training: the case of young black women in South Africa ;
• Chapter 3. Gender issues and priorities in Republic of Belarus ;
• Chapter 4. Gender issues in vocational education and training in India: imperatives and challenges ;
• Chapter 5. Skill challenge in Bengaluru's garment industry: a gender perspective
• Section 2. Promoting gender equity through skill development.
• Chapter 6. Gender equity and social inclusion: holistic approach to education, training, and labor market demand ;
• Chapter 7. Vocational education and training for women: a gender divide perspective ;
• Chapter 8. How Bangladesh is increasing the employability of females with technical training programs ;
• Chapter 9. Skill acquisition and entrepreneurial intention among corp members in southwestern Nigeria ;
• Chapter 10. Skill development, skill premium, and technological change: a gender-based approach ;
• Chapter 11. Significant influences of digital literacy to promote gender equity and equality in education: digital literacy perspective ;
• Chapter 11. Gender-responsive TVET framework: an Indian perspective.

Technical and vocational education helps to empower marginalized sections of society by increasing their employability. However, access to skills training provided by formal technical and vocational institutions is often limited for these sections of society. Women from poor communities are especially disadvantaged in this regard due to community or family beliefs that undermine their potential for career development and economic independence. Gender Issues in Technical and Vocational Education Programs is an essential critical resource that probes the issue of gender equity in specialized educational programs, such as vocational or technical education programs. It also presents global initiatives that are being undertaken to enhance the access to technical and vocational education programs to all citizens. Featuring coverage on topics such as digital economy, skill development, and STEM education, this book is ideal for academicians, researchers, social scientists, educators, policymakers, government officials, and professionals.
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• Preface
• 1. Injury Epidemic
• 2. Risk Factors: Biomechanics, Biology, and Anatomy
• 3. ACL Prevention Programs Overview
• 4. ACL Anatomy
• 5. ACL Graft Choices in the Female Athlete
• 6. Biology of Healing after ACL Reconstruction
• 7. Special Considerations: Pediatric ACL
• 8. Special Considerations: Revision ACL
• 9. Rehabilitation and Return to Play after ACL Reconstruction
• 10. Future Options: biologic augmentation, graft choices
• 11. Psychology of Return to Play after ACL Injury.
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This easy-to-read reference presents a succinct overview of clinically-focused topics covering the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of ACL injuries in the female athlete. Written by two professional team physicians, it provides practical, focused information for orthopaedic and sports medicine surgeons and physicians. Covers ACL injury risk factors and prevention, including biomechanics, biology, and anatomy of the female athlete. Discusses graft choices, the biology of healing, rehabilitation and return to play, future options for treatment, and more. Addresses special considerations such as pediatric ACL and revision ACL. Consolidates today's available information and experience in this timely area into one convenient resource.
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She wants only one thing: to be wanted. Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making. Suspenseful, erotic, and electrically charged, Adèle is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Acronyms
• Foreword
• Introduction: In the Traditions of Professor Victor C. Uchendu and Professor Ifi Amadiume: African Women and the Challenge of Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance
• 1. The Mobile Ecosystem and Internet Access on the African Content: Asymmetry and the Gender Digital Divide
• 2. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Zimbabwe
• 3. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Tanzania,
• 2010 and 2015-2016
• 4. ICT, Women's Status, and Governance in Malawi,
• 2010 and 2015-2016
• 5. ICT, Diffusion of Knowledge to Women, Gender Inclusive Governance, and Impacts on Women's Lives in Three African Nations
• Conclusion
• References
• Index
• References
• Biography.
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How can we promote people-centered governance in Africa? Cell phones/ information and communications technology (ICT) are shown to be linked to neoliberal understandings of more democratic governance structures, defined by the Worldwide Governance Indicators as: the rule of law, corruption-control, regulation quality, government effectiveness, political stability/no violence, and voice and accountability. However, these indicators fall short: they do note emphasize gender equity or pro-poor policies. Writing from an African feminist scholar-activist perspective, Assata Zerai emphasizes the voices of women in two ways: (1) she examines how women's access to ICT makes a difference to the success of people-centered governance structures; and (2) she demonstrates how African women's scholarship, too often marginalized, must be used to expand and redefine the goals and indicators of democratice governance in African countries. Challenging the status quo that praises the contributions of cell phones to the diffusion of knowledge and resultant better governance in Africa, this book is an important read for scholars of politics and technology, gender and politics, and African Studies.
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• Introduction - Mariana P. Candido and Adam Jones PROPERTY Adaptation in the Aftermath of Slavery: Women, Trade and Property in Sierra Leone, c. 1790-1812 - Suzanne Schwarz Women, Land and Power in the Lower Gambia River Region - Assan Sarr Women and Food Production: Agriculture, Demography and Access to Land in Late Eighteenth-century Catumbela - Esteban A. Salas Women's Material World in Nineteenth-Century Benguela - Mariana P. Candido VULNERABILITY Prostitution, Polyandry or Rape? On the Ambiguity of European Sources for the West African Coast, 1660-1860 - Adam Jones Parrying Palavers: Coastal Akan Women and the Search for Security in the Eighteenth Century - Natalie Everts To be Female and Free: Mapping Mobility and Emancipation in Lagos, Badagry and Abeokuta 1853-1865 - Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi Gendered Authority, Gendered Violence: Household and Identity in the Life and Death of a Brazilian Freed Woman in Lagos - Kristin Mann MOBILITY From Child Slave to Madam Esperance: One Woman's Career in the Anglo-African World c. 1675-1707 - Colleen E Kriger Writing the History of the Trans-African Woman in the Revolutionary French Atlantic - Lorelle Semley Spouses and Commercial Partners: Immigrant Men and Locally Born Women in Luanda 1831-1859 - Vanessa S. Oliveira Women, Family and Daily Life in Senegal's Nineteenth-century Atlantic Towns - Hilary Jones.
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While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together scholars from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show, for the first time, the ways in which African women participated in economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies. Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions; consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to impose on women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility, both spatially and socially; and women's economic power and its curtailment. Mariana P. Candido is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame; Adam Jones recently retired as Professor of African History and Culture History at the University of Leipzig. In association with The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.
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• Profile: Pearl Bernstein: a woman in New York politics
• Precedents
• Part I: At the margins. Negotiating partisanship
• Sustaining feminist progressivism
• Part II: Moving toward the center. Scandal in the courts
• Fallout
• The women of the administration
• The election of
• 1937 and beyond
• Part III: Looking forward
• Legacy
• Appendix: "Fifty women and one man: a play in three scenes and one axe".

Soon after his inauguration in 1934, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia began appointing women into his administration. By the end of his three terms in office, he had installed almost a hundred as lawyers in his legal department, but also as board and commission members and as secretaries, deputy commissioners, and judges. No previous mayor had done anything comparable. Aware they were breaking new ground for women in American politics, the "Women of the La Guardia Administration, " as they called themselves, met frequently for mutual support and political strategizing. This is the first book to tell their stories. Author Elisabeth Israels Perry begins with the city's suffrage movement, which prepared these women for political action as enfranchised citizens. After they won the vote in 1917, suffragists joined political party clubs and began to run for office, many of them hoping to use political platforms to enact feminist and progressive public policies. Circumstances unique to mid-twentieth century New York City advanced their progress. In 1930, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized an inquiry into alleged corruption in the city's government, long dominated by the Tammany Hall political machine. The inquiry turned first to the Vice Squad's entrapment of women for sex crimes and the reported misconduct of the Women's Court. Outraged by the inquiry's disclosures and impressed by La Guardia's pledge to end Tammany's grip on city offices, many New York City women activists supported him for mayor. It was in partial recognition of this support that he went on to appoint an unprecedented number of them into official positions, furthering his plans for a modernized city government. In these new roles, La Guardia's women appointees not only contributed to the success of his administration but left a rich legacy of experience and political wisdom to oncoming generations of women in American politics.
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• Profile : Pearl Bernstein : a woman in New York politics
• Precedents
• Negotiating partisanship
• Sustaining feminist progressivism
• Scandal in the courts
• Fallout
• The women of the administration
• The election of 1937 and beyond
• Legacy
• Appendix: "Fifty Women and One Man: A Play in Three Scenes and One Axe".

Soon after his inauguration in 1934, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia began appointing women into his administration. By the end of his three terms in office, he had installed almost a hundred as lawyers in his legal department, but also as board and commission members and as secretaries, deputy commissioners, and judges. No previous mayor had done anything comparable. Aware they were breaking new ground for women in American politics, the "Women of the La Guardia Administration, " as they called themselves, met frequently for mutual support and political strategizing. This is the first book to tell their stories. Author Elisabeth Israels Perry begins with the city's suffrage movement, which prepared these women for political action as enfranchised citizens. After they won the vote in 1917, suffragists joined political party clubs and began to run for office, many of them hoping to use political platforms to enact feminist and progressive public policies. Circumstances unique to mid-twentieth century New York City advanced their progress. In 1930, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized an inquiry into alleged corruption in the city's government, long dominated by the Tammany Hall political machine. The inquiry turned first to the Vice Squad's entrapment of women for sex crimes and the reported misconduct of the Women's Court. Outraged by the inquiry's disclosures and impressed by La Guardia's pledge to end Tammany's grip on city offices, many New York City women activists supported him for mayor. It was in partial recognition of this support that he went on to appoint an unprecedented number of them into official positions, furthering his plans for a modernized city government. In these new roles, La Guardia's women appointees not only contributed to the success of his administration but left a rich legacy of experience and political wisdom to oncoming generations of women in American politics.
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• Introduction
• Lessons in self-defense : from "free Joan Little" to "free them all"
• Diagnosing institutional violence : forging alliances against the "prison/psychiatric state"
• Printing abolition : the transformative power of women's prison newsletters
• Intersecting indictments : coalitions for women's safety, racial justice, and the right to the city
• Epilogue.

During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners' and psychiatric patients' rights, and gender and sexual liberation. All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence mobilizations. This activism confronted a "tough on crime" political agenda and clashed with the mainstream women's movement's strategy of resorting to the criminal legal system as a solution to sexual and domestic violence. Drawing on extensive archival research and first-person narratives, Thuma weaves together the stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, broad-based local coalitions, national gatherings, and radical print cultures that cut through prison walls. In the process, she illuminates a crucial chapter in an unfinished struggle--one that continues in today's movements against mass incarceration and in support of transformative justice.
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• Reconceptualizing women and public service
• The men and women in elected and appointed office at the state level
• You should be appointed : political recruitment for state-level appointed officials
• Why hold public office? : appointed officials' motivations to hold public office
• Where do I go from here? : the political ambitions of appointed officeholders
• Considering the other pathway : appointed officials' interest in elected office
• A different perspective : recruitment, motivations, and ambitions of state elected officials
• How to be the nonpolitical public servant.

"We are accustomed to hearing about a gender gap in politics. The low representation of women in elected office is well-documented and typically attributed to institutional barriers, discrimination, and differences in political ambition due to socialized gender norms. The problem with this narrative, as Kaitlin Sidorsky observes, is that it leaves out political appointment as an alternative path to public service. More women participate in politics than scholars have acknowledged, but they do so through appointments. And this road to power has been understudied for the same reason that many women pursue appointed positions over elected office: because they can serve the public in a way that does not seem "political." Women are not always just "victims" of their own lack of self-confidence or a biased political sphere, but in fact make a conscious decision to enter politics through what they consider a far less partisan and negative entry point. Very few scholars have studied female appointees in the same manner they study female officeholders, and this omission ignores the political histories, recruitment patterns, and levels of political ambition of women. It also underappreciates the importance of appointed positions, which are some of the most important roles in the government. All Roads Lead to Power explores why women are attracted to these positions through an original survey and interviews with officials across twenty states and four bureaucratic departments. Sidorsky's research sheds light on the recruitment process, motivations for holding office, and political ambitions of women who look for alternative, "non-political" routes to public service"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: the multiple meanings of matriarchies in American history
• Gynecocracy in the gilded age: the intellectual and historical foundations of American matriarchalism
• Mother-rule in the modern world: Victorian feminist matriarchalism
• White queens and African amazons: imperial matriarchalism at the Chicago World's Fair
• Witches, wizards, and women of cast iron: American matriarchalism goes mainstream
• Like coming home to mother: progressive era matriarchalism
• The amazing amazon: Wonder Woman's matriarchalist superheroics
• Vipers and momarchies: mid-century antimatriarchalism
• Goddesses, earth mothers, and female men: the matriarchies of the women's liberation movement
• Mammies, matriarchs, and welfare queens: racist matriarchalism
• Epilogue: Madeas and the manosphere: American matriarchalism in the early twenty-first century.

An Anatomical Venus - which gives this book its title - was an eighteenth-century anatomical wax sculpture of an idealised woman, a heady mix of eroticism, death and biological verisimilitude. Venus could be opened up and pulled apart by all the men who studied her. She would give up her secrets the first time of asking. Helen Ivory's new collection The Anatomical Venus examines how women have been portrayed as `other'; as witches; as hysterics with wandering wombs and as beautiful corpses cast in wax, or on mortuary slabs in TV box sets. A hanged woman addresses the author of the Malleus Maleficarum, a woman diagnosed with `Housewife Psychosis' recounts her dreams to Freud, and a sex robot has the ear of her keeper. The Anatomical Venus imagines the lives of women sketched in asylum notes and pictures others shut inside cabinets of curiosity.
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Germany, 1943. Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband, Gregor, is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Alone, she has little choice but to leave war-torn Berlin behind and live with her in-laws in the countryside, hoping she'll find refuge there. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, known as the Wolf's Lair, to eat his meals before he does. Forced to eat what might kill them, the tasters begin to divide into The Fanatics, those loyal to Hitler, and the women like Rosa who insist they aren't Nazis, even as they risk their lives every day for Hitler's. As secrets and resentments grow, this unlikely sisterhood reaches its own dramatic climax. What's more, one of Rosa's SS guards has become dangerously familiar, and the war is worsening outside. As the months pass, it becomes increasingly clear that Rosa and everyone she knows are on the wrong side of history.
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