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Sex role--United States--Congresses, Arab American women--Social conditions, Arab Americans--History--Congresses, Arab American women--Social conditions--Congresses, Arab Americans--Ethnic identity--Congresses, Sex role--United States, Arab Americans--Ethnic identity, and Arab Americans--History

Arab American women have played an essential role in shaping their homes, their communities, and their country for centuries. Their contributions, often marginalized academically and culturally, are receiving long- overdue attention with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Arab American women's studies. The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves. Arab American women brought culture and absorbed culture; they brought relationships and created relationships; they brought skills and talents and developed skills and talents. They resisted inequities, refused compliance, and challenged representation. They engaged in politics, civil society, the arts, education, the market, and business. And they told their own stories. These histories, these genealogies, these narrations that are so much a part of the American experiment are chronicled in this volume, providing an indispensable resource for scholars and activists.

Home economics--History--20th century, Home economics--History--19th century, Energy consumption--Social aspects--19th century, Energy consumption--Social aspects--20th century, Households--Energy consumption--History--19th century, Households--Energy consumption--History--20th century, Women--Social conditions--19th century, Women--Social conditions--20th century, Energy consumption--History--19th century, and Energy consumption--History--20th century

In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands'work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of industrialized work as factories and mines. But while energy studies are beginning to acknowledge the importance of social and historical contexts and to produce more inclusive histories of the unprecedented energy transitions that powered industrialization, women have remained notably absent from these accounts.In a New Light explores the vital place of women in the shift to fossil fuels that spurred the Industrial Revolution, illuminating the variety of ways in which gender and energy intersected in women's lives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and North America. From their labour in the home, where they managed the adoption of new energy sources, to their work as educators in electrical housecraft and their protests against the effects of industrialization, women took on active roles to influence energy decisions.Together these essays deepen our understanding of the significance of gender in the history of energy, and of energy transitions in the history of women and gender. By foregrounding women's energetic labours and concerns, the authors shed new light on energy use in the past and provide important insights as societies move towards a carbon-neutral future.

Women--Social conditions--19th century, Women--Social conditions--20th century, Women--Suffrage--England--Norwich--History--19th century, and Women--Suffrage--England--Norwich--History--20th century

A local historian explores the lives of women—both ordinary and extraordinary—who fought for change in Norwich, England, from 1850–1950.Norwich has been home to notable women, such as Mabel Clarkson, the first female sheriff in England who went on to serve as Lord Mayor of Norwich in the 1930s. But the history of Norwich has also been shaped by many other women whose stories too often remain in the shadows. In Struggle and Suffrage in Norwich, local historian Gill Blanchard sheds light on the lives of Norwich women who fought poverty, campaigned for voting rights, and had a lasting impact on their city. Blanchard tells the stories of divorcee Elizabeth Gurney; suffragette Miriam Pratt; nurse Philippa Flowerday, blacksmith Elizabeth Sabberton; economist and writer Harriet Martineau; abolitionist and writer Amelia Opie; Dorothy Jewson, the first female MP in Norwich and East Anglia; and numerous schoolteachers, clerks, tradeswomen, weavers, WWI munitionettes, and more.

Goajiro women--Social conditions, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Social aspects--Colombia--La Guajira (Department), Goajiro Indians, and Goajiro women--Interviews

El punto de partida de esta investigación fue rescatar los testimonios de mujeres indígenas, concretamente de las mujeres wayúu, aplicando como metodología el estudio de caso de la Ranchería Divi Divi en Colombia, para estudiar y justificar si la desigualdad en América Latina se mantuvo o se amplió con la crisis sanitaria de la COVID-19.El libro aborda, desde un estudio multidisciplinar, académico, interuniversitario e inter-nacional temas como la cosmovisión, la identidad, la transmisión matrilineal, la visión y simbología del arte wayúu, la educación y democratización del manejo del Clan en las redes sociales y el impacto de la comercialización de sus productos durante la pandemia. Algunas de las hipótesis planteadas en la investigación fueron: ¿Qué cambios se han generado en la vida de las mujeres de una comunidad wayúu? Considerando que el tejido es el espacio de interacción, conversación y transferencia de sus valores culturales de manera intergeneracional, ¿cuáles han sido sus experiencias en relación con las modificaciones de su sistema cultural que ha permitido, finalmente, la supervivencia de su cosmovisión? ¿Cómo han sido afectadas las prácticas comunicativas entre mujeres wayúu en la crisis sanitaria?No es la primera vez que el pueblo wayúu atraviesa una crisis profunda de iden-tidad, espacio y cosmovisión. Ya en el año 2015, logró un impacto internacional en los medios de comunicación por la crisis hídrica que vivían junto con otras culturas indíge-nas amazónicas. El drama de niños agonizando de sed, permitió que, al menos por un tiempo, se lograra abordar la verdadera tragedia de la desigualdad: la lucha por el agua, bien escaso y que sin dudas no llega a todos por igual.Con el desvío del cauce del río Ranchería y del afluente Bruno las tierras de los wayúu se volvieron áridas y las condiciones de vida cambiaron ya que no pudieron se-guir cultivando sus alimentos ni manteniendo a sus animales cerca. Los pozos de agua que cada clan excavó se secaron y debieron pagar por un recurso que les daba el río. Esta acción los obligaba a desplazarse por varios lugares de Colombia, en especial en la región de la Costa Caribe y en el centro del país.Atendiendo a esas premisas y a sus antecedentes, la investigación pretende desa-rrollar objetivos como determinar brechas de desigualdad en la perspectiva de género, describir el rol de la mujer y artesana wayúu en la transmisión matrilineal del clan, indagar sobre el uso del lenguaje oral para la transmisión de la cultura, describir las experiencias y modos de producción artesanal de mujeres indígenas wayúu, identificar la cultura digital en la comunidad, o describir el impacto de la educación en el desarrollo y autonomía de las mujeres del clan, entre otros.

Women in Islam, Muslim women--Clothing, and Muslim women--Social conditions

In Volume 4, the author shows that Islam honours women in all that it makes permissible for a Muslim woman to wear and with what she may adorn herself. This Eight volume series is the author's abridged version of his longer work with the same Arabic title, Tahrir al-Mar'ah fi ‘Asr al-Risalah spanning a twenty-five year study comprising fourteen great anthologies of ahadith, but in this book he only rarely includes hadiths from any anthology other than the two most authentic ones of al-Bukhari and Muslim.

African American consumers, African American women in popular culture, Consumer behavior--United States, African American women--Social conditions, and Group identity--United States

Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj's hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women's position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress. Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.

Women--Social conditions, Violence--Social aspects, Sex discrimination against women, and Feminism

En el presente libro se abordan las construcciones, narraciones y tecnologías históricas, religiosas, filosóficas y científicas del lenguaje y del discurso del «saber» que han determinado la identidad, la función y la constitución psíquica y corporal de las mujeres, así como su inscripción en los roles simbólicos, sociales, sexuales y laborales de género y su exclusión del espacio público. Aporta materiales y (con)textos para una crítica feminista de la violencia y enfoca las luchas de las mujeres para enfrentarse al silencio y a la injusticia de su condición, desde figuras trágicas como Antígona, Casandra e Ifigenia hasta las declaraciones, escritos y miradas de ilustradas, revolucionarias, filósofas, teóricas y artistas en la actualidad, a través de sus escritos, argumentos y razonamientos. Erigidas en sujetos políticos de lenguaje, las autoras afrontan y desenmascaran en la escritura y las obras artísticas las mitologías, los discursos y las leyes que las han sometido –aunque no acallado–, manifiestan su resistencia al victimismo y a la esclavitud, y denuncian la guerra –de Troya a Bosnia, Palestina o Iraq– como fundamento de la violencia del patriarcado.