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Sisterhood is Global is a gold mine of statistical and factual information. It will be an invaluable reference book for anyone interested in the social status of women worldwide. Each essay is accompanied by detail after detail on the role of women in all spheres of society--female employment, wage differentials, participation in government, equal rights legislation. More than one-third of all families in the world, we learn, are now headed by women, and the statistics on the number of these families with incomes below national poverty lines lead credence to recent observations of a "feminization of poverty...
WITH A DESCRIPTION of the British feminist nuclear movement at the Greenham Commons military base, Sebestyen touches upon a theme that pervades Sisterhood is Global. Much of the "world feminism" that Morgan has given expression to is directed toward overall societal reform. No single essay details the concern of women in a particular country to be solely in bettering their economic and political position. The book is not so much a clarion call for equal rights for women, but rather a blueprint for a myriad of social changes. In contribution after contribution, the activists express a need for greater attention...
History of Science concentration Reuben K. Sparks '85 was one of a entrants from colleges nationwide in Honeywell Corporation's third annual Futurist Awards Competition's third annual Futurist Awards Competition. Each entrant submitted three 500-word essays, two of which predicted technological developments in specific fields for the year 2009. The third essay addressed the social impact of the technological advancements...
...addition to the essays about oil recovery and computer photography technology. Sparks addressed in his final essay what he calls the problems of "technological utopianism...
...first and most obvious trap for 19th-century women was the institution of marriage. Forster's book begins with an essay on Carohne Norton, an English woman who was separated from her husband after he had beaten her several times Upon being separated Norton discovered to her horror that her husband had the legal right to keep her from secing her children and that he was the owner of any money she inherited of earned These two discoveries led her to crisade against the offending laws...