Appropriate for courses in Introduction to Women's Studies; Sociology of Women and Sociology of Gender at the university level. Of interest to students and instructors of courses in women's studies, the sociology of women, and the sociology of gender, collection has been thoroughly revised and reflects a current overview of contemporary topics, while introducing new perspectives on emerging issues. Each chapter questions the prevailing myths and stereotypes about women's past and current lives.

Feminist Issues

Politics & Social Sciences

Mandell, Nancy

Social Sciences

Prentice-Hall of Canada, Ltd.

Feminist Issues positions women’s issues at the forefront of Canadian concerns. Authors explore the range and diversity of contemporary feminist perspectives as seen through the lens of race, class, sexuality, disability, and poverty. Each chapter addresses questions and social problems that have received little attention in Canadian writing. The editor, Nancy Mandell, has an excellent and widely-known reputation in the areas of women’s and gender studies, and this collection offers a forum for all of the leading researchers and educators in Canada. The result is an innovative, challenging, and comprehensive survey of Canadian feminist issues today.

Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality, Fifth Edition (5th Edition)

Women's Studies

Pearson Education Canada

Canadian Families : Diversity, Conflict and Change

Sociology

Harcourt Brace, Canada

This text provides discussion of the female life cycle based on in-depth interviews with 150 diverse women at various stages in their lives, including women from visible minorities, lesbians, women with disabilities, and women living in poverty. In this text, particular attention is paid to issues of: baby boomers; the women's movement; work and economic security; caregiving; health and well-being; family and intimacy; and structure, culture, and agency. All the chapters underline the need for a new perspective that incorporates the historical and generational shifts in women's lives and their experience of aging.

Connection, Compromise, and Control: Canadian Women Discuss Midlife

Duffy, Ann

Wilson, Susannah

Oxford University Press

Using a sample of 324 young adults in four urban centres who left high school in the mid-1980s as well as interviews with representative parents, former teachers, and employers, the authors identify factors that ease transition from school to. These include level of education, social class, gender, ethnicity, aspirations of parents, help from role models, participation in co-op education, and most important of all, self-motivation. The authors describe a range of youth profiles -- uncommitted, non-careerists, conservatives, and innovators -- that will help youth, parents, and educators identify present development and how to improve performance. Emphasizing the importance of co-operative education, the authors suggest that closer relations between school and work, such as exist in the United Kingdom and Sweden, facilitate transition into the labour market. On Their Own will guide parents, youth, educators, trustees, employers, and ministries of education and training to prepare a new generation of productive, resilient workers and managers for success in the information age.

On Their Own?: Making the Transition from School to Work in the Information Age

Business & Money

Crysdale, Stewart

King, Alan J.C.

Economics

McGill-Queen's University Press

Canadian families: Diversity, conflict, and change

Contrary to myth, full-time homemaking is a relatively recent life pattern for married women. Throughout history, women have more typically combined paid labour and family obligations. This book examines the few choices that confront women today in their efforts to balance paid work and family life.

Few Choices: Women, Work and Family

Pupo, Norene

Parenting & Relationships

University of Toronto Press

The theme of this volume, studies in macro-micro influences on children, in their pathways to adulthood is aimed at examining the points of intersect between individual and family level reactions to the socioeconomic forces buffeting all industrialised societies. The papers in this volume allow understanding of the larger context which children acquire their experience and capacities for growth.

Macro-Micro Connections in the Pathways to Adulthood (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, 6)

Teen & Young Adult

Emerald Publishing Limited

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