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The women's atlas / Joni Seager.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seager, Joni, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Social conditions--Maps.
- Women.
- Women--Economic conditions--Maps.
- Women--Economic conditions.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Maps.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.
- Summary:
- "In this completely revised, redesigned, and updated new edition of her groundbreaking feminist atlas, Joni Seager provides comprehensive and accessible analysis of the state of women worldwide--charting the progress that has been made and the distances still to be traveled. The Women's Atlas delves into issues of gender equality; literacy and information technology; feminism; the culture of beauty; women at work and the global economy; changing households; domestic violence; LGBTQ rights; government and power; and motherhood, among many others."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Women in the World p. 11
- Ending discrimination (CEDAW)
- Measuring discrimination
- Gender gaps
- Life expectancy
- Lesbian rights
- Beyond the binary
- Marriage & divorce
- Child marriage
- Households
- Refugees
- Crisis Zones
- Peacemakers
- #Feminism
- Keeping women in their place p. 36
- Kingdom of boxes
- Legal obedience
- "Honor" killings
- Domestic violence
- Marry-your-rapist laws
- Rape
- Murder
- Dowry killings
- Fundamentalist wars on women
- Birthrights p. 59
- Births
- Contraception
- Meternal mortality
- Abortion
- Son preference
- Body politics p. 81
- Sports
- Beauty
- Cosmetic surgery
- FGM/C
- Sex tourism
- Prostitution
- Trafficking
- Pornography
- Breast cancer
- HIV
- Tuberculosis
- Malaria
- Pollution planet
- Drinking water
- Toilet activism
- Work, paid & unpaid
- Segregated workforces
- Global assembly lines
- Earnings gaps
- Unemployment
- Child labor
- The walk for water
- Farming & fishing
- Migrating for work
- Education and connectivity p. 146
- Years in school
- Not making the grade
- Progress by degrees
- Literacy
- Computers
- Internet & social media
- Online harassment
- Myth of the connected world
- Property and poverty p. 169
- Owning land
- Owning homes
- Daily poverty
- Extreme poverty
- Wealth & asset gaps
- Men at the top
- The unbanked
- Power p. 183
- Votes for women
- Women in governments
- Militaries
- At the UN
- Feminisms.
- Notes:
- "A fully revised and updated edition of The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780143132349
- 0143132342
- OCLC:
- 1033582837
- Publisher Number:
- 99978942346
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