ITEM OVERVIEW
Covering a wide range of topics and dealing with real-life issues, this edited collection includes contributions from a range of international contributors who examine various dimensions of women's lived experience in order to address challenges that arise from women's contemporary struggles in relation to globalization, human rights, and political economy.
The book explores a range of timely issues, including women in the workplace and their push toward wage equity; support for working mothers and the importance of universal, affordable childcare; women and education, academia; women, media and politics; the Montreal Massacre; aging as a gendered experience, why aging and women's activism matter, and the importance of storytelling; the experiences of girls where the presence of feminism in their lives is, and has been, taken for granted; how women have been portrayed by advertisers and how women and sexuality have been represented in commercial mass media; the international sex trade and violence against women; the implications of pornography; and women and human rights within both local and global contexts.
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