192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/24479 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:18:33 GMT 2026-04-10T15:18:33Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/62896 Title: Women, Feminism, and Femininity in the 21st Century Editors: Béatrice Mousli and Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller Description: he essays in this book are the result of a series of lectures held at the Francophone Research and Resource Center at the University of Southern California (USC) in the spring of 2006. The short story is that these lectures happened because we are French women living, working, and raising children in the United States. The longer story would take us to the benches of the USC campus and its coffee shops where we had never-ending conversations about being French in the United States, being a French employee in an American workplace (and, more specifically, a French professor at an American campus), a French wife to an American husband, and a French mother to American children. As working mothers in the United States, the issues that concern us are by definition those of an American context. Since we moved from France to the United States, our relationship with France has become more theoretical: we don’t live there and we make up for it by reading and hearing about it from friends and family. While losing some of our “Frenchness” to become more and more American, it has become a habit for us, anytime we are confronted with a new or perplexing situation, to compare our native country to our adoptive one and to reflect: “So this is how it is for women here, but back there, women do that.” To say that we are constantly, consciously and unconsciously, comparing, evaluating policies and cultural traits is to say the least. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/62896 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/59857 Title: Delinquent Girls Editors: Shari Miller Leslie D. Leve Patricia K. Kerig Description: Girls who break rules, defy authority, and get in trouble with the law terrify, frustrate, and confuse the adults in their lives: parents, teachers, and helping professionals they may encounter. These girls fl agrantly violate our deeply held stereotypes of girls as sweetness and light, and even feminists fi ght the tendency to be simultane- ously repulsed and fascinated by girls involved with the legal system. Court-involved girls not only break rules, but also engage in high rates of manipulative, rejecting behaviors that vex and drive away even the most caring adults who might try to help them. Adrienne Rich’s poem “Final Notations” is considered by many to be a medita- tion on mothering, but it also captures well the way we cannot help but feel about court-involved girls. These demanding girls take “parts of us into places never planned,” and helping them takes massive determination. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/59857 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/48373 Title: Rural Women’s Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy Authors: Gisele Maynard-Tucker Description: The book illustrates rural women living in different ethnic societies and provides insights into health-care delivery in rural parts of the world. It reveals the intimate life of the women who are subject to gender inequality, subservience to their partners, and their need to conform to cultural customs. In many cultures girls are not the valued gender and are dependent on their male partners or on their kin for economic survival unless they are educated or have mastered a skill. I write about their approaches to modern medicine and their pragmatic solutions to resolve their health problems based on their financial means and cultural beliefs. Traditional medicine is very much alive in rural communities because of traditional beliefs and the lack of health facilities, transportation, and cash. Healers and traditional midwives are the health-care alternatives to physicians and trained midwives. The high maternal mortality in most developing countries attests to this problem, which is known by international donors, ministries of health, and local NGOs but remains unsolved. I also discuss my findings about women involved in sex work in Madagascar, Senegal, and India in order to show that women who are illiterate and have no skills have no alternative but to sell their bodies in order to survive. Clandestine sex work is a way for poor women to make fast money in order to take care of their children and to be independent from a partner. However, it is risky because of the HIV epidemic and also because of violence from clients Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/48373 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/47802 Title: Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook Authors: Foley, Michael Description: Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indi- rectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. In many parts of the world, women are the main farmers or producers, but their roles remain largely unrecognized. The 2008 World Development Report: Agriculture for Development highlights the vital role of agriculture in sustainable development and its importance in achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger. Climate change and rising food prices are reminders of the need to focus on food secu- rity and agriculture for development; and the material pre- sented in the Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook suggests that accounting for the different roles of women and men and gender equality in access to resources and opportunities is a necessary condition for doing so. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/47802 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z