The Global Status of Women and Girls

A Multidisciplinary Approach

Contributions by Josefa Carandang, Dawn Hutchinson, Hamadullah Kakepoto, Rania Kassab Sweis, Simi Mehta, Nadia Mohammed, Bridget Mullins, Rebecca Peters, Lida Sarafrazarpatapeh, Yasuko Soto, Carolyn Stauffer, Lori Underwood Edited by Lori Underwood, Dawn Hutchinson

Publication date:

25 July 2017

Length of book:

144 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

239x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498546393

The Global Status of Women and Girls: A Multidisciplinary Approach fosters inquiries into the complex and multifocal issues faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and today. It not only asks key questions related to public policy, but also it unearths the forces that created these current dilemmas. Through the multidisciplinary study of past and present, contributors take on policy conversations benefiting the global community. This book will appeal to any scholar interested in communication and gender studies.

Contents
Introduction
Dawn Hutchinson & Lori Underwood
Chapter 1: Dressing the Wound: Dynamics of Sexual Abuse and Recovery within Religious Enclaves”
Carolyn Stauffer & Bridget Mullins
Chapter 2: Ecofeminism: An Analysis
Lida Sarafrazarpatapeh
Chapter 3: Feminization of Poverty in Pakistan: Sociological Analysis
Hamadullah Kakepoto
Chapter 4: Multi-Culturalism and Feminism in Arab-American Poetry: Struggling against Stereotypes
Nadia Mohammed
Chapter 5: Women Religious Working Toward a More Just Women’s Health Care System
Dawn Hutchinson
Chapter 6: Matrilineal-Matrilocal Arrangements May End Trafficking in Women and Children
Yasuko Sato
Chapter 7: Gender Representation in Indian Films: A Response to ‘Gender Bias Without Borders
Rebecca Peters
Chapter 8: Perspectives on the Facets of Status of Women in India
Simi Mehta
Chapter 9: Do Muslim Village Girls Need Saving? Critical Reflections on Gender and Childhood Suffering in International Aid
Rania Kassab Sweis
Chapter 10: Women, Agriculture, and Food Security
Josefa Carandang
About the Editors and Contributors

The Global Status of Women and Girls is a necessary intervention in the scholarship on women and girls globally. By using a multi-disciplinary approach, the contributors are able to show the complexity of issues that women and girls face in their everyday lives from continued gender stereotypes, gender bias, violence, sexual assault, religious and political limits, and bitter attacks on women's activism. This book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the power of patriarchy in shaping our world and see its effects on lives of individual women and girls.