Putting Women in their Place

Putting Women in their PlacePutting Women in their Place critically assesses the ways in which gender norms and gender hierarchy shape political decision making, economic development, financial disparities, as well as violence and conflict. By intertwining personal stories, policy analysis, and the latest research, author Hilary Matfess provides a compelling, approachable framework for interpreting global politics.

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and this isolation restricted their access to the country's private sector

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Leading scholars of literary and cultural studies

An ethnography of Senegalese households in Paris and Dakar that analyzes ways families negotiate transnational kinship

this study provides detailed answers to these questions

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It was the first of a number of new titles planned for release in the African Treasury Series

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They argue that this relationship persists because what we think of as the “natural” and inevitable connection between parents and adult children is actually created and sustained by the sociocultural power of compulsory kinship