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WOMEN

FORTHCOMING

Women’s Lives

around the World

A Global Encyclopedia

4 VOLUMES | SUSAN M. SHAW, GENERAL EDITOR, AND
NANCY STATON BARBOUR, PATTI DUNCAN, KRYN FREEHLING-BURTON,
AND JANE NICHOLS, EDITORS

Only a handful of women are among the
world’s 192 heads of government, while
ABC-CLIO
December 2017, 1,909pp, 8 1/2x11 63 percent the world’s illiterate people are
Print: 978-1-61069-711-8
$415.00, £320.00, €378.00 female.
eBook: 978-1-61069-712-5

For millennia, women around the world have shouldered the responsibility
S AMPLE T OPICS of caring for their families. But in recent decades, women have emerged
• Colonialism as a major part of the global workforce, balancing careers and family life.
• Family How did this change happen? And how are societies in developing countries
• Girls and Teens responding and adapting to women’s newer roles in society? This four-volume
• Popular Culture encyclopedia examines the lives of women around the world, with coverage
that includes the education of girls and teens; the key roles women play in
• Sex Trafficking
• Transgender their families, careers, religions, and cultures; and how issues for women
intersect with colonialism, transnationalism, feminism, and established norms
• Women’s Health
of power and control.
Organized geographically, each volume presents detailed entries about the
SUSAN M. SHAW, PhD, is professor of women, lives of women in particular countries. Additionally, each volume offers
gender, and sexuality studies at Oregon State sidebars that spotlight topics related to women and girls in specific regions
University. or focus on individual women’s lives and contributions. Primary source
NANCY STATON BARBOUR, MAIS, is an documents include sections of countries’ constitutions that are relevant
instructor in women, gender, and sexuality studies to women and girls, United Nations resolutions and national resolutions
at Oregon State University.
regarding women and girls, and religious statements and proclamations
PATTI DUNCAN, PhD, is associate professor about women and girls. The organization of the set enables readers to take an
of women, gender, and sexuality studies at
Oregon State University and editor of Feminist in-depth look at individual countries as well as to make comparisons across
Formations. countries.
KRYN FREEHLING-BURTON is a senior
instructor in women, gender, and sexuality studies FEATURES
at Oregon State University. • Presents a broad postcolonial feminist examination of the lives of women
and girls worldwide through essays about the female experience in
JANE NICHOLS, MLIS, is associate professor
and head of the Teaching and Engagement individual countries
Department in the Valley Library at Oregon State • Provides sidebars that highlight details about individual women and
University. interesting topics that affect women and girls
• Includes primary source documents that offer readers a direct look at
important statements, laws, and policies about women and girls

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