Vol 8, #1, November 2006

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Articles
Madam President: Progress, Problems, and Prospects for 2008
By Robert P. Watson

Rocking the Cradle to Rocking the World: The Role of Muslim Female Fighters
By Farhana Ali

Ahmadi Women Reconciling Faith with Vulnerable Reality through Education
By Huma Ahmed-Ghosh

Arab Women’s Education and Gender Perceptions: An Insider Analysis
By Amani Hamdan

The Jamaican Female Skills Surplus and Earnings Deficit: A Holistic Explanation
By Dawn Richards Elliott

A Gender-based Analysis of Performance of Small and Medium Printing Firms in Metro Manila
By Milagros F. Malaya

Interaction between Objective and Subjective Occupational Conditions Affecting Physical Health of Women Workers
By Jinky Leilanie D. Lu

“Myopic Feminist Individualism in A.S. Byatt’s Arabian Nights’ Tale: ‘The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye’”
By Kathleen Williams Renk

Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students
By Huei-Hsia Wu

Unbending Gender Narratives in African Literature
By Charles C. Fonchingong

An Analysis of the Economic Status of Women in Cameroon
By Stella Nana-Fabu

Hidden Overburden of Female-Headed Households in Guar Bean Production: Zimbabwean Experience
By Innocent Nyakudya, V. J. Murewa, M. J. Mutenje, M. Moyo, T. J. Chikuvire, R. Foti

The Health Condition of Older Women in Ghana: A Case Study of Accra City
By Chuks J. Mba

Midwifery Education in Jordan: History, Challenges and Proposed Solutions
By Lubna Abushaikha

Attitudes toward Women Managers in Turkey and Pakistan
By Semra Güney , Raheel Gohar, Sevcan Kiliç Akinci, Mehmet Mutlu Akinci

Women and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: The Issue of School Age Girls’ Awareness in Nigeria
By Solomon O. Momoh, Ailemen I. Moses, Maria M. Ugiomoh

Essays
“A Sea Captain in Her Own Right”: Navigating the Feminist Thought of Huda Shaarawi
By Rula Quawas

Women, Words and War: Explaining 9/11 and Justifying U.S. Military Action in Afghanistan and Iraq
By Nancy W. Jabbra

‘And not destroyed by the destruction of the body’: Documenting Incarceration: Joya Mitra’s Killing Days
By Tutun Mukherjee

Verbal and Visual Rhetorics of Cancer: Defying Silence in Margaret Edson, Audre Lorde and Jo Spence’s Works
By Catalina Florina Florescu

Book Reviews
"A Lot to Learn: Girls, Women, and Education in the 20th Century" Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Reviewed by S.M. Belcher

"Women in the New Millennium: The Global Revolution" Breneman, Anne R. and Rebecca A. Mbuh
Reviewed by Kristin Blakely

"Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS" Michele Tracy Berger
Reviewed by Deborah H. Charbonneau

"The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire" Cynthia Enloe
Reviewed by Secil Dagtas

"Women in the Superintendency: Discarded Leadership" Joyce A. Dana and Diana M. Bourisaw
Reviewed by Rebekah Buchanan

"Sex and Manners: Female Emancipation in the West 1890-2000" Cas Wouters
Reviewed by Andrea Powell Jenkins

"Victims as Offenders: The Paradox of Women’s Violence in Relationships" Susan L. Miller
Reviewed by Rachel Kalish

"American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans" Eve LaPlante
Reviewed by Marla Kohlman

"Body Work: The Social Construction of Women’s Body Image" Sylvia K. Blood
Reviewed by S. M. Belcher

 

 

Updated January 23, 2007.