Vol 10, #2, November 2008

Introduction
Introduction: A Decade of the Journal of International Women's Studies
By Diana Fox and Katherine Side, JIWS Editors

Articles

Women Entrepreneurship in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: The Case of Ethiopia
By Eshetu Bekele and Zeleke Worku

I Love New York: Does New York Love Me?
By Shannon B. Campbell , Steven S. Giannino, Chrystal R. China, Christopher S. Harris

The Economic Empowerment of Women: The Case of Working Women's Forum, India
By Shanthi Nachiappan and S.N.Soundara Rajan

Vulnerability, Resilience and Well-being of Intermarriage: An Ethnographic approach to Korean Women
By Jang-ae Yang and Kyoung-ho Shin

Implications for Health Care Practice and Improved Policies for Victims of Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Haleigh Hanlon

The Impact of Sexual Harassment on Turnover Intentions, Absenteeism, and Job Satisfaction: Findings from Argentina, Brazil and Chile
By Rebecca S. Merkin

Women's Health Challenges in a Low-income Philippine Urban Neighborhood
By Fiscalina Amadora-Nolasco

Elaborating the Ideological and Structural Content of Women's Work in a Globalized Economy
By Dr. Jinky Leilanie Lu

Female Adolescents' Attitude towards Sexually Risky Behaviors
By Janet F. Wang , Patricia S. Simoni , Ying Wu , Christine Banvard

The Role of Gender, Self-Efficacy, Age and Extroversion on Smoking Behaviour among Ambrose Alli University Students, Ekpoma, Nigeria
By S.O. Momoh ; Imhonde, H.O. ; E. Omagbe

Essays

Breasts & the Beestings: Rethinking Breast-Feeding Practices, Maternity Rituals, & Maternal Attachment in Britain & Ireland
By Susan Hogan

Deconstructing Masculinity in a 'Female Bastion': Ambiguities, Contradictions and Insights
By Charles C. Fonchingong

William Faulkner and the Mithraic Midwife
By Owen Elmore

Implications of Missionary Education for Women in Nigeria: A Historical Analysis
By Okonkwo, Uche Uwaezuoke and Ezeh, Mary-Noelle Ethel

Negotiating and Navigating the Rough Terrain of Transnational Feminist Research
By Tanya Bahkru

The Role of Education in the Empowerment of Women in a District of West Bengal, India: Reflections on a Survey of Women
By Haimanti Mukhopadhyay

Book Reviews

"Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies" Jonathan Alexander
Reviewed by Jessie Blackburn

"Cuban Convents in the Age of Enlightened Reform, 1761-1807" John J. Clune Jr.
Reviewed by Jualynne E. Dodson

"Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage" Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Reviewed by Kinitra D. Brooks

"The Dressed Society: Clothing, the Body and Some Meanings of the World" Peter Corrigan
Reviewed by Karen McLaughlin

"Marion" Ry Russo-Young
Reviewed by Betty J. Glass

"The Cairo Consensus: Demographics Surveys, Women's Empowerment, and Regime Change in Population Policy" Saul Halfon
Reviewed by Lisa Ho

"Gender and Career in Japan" Edited by Atsuko Suzuki. Translated by Leonie R. Stickland
Reviewed by Cecilia Manrique

"Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile, Second Edition" Marjorie Agosin
Reviewed by Margaret D. Stetz

"Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind" Paule Zadjermann
Reviewed by Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams