1. Editors: Dunne, Tim & Wheeler, Nicholas J, Eds.
Title: Human Rights in Global Politics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1999
Number of pages: 337

Short description: The monograph covers the following topics: "The social construction of international human rights"; "Non-ethnocentric universalism", "An ethic of global responsibility", "The challenge of genocide and genocidical politics in era of globalization", "Transnational Civil Society", "Civil society and the media in global crises", "Refuges, security crisis", "The silencing of women". The chapter on women is written by Georgina Ashworth, Director of CHANGE, London. CHANGE is the first contemporary organization with the objective of raising awareness of the 'human rights and human dignity of women' as distinct from women's rights'. She argues that human rights are not gender neutral and shows masculine bias in the promotion of human rights which contributes to the hierarchy between men and women. In the analysis of Women Platform for Action she is naming poverty issues and women and economy issues as the weakest. She is attracting attention to the International Convention on Homeworking (or sub-contracted outwork) and its affect on women. As well she claims for basic 'right of life' and makes gender link with Food Summit and the Habitat conferences.

Although the rest of the book is not on gender, it is crucial for having broader context of violation of women's economic social and cultural rights as an intrinsic part of the global economic changes.

2. Author: Cornell, Drucilla
Title: At the Heart of Freedom. Feminism, Sex & Equality
Publisher: Princeton University Press
First published: 1998
Number of Pages: 240
ISBN: 0691028966

Short description: This book, important in the field gender studies as well as political theory, explores the consequences, and relationships, of the two demands women are making of society today: equality and freedom. Firm in its legal grounding and also broad in cultural scope, this book looks at wide range of subjects: human rights, adoption, fatherhood, same-sex marriages, abortion, pornography, prostitution and many more.

Judith Butler claims it is ‘singular and acute’ and bell hooks, that it is ‘courageous and fascinating’.

3. Author: Elson, Diane
Title: Progress of the World's Women 2000
Publisher: UNIFEM report
Year of Publication:
Number of Pages:
ISBN:

Short description: Supported by this report is in extremely high demand of all women organizations because it contains the analysis of the documents, produced during the main women's international forums since Nairobi (1985). It gives the picture of the real practices of gender exploatation all over the world (the new and the old tendencies), it explains where women did not gain success and where they did. It proposes new strategies for approaching gender equality using the resources on the international women's movement, conventions and declarations of the latest decades. This report should be a kind of hand- book for all women concerned about gender justice.

4. Editors: Folbre, Nancy and Larsen, Tony
Title: Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1994
Pages: 335
ISBN: 0415075653

Short description: Who Pays for the Kids? looks at how women bear a disproportionate amount of the costs of caring for children. Nancy Folbre demonstrates the inadequacies of traditional explanations for this inequality and offers an alternative analysis of individual choices within interlocking structures of constraint based on gender, sex, age, nation, race and class. Folbre maps out the complex relationship between the family, the market and the state. She compares political movements, state policies and social welfare in three regions of the world with very different race and class relations: the United States, Northwestern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean. A brilliant synthesis of feminist theory and political economy, Who Pays for the Kids? explains why modern capitalist economies undervalue children and reinforce inequalities based on gender and age.

5. Editors: Ferber, Marianne A. and Nelson, Julie A.
Title: Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Year: 1993
Pages: 178
ISBN: 0226242013

Short description: Beyond Economic Man begins with the question, "What can feminist theory have to say about economics?" The essays in this volume address this question from a variety of perspectives, providing an excellent overview of the issues and controversies raised in the feminist economics literature.
  

6. Editors: Geske Dijkstra, A. and Plantenga, Janneke
Title: Gender and Economics - A European Perspective
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997
Pages: 216
ISBN 0-415-15424-3

Short description: Women have been largely absent as the subject of economic study. This is the first book in gender economics to address the institution and peculiarities of the European labor market, which are radically different from those of the United States. Gender and Economics uniquely combines practice and policy matters with theoretical issues, making it particularly useful to students and professionals. In a thorough overview of this rapidly developing field, Dijkstra and Platenga prove that gender cannot any longer be discounted from economic calculations. The books unique balance of theoretical and empirical data will be of great use to students of labor economics and all students of micro-and macro-economics.

7. Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Title: Women and Economics: a Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
Publisher: Dover Publications
Year: 1998
Pages: 340
ISBN: 0879758848

Short description: First published in 1898, this book was translated into seven languages in a very short period of time. The interest in it has been revived thanks to the feminist theoreticians in the second half of 20th century, who recognized it as a classic work on the topic.

9. Author: Jacobsen, Joyce P.
Title: The Economics of Gender 
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Year: 1998
Pages: 532
ISBN: 0631207279

Short description: The Economics of Gender, Second Edition offers a comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date introduction to the new work on the differences between women's and men's economic opportunities, activities, and rewards. Although Jacobsen's primary focus is on contemporary U.S. patterns, she devotes four chapters to cross-societal comparisons. She also takes a close look at the evolution of contemporary patterns over time and the impact on them of race, ethnicity, and class. Throughout, she discusses the pros and cons of various policies, including "comparable worth" and welfare programs.

10. Authors: Kelly, Rita Mae ; Bayes, J.H. ; Hawkesworth, M.E. and Young, B.
Title: Gender, Globalization and Democratization
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Year: 2001
Pages: 288
ISBN: 0742509788

Short description: The book includes 13 contributors - prominent women researchers in the field of macroeconomic policy, public policy, migration, human rights, state power, militarism. It represents broad geographical dimension of the existing gender regime with its variations and uniformity in many regions of the world.

11. Editors: Kuiper, Edith; Sap, Jolande
Title: OUT of the Margin; Feminist Perspectives on Economics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1995            
Pages: 320                               
ISBN: 0-415-12575-8.

Short Description: The introduction by Kuiper & Sap first summarizes the history of the feminist critique of economics. They then outline some current feminist contributions to several diverse areas of economics. These contributions make it clear that the
feminist critique has moved beyond those areas assigned to women by
tradition and habit. The debate within feminism has risen above, and
gone beyond, women's studies to incorporating gender into all areas of
economics. As the rest of the world is deeply divided by gender, so
every area of economics needs to be reassessed with this in mind.
The contributions of the authors are organized to provide an overview
of the areas of economics in which the inclusion of gender is creating
a new dynamic. The five parts are: 'Herstory of economics', 'Economic
theory', 'Interpreting economics', 'Economic measurement', and
'Empowerment of women'. Each section is composed of academic work in
that area as well as a critique written by a separate author. With
this structure the reader, rather than playing a passive role, becomes
involved in debates which center around the dynamic changes in each of
the five fields.
(From the review by Margaret Coleman)

12. Author: McBride Stetson, Dorothy
Title: Women's Rights in the USA: Policy Debates and Gender Roles
Publisher: Garland Publishing, Incorporated
Year: Second Edition, 1997.
Pages: ________
ISBN 0815320752

Short description: Exploring the latest controversies on reproductive rights, offering new material on lesbian issues, and assessing the special concerns of black women, this volume explores in detail women's roles, rights, and expectations, focusing not only on traditional family and societal issues, but also on feminist positions and ongoing arguments about sexuality, abortion, equality in the workplace, and other concerns that have generated heated debates in US social organizations and legislatures. The scope of the Second Edition is wide, encompassing historical background information on key issues, reviews of legal battles and rulings, surveys of economic realities, how to acquire and exercise political power, arguments for equal pay for equal work, and much more. This readable and information-filled overview of women's legal, social, and economic status in contemporary society is a valuable reference for librarians, students, and general readers.

From the list of the contents: The U.S. Constitution; Political Resources; Reproduction; Education; Family; Work and Pay; Work and Family; Sexuality; Economic Status.

13. Editors: Mc Bride Stetson, Dorothy; Mazur, Amy G.
Title: Comparative State Feminism 
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 1995
Pages: _________
ISBN: 0803958293

Short description: Can the state establish institutions that further feminist political goals? Many governments have responded to 25 years of women's movement activism with an array of commissions, ministries, and bureaus devoted to women's policy agendas. Have such changes led to the creation of state feminism? If so, how do states vary in their ability to promote feminist goals? These are the central questions explored in Comparative State Feminism. An international team of contributors analyzes these questions, offering 14 detailed case studies prepared according to a common framework. Chapters provide in-depth analysis of government agencies within the social, political, and historical contexts of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. Together they form the basis for a typology of state feminism and suggest the factors that appear to produce effective state feminist action. At the same time, the chapters provide data across a number of cases, enabling students to develop their own questions for comparative study.

14. Editor/Authors: Nicholson, Linda; Benhabib, Seyla et. al.
Title: Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1995
Pages: 160
ISBN: 0415910862

Short description: 'Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange' presents a debate between four of the top feminist theorists in the US today - Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, and Nancy Fraser - discussing the key questions facing contemporary feminist theory, responding to each other, and distinguishing their views from others. A real must for anyone interested in contemporary feminist political theory.

15. Editors: Randall, Vicky and Waylen, Georgina
Title: Gender, Politics and the State 
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1998
Pages: 214
ISBN: 0415164028

Short description: Gender, Politics and the State provides an overview of the relationships between the state and gender politics and explores some central contemporary themes including: the difficulties with identifying and organizing politically around gender differences and interests; having to engage with the state whilst simultaneously recognizing both its complexity and variation; the need for a more inclusive conception of politics which does justice to women's political needs. The book includes chapters on conceptual and theoretical issues as well as case studies on state policy and political participation in Britain, Ireland, Russia, China and Latin America.

From the list of the contents: Gender, feminism and the state: an overview; A political theory of gender: perspectives on the 'universal subject'; The state and the making of gender: some historical legacies; Beyond liberalism? Feminist theories of democracy; The state and the discursive construction of abortion; Policing prostitution: gender, the state and community politics; Remasculinisation and the neoliberal state in Latin America; The gendered politics of land reform: three comparative studies; Gender politics and the state during Russia's transition period; Gender, civil society and the state in China; Gender and power: women engage the state.

16. Author: Sainsbury, Diane
Title: Gender, Equality and Welfare States 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1996
Pages: 258
ISBN: 0521565790

Short description: What differences do welfare state variations make for women? How do women and men fare in different welfare states? This text answers these questions by analyzing the United States, Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands, whose welfare policies differ in significant ways.

From the list of the contents: Mainstream welfare state variations; Gendering dimensions of welfare states; The male breadwinner model and women's entitlements as wives; Women's entitlements as mothers and caregivers; Women's employment and entitlements as workers; Access to benefits and the stratifying effects of bases of entitlement; Benefit inequalities and redistributive outcomes; Gender equality reforms and their impact; Welfare state retrenchment.

17. Author: Sassen, Saskia
Title: Globalization and Its Discontents. Essays of the New Mobility of People and Money.
Publisher: New York Press
Year: 1998
Pages: 253
ISBN: 1565843959

Short description: The author is a famous American economist, specialist in immigration policy. Many of her previous publications were already translated into different languages. Saskia develops the notion of the "global city" and of the global economy, defining particularly situation in the USA, Japan and Italy. She is concerned about the Service Employment Regime and the new forms of inequality through nations and gender. There is a special section in her book - "Women under Fire" where she gives a feminist analytics of the global economy and describes incorporation of the Third World Women into Offshore Production. Extremely valuable is her data on the informal economy which contains analysis of the new developments and of the numerous regulations (old and new) helping to financial elites to increase profits.

18. Author: Walby, Sylvia
Title: Gender Transformations 
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997
Pages: 245
ISBN: 0415120810

Short description: In this lucid and subtle investigation, Sylvia Walby, one of the world's leading authorities on gender, shows how undoubted increases in opportunity for women in Europe and America have been accompanied by new forms of inequality. She charts changes in women's employment, education and political representation and the complex relations between gender, class and ethnicity, between local conditions and global pressures which together determine the place of women both in the labour market and in the wider social, political and economic world of today.

From the list of the contents: Recent Changes in Gender Relations in Employment; Flexibility and the Changing Sexual Division of Labour; Localities and Gender Restructuring; Sex Segregation in Local Labour Markets; Labour Markets and Industrial Structures in Women's Working Lives; Gender Politics and Social Theory; 'Backlash' to feminism; Is Citizenship Gendered?; Woman and Nation; Gender and European Union Integration: Towards a Political Economy of Gender; Labour markets with female majorities in employees in employment, 1991.

19. Editors: Watson, Sophie; Doyal Lesley
Title: Engendering Social Policy 
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Year: 1998
Pages:
ISBN: 033520113X

Short description: Engendering Social Policy brings new and fresh perspectives to the question of how social policy constructs gendered social relations. With the restructuring of welfare firmly back on the political agenda, in the context of a reassertion that traditional families are the backbone of society, this book raises important issues for students, academics and practitioners grappling with social policy issues at the end of the millennium. Articles in the collection draw on a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives engaging with issues that have vexed feminist analysts and activists over more than two decades. The collection explores how social policy constructs gendered relations, the difference/equality debate, representations and discourses of gender in social policy, the tensions and issues associated with restructuring domestic relations, and feminist alternatives to mainstream social policy solutions. The book adopts a comparative and international perspective taking on board the importance of global changes as well as illustrating its argument with practices and research from a number of countries.

From the list of the contents: The changing worlds of work and families; Sex, gender and health: a new approach; City A/genders; 'She's there for me': caring in a rural community; Child protection policy and practice: women in the front line; The criminalization of female poverty; Domestic violence policy in the 1990s; Fatherhood, children and violence: placing the UK in an international context; Mainstreaming equality; 'Dangerous and different': reconstructions of madness in the 1990s and the role of mental health policy.

20. Author: Wichterich, Christa
Title: The Globalized Woman. Reports from a Future of Inequality
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2000
Pages:
ISBN:

Short description: The author of the book is a well-known German journalist and feminist, the member of the non governmental women's organization in Bonn. She gave a broad overview of what has happened to women form the Third World during the economic transformation (in their own countries and abroad) and she agued that it was not merely "pushing emancipation", but forced labor. The author insisted that due to the process of globalization "the international army of cleaners" was established or service regime society with severe exploatation of women migrants. She showed also that the sex service became an integral part of the liberal market economy and that alongside with the market of goods the market of bodies was established. In the focus of her analysis are: hunger among women and children, lack of property, unpayable labor, broken identities. But the most important thing is that the monograph contains a special chapter on women's resistance to negative impact of adjustment programs. Christa describes the growing women's movement and networks in different countries. As well she gives analysis of the new international women's politics.