Female Well-Being: Toward a Global Theory of Social ChangeJanet Mancini Billson, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban This global survey starts from the assumption that the significant transformations in women's lives deserve to be fully documented and interpreted. Janet Mancini Billson and Carlyn Fluehr-Lobban tackle the complexities of social change by using data from countries in every world region to illustrate the most critical challenges that women faced during the last century - challenges that are also likely to shape the 21st century. |
Contents
The twentieth century as a transformative time for women | 3 |
The complexities of defining female wellbeing | 23 |
A critique of social change theories | 45 |
a journey in stages | 67 |
a century of struggle | 94 |
you forge your path as you walk | 133 |
The social context 135 A demographic portrait of Colombian | 148 |
continuity and change | 159 |
Literacy and education 223 Political educational and cultural | 230 |
crossing the great divides of race | 236 |
A demographic portrait of South African women 236 Family | 243 |
Economic participation 244 Literacy and education | 250 |
Political educational and cultural leadership251 Towards | 258 |
changing the paradigm of female | 285 |
the impacts of immigration | 309 |
the struggle | 324 |
The geopolitical complexities of Croatia 160 A demographic | 165 |
Political educational and cultural leadership 172 Towards | 179 |
From settlement to independence 181 The historical legacy | 200 |
change and resistance to change | 207 |
Violence against women 216 Economic participation | 219 |
factors that enhance or detract from | 357 |
Towards a gendered theory of social change | 374 |
Towards global female wellbeing | 392 |
Editors and contributors | 415 |