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Monograph arguing against the practice of 'reverse discrimination' with regard to equal opportunities for minority groups in the USA - maintains that affirmative action programmes entailing sex discrimination, religious discrimination or racial discrimination, etc. Serve to contribute to the problem of inequality rather than to its alleviation, and includes definitions of the different kinds of discrimination. Bibliography pp. 150 to 168.

As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed.

Review of the historical evolution of working conditions, labour relations and the trade unionization of flight attendants (woman workers) in the USA - examines sex discrimination related to marital status and pregnancy; discusses attitudes of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) trade union; comments on relevant jurisprudence of the Supreme Court. Photographs and references.

In this book a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Sandra Lipsitz Bem argues that these assumptions, which she calls the lenses of gender, shape not only perceptions of social reality but also the more material things - like unequal pay and inadequate daycare - that constitute...

Monograph on the history (1835-1975) of sex discrimination in educational opportunity and employment opportunity for woman worker physicians in the USA - covers the education of women in medicine, notably aspects of enrolment in higher education and women's rights, as well as occupational organization. Illustrations, references and statistical tables.

Overview: In the highly-anticipated second edition of Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy, authors Sweet and Meiksins once again provide a rich analysis of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Through engaging vignettes and rich data, this text frames the development of jobs and employment opportunities in an international comparative perspective, revealing the historical transformations...

"Protest and Popular Culture is at once a historical monograph and a critique of postmodernist approaches to the study of mass media, consumerism, and popular political movements. In it, Triece compares the self-representations of several late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's protest movements with representations of women offered by contemporaneous mass media outlets. She shows that from the late-nineteenth century until the present day,...