Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – Linking Past to Present: Forecasting the Feminist Focus on Women and Substance Abuse Treatment (pp. 1-18)
Jolene M. Sanders (Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, USA)
Chapter 2 – Are Permanent, Purely Female, Societies Possible? (pp. 19-32)
Jacques Hanoune (Directeur de recherche émérite à l’INSERM, Institut Cochin, Paris, France)
Chapter 3 – Room at the Top … or Not? Women in Elite Positions within Medicine (pp. 33-48)
Naomi D. Quinton, Sue Kilminster and Trudie E. Roberts (Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME), University of Leeds, Leeds, England)
Chapter 4 – Black Women and Their Situation of Discrimination and Vulnerability in Brazil (pp. 49-68)
Sônia Beatriz dos Santos (Associate Professor – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Professor and Researcher – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Etnicorraciais/ Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca- CEFET/RJ, Brasil)
Chapter 5 – Examining the Impact of Migration on the Reconfiguration of Family Dynamics: The Experiences of Haitian Immigrant Women in Canada (pp. 69-90)
Louise Racine, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan, College of Nursing, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Chapter 6 – Feminism and Difference: A Pathway to Women‘s Reconstruction (pp. 91-104)
María J. Binetti (National Council for Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina)
Chapter 7 – Theorizing African Feminism (pp. 105-120)
George Odhiambo (University of Sydney, Australia)
Chapter 8 – How Do Gender Stereotypes Affect Women‘s Persistence in STEM Fields? (pp. 120-140)
Roxanne M. Hughes (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FL, US)
Chapter 9 – Antidote for Global Feminist Gaps As Encoded in Sindiwe Magona‘s Black South African Autobiographies (pp. 141-154)
Lesibana Rafapa (University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa)
Index