By Margery Elfin, Sue Headlee

The expense of Being woman is 30 cents, say the authors of this new publication on discrimination opposed to ladies. They show their thesis by way of developing an index that records the prices of discrimination opposed to ladies in 5 facets of lifestyles: financial, political, social, schooling, and health and wellbeing. The index compares the prices for American girls with these of ladies in Sweden, Norway, France and China, and measures the prices for 3 time sessions: Nineteen Nineties, Fifties, and the nineteenth century. The authors interviewed over 70 ladies, delivering a human method of the statistics of gains, occupations, political participation, marriage, divorce, childrearing, schooling, and women's wellbeing and fitness. The women's narratives reside testimony to the studies of the prices of being female.

By Sarah Milledge Nelson, Myriam Rosen-Ayalon

Written by means of a exceptional staff of feminist archaeologists, In Pursuit of Gender examines the function of gender in archaeology, a space that has lengthy been overlooked. The chapters during this quantity characterize websites and cultures which were interpreted or reinterpreted from the point of view of gender, exploding previous assumptions approximately ladies and the jobs they held. vastly illuminating the topic of gender from the point of view in their personal neighborhood traditions, the authors take the reader via an authoritative and complete dialogue of gender archaeology in Asia, Africa, North and South the United States. Societies represented comprise hunter-gatherers, early horticulturalists, incipient and well-developed states, ancient groups, in addition to ethnoarchaeological explorations. The chapters are characterized via a better specificity in equipment, and the emergence of a social archaeology that considers the organisation of either women and men. In Pursuit of Gender advances the examine of gender in archaeology with unique info, a world-wide scope and punctiliously reasoned conclusions that flow into new territory, paving the way in which in the direction of extra examine in gender-based conception.

By Anthea Taylor (auth.)