The Women's Atlas

by Joni Seager

Overview

The most up-to-date global perspective on how women are living today across continents and cultures

In this completely revised and updated fifth edition of her groundbreaking atlas, Joni Seager provides comprehensive and accessible analysis of up-to-the-minute global data on the key issues facing women today: equality, motherhood, feminism, the culture of beauty, women at work, women in the global economy, changing households, domestic violence, lesbian rights, women in government, and more. The result is an invaluable resource on the status of women around the world today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780525506195
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/30/2018
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	462,749
File size:	65 MB
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About the Author

Joni Seager is an activist and scholar of feminist geography, gender and the environment, and global environmental policy. She is professor and former chair of the Global Studies Department at Bentley University in Boston, Massachusetts, and was dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. She has consulted on several global gender and environmental policies with UNESCO and the United Nations Environment Programme. Her publications include The State of Women in the World Atlas, The Real State of America Atlas, and Carson’s Silent Spring.

Table of Contents

Women in the World 11

Ending discrimination (CEDAW)

Measuring discrimination

Gender gaps

Life expectancy

Lesbian rights

Beyond the binary

Marriage & divorce

Child marriage

Households

Refugees

Crisis Zones

Peacemakers

#Feminism

Keeping women in their place 36

Kingdom of boxes

Legal obedience

"Honor" killings

Domestic violence

Marry-your-rapist laws

Rape

Murder

Dowry killings

Fundamentalist wars on women

Birthrights 59

Births

Contraception

Meternal mortality

Abortion

Son preference

Body politics 81

Sports

Beauty

Cosmetic surgery

FGM/C

Sex tourism

Prostitution

Trafficking

Pornography

Health 101

Breast cancer

HIV

Tuberculosis

Malaria

Pollution planet

Drinking water

Toilet activism

Work 122

Work, paid & unpaid

Segregated workforces

Global assembly lines

Earnings gaps

Unemployment

Child labor

The walk for water

Farming & fishing

Migrating for work

Education and connectivity 146

Years in school

Not making the grade

Progress by degrees

Literacy

Computers

Internet & social media

Online harassment

Myth of the connected world

Property and poverty 169

Owning land

Owning homes

Daily poverty

Extreme poverty

Wealth & asset gaps

Men at the top

The unbanked

Power 183

Votes for women

Women in governments

Militaries

At the UN

Feminisms

Sources 198

Index 207

Editorial Reviews

When is a World Atlas a life-saver and page-turner? When it makes the female passengers on this Space Ship Earth visible in accurate statistics and memorable graphics. This will add to everyone's knowledge and power. Nobody should be without this book.” —Gloria Steinem,  Feminist activist and organiser
 
“The Women´s Atlas not only offers a global view of the lives of women, it also shows their desires to effect revolutionary change.” —Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland 1980 – 1996; the world's first woman elected head of state
 
“This one-of-a-kind book brings women’s lives out of the shadows. Every page lights up injustices and makes clear the work that remains to be done.” —Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Laureate and Liberian peace activist

"Presenting a comprehensive and accessible analysis of key issues facing different cultures, Joni Seager's book is informative, insightful, and impactful." —O Magazine

"A must-have for every feminist bookshelf." —Hello Giggles
 
Praise for the Previous edition: 

“Here is the innovative atlas no thoughtful person, male or female, should be without." —The Washington Post
 

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