Collecting on their investments,one woman at a time: Economic partnerships among Caribbean immigrant women in the United States

ABSTRACT

This article treats rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) from a constructive cultural perspective. The female-based African-Jamaican tradition of paadna (partnership) is examined within the theoretical scope of womanist (Black feminist) thought, a seminal discourse intersecting both the African diaspora and women's studies. Across the multiple scholarly approaches within women's and African diaspora studies, academic theory acquires cogency through legitimate correspondences with tangible liberating practices and traditions that can be documented and interrogated for conceptual insights. The practice of economic partnering is one such tradition that substantiates the ethical directives and imperatives of womanist theory and practice. A womanist reading of paadnas is proposed, not because the participants have any self-conscious commitment to feminism/womanism, but because of the institution's efficacy in enhancing the socioeconomic standing of Black families through a relatively small-scale capital enterprise. Through paadna networks, Jamaican women have transplanted a flexible self-help tradition to America that is arguably one of the most reliable sources of social and economic mobility among groups of African descent in the United States.     

现代女性服饰搭配艺术应用探讨

当前,服饰搭配已经成为现代女性非常关注的问题,如何提高服饰搭配的艺术性与美观性,已经成为我国形象咨询业发展中一个重要的研究课题。服饰搭配有其基本原则,合理的服饰搭配方法包括肤色与服饰搭配、身材与服饰搭配、色彩与服饰搭配、场合与服饰搭配、配饰与服饰搭配、季节与服饰搭配等。     

制约女性从政的因素探讨与对策建议

我国女性从政的现状与男性相比差别较大。其原因主要包括认识偏差、社会环境制约和自力障碍。我们应从政策导向、制度保障、目标定位等方面努力,以推动女性从政。     

Fighting for Fame: The ‘Heroines of Pervyse’ and the Disputed Construction of a Public Image

Abstract: This investigative analysis bases itself on an array of documentary material from the archives of the Imperial War Museum in its effort to recover the intricate story behind the two British volunteer nurses who made their name during the First World War with the first-aid station they set up in Pervyse, a mere stone's throw away from the Belgian firing line. The essay juxtaposes a variety of documentary sources—the unpublished diaries of the two women, Geraldine Mitton's reconstruction of the story out of the nurses' journals and letters in The Cellar-House of Pervyse (1916), and two photograph albums, ‘The Women of Pervyse’, bequeathed to the Imperial War Museum—in a quest to understand how the two nurses came to acquire their status of national heroines. Sifting through the source material, this investigation reveals the numerous inconsistencies and gaps that exist between the published and the unpublished accounts of the dressing station, whose true genesis is obscured by several competing narratives. A close reading of Mitton's account and the photographic portraitures discloses that neither of these documents ought to be taken at their face value. They need to be understood as valuable tools in the nurses' own battle for authority, public recognition and their opportunity to feature as genuine protagonists in the arena of war.     

外嫁女土地承包经营权维权难之成因及完善措施

外嫁女是指因婚姻的原因而离开本集体经济组织的妇女.妇女因出嫁而失去土地承包经营权的情况比较严重,其原因有多种,但最主要的原因是立法上的缺失及可操作性差从根本上解决此问题的关键是从立法上去完善,赋予外嫁女相关权利及提供有效可行的救济措施.     

对农村妇女信教问题的分析与思考

农村基层组织薄弱、思想政治工作淡化、精神文化生活贫乏以及妇女自身科技文化素质偏低等是女性信教者增多的主要原因.女性信教者增多已经干扰了农村两大文明建设,直接影响到当前农村社会的发展与稳定.解决农村妇女信教问题要突出农村思想政治教育的科学性、可参与性、针对性和实效性等具体应对措施.     

中国社会转型期的女职工劳动保护

中国正在进行社会主义市场经济的改革,在经济全球化和市场的共同作用下,中国女职工就业权利和劳动保护受到空前的冲击和挑战。一方面,大量出现女职工劳动保护不足的问题;另一方面,又存在女职工过度保护的问题;此外,还存在由于政府不再承担公共服务责任和监管力度弱化而出现的越提倡保护、对女职工就业越不利的复杂局面。本文参照全球化和对自由主义经济批判的框架,从国际劳工标准、社会性别平等和政府责任等角度,对上述现象进行了分析,探讨了《女职工劳动保护条例》修改中的基本原则和修改导向,并提出相关政策建议。     

移民身份认同研究——对三峡库区两个案例的解读

三峡库区移民工程已经进入到后期扶持阶段,早期移民的生产生活状况日益成为移民研究的重点.本文基于实地调查的经验感受,从社会性别的视角,运用社会认同理论,分析农村妇女移民这一特殊群体的身份认同.文章认为,农村妇女移民在搬迁地的身份关系及其背后的规则认同已经多元化,农村妇女身份认同的显著性程度与经济利益、网络结构、家庭出身等因素相关,这决定了她们是采取参与还是依赖策略去寻求自己的生存点,筹划自己的生活.     

拐卖妇女的社会结构性原因分析——兼论法律控制失败下的标本兼治

在社会结构失衡的情况下，妇女成为“商品”交易对象，这导致妇女被拐卖而非正常性地流动，使法律、政府等控制失效，尤其是，当这些社会结构状态一直维持失衡的情况下，打击拐卖行为只能是治标，根本的解决问题仍然从平衡社会结构这一治本之策开始。     

中国妇女法律援助的模式选择

妇女法律援助制度在中国的确立和发展尚处于起步阶段,妇女法律援助的模式选择问题决定了妇女法律援助的发展方向。在中国较为丰富的妇女维权经验和相对较少的妇女法律援助实践中,中国妇女法律援助形成了三种模式:政府型妇女法律援助、民间型妇女法律援助和妇联型妇女法律援助。在甄别三种模式之后,本文创设第四种妇女法律援助模式:以政府型妇女法律援助为基础,以民间型妇女法律援助为主体,以妇联型妇女法律援助为重要补充。