Book Reviews

Book reviews: Rosemary Crompton (ed), Restructuring Gender Relations and Employment: The Decline of the Male Breadwinner Susan Eisenberg, We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working in Construction Fiona M. Wilson, Organizational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction Rohan Collier, Equality in Managing Service Delivery Joyce K. Fletcher, Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power and Relational Practice at Work Miriam Glucksmann, Cottons and Casuals : The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space     

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Books reviewed: Judy Wajcman, Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management. Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar, Women and Work in Russia 1880–1930: A Study of Continuity through Change. Gail Hershatter, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth‐Century Shanghai. Yuko Ogasawara, Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies. Alison Adam, Artificial Intelligence: Gender and the Thinking Machine. David Collins, Organizational Change: Sociological Perspectives.     

Book Reviews

Hannah Barker and Elaine Challus. Longman (eds), Gender in eighteenth-century England. Roles, representations and responsibilities Sarah Oerton, Beyond Hierarchy: Gender, Sexuality and the Social Economy W.G. Tierney, Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy Bob Powers and Alan Ellis, A Family and Friend's Guide to Sexual Orientation     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training. By Caroline O. N. Moser Reverse Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought. By Naila Kabeer Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis. By Rosi Braidotti, Ewa Charkiewicz, Sabine Hausler and Saskia Wieringa Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development. Edited by Wendy Harcourt Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Perspectives from the South. By Sonia Correa (in collaboration with Rebecca Reichmann) Social Science Research for Agricultural Technology Development: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions. Edited by Karen Ann Dvořák Economic Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region: Towards a Yen Bloc. By C. H. Kwan Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture. By Peter Goering, Helena Norberg-Hodge and John Page Inter-nation Policy Co-ordination and Untying of Aid. By Catrinus J. Jepma Economic Crisis and Third World Agriculture. Edited by Ajit Singh and Hamid Tabatabai The Political Economy of Oil. By Sarah Ahmed Khan The Process of Development of Societies. By K. C. Alexander Market Forces and World Development. Edited by Renée Prendergast and Frances Stewart Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong Debt, Development and Equity in Africa. By Karamo N. M. Sonko Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions. By Robert Cassen and contributors Crisis or Transition in Foreign Aid. Edited by Adrian Hewitt The Trap. By James Goldsmith Author's response to Stein Hansen's review of Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Evironmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development. By Bruce Rich     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World. By Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart. Development Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at 30 Years of the World Development Report. By Shahid Yusuf, with Angus Deaton, Kemal Dervis, William Easterly, Takatoshi Ito and Joseph E. Stiglitz. Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications. Edited by Gil Loescher, James Milner, Edward Newman and Gary Troeller. Inclusion and Exclusion in Local Governance: Field Studies from Rural India. Edited by B. S. Baviskar and George Mathew. Women's Land Rights and Privatisation in Eastern Africa. Edited by B. Englert and E. Daley. Gender Sensitive Disaster Management: A Toolkit For Practitioners: How To Incorporate Gender Mainstreaming in Disaster Response and Preparedness. By C. Pincha. Making Sense of Global Health Governance: A Policy Perspective. Edited by Kent Buse, Wolfgang Hein and Nick Drager.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Dynamics in Farming System: Changes in the Time and Space in Sukumaland, Tanzania. By H.C.C. Meertens, L. J. Ndege, and H.J. Enserink. Liberalised Development in Tanzania. Edited by Peter Gibbon. Gender, Family and Household in Tanzania. Edited by Colin Creighton and C.K. Omari. Community Empowerment: A Reader in Participation and Development. Edited by Gary Craig and Marjorie Mayo. Managing to Empower: The Grameen Bank's Experience of Poverty Alleviation. By Susan Holcombe. Participatory Development Tool Kit: Materials to Facilitate Community Empowerment. By Deepa Narayan and Lyra Srinivasan. Gender and Slum Culture in Urban Asia. By Susanne Thorbek. Women and Empowerment: Participation and Decision Making. By Marilee Karl. The Oxfam Gender Training Manual. By Suzanne Williams with Jan Seed and Adelina Mwau. The Third World in Global Environmental Politics. By Marian Miller. Westernizing the Third World: The Eurocentricity of Economic Development Theories. By Ozay Mehmet. The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change. By Ian H. Rowlands. Economic Progress and the Environment: One Developing Country's Policy Crisis. By Douglas Southgate and Morris Whitaker. Survival in the Sahel: An Ecological and Developmental Challenge. Edited by K.M. Leisinger, K. Schmitt and ISNAR. States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis. By Linda Weiss and John M. Hobson. Manufacturing for Export in the Developing World: Problems and Possibilities. Edited by G.K. Helleiner.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Abstract Demography: Jobes , Patrick C., William F. Stinner, and John M. Wardwell (eds.). Demography: Ross , John A., and Elizabeth Frankenberg . Findings from Two Decades of Family Planning Research. Demography: Bull , C. Neil (ed.). Aging in Rural America. Demography: Bollman , Ray D. (ed.). Rural and Small Town Canada. Demography: Swanson , Linda L., and David L. Brown (eds.). Rural History: Jones , Jacqueline . The Dispossessed: America's Underclass from the Civil War to Present. Rural History: Craig , Lee A. To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North. Rural History: Mc Donald , Roderick . The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. Rural History: Morgan , Sharon . Land Settlement in Early Tasmania: Creating an Antipodean England. Gender Studies: White , Sarah . Arguing with the Crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh. Gender Studies: King , Elizabeth M., and M. Anne Hill (eds.). Gender Studies: Kahne , Hilda, and Janet Z. Giele (eds.). Women's Work and Women's Lives: The Continuing Struggle Worldwde. Agriculture: Almås , Reidar . Norway's Gift to Europe: Fifteen Selected Essays on Rural Persistence and Change. Agriculture: Csaki , Csaba, and Yoav Kislev (eds.). Agricultural Cooperatives in Transition. Agriculture: Winson , Anthony . The Intimate Commodity: Food and the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex in Canada.     

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

TANYA BASOK, Keeping Heads above Water: Salvadorean Refugees in Costa Rica. PER BRASK and WILLIAM MORGAN (eds.),Aboriginal Voices: Amerindian, Inuit and Sami Theater. BRIAN BURTCH, Trials of Labour: The Re-emergence of Midwifery. SALLY COLE, Women of the Praia: Work and Lives in a Portuguese Coastal Community. WALLACE CLEMENT and JOHN MYLES, Relations of Ruling: Class and Gender in Postindustrial Societies. JAMES E. CÔTÉ and ANTON L. ALLAHAR, Generation on Hold: Coming of Age in the Late Twentieth Century. GLORIA GOODWIN RAHEJA and ANN GRODZINS GOLD, Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimaging Gender and Kinship in North India. DAVID LYON, The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Making Gender Work edited by Jenny Shaw and Diane Perrons. Gendering Welfare States edited by Diane Sainsbury. Men, Masculinities and Social Welfare by Keith Pringle.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Women and Japanese Management by Alice Lam. Women and the Labour Market by Teresa Rees. Women's Career Development: A Study of High Flyers by Barbara White, Charles Cox and Cary Cooper. Gender Divisions and Social Change by Nickie Charles.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organisations by Cynthia Cockburn. The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies by Anthony Giddens. Gender and Bureaucracy by Mike Savage and Anne Witz (eds.) About Time: the Revolution in Work and Family Life by Patricia Hewitt.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Womanpower: Managing in Times of Demographic Turbulence by Uma Sekaran and Frederick T.L. Leong. (eds.). Defining Women: Social Institutions and Gender Divisions by Linda McDowell and Rosemary Pringle (eds.). Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender by Gill Kirkup and Laurie Smith Keller (eds.). Dual-Earner Families: International Perspectives by Suzan Lewis, Dafna Izraeli, and Helen Hootsmans (eds.).     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Jan Joost Teunissen (ed.), Regulatory and Supervisory Challenges in a New Era of Global Finance Isher Judge Ahluwalia and I.M.D. Little (eds), India’s Economic Reforms and Development: Essays for Manmohan Singh Philippe Cadène and Mark Holmström (eds), Decentralized Production in India: Industrial Districts, Flexible Specialization and Employment T. Dijkstra, Trading the Fruits of the Land: Horticultural Marketing Channels in Kenya Stephen Eccles and Catherine Gwin, Supporting Effective Aid: A Framework for Future Concessional Funding of Multilateral Development Banks Patricia Jeffery and Amrita Basu (eds), Appropriating Gender: Women’s Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia Saskia Everts, Gender and Technology: Empowering Women, Engendering Development Edward and Bridget Dommen, Mauritius: An Island of Success. A Retrospective Study, 1960-1993     

Book Reviews

Family Ties and Aging. Ingrid Arnet Connidis. Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works. Francine M. Deutsch. The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued. Ann Crittenden. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Nancy F. Cott. Care Work: Gender, Labor and the Welfare State. Madonna Harrington Meyer, ed. Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home. Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall, eds. From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate (2nd ed). Don S. Browning, Bonnie J. Miller‐McLemore, Pamela D. Couture, K. Brynolf Lyon, and Robert M. Franklin. Gay and Lesbian Parenting. Deborah F. Glazer and Jack Drescher (eds.). Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families. John P. Bartkowski.     

Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians

Novels provide role models for young adult lesbians and thus may influence their identity development. This study focused on 16 lesbian protagonists identified in 11 young adult novels that received 2011 Lambda Literary Award nominations. Content analyses revealed six themes. Three themes defied traditional gender stereotypes: Asserting Oneself, Pursuing Intimacy with Another Woman, and Breaking Free of Constraints to Authentic Self-Expression. Three themes reinforced gender stereotypes: Negative Emotional Experiences Associated with Lesbian Identity, Traditional Masculine Gender Expression, and Traditional Gender Role-Based Sexual Scripts. Each theme is discussed in light of its possible contribution to lesbian identity development.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Managing the Shopfloor. Subjectivity, Masculinity and Workplace Culture by David L. Collinson. Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain by Nicky Gregson and Michelle Lowe. Women and Market. Learning of the Differences in the Finnish and German Labour Markets by Pertti Koistinen and Ilona Ostner (eds.).     

Danger Talk: Sexual Error and the Limits of Thought: An Introduction

This article introduces a set of essays on the theme “Danger Talk: Sexual Error and the Limits of Thought.” To situate the essays, the author explains the original context for the essays: a 2016 forum at New York University (NYU) co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Changing Roles of Agricultural Extension in Asian Nations, edited by A. W. Van den Van and R. K. Samanta Safety in the Agri-Food Chain, by Pieternel A. Luning, Frank Devlieghere, and Roland Verhé. State, Communities and Forests in Contemporary Borneo, edited by Fadzilah Majid Cooke. Truman Torgerson: Leadership Straight From the Shoulder, by Randall Torgerson. Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West, by Kristin M. McAndrews. Reno     

Views,events, and debates

Welcome to Gender & Development's Views, events, and debates section. We’d like to invite readers to respond to any of the views expressed in this section, to contact us with reports of events, and to suggest debates on issues relevant to the journal's concern: to inspire and strengthen development initiatives which support the goals of gender equality and women's empowerment.

We’d also like to invite you to send us your feedback on Gender & Development, and suggestions for future issues, to: gadeditor@oxfam.org.uk     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Labour Market Structures and Prospects for Women edited by Robert Lindley Women and Low Pay: Identifying the Issues by Shirley Dex, Steve Lissenbourg and Mark Taylor Women in Post-Compulsory Education and Training in Wales by David Istance and Teresa Rees Equality Issues in Scotland: A Research Review by Alice Brown, Esther Breitenbach and Fiona Myers. Black Women in the Labour Market, a Research Review by R. Bhavnani. Ethnic Minority Women and the Labour Market: Analysis of the 1991 Census by D. Owen. The Gender Impact of CCT in Local Government by Karen Escott and Dexter Whitfield