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Eleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice: Her Impact on the Civil Rights Movement, the White House, and the World by Ilene Cooper

Reviewed by: Eleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice: Her Impact on the Civil Rights Movement, the White House, and the World by Ilene Cooper Elizabeth Bush Coper, Ilene Eleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice: Her Impact on the Civil Rights Movement, the White House, and the World. Abrams, 2018 [192p] illus. with photographs ISBN 978-1-4197-2295-0 $17.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-8 There is no shortage of titles on the poor little rich daddy's girl Eleanor: raised by a grandmother; married to a handsome, womanizing distant cousin; betrayed at home but nonetheless ferociously dedicated to progressive causes for which her husband, President Franklin Roosevelt, provided her a public forum. Cooper, though, claims her own authorial turf by focusing on Eleanor Roosevelt's championing of civil rights, discussing not only her high-profile successes (integrating White House social circles, arguing for women's New Deal programs, standing up to the D.A.R. when they barred Marian Anderson from their concert hall) but also how often she was late to embrace these causes and occasionally even conflicted over their implementation. This nuanced treatment, which is more often reserved for older readers, translates well for a younger audience, who are unlikely to lose respect or admiration for the innovative First Lady even as they learn that the minorities she defended were often frustrated by her politically cautious strategies. Roosevelt family photographs, an excerpt from a 1940 speech by the then First Lady, a timeline, source citation, bibliography, and index are appended. Copyright © 2018 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Antiviral Treatment among Hepatitis B Virus-Infected Pregnant Women—New York City and Michigan, 2013–2015

BackgroundIndividuals with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are at increased risk for cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Chronic HBV infection develops in 90% of persons infected at birth. Although postexposure prophylaxis (PEP), consisting of hepatitis B vaccine and immune globulin at birth, and completion of the three-dose vaccine series prevents up to 95% of perinatal HBV infections; however, breakthrough infections can occur, especially among infants born to women with high viral loads (VLs). Maternal antiviral treatment during pregnancy can reduce perinatal HBV transmission by 70% above the effect of infant PEP alone. We assessed factors associated with maternal antiviral treatment in a cohort of HBV-infected pregnant women with high VL.MethodsDuring 2013–2015, the CDC-funded Supplemental Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Program collected information from interviews and medical charts of HBV-infected pregnant women in two sites. We assessed the association of demographic and clinical factors with maternal treatment in women with high VL (>200,000 IU/mL), considering statistical significance at P < 0.05.ResultsAmong 1,521 women with maternal treatment and VL data, 151 (10%) had high VL. Among these 151 women, 66 (44%) received antiviral treatment (Table), all of whom were of Asian/Pacific Island race. None of the seven women of other races were treated (P = 0.02). Fifty-nine women (48%) receiving Medicaid were treated compared with six women (24%) who had private insurance (P = 0.04).ConclusionMother’s race, country of birth, and insurance status were significantly associated with treatment in women with high VL. Because most women with high VL did not receive antiviral treatment during pregnancy, opportunities to reduce perinatal HBV transmission exist. Table. Association between characteristics of pregnant women with high viral load and HBV treatment status.CharacteristicTreated (n = 66)Not treated (n = 85) P-valueAge in years, median (IQR)29.5 (26.8, 33.1)31.0 (27.7, 34.7)0.09Mother’s race, n (%)0.02Asian/Pacific Islander66 (46%)78 (54%)Other07 (100%)Country of birth0.005China61 (49%)63 (51%)Other5 (19%)22 (81%)Mother’s insurance0.04Medicaid59 (48%)65 (52%)Private6 (24%)19 (76%)Other1 (50%)1 (50%)Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.

Book Review: Comparative Politics: The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting to Women's New Roles

Book Review: Comparative Politics: The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting to Women's New Roles

Gosta Esping-Andersen: The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting to Women's New Roles

In contrast to what the title suggests, this book is not primarily about politics and gender, but about social inequality and the welfare state. At first glance, this volume seems to be little different from Esping-Andersen’s earlier books. Yet it is, and the main novelty concerns the author’s effort to bring in demography in order to understand how inequalities accumulate over the life course. The book starts out with the argument that research on income inequality has exaggerated the influence of globalization and technology, all the while neglecting the impact of massive shifts in demography. These shifts primarily relate to women’s changing behaviour with respect to education, marriage, family, domestic work, and career dedication. In Esping-Andersen’s words, we have experienced nothing less than a ‘female revolution’ as women’s life course has become increasingly masculinized. Not only is it the case that new cohorts of women increasingly embrace a lifelong commitment to employment. The transformation also spills over to decisions regarding marriage—couples becoming increasingly similar in terms of human capital—, fertility and the domestic sphere, where women have significantly reduced and men have little by little increased their investment in home production.

Gøsta Esping-Andersen (2009), The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting to Women's New Roles. Cambridge: Polity Press. £15.99, pp. 214, pbk.

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Book Review: The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting to Women's New Roles

Book Review: The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting to Women's New Roles

Access to rural health services: Research as community action and policy critique

Although access to rural health services has been an enduring focus for a variety of scholars, little has been recorded about the intersection between health service policy, provision and access experiences. This paper identifies how community action can highlight the gaps between policy rhetoric and access experiences. Taking the case of rural New Zealand, we document how a community organisation Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) completed a national survey as a form of community action. This study records rural households’ experiences and challenges when accessing both primary and secondary health services. A range of access problems is identified. The study also illustrates how community-based activism concerning health care need not be local or single-service focussed, but can involve a multi-service critique at the national scale. Such work highlights not only the experience but also the complexity and politics of health service access.

Gender In Xhosa Proverbs: Women's New Expressions Of Emancipatory Concerns

Abstract Major proverb collections reveal a severe negation of the value of women in society. Almost every proverb that touches on women shows that the proverb makers of past centuries were misogynists who discredited women with antifeminist slurs. These proverbs refer to the general consensus of men who express their own stereotypical views of women. However, the changes of attitudes in some women about their cultural status indicate that a number of proverbs and other expressions no longer reflect certain women's realities today. This has resulted in women coining new proverbial expressions that fit certain aspects of their modern lives more precisely. These new proverbs represent a critical reaction to the worldwide view expressed in the old proverbs.

To the ends of the earth: women's search for education in medicine

Prologue: 1871 1. Women and the Study of Medicine Women in an Economic Squeeze Why Women Should Not Be Doctors The American Context Medical Colleges for Women Segregation and Its Effects The American Achievement 2. Zurich and Paris Rendezvous in Zurich Nadezhda Suslova: The Russian Pioneer The Legend of Frances Elizabeth Morgan First American: Susan Dimock The Russian Crisis The Opening of Paris A New Beginning 3. The Great Migration After the Pioneers The Opening of Bern Geneva and Lausanne The Fight for the Internship in France Floodtide The End of an Era 4. Women, Medicine, and Revolution in Russia Higher Education for Women The Case of Varvara Kashevarova Medical Courses for Women New Setbacks Triumph and Chaos 5. Imperial Germany Verboten: The Ban on Women in Medicine The Bitter Debate The Turn of the Tide Before the War 6. The Fight for Coeducation in Britain The Battle of Edinburgh Why Women Should Not Study with Men A Women's School in London New Openings for Women 7. America: Triumph and Paradox Coeducation and Separatism Coeducation Slowly Advances The Demise of the Women's Schools Success and Disappointment Epilogue: Since 1914 Notes Bibliography Index

Lung Cancer and Exposure to Radon in Women—New Jersey

Lung Cancer and Exposure to Radon in Women—New Jersey

Women and the American Experience

1. Mary Rowland's Captivity 2. The Seventeenth Century: A Frontier Society A Necessary Good Housewifery and Trade Servants and Slaves Native American Women Prophets and Saints Invisible Furies Suggested Readings and Sources 3. Eliza Pinckney and Republican Motherhood 4.The Eighteenth Century: The Eve of Modernity Wives and Widows Character and Capacity Legal Institutions Diversity of Cultures The Cradle of the Revolution The Pursuit of Happiness Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons Suggested Readings and Sources 5. Sarah Hale and the Ladies Magazine 6. Promoting Woman's Sphere, 1800-1860 The Home and the World Piety and Purity Academy and Common School Readers and Authors Factory and Mill City and Frontier White Women in the Antebellum South Suggested Readings and Sources 7. The Grimke Sisters Assail Slavery: The 1830s 8. Benevolence, Reform, and Slavery, 1800-1860 Origins of Association Moral Reform Women in Slavery Abolition and the Woman Question Communitarian Alternatives and Legal Rights The Women's Rights Movement Suggested Readings and Sources 9. The Shirtwaist Strike of 1909 10. Women at Work, 1860-1920 Civil War and Women's Work The Black Experience The Trans-Mississippi West Immigrants, Cities, and Working Girls Women in Industry The Union Experience Office, Store, and Classroom Suggested Readings and Sources 11. The Founding of Hull House 12. The Rise of the New Woman, 1860-1920 Shrinking Families The College Woman The Professional Woman Clubwomen and Crusaders Educated Homemakers Social Housekeepers Suggested Readings and Sources 13. The Crisis of the NWSA 14. Feminism and Suffrage An Independent Suffrage Movement Finding a Constituency The Argument over Suffrage Voices on the Left Peace, War, and the Women's Party Women and the Vote Suggested Readings and Sources 15. Direct Action: Margaret Sanger's Crusade 16. Cross-Currents: The 1920s Feminists in Conflict Aspiration and Career Migrants and Immigrants The New Morality "Pals" and "Partners" Companions and Consumers Contraceptive Politics Suggested Readings and Sources 17. Humanizing the New Deal, 1933 18. Emergencies: The 1930s and 1940s Depression Families Working Women Women's New Deal "Front Page Woman" The Impact of World War II Postwar Prospects Suggested Readings and Sources 19. Turning Points: The Early 1960s 20. High Expectations: 1950-1975 Suburban Housewives Working Mothers Mixed Signals Black Women in Postwar America Civil Rights and Women's Liberation Legitimizing Feminism Suggested Readings and Sources 21. The Thomas Hearings: Responses to Anita Hill, 1991 22. In Search of Equality: Since 1975 Feminism and Stalemate Women in the Workplace Families in Transition Immigration, Ethnicity, and Diversity The Gender Gap Women and the Law Suggested Readings and Sources 23. Equal Pay for Equal Work: Lilly Ledbetter, 2007-2009 24. Recent Times: The Twenty-First Century A Multi-Cultural Society Domestic Lives Educational Frontiers The Global Marketplace Politics, Public Policy, and Polarization Looking Forward Suggested Readings and Sources

How Can We Capitalize Modern Language Training?

The Modern Language JournalVolume 14, Issue 8 p. 653-653 How Can We Capitalize Modern Language Training? Fredericka Belknap, Fredericka Belknap Director of Personnel Bureau New Jersey College for Women New Brunswick, N. J.Search for more papers by this author Fredericka Belknap, Fredericka Belknap Director of Personnel Bureau New Jersey College for Women New Brunswick, N. J.Search for more papers by this author First published: May 1930 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.1930.tb05659.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume14, Issue8May 1930Pages 653-653 RelatedInformation