Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL WOMEN’S STUDIES 
CHAPTER 2 WOMEN’S LOWER STATUS AND POWER 
CHAPTER 3 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS 
CHAPTER 4 WOMEN’S SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL RIGHTS 
CHAPTER 5 WOMEN’S WORK 
CHAPTER 6 WOMEN, DEVELOPMENT, AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY 
CHAPTER 7 WOMEN AND GLOBALIZATION 
CHAPTER 8 WOMEN AND RELIGION 
CHAPTER 9 WOMEN AND POLITICS 
CHAPTER 10 WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS 


APPENDIX
GLOSSARY
INDEX

About the Author

Shawn Meghan Burn, PhD is a feminist social psychologist specializing in the application of psychology to understand and treat a variety of individual, group, organizational, and societal problems. She believes in empowering people with psychological theory and research. She is the author of four books and many research articles and writes a blog (Presence of Mind)for Psychology Today. Many of her publications focus on gender and women’s issues and she is an American Psychological Association Fellow in Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women). She is Professor Emerita at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.