Authors:Geske Dijkstra, Janneke Plantenga,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: perspective, european, economics, gender
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1997-05-06
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0415154251
ISBN-13: 9780415154253

Women have been largely absent as the subject of economic study. Gender and Economics redresses this imbalance with a user-friendly introduction to gender studies in economics.The contributors offer comprehensive coverage of the economic condition of women throughout Europe, examining policies aimed at improving the relative economic situation of women, such as affirmative action, equal opportunity and comparable worth. Giving a unique balance of theoretical and empirical data, it considers the economic theory of gender and economics, the different positions of women in the economy, their earn

Author: Bart Plantenga
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: yodeling, world, history, secret, oooo, yodel
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-10-31
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0415939909
ISBN-13: 9780415939904

Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo is the first book to address the question: How did a centuries-old, Swiss mountain tradition make its way into American country music? Along the way, the reader discovers that yodeling is not just a Swiss thing--everyone from Central African pygmies, Nashville hunks-in-hats, avant-garde tonsil-twisters like Meredith Monk, hiphop stars De La Soul, and pop stars like Jewel have been known to kick back and release a yodeling refrain. Along the way, we encounter a gallery of unique characters, ranging from the legendary, such as country singer Jimmie Rodgers, to the definitely

Authors:Peter Houtzagers, Janneke Kalsbeek, Jos Schaeke,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: dutch, slavists, international, congress, fourteenth, contributions, linguistics, general, studies, slavic
Number of Pages: 580
Published: 2008-08-11
List price: $150.80
ISBN-10: 9042024429
ISBN-13: 9789042024427

This volume contains articles by 17 slavists from the Low Countries. Although they are all about Slavic linguistics, they cover a wide range of subjects and their theoretical implications are often not restricted to slavistics alone. Most contributions deal with Russian or Slavic in general, but South and West Slavic are also represented. The reader who knows the strong points for which Dutch slavistics is traditionally known and appreciated will not be disappointed: s/he will find papers on syntax and semantics (Fortuin, Van Helden, Honselaar, Keijsper, Tribusinina), aspectology (Barentsen, G