Author: Naila Kabeer
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: realities, reversed
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 1994-07-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0860915840
ISBN-13: 9780860915843

Reversed Realities uncovers the deeply entrenched, hence barely visible, biases which underpin mainstream development theory and account for the marginal status given to women’s needs in current development policy. Naila Kabeer traces the emergence of ’women’ as a specific category in development thought and examines alternative frameworks for analysing gender hierarchies. She identifies the household as a primary site for the construction of power relations and compares the extent to which gender inequalities are revealed in different approaches to the concept of the family

Authors:William Bratton, Peter Knobler,
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: crime, epidemic, reversed, cop, america, top, turnaround
Number of Pages: 329
Published: 1998-01-20
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0679452516
ISBN-13: 9780679452515

When Bill Bratton was sworn in as New York City’s police commissioner in 1994, he made what many considered a bold promise: The NYPD would fight crime in every borough...and win. It seemed foolhardy; even everybody knows you can’t win the war on crime. But Bratton delivered. In an extraordinary twenty-seven months, serious crime in New York City went down by 33 percent, the murder rate was cut in half--and Bill Bratton was heralded as the most charismatic and respected law enforcement official in America.. In this outspoken account of his news-making career, Bratton reveals ho

Author: Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: deviance, stigmatization, reversed, suny, series, social, science, abuse, moral, morality, panics, drug, politics, deviant
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1990-04
List price: $74.50
ISBN-10: 0791401227
ISBN-13: 9780791401224