New H.W. Wilson Volume Looks at Women's
Rights
New York, New York, August 17th, 2005
H.W. Wilson today announced Women's Rights, a new
volume in its popular Reference Shelf book series.
Women's Rights explores issues of
pivotal importance to today's struggle for gender equity,
including a look at past gains now increasingly in peril. The
volume considers the state of women's rights from both western
and global perspectives, discussing women in the public
sphere, women's health care and mortality, violence against
women, sex trafficking and prostitution, Muslim women and the
East-West divide, and Christian fundamentalism versus
reproductive rights.
Three appendices complete the volume: a Gender Gap Index
(measuring the extent to which women in 58 nations have
achieved equality with men), and lectures by Nobel Laureates
Shirin Ebadi (Iranian social justice activist) and Wangari
Maathai (Kenyan founder of the Greenbelt Movement and
sustainable development advocate).
Women's Rights is the fourth title of
six to be released in The Reference Shelf 2005 (Volume 77).
Each book in the Reference Shelf series offers extensive
exploration of a current topic of importance in modern
society, in a compilation of notable articles from respected
publications, plus abstracts of 20 to 30 additional articles
and a bibliography of other sources. Reference Shelf volumes
provide a well-rounded, unbiased overview for researchers and
general readers. Volume 77 includes The European Union
(February 2005), Free Trade (April 2005), U.S. National Debate
Topic 2005-2006: U.S. Civil Liberties (June 2005), Women's
Rights, as well as the upcoming titles The United States
Supreme Court and Representative American Speeches 2004-2005.
Libraries that order the complete 6-volume set receive a
substantial discount.
Review copies of Reference Shelf volumes are
available for members of the press. For more on the Reference
Shelf, visit
www.hwwilson.com.
Women's Rights
July 2005 l 184 pages l ISBN 0-8242-1049-2 l $50 ($55 outside
the U.S. & Canada)
