... . There is much exploration into the challenges facing Del as a woman in a patriarchal world. Descriptions of the lives of Canadian girls and women during the 1920's and 1930's fill the book and prompt the conclusion that these years really saw no discontinuity with the past in Canada. (Before women gained the right to vote) Munro involves the conflict between a woman's independence ... work, marriage, housewifery, and motherhood. Some chapters are more bold than others. Chapter two and five are familiar ideas regarding working women, contraception, and childbirth. In chapter four, Munro...

• Word Count: 620
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... third part deals with the demographics of purchasing: the different　behaviors of men, women, seniors, and kids. The fourth section of the book tackles the dynamics of shopping: in other words how shoppers respond psychologically to the placement of merchandise, packaging, and other features of the ... the longer the shopper spends in the store the more they will spend comes into play. The final fourth part of the book is devoted to a discussion of how shoppers psychologically react to shopping environments. Much of this discussion covers and reinforces ground that he ... and feel the ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... York City. Clues about Esther's feelings of the restrictions and isolation of an enclosing bell jar are present in the first section of the book. Immediately, she reveals feelings so different from what she is "supposed" to be experiencing in the glamorous and wonderful world of New York: ... wrote "...It's quite amazing how I've gone around for most of my life as in the rarefied atmosphere under a bell jar" (angelfire 1). In Chapter 15, Esther introduces the bell jar as the metaphor for the engulfing isolation and confinement she is experiencing. Her own identification as "sitting under...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Zehra Arat's chapter entitled Women Under Layers of Oppression: The (Un) Changing Political Economy of Gender, she writes that, "the common denominator of women in all societies, including the industrialized ones, is their ... are otherwise short of credit. However, findings of increasing poverty and disease in Third World countries after the implementation of the World Bank is not a promising factor. In Catherine Scott's book, Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory, she writes about the World Bank and its theories. Specifically, its theory to have state po...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... lives of their families; whether it be the ones they could afford to bring along with them, or the ones battling the damning famine back home in Ireland. In the book "Erin's Daughters in America" by Hasia R. Diner, Diner paints a picture of what life was really like for these immigrants, and how the Irish and American cultures clashed. " ... the belief that women are to have social roles unconstrained to men, allowed the women to avail themselves of the job opportunities in America, as Diner so clearly states in chapter four, "The structure of the American job market as it translate...

• Word Count: 1071
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate