Introduces new conceptual frameworks for girls’ studies. Presenting cutting-edge research from transnational scholars and activists, Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First-Century Girls introduces original methodologies and girl-centered program design to the field of girls’ studies. The editors pair progressive girls’ studies research on topics such as differential privilege, voice, cultural values, and access to material resources, with provocative questions in order to further the thinking about issues that are often marginalized or overlooked in feminist domains. In addition, the book serves as a manual for educators and activists, designed to promote critical discussions that are accessible and includes a final dialogue with contemporary scholars about their work and the current direction of the field.

A haunting story of the disintegration of an American and Italian family caught in Europe during World War II. Winner of the 2017 Italian American Studies Association Book Award This gripping story of love and loss centers on Marco, an Italian diplomat; Alice, his American wife; and their young children. Stationed in Prague during World War II, Marco and Alice become enemies when the United States enters the war, forcing Alice and the children to move from Prague to Rome and finally to Cernobbio in a desperate attempt to flee to Switzerland. Through alternating passages narrated by Alice and daughter Susie, readers shuttle back and forth between war-torn Europe and 1950s Massachusetts to search for answers and unravel the mystery about what really happened to Alice during the war. Camilla Trinchieri is the author of The Price of Silence. She lives in New York City.

In line with the World Declaration on Education for All and the Millennium Goal of halving poverty in the world by the year 2015, education is expected to serve not only the acquisition of academic knowledge but also the preparation of young people for life and work. Secondary education has to meet the challenge of providing skills for successfully dealing with economies and work patterns in transition and changing cultural values. Education that makes young people entrepreneurial in a broad sense would be part of this solution. This volume draws on various experiences in entrepreneurial education around the world. It aims to provoke discussion on such questions as: How can we harness the imagination and entrepreneurial talents of secondary students as assets for development? How should these talents be channelled? What are the contents, subjects, topics that support the entrepreneurial process? What is the best institutional framework for entrepreneurship education? What kind of teacher is needed? How do we systematically measure the performance of entrepreneurship education and training?

An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging black British writers.

Annotation In Effective Philanthropy, Mary Ellen Capek and Molly Mead offer strategies forstrengthening organizations through a commitment to diversity and gender equality. Capek and Mead'sresearch shows that institutionalizing a more nuanced understanding of what they call "deepdiversity" allows organizations to make full use of all the resources they have available, bothinside and outside their doors. The authors show how foundations have used "differences that divideus"--Race, class, gender, sexual orientation, geography, age, religion, physical ability, andothers -- to become learning organizations, a proven strategy for organizational effectiveness. Byvirtue of their "power of the purse" and more subtle forms of influence, foundations are key playersin US social, economic, and public policy and are increasingly influential internationally. Whenfoundations function effectively, there is potential for tremendous public benefit, and Capek andMead argue that goals for equity in philanthropy are similar to goals for any effectiveorganization. Offering demographics, case studies, strategic funding initiatives, theoreticalanalyses, and original research, Effective Philanthropy describes models for building effectivefoundations that can be applied to all kinds of institutions -- large and small, public and private, national and regional, bureaucratic and entrepreneurial -- including colleges and universities, nonprofits, government agencies, and multinational corporations. The diverse case studies and fundinginitiatives highlighted in the book include California Wellness, the Otto Bremer Foundation, thePhiladelphia Foundation, the Ms. Foundation for Women's Collaborative Fund for Women's EconomicDevelopment, and programs for women and girls funded by the United Way of MassachusettsBay. Supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Women & Philanthropy.

This contemporary text reflects the concerns and problems of the new century and the new millennium. It presents the latest sociological data, knowledge and opinions as accurately and as fairly as possible so that any instructor, regardless of his or her theoretical orientation, will have a trustworthy base from which to elaborate, disagree or discuss. This text builds on students natural interest in social problems and encourages them to develop both a sociological perspective and a sociological imagination that allows them to examine social problems in a critical fashion.