Roadblocks to Equality: Women Challenging Boundaries

This interdisciplinary collection crosses a variety of boundaries (social, cultural, and political) in examining various dimensions of women's lived experiences, exploring important contemporary struggles relating to globalization, human rights, education, social inequality, media and political economy.

The book includes chapters on sex trafficking and the international sex trade; academia and politics; women and advertising; political economy and the push toward wage equity; support for working mothers and the importance of universal, affordable childcare; aging as a gendered experience, and why women's activism matters.

Contributors include: Claudia Mitchell, Richard Poulin, Michael Parenti, Michèle Martin, Jeffery Klaehn, Patrizia Albanese, Susan Bryant, Walter Dekeseredy, Peter Eglin, Kathleen Gotts, Sylvia Hale, Mandy Hall, Robert Jensen, Jocey Quinn, Jacqui Reid-Walsh, Carole Roy, and Nancy Snow.