Female entrepreneurship
Subtitle: implications for education, training and policy
By: edited by Nancy M. Carter ... [et al.]
Contributors: Carter, Nancy M
Series: Routledge advances in management and business studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415363174; 9780203013533
Subjects: Businesswomen; Self-employed women; Women-owned business enterprises; Entrepreneurship
Description: "Most research on social movements has ignored the significance of emotions. This edited volume seeks to redress this oversight and introduces new research themes and tools to the field of emotions and social movements."

"This volume takes both the sociology of social movements and the sociology of emotions in an exciting new direction. Truly international in scope, the contributions to this volume cover diverse issues such as the Women in Black in Israel, the Chinese student movement, care and feminism, and the techniques of the Adbusters Media Foundation. The contributions show how emotions connect macro- and micro-politics, examine highly emotional movement-staged public events and address the role of attempts to express, regulate and ignore emotions within social movements. Above all, this volume contributes to the general understanding of how emotions work in a social context.

Comprising three main sections, the work focuses on theoretical frameworks, movements that challenge states and state policies and movement consolidation and demise." "Sociologists and political activists around the world will find this volume to be of great interest given its wide-ranging approach and its heretofore unique emphasis on the role of emotion in protest, dissent and social movements."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Female entrepreneurship : theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence / Sara Carter and Susan Marlow; title: Gender differences in the goals of owner-operated SMEs / John Watson and Rick Newby; title: Attitudes towards entrepreneurship among female and male undergraduates : a preliminary study / Shirley-Ann Hazlett ... [et al.]; title: Media expressions of entrepreneurs : presentations and discourses of male and female entrepreneurs in Norway / Elisabet  Ljunggren and Gry Agnete Alsos; title: An exploration of networking practices of female entrepreneurs / Pauric McGowan and Alison Hampton; title: Women and new business creation : breaking down the risk barriers / Claire Brindley; title: Enhancing women's financial strategies for growth / Candida G. Brush ... [et al.]; title: Women in engineering and technological entrepreneurship : exploring initiatives to overcome the obstacles / Ita Richardson and Briga Hynes; title: Identifying good practice in the promotion of female entrepreneurship / Petra Puechner and Christine Diegelmann; title: Conclusions : Implications for education, training and policy / Nancy M. Carter and Barra Ó Cinnéide