Women's Studies

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or...

Do You Know...where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languageshow the custom of kissing beganwhether there really was a female popewhy Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982144296Author Anita DiamantFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438483641Author Stephanie Y. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

What makes art 'feminist art'? Although feminist artists do have a unique aesthetic, there can be no essential feminist aesthetic, argues Kathy Battista in this exciting new art history. Domesticity, the body, its traces and sexuality have become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425243077Author Deborah J. SwissFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 373g

The fascinating memoir of influential French filmmaker Alice Guy Blache, one of the industry's most significant pioneers and a trailblazer for female directors.Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968) is a unique pioneer of the motion picture, being not only a...

Finding Your Sexual Voice promotes the genuine understanding of strong female sexuality and empowers women to value desire, pleasure, eroticism, and satisfaction. The book confronts myths and misunderstandings about female sexuality, especially desire,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916182769Author Caroline LisaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint BOLDvoice pressPublisher BOLDvoice press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553379716Author Barbara TedlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

The social sciences are about people and the relationships between individuals and the social and material world we live in. They are about the social structures which shape - and are shaped by - social forces such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality...

Where racism and sexism meet-an understanding of anti-Black misogyny When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual...

Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels" -Ann Richards#1 Bestseller in Acting & Auditioning, Performing Arts, and Guides & Reviews...

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 One of The Times 50 Best Sports Books of 2021 Little Wonder tells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the first great heroine in women's sports. Dod was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263935Author Caroline KettlewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite , Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community.About the AuthorFatema Mernissi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756030Author Eve EnslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 10mm

From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is "rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity" (George Weigel).Mother...

'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially - as lawyer and politician. Woman's function is to pour oil on the wounds - to heal the bruises of spirit...and to stimulate to renewed exertion.' ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945397762Author Lael MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more...

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 When Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" first appeared, it immediately...

HOW DO YOU DEFINE YOURSELF? IN A VERY REAL SENSE, we define ourselves through our stories. If we can truly understand the stories that made us the women we are, including the motivations behind our actions and thoughts, we can take charge of how our...

John Alexander has provided the first popular biography of one of the most powerful, infamous, and colourful figures in modern history. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous...

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the...

Beautifully Said is a female-forward collection of 21 themed chapters of quotes and stories from brilliant, brave, captivating women and girls. Looking for a quote to inspire your daughter, sister, mother, teammate, or friend? Or are you a hand lettering...

Gendered Justice seeks to enhance knowledge and practice in relation to criminalised women and anyone affected by their imprisonment. It calls for compassionate trauma-informed, and gender-specific approaches. As editor Dr Lucy Baldwin explains, 'How...

A groundbreaking new book about the misogynistic nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focusing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. 'Fascinating and beautifully written' Guardian 'Fascinating ... gives us a disturbing insight into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543403770Author Joy UsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Xlibris AuPublisher Xlibris AuWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

Is there gender equality in Buddhist traditions? What do Buddhist texts say about women? How have Buddhist women responded to misogyny? Collett is well placed to review both recent scholarship and original writing by and about women in Buddhism. She...

At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots,...

'Whom to marry and when will it happen - these two questions define every woman's existence.' So begins Spinster, a revelatory look at the pleasures, problems and possibilities of living independently in the 21st century, reconsidering what it means -...

Out of the Vinyl Deeps, published in 2011, introduced a new generation to the incisive, witty, and merciless voice of Ellen Willis through her pioneering rock music criticism. In the years that followed, Willis's daring insights went beyond popular...

In Women Artists in Midcentury America, readers embark on a journey spanning two decades, delving into the evolving social and artistic landscapes through the lens of all-women exhibitions. These groundbreaking projects courageously confronted issues of...

Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women. An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering...

"In its hard headed, richly documented concreteness, it is worth a thousand polemics." -- New York Times, from a review of the first edition "The Curse deserves a place in every women's studies library collection." -- Sharon Golub, editor of Lifting...

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the "cortigiana onesta" - the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered...

South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558618725Author Rachel AimeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer...