Women's Studies

Courage meets crisis in a doctor's extraordinary true account on the frontlines of maternal healthcare during a deadly epidemic in Sierra Leone. In May 2014, as the country grapples with the highest maternal mortality rate globally, a new, invisible...

The women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, the concentration camps, and the Luftwaffe and militia units and how did it evolve in the way it did? We hear from women who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802868435Author Prudence AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 574Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America's...

In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica-the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female...

In Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume-all best-selling romance writers-explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances. In this seamless, ultimately fascinating, and...

'Fascinating . . . the most incredible argument for why a female model of leadership might actually be the more powerful and sustainable one' Scarlett Curtis'A bold, rigorous and lyrical work which feels both timely and essential' Musa Okwonga, author of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807041482Author Rebecca Todd PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political...

Judy Chicago's monumental art installation The Dinner Party was an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's...

In her bestselling book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf sought to change the way in which women see themselves in relation to their bodies. Now she focuses on how they see themselves in relation to power. She argues that the feminist movement has to change...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767920551Author Joan AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788172234546Author Coralie YoungerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(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...

Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812922462Author Jane MattesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times BooksWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399582233Author Blair ImaniFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories of queer contributions to African studies within and outside academia.The Routledge Handbook of Queer...

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it across a range of markets and media. Yet the concept wasn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781791006174Author Heather M. DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon Press

Winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy,...

A New Gospel for Women tells the story of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), author of God's Word to Women, one of the most innovative and comprehensive feminist theologies ever written. An internationally-known social reformer and women's rights activist,...

New York Times Bestseller "Sharp and prescient...The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it...Sex Object is an antidote to the fun...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028339Author Pamela D. TolerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807067932Author Cynthia EllerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 397g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547053561Author Dale PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 165mm *...

How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women looks at the remarkable impact of war on women in Britain. It shows how conflict has changed women's lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning. Lindsey German, one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307280466Author Stephanie SaldanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062502834Author PH D Riane EislerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617759222Author Justine BatemanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S. Todorova traces the intertwined local...

The most comprehensive study Bible ever prepared for women and by women, the CSB Study Bible for Women invites you to explore the riches of God's Word. Follow God's grand story across the Bible, guided by threads of specialized study that explain...

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the...

Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation...

A reappraisal of the business enterprises of women in the `long' eighteenth century, showing them to be more flourishing than previously thought. Orthodox opinion is that in the `long' eighteenth century women, especially of the middle classes, had...

Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldua's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important...

Evelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career spanning five decades from the 1920s through to the 1960s. A black British diva with movie star looks, she captivated audiences and admirers around the...

A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They...

Foreword by Elaine WelterothIn this stunningly illustrated essay collection inspired by the popular podcast Life, I Swear, prominent Black women reflect on self-love and healing, sharing stories of the trials and tribulations they've faced and what has...

'There simply is no better literary voice for this moment in history than Jessica Wilson.'Sonya Renee Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of The Body is Not an ApologyWe will rewrite the narrative of Blackness that centres and celebrates our joy...