Women's Studies

In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in...

In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in...

Along with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women's suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Unlike her family, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953165190Author Christa FaustFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint UpshotPublisher Artists Writers & Artisans

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595159222Author Casey MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640701595Author Our Daily BreadFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Our Daily Bread PublishingPublisher Our Daily Bread PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060957407Author Leura TanenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

France today is in the throes of a crisis about whether to represent social differences within its political system and, if so, how. It is a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not...

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market. Starting with mobile phones, now fashion brands are subverted in this way, with many women at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2008 and PEN/USA Literary Award 2009 and The Washington Post "Best Books" 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780385520188Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975451Author Joan GouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 417Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 388g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060931568Author Marilyn YalomFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 395g

Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women's movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2009. Short-listed for New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism 2010.Book...

This work serves to celebrate the strengths of women of color, identify unique opportunities, and examine the specific challenges and issues of this group. Psychological Health of Women of Color: Intersections, Challenges, and Opportunities is an...

The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the US. In these two volumes, Campbell provides a basic understanding of two processes: the development of the rhetoric...

In recent decades, popular culture - from television and film to newspapers, magazines, and best-selling fiction - has focused an enormous amount of attention on mothers. Through feminist, psychoanalytic, sociological, literary, and cultural studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772584882Author Tara Carpenter EstradaFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 570g

The young woman was weaving a shawl. Jacqueline offered to purchase this square of colourful fabric, a few coins jingled on the table. A man immediately appeared and took the money. In 1993 Jacqueline de Chollet founded The Veerni Project (Veer Ni, ‘the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889421962Author Professor H L MenckenFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879960534Author Martha ShelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute BooksWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879960671Author Leela FernandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute Books

Human Work represents the first ground breaking analysis on the equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. Noted feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman maintains the notion that it was "sexuo-economic oppression of women" and not...

This volume presents one of Mitchell's touchstone texts of neurasthenia-cultural critique as medical diagnosis. Fat and Blood was a best seller in its time and went through multiple printings and numerous editions. It fused the cultural critique of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888303825Author Hubert BlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 150g

Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators_these are the dangerous women of traditional China. Through her exploration of the myth and history of the Ming, Victoria B. Cass brings their world brilliantly to life. In a culture that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888304037Author Sarah Moore GrimkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888302958Author L O KleberFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888302941Author L O KleberFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 177g

Beginning with their forced introduction to American soil, Black women have relied on maverick-like characteristics to survive. And yet, these liberating characteristics have been repeatedly disparaged by the masses in favor of an elitist politics of...

The flight of King James II in November 1688 was a seminal moment in British history. The deposed Catholic King set up house and home in Paris, William and Mary succeeded to the throne of England and over fifty years of trouble, strife, war and execution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538178331Author Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.Format PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

This innovative work critically studies the contemporary problems of one segment of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The lack of a diverse U.S.-based pool of talent entering the field of engineering education has been termed a...

The book dismantles prevalent misconceptions surrounding Indigenous peoples’ epistemologies on peace, arguing that the peace epistemologies which Indigenous peoples have built do not correspond to the past but are changing, living theories created and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623716875Author N S NuseibehFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 273g

Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators_these are the dangerous women of traditional China. Through her exploration of the myth and history of the Ming, Victoria B. Cass brings their world brilliantly to life. In a culture that is...

Conflict between work and family life is an all too familiar experience for many Americans. The difficult choices facing women who combine paid work with childcare are the subject of a deluge of books and articles in addition to an ongoing public debate...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's His Religion and Hers is a brave critique of organized religion and the consequences that a male-constructed religion has on everyday life. She suggests that through the development of secular ethics, religion can be directed...

In Dilemmas of Masculinity, noted sociologist Mirra Komarovsky turns her attention to the consequences of feminism among women on the lives of men. As she'd documented in Women in the Modern World, and would again in Women in College, women's lives had...

In Women in College, feminist and sociologist Mirra Komarovsky interviewed women who entered Barnard College in the fall of 1979, finding that the demands of college life facilitated and occasionally forced many of these women to change their...