Women's Studies

Women in the Tudor age are often overshadowed by their male counterparts. Even those of royalty were deemed inferior to males. Whilst women may have been classed as the inferior gender, women played a vital role in Tudor society. As daughters, mothers...

The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America: Only White Women Get Pregnant examines the ethos of Black and white mothers in America's racialized society. Kimberly C. Harper argues that the current Black maternal health crisis is not a new one, but an...

Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women's Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addressing the status of women through an examination of depictions of women in the media. This in-depth study...

Women Leading Education across the Continents is the first collection of research about and stories of women in basic and higher education leadership from every region of the globe. The chapters are authored by scholars representing every continent,...

Women's Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture sheds light on women's rights advancements in the nineteenth century and early twentieth-century through explorations of literature and culture from this time period. With an international...

Through the use of in-depth qualitative interviews, Modern Day Mary Poppins: The Unintended Consequences of Nanny Work examines the experiences of and relationships between nannies and their employers. Laura Bunyan uncovers the depths of caring labor...

Now in paperback and with journaling prompts, an Economist Best Book of the Year hailed as "Touching, joyful, defiant—and honest,” celebrating African women’s unique journeys toward sexual pleasure and liberation in this newly updated empowering,...

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the challenges women may face as they navigate the multiple roles that they carry. Attention is given to the unique cultural identities that women embody and suggestions are provided to help counselors...

In Gender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced, Theodore F. Sheckels, Nichola D. Gutgold, and Diana Bartelli Carlin invite the audience to consider women qualified enough to be president and explores reasons...

Reproductive rights are human rights. Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan offers an in-depth analysis of women's reproductive health in a transformative, sociopolitical moment that is redefining women's...

Despite seventeen years of civil war that left 150,000 dead, 425,000 injured, and nearly a million refugees within their own country, many Lebanese women successfully protected their natural heritage and helped to restore order within their society. They...

Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. The anthology is divided into four parts: film...

No state has a greater density of Chicano community leaders and politicians than does Texas. This study examines the lives and politics of a distinguished group of Chicana women who have risen to positions of power. The authors profile women who serve in...

Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, intertwines the disciplines of communication studies, leadership studies, and women's studies to...

Becoming and Consumption uses the Spanish novels Alivio rapido;Veo, veo; Amor, curiosidad, prozac, y dudas; and Los placeres de Anastasia to explore the relationships between globalization, consumption, and economies of experiences that yield innovative...

This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English-language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study...

Presented here are excerpts from diaries and letters written by Southern women from different walks of life and areas of the country. Included are personal reminiscences from Union and Confederate women living in Winchester, Virginia, a town that...

A four year old Mexican American girl is taken away from her parents because she is obese and experiencing health problems related to her weight. Such a measure, once seen as extreme, quickly comes to be seen as a logical means of addressing a problem...

It's called consciousness-raising (CR). Asking questions about our experiences and sharing insights with others can be the basis for informed activism for positive social change. CR provided the entry point for feminists who shaped the women's liberation...

Lot's Daughters explores the relationship of fathers and daughters and of older men and younger females in history, life, art, and culture. This ambitious, daringly original book shows how humanity has remembered and been formed by Lot's daughters-how...

When women picketed the White House demanding the vote on January 17, 1917, they broke new ground in political activism. They petitioned the President and Congress and marched in the streets in the nation's first ever coast to coast campaign for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558611337Author Mariam K. ChamberlainFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at...

Art as activism; ""This ain't no Dreamgirls,"" Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her expectations are grounded in reality, tempered, for example, by the fact...

What is it like being a single woman today? A groundbreaking work of scope, wit, and exceptional empathy, The Improvised Woman answers that complex question, while in the process capturing-and celebrating-the real lives of single American women. Over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666900316Author Amarilys EstrellaFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793626998Author Melissa HuertaFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

MotherScholars (mothers who work as faculty and staff members within higher education) juggle a multitude of roles-leader, researcher, wife, partner, mother, caregiver, advisor, teacher, mentor, volunteer. MotherScholars' Perceptions, Experiences, and...

This book uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality.Book InformationISBN...

Representing Latina/x Reproductive Decision Making examines representations of reproductive decisions in cultural texts and engages with scholarship on Latina/x representation to interrogate what these representations mean for Latinx popular culture...

Sex Cells is the tale of getting the scientific and medical world to recognize that women are unique.  This book gives readers access to the wide world of sex-specific medical issues as they play out in the research labs and doctor’s offices, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788499883151Author Dr Naomi WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Editorial KairosPublisher Editorial KairosWeight(grams) 544g

China has made great improvement in the past two decades in girls' and women's education and development, however the experience in the field have not been adequately and systemically summarized. In continuing our efforts to promote gender equality, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538197646Author Christian P PotholmFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

In Street Harassment as Everyday Violence, Melinda A. Mills investigates women's experiences with street harassment, recognizing this phenomenon as a form of everyday violence. The author follows feminist scholars to consider the ways that silence can...

"A very graceful, erudite job ...extraordinarily revealing."--The New York Times Thirty years after its first publication, Womansword remains a timely, provocative work on how words reflect female stereotypes in modern Japan. Short, lively essays offer...

The contributors to this important new collection offer a vision of contemporary feminism that runs counter to and goes beyond the dominant attitudes of the feminist orthodoxy. Basing their arguments on individual rights and personal responsibility, the...

A Women's History of Sport and Society is an unapologetically new historical review that walks readers through the timeline of women and their fight for equality through the lens of sports, featuring some of the most exciting individuals never profiled...

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the challenges women may face as they navigate the multiple roles that they carry. Attention is given to the unique cultural identities that women embody and suggestions are provided to help counselors...

*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* 'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live' LISA TADDEO 'A guide to liberation and a return to the authentic feminine self' GABOR MATÉ 'Astute, radical and utterly compelling' KATHERINE MAY...

Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Feminism and Diaspora offers insights into Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's provocative and popular fiction. In their engaging and comprehensive introduction, editors Amritjit Singh and Robin Field explore...