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Harmonizing Latina Visions and Voices: Cultural Explorations of Entornos by Amarilys Estrella 9781666900316
RRP: €119.00€104.03Apologies 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 -
Representing Latina/X Reproductive Decision-Making by Melissa Huerta 9781793626998
RRP: €35.70€31.75Apologies 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' Perceptions, Experiences, and the Impact on Work-Family Balance by Megan Reister 9781793648433
RRP: €91.63€80.47MotherScholars (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... -
The Intersectionality of Women’s Lives and Resistance by Dawn Hutchinson 9781793613721
RRP: €41.65€38.66This 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 by Melissa Huerta 9781793626974
RRP: €96.39€84.56Representing 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: A Brief History of Medical Discrimination by Phyllis E. Greenberger 9798887700205
RRP: €23.79€16.14Sex 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... -
Vagina: Una Nueva Biografia de La Sexualidad Femenina by Dr Naomi Wolf 9788499883151
RRP: €33.26€23.80Apologies 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 -
Education, Media and Sexuality Health Services for Girls and Women: 20 Years Experience of China's Policy and Practice by Jin Chi 9781844644087
RRP: €41.65€6.65China 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... -
Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors Throughout Time and Space by Christian P Potholm 9781538197646
RRP: €35.70€31.75Apologies 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 -
Street Harassment as Everyday Violence by Melinda A. Mills 9781666912371
RRP: €105.91€92.76In 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... -
Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women by Kittredge Cherry 9781611720297
RRP: €17.84€15.09"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... -
Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the 21st Century by Wendy McElroy 9781566634342
RRP: €17.84€13.72The 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... -
When Women Stood: The Untold History of Females Who Changed Sports and the World by Alexandra Allred 9781538171349
RRP: €35.70€32.23A 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... -
Counseling the Contemporary Woman: Strategies and Interventions Across the Lifespan by Suzanne Degges-White 9781538123607
RRP: €95.20€84.01This 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... -
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen 9781526651938
RRP: €17.84€14.35*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 by Amritjit Singh 9781498556170
RRP: €101.15€88.67Critical 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... -
Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices by Sameera Ahmed 9781498599870
RRP: €41.65€38.66Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices presents research examining media portrayals of women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It provides qualitative and quantitative findings of... -
Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution by Marnie Holborow 9781350379961
RRP: €101.15€101.10Homes in Crisis Capitalism explores the core social reproduction role that individual households fulfil in our societies, and the class and racial effects of this on gender inequality and discrimination. Women now make up nearly half of the paid... -
Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism by Daphne Patai 9780847689880
RRP: €23.79€17.87What does it mean to be a feminist today? Should women require special legislation to protect them from sexual harassment? Daphne Patai's controversial look at the nation's current epidemic of sexual harassment charges answers these questions and... -
American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women by Carol Bonomo Albright 9780823231751
€107.86With writings that span more than thirty-five years, American Woman, Italian Style is a rich collection of essays that fleshes out the realities of today's Italian American women and explores the myriad ways they continue to add to the American... -
Women of Faith and Religious Identity in Fin-de-Siecle France by Emily Machen 9780815636151
€34.51In this unique study, Machen explores a moment of intense religious upheaval and transformation in France between 1880 and 1920. In these pre-World War I years, a powerful Catholic community was pitted against equally powerful anticlerical members of the... -
Witches of the Atlantic World: An Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook by Elaine G. Breslaw 9780814798508
RRP: €88.06€77.89This unique anthology is the first to provide a multicultural perspective on witchcraft from the 15th to 18th century. Featuring primary documents as well as scholarly interpretations, Witches of the Atlantic World builds upon information regarding both... -
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement by Jennifer Nelson 9780814758212
€106.96While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus. Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist... -
Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual by Jane Juffer 9780814742792
€106.96Long perceived as the ultimate symbol of social breakdown and sexual irresponsibility, the single mother is now, in the context of welfare-to-work policies, often hailed as the new spokesperson for hard work and self-sufficiency. A dozen years after Dan... -
The Philosophical Imaginary by Professor Michele Le Doeuff 9780804716192
€69.02"The Philosophical Imaginary teaches us how to read philosophy afresh. Focusing on central, but often undiscussed, images, Le Doeuff's patient, perspicacious, and always brilliant readings show us how to uncover the political unconscious at work in... -
Money in Their Own Name: The Feminist Voice in Poverty Debate in Canada, 1970-1995 by Wendy McKeen 9780802085443
RRP: €39.27€34.57In Money In Their Own Name, Wendy McKeen examines the relationship between gender and social policy in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s. She provides a detailed historical account of the shaping of feminist politics within the field of federal child... -
Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S. by Laura E. Ruberto 9780739144329
RRP: €53.55€46.99This book considers cultural representations of four different types of labor within Italian and U.S. contexts: stories and songs that chronicle the lives of Italian female rice workers, or mondine; testimonials and other narratives about female domestic... -
Core of My Heart, My Country: Women's Sense of Place and the Land in Australia and Canada by Maggie MacKellar 9780522851373
RRP: €30.88€25.69In this passionate book, Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to... -
For the Family?: How Class and Gender Shape Women's Work by Sarah Damaske 9780199791507
€141.07In the emotional public debate about women and work, conventional wisdom holds that middle-class women "choose" whether or not to work, while working class "need" to work. Yet, despite the recent economic crisis, national trends show... -
Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context by Carol Meyers 9780199734559
€141.55This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Carol Meyers argues that biblical sources... -
Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France, 1800-1867 by Christina de Bellaigue 9780199289981
€134.43An increasing number of middle class families were taking the education of their daughters seriously in the first part of the nineteenth century, and boarding-schools were multiplying on both sides of the Channel. Schoolmistresses - rarely, in fact, the... -
The Burgher and the Whore: Prostitution in Early Modern Amsterdam by Lotte van de Pol 9780199211401
€87.07Amsterdam was, after London and Paris, the third largest city in early modern Europe, and was renowned throughout Europe for its widespread and visible prostitution. Delving deep into a wide range of sources, but making particular use of the transcripts... -
Feminism and Cultural Studies by Morag Shiach 9780198752356
€26.18Oxford Readings in Feminism provide accessible, one-volume guides to the very best in contemporary feminist thinking, assessing its impact and importance in key areas of study. Collected together by scholars of outstanding reputation in their field, the... -
Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland 1890-1914 by Joanna Bourke 9780198203858
€59.87This book examines the lives of Irish women between 1890 and 1914, tracing the shift of their labour out of the fields and into the home. Joanna Bourke shows how their position within the employment market deteriorated: married women came to be... -
American Women: A Concise History by Susan Ware 9780197522349
€32.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197522349Author Susan WareFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 386g -
On the Frontlines: Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process by Fionnuala Ni Aolain 9780195396645
€138.53Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention was devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states... -
Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform by Sharon Hays 9780195176018
RRP: €19.03€14.55Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2 million in 2003. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced... -
Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti 9780062435088
RRP: €20.22€18.25New York Times Bestseller NPR Best Book of 2016 "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... -
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Women's Studies in Religion by Helen T. Boursier 9781538154441
RRP: €141.61€123.97The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women's studies in religion in conversation with specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse... -
Conscripted to Care: Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response by Julia Smith 9780228018759
RRP: €33.31€28.73With the vast majority of healthcare and social workers identifying as women, the vanguard of the COVID-19 response was distinctly gendered. In Conscripted to Care Julia Smith introduces us to the women who faced the worst effects of the pandemic and the...