Women's Studies

Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it's the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan's playground?These are...

South Slavic Women’s Transgenerational Trauma Healing through Oral Memory Practices: Women War Crimes and War Survivors explains that Kolo-Informed Trauma Treatment is a clinical, cultural, psychological, and neurobiological approach that draws upon the...

Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India examines the vulnerability of women in public spaces in India through the analysis of artistic representations ranging from emerging digital media, commercial Hindi...

With 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148575Author Ada CalhounFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

The Spice Girls, Tank Girl comicbooks, Sailor Moon, Courtney Love, Grrl Power: do such things really constitute a unique "girl culture?" Catherine Driscoll begins by identifying a genealogy of "girlhood" or "feminine adolescence," and then argues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789774167478Author Shereen AbouelnagaFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint The American University in Cairo PressPublisher The American University in Cairo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553657866Author Shari GraydonFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Greystone Books,CanadaPublisher Greystone Books,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930722361Author Sheila EllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 177mm *...

Barbara Caine offers the first complete overview of the history of `modern' English feminism, from the French Revolution through to the advent of Women's Liberation. Her analysis of feminist organizations, debates, and campaigns shows a keen sense of the...

Contemporary American women are writing long poems in a variety of styles which repossess history, reconceive female subjectivity, and seek to revitalize poetry itself. This book explores this evolving body of work, offering revealing discussions of its...

Credit can be instrumental in equalizing opportunity and alleviating poverty, yet historically men and women have not had the same access. Partly because of this, women have been excluded from many previous economic histories. This book fills a...

What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, and sexual orientation? How can it be directed into more effective social activism, and...

Globally, at least one in four women experiences domestic violence at some point in her life, according to World Bank figures, which are confirmed by local surveys throughout the world. Since domestic violence can cause both acute physical injuries and...

Based on a ethnographic study on women working in the health care industry, the book examines the everyday politics of labour to understand how occupational hierarchies intersect with social identities in a hitherto feminine caste-based occupation. The...

NGOs headquartered in the North have been, for some time, the most visible in attempts to address the poverty, lack of political representation, and labor exploitation that disproportionally affect women from the global South. Feminist NGOs and NGOs...

There is a scarcity of professional literature and research that focuses on women's spiritual development and experiences and how they may differ from those of men. For women, the spiritual is often inner-focused, rather than transcendent; relational,...

Indigenous women from across the Pacific - Hawai'i, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Marianas, Guam, Belau, Fiji, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Te Ao Maohi/Tahiti Polynesia - have a voice in this book. For most of the world, the tiny island...

In contemporary pop culture, the pursuits regarded as the most frivolous are typically understood to be more feminine in nature than masculine. This collection illustrates how ideas of the popular and the feminine were assumed to be equally naturally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791430156Author Magali Cornier MichaelFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Accountancy is an elite profession, wielding its influence in every step we take in business and political life, from takeover to bankruptcies and from Brexit to war: we need accountants to help us see the bigger picture and to enable us to trust one...

In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociological overview of a sobering problem. He starts by outlining the scope of the challenge and debunks current attempts to label intimate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913543405Author Joy JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint African American ImagesPublisher African American ImagesWeight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501120510Author George W Bush InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988375468Author A Band of WomenFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Nothing But The Truth, LLCPublisher Nothing But The Truth, LLC

In The Sexual Life of English, Shefali Chandra examines how English became an Indian language. She rejects the idea that English was fully formed before its life in India or that it was imposed from without. Rather, by drawing attention to sexuality and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438478654Author Ahmed Al-RawiFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936740727Author Mary Anne RadmacherFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Cleis PressPublisher Cleis Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783718658732Author Leigh WoodsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634894173Author Kristi HemmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Wise InkPublisher Wise InkWeight(grams) 140g

American Girls and Global Responsibility brings together insights from Cold War culture studies, girls’ studies, and the history of gender and militarization to shed new light on how age and gender work together to form categories of citizenship.  ...

In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and...

Wenona Giles takes a new look at migration in this innovative study of Portuguese women by examining the gender, class, and race relations of the immigrant Portuguese population from the micro level of personal experience to the macro level of the...

While many people think true crime is a new phenomenon, Americans have been obsessed with the genre for over a century, and popular culture continuously tries to cash in. The names of infamous serial killers are well-known, but the identities of their...

A concise synthesis of the early years of the women's rights movement, 1828D1876, showing how early feminists wanted a complete rethinking of what womanhood meant, and how their concerns resembled the revived feminism of the 1970s. American Ways Series...

The latest in the successful Oxford Modern Britain series, Women and Work in Modern Britain provides a highly accessible introduction to this important topic. Rosemary Crompton gives a full account of the recent changes in the structure of women's...

An intricate network of contacts developed among women in Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth century. These women created virtual communities through communication, support, and a shared ideology. Forged across boundaries of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807014714Author Hilary Levey FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558615434Author Ernestine L. RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 389Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The...

Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Eva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority...