Women's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959054638Author Sarah ShinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626561106Author Aspen BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 86mm * 56mm * 8mm

Sir George Etherege, William Wycherley and William Congreve introduce into their play-worlds major female characters who demand independence and equality from their male counterparts. This book focuses on each major female character who demands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438457925Author Huma Ahmed-GhoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838574086Author Dr Julia MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

"... innovative and important thinking about the various relations between feminist theory, queer theory, and lesbian theory, as well as the possibility that liberation can be mutual rather than mutually exclusive." -Lambda Book Report ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926708751Author Ghadeer MalekFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

In Surfer Girls in the New World Order, Krista Comer explores surfing as a local and global subculture, looking at how the culture of surfing has affected and been affected by girls, from baby boomers to members of Generation Y. Her analysis encompasses...

In the years following the Mexican Revolution, visual images of la chica moderna, the modern woman, au courant in appearance and attitude, popped up in mass media across the country. Some of the images were addressed directly to women through...

This book presents thought-provoking research and data about pornography that will prompt readers to reconsider their positions on a highly controversial and current issue. Why do people use pornography? Is porn addiction a fact or myth? What is revenge...

The concept of motherhood emerges strongly in the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Violette Leduc and Annie Ernaux, whose work is examined here in the light of current debates about women's reproductive function and the longstanding glorification of the...

Taking a broad view of the ongoing efforts to attain rights for women, this work provides unique insight into the context of the issues and reveals the range of factors that can influence a particular policy decision. What constitutes "women's...

In a culture where beauty is currency, women's bodies are often perceived as measures of value and worth. The search for visibility and self-acceptance can be daunting, especially for those on the cultural margins of "beauty." Becoming Women offers a...

Why are women so dramatically underrepresented in formal leadership positions-and what can be done to improve the situation? This unique collection takes up these questions in the crucial practical concepts of law, politics, and business-the arenas in...

In 17th-century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage or military alliance. Once married, they became legally subservient to their husbands. The duchesse de...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558611603Author Robin MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

The evidence of women in the Americas is conspicuously absent from most historical syntheses of the Spanish invasion and early colonisation of the New World. Karen Powers's ethnohistoric account is the first to focus on non-military incidents during this...

Taking seriously the "W Stands for Women" rhetoric of the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how "W" stands for women. They argue that George W. Bush has hijacked feminist language toward...

Breaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siecle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the ways in which issues of gender were central...

Not too long ago, India woke up to the heart-rending horror of the Nirbhaya rape case. While the brutal violence against the victim sent shockwaves throughout the country, the rapists (as well as other men on the streets) caused further moral outrage by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780943549903Author Anne Jacobson SchutteFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Truman State University PressPublisher Truman State University...

The Paradox of Change is a revised and updated version of William Chafe's classic study The American Woman (1972). Building on his original analysis of the experience of twentieth-century American women, Chafe now also considers the significance of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735223721Author Chanel MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452287488Author Ruth Andrew EllensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306g

First published in 1993, Transforming a Rape Culture has provided a new understanding of sexual violence and its origins in this culture. This groundbreaking work seeks nothing less than fundamental cultural change: the transformation of basic attitudes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800626945Author Serene JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226745Author Ruby HamadFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935259336Author Mike MadridFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Exterminating Angel PressPublisher Exterminating Angel PressWeight(grams)...

Do you see women your age portrayed as puttering gardeners and docile grannies? Do you feel bombarded by anti-aging products that insist you must "defy" getting older? And have you had enough, and are ready to challenge the intertwining of sexism and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780863584282Author Jill GardinerFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint Rivers Oram Press/Pandora ListPublisher Rivers Oram Press

A "beautifully written" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to bypass the problem, and how to...

Recently the distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz has turned her critical acumen toward rethinking time and duration. Time Travels brings her trailblazing essays together to show how reconceptualizing temporality transforms and revitalizes key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Gold Pen Awards (Self-Help/Motivational) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780609807088Author Debrena Jackson GandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786888597Author Alexandra RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 324g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786888597Author Alexandra RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 324g

Moving Meals and Migrating Mothers: Culinary cultures, diasporic dishes and familial foodways explores the complex interplay between the important global issues of food, families and migration. We have an introduction and twelve additional chapters which...

Beautifully photographed and illustrated, here is a precious record of our women's reflections and takeaways on lives well-lived that is sure to be passed from grandmother to daughter to granddaughter.Throughout history, the image of "wisdom" is...

In the only book that gives a mother something positive to do for her baby in the critical first trimester, Margie Profet, an award-winning scientist, details for the first time how pregnancy sickness improves the chances of having a healthy baby.Profet...

An interdisciplinary collection of critical, feminist reflections on interpersonal gender violence Despite the growing interest in the subject of gender violence, surprisingly little has been written in recent years about the methodology behind this...

"Shows us, in disturbing but illuminating detail, how violence and cruelty register on the psyche. This beautifully written book makes us reckon anew with the deep costs of war."—Eva Hoffman.Book InformationISBN 9780140261905Author Agate NesauleFormat...