Women's Studies

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...

In 1995, NPR editor and producer Marcus D. Rosenbaum met his grandmother-fifty years after her death. Rosenbaum and his family were attending to the bittersweet business of cleaning out the family home after his father died when, in an old closet, in a...

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...

Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Eighth Edition, is a balanced collection of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections. Accessible and student-friendly, the readings reflect the great diversity of women's...

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...