Women's Studies

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...

From one of America's leading biographers, the definitive story of the radical feminist and anti-pornography activist, based on exclusive access to her archives Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and...

In this book, Wynne Walker Moskop addresses the practical and theoretical problem of how unequal political friendships evolve toward arrangements the parties consider reciprocal and just, a problem neglected by scholars of democracy who associate...

Finding Your Sexual Voice promotes the genuine understanding of strong female sexuality and empowers women to value desire, pleasure, eroticism, and satisfaction. The book confronts myths and misunderstandings about female sexuality, especially desire,...

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

Until now, the notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the Western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for Western appropriation of the Orient. In Intimate Outsiders, the art...

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)...

The Renaissance created a new vision of womanhood and indeed a "New Woman," proposes Gaia Servadio in this rich feast of a book. She dates the birth of this revolutionary movement to the invention of the printing press in 1456, which made books-and hence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974610139Author Etta D JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Lapis CommunicationsPublisher Lapis CommunicationsWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

More than 600 women and girls have been murdered and more than 1,000 have disappeared in the Mexican state of Chihuahua since 1993. Violence against women has increased throughout Mexico and in other countries, including Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2008 and PEN/USA Literary Award 2009 and The Washington Post "Best Books" 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780385520188Author...

More than forty years ago a women's liberation movement called uman ribu was born in Japan amid conditions of radicalism, violence, and imperialist aggression. Setsu Shigematsu's book is the first to present a sustained history of uman ribu's formation,...

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market. Starting with mobile phones, now fashion brands are subverted in this way, with many women at...

One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a...

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...

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious expedition leader and three amateur boatmen. With its churning rapids, sheer cliffs and boat-shattering boulders, the Colorado...

"From meetings and conversation with men, love affairs arise. In the midst of pleasures, banquets, dances, laughter and self-indulgence, Venus and her son Cupid reign supreme...Poor young girl, if you emerge from these encounters a captive prey! How much...

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...

These posthumous essays by Joan Kelly, a founder of women's studies, represent a profound synthesis of feminist theory and historical analysis and require a realignment of perspectives on women in society from the Middle Ages to the present. Book...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909983021Author Helena EarnshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 351g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758157Author Colette DowlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 411gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791460948Author Voltairine De CleyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint 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 9781438462127Author Breanne FahsFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

In this fully revised new edition, Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research and Issues summarises and analyses the most relevant research regarding father-daughter relationships, aiming to break down the persistent misconceptions regarding...

From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult audiences,...

An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Perez in 1995. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, websites, monuments,...

The world is full of women we don't know whose stories have been overlooked or airbrushed from history. Often faced with limited life choices, this book proudly showcases those women who took matters into their own hands and became forces to be reckoned...

30 years after she first asked the question, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?," Sheila Isenberg answers it anew in the age of the internet, smart phones, social media, mass shootings, celebrity worship of murderers, and...

During the past forty years, South Asia has been the location and the focus of dynamic, important feminist scholarship and activism. In this collection of essays, prominent feminist scholars and activists build on that work to confront pressing new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974607Author Estelle B. FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 362g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345386571Author Marianne WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...