Women's Studies

In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts-life, politics, and art-by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin's account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin's work as a form of genetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684850139Author OLSONPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

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 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.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780307267146Author Nicholas D. KristofFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780307267146Author Nicholas D. KristofFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399525469Author Susan Hazen-HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Can we truly call football England's 'national' game?How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football?Between 1921 and 1972, women were banned from playing in football League grounds in the UK. Yet in 1998...

While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of "Hawa," a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on being respected and treated fairly propelled her, ironically, into a life of marginality and luck as...

This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid...

This gripping insider's account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria's national liberation movement to combat her country's French occupiers. When the movement's leaders turned to Drif and her female...

Subverting stereotypical images of women, a new generation of feminist artists is remaking the pin-up, much as Annie Sprinkle, Cindy Sherman, and others did in the 1970s and 1980s. As shocking as contemporary feminist pin-ups are intended to be, perhaps...

The Secret Trauma remains the definitive argument for the overwhelming prevalence of incestuous abuse. Based on findings about San Francisco, the book makes a persuasive case for an epidemic of abuse on a national scale. In her nuanced and sophisticated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679753810Author Miriam SchneirFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 342g

Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known. As the Hottentot Venus, she was seen by Westerners as alluring and primitive, a reflection...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2010 Indie Lit Award for NonFiction 2010 and Ambassador Book Award in American Studies 2011 and American Association for the Advancement of Science's Young Adult...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743288347Author Ayaan Hirsi AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned...

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)...

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...

The war is over. The dead have been buried. The traitors have been punished. People feel more alive than they have in a long time. They are ready to start again. But Antigone is not. She will not move on, and she will not forget. She will drag everyone...

Drawing on official records, contemporary writing and oral history, the author examines the myth and reality of women's "experience of war" and shows that before 1914 they were often supporting dependants, had acquired considerble industrial experience,...

There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as ""natural"" as during wartime: men go off to the ""war front"", while women stay behind on the ""home front"". But the very notion of the home front was an invention of the...

The 1970s witnessed a renaissance in women's print culture, as feminist presses and bookshops sprang up in the wake of the second-wave women's movement. At four decades' remove from that heady era, however, the landscape looks dramatically different,...

The southern beauty is alive and well in the twenty-first century American South - and so is a particular silence. All across the region young white women routinely turn-in renditions of femininity more in keeping with nineteenth century gender ideals...

A comprehensive volume sweeping across geographies that brings together foremost scholars on war and women War affects women in profoundly different ways than men. Women play many roles during wartime: they are "gendered" as mothers, as soldiers, as...

From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and...

Globalization and economic restructuring have decimated formal jobs in developing countries, pushing many women into informal employment such as direct selling of cosmetics, perfume, and other personal care products as a way to "make up the difference"...

More than 60 female comics creators share their personal experiences with sexual violence and harassment through new and original comics Inspired by the global #MeToo Movement, Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862003Author Queen of the Neighbourhood Queen of the NeighbourhoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 168g

A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on representations of black women's sexuality in the porn industry. It is based on Mireille Miller-Young's extensive archival research and her interviews with dozens of women who have worked in the adult entertainment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791402641Author Emily K. AbelFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the eighteenth century. She focuses on France, contrasting the role and representation of women...

The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women's bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights...

We wouldn't consider letting Isis, Medusa, Pandora, or Persephone slip from our lexicon. To somehow forget the legend of Harriet Tubman, Anne Frank, or Mother Teresa would never cross our minds. And yet when it comes to the stories of Eve and other...