Women's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449003008Author Linda HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 564gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to films...

Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender...

Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of...

Winner of theAFP/Skystone Partners Prize for Research on Fundraising and Philanthropy, Association of Fundraising Professionals, 2021Terry McAdam Book Award, given by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management2023 Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize 2002.Book InformationISBN 9781400030804Author XinranFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize 2002.Book InformationISBN 9781400030804Author XinranFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Women in many Westernized countries encounter a wider variety of career opportunities than afforded in previous decades, and the percentage of women leaders in nearly every sector is on the rise. Sport coaching, however, remains a domain where gender...

When a mildly kink-themed trilogy became popular in 2012, it resulted in media speculation that feminism was in reverse. As the Western media went BDSM-mad, writer Catherine Scott decided to address the growing anti-feminist conversation about kink. She...

"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...

More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide;...

In Somebody's Children, Laura Briggs examines the social and cultural forces-poverty, racism, economic inequality, and political violence-that have shaped transracial and transnational adoption in the United States during the second half of the twentieth...

Even though the people of Afghanistan have in general suffered under the rule of the Taliban, women live especially difficult lives, enduring terrible hardships. They are denied basic human rights, forced to wear veil and kept in seclusion. This work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806185699Author Charles J EsdaileFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

Janice Raymond offers a vision of female friendship that is as exhilarating as it is controversial. In this feminist classic, she explores the many manifestations of friendship between women including the Greek hetairai, the sisterhood of medieval nuns...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306239Author Andrea MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe-what used to be called the Second World-once dominated women's activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely forgotten or deemed insignificant in comparison with those...

Oliver Cromwell, a pivotal and often contentious character, has long been the focus of many historical works that chart his meteoric rise from middle-aged East Anglian farmer with no previous military experience, to command the army and become one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542791Author Yolande StrengersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This is a comprehensive, up-to-date and evidence-based review of women's mental health. It starts by considering the social and cultural contexts of women's lives today before addressing how developmental aspects pertain to mental health, exploring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802833471Author Prudence AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 635Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558618398Author Diane FresquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138040Author Mary Catherine BatesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 241Imprint Black CatPublisher Black CatWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 140mm *...

In an Abusive State puts forth a powerful argument: that the feminist campaign to stop sexual violence has entered into a problematic alliance with the neoliberal state. Kristin Bumiller chronicles the evolution of this alliance by examining the history...

Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage. Nowhere in the world do women share equal social and economic rights with men or the same access as men to productive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978223359Author Heide Goettner-AbendrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 449Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and...

". . . 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 ReportWhen feminism...

Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansFabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstresses' guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with previous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399179754Author Azadeh MoaveniFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

Pretty in Punk combines autobiography, interviews, and sophisticated analysis to create the first insider's examination of the ways punk girls resist gender roles and create strong identities.Why would an articulate, intelligent, thoughtful young women...

Winner of the 2015 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the National Communication Association As an omnipresent figure of the media landscape, girls are spectacles. They are ubiquitous visual objects on display at which we are incessantly invited to look...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580451Author Cristen CongerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580451Author Cristen CongerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

Jean Elshtain examines how the myths of Man as "Just Warrior" and Woman as "Beautiful Soul" serve to recreate and secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. Elshtain demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the...

.."". impressive work of scholarship..."" -- Exceptional Human ExperienceBook InformationISBN 9780253203250Author Estella LauterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Indiana University PressPublisher Indiana University Press

Includes 124 b/w figures. The last three decades have witnessed the introduction of gendered approaches to the social sciences in general, and archaeology in particular, developing initially within the rubric of women's studies by American feminists and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431901Author C. Willett CunningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Menstruation provides one of the few shared bodily functions that most women will experience during their lifetimes. Yet, these experiences are anything but common. In the United States, for the better part of the twentieth century, menstruation went...

More than twenty years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back called upon feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating have painstakingly assembled a new collection of over...

The United States is obsessed with virginity , from the media to schools to government agencies. In The Purity Myth, Jessica Valenti argues that the country's intense focus on chastity is damaging to young women. Through in-depth cultural and social...