Women's Studies

"Should feminists clone?" "What do neurons think about?" "How can we learn from bacterial writing?" These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist theorist Deboleena Roy, who takes...

Female Serial Killers Through TimeFrom historical accounts to modern cases, explore the captivating psychology behind these killer women, unraveling their motives and unveiling the dark complexities of human behavior.The fair sex. We've often heard this...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old-and again when she was eighteen-she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the world of eating...

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...

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 9781250619686Author Darcey SteinkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 114mm * 20mm

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 *...

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...

A selection of essential writings to understand the radical feminism movement of the 1960s and 1970s The second wave of feminism was one of the most significant political and cultural developments of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet the role radical feminism...

Explores accountability as a framework for building movements to transform systemic oppression and violence What does it take to build communities to stand up to injustice and create social change? How do we work together to transform, without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780044408925Author Jo StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Rivers Oram Press/Pandora ListPublisher Rivers Oram Press

"Reasonably priced and beautifully produced. A clear and helpful introduction by Susan Okin, one of the leading feminist scholars of our generation, as well as a useful bibliography and chronology of Mill's life. . . . Invaluable for teaching and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062933355Author Mishal HusainFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 157mm...

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)...

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...

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

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)...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

Today's women are so comfortable in their authority that they often forget to credit the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and'70s for paving the way,from the kitchen to the boardroom, from sexual harassment to self-defence, from cheerleading on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458302Author Cherryl WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 431g

Contraception is not an invention of modern times, nor is it a purely personal matter. Social institutions such as the church and the state have exerted their influence as effectively as doctors, population theorists, and the early pioneers of the...

The rise of urbanization and mass communication and the decoupling of sexuality from reproduction and moral regulation have contributed to the late modern expansion of specialized erotic worlds catering to a variety of sexual tastes. Organized by...

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

Based on the lives and crimes of no less than twenty real women, dokufu (poison women) narratives emerged as a powerful presence in Japan during the 1870s. During this tumultuous time, as the nation moved from feudalism to oligarchic government, such...

In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world's most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls.President Carter was...

Foreword by Ashley Judd"Rosenfeld's tour-de-force takes the power of female alliances to a higher level, giving us a road map for a new vision of women's equality through the relationships and bonds we form among one another. The gift of this book is...

An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female. The idea that gender is a performance-a tenet of queer feminist theory since the nineties-has...

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...

Timeless wisdom entertaining style easy-to-grasp explanations of Success Principles In her classic book, THE GAME OF LIFE AND HOW TO PLAY IT, Florence Scovel Shinn established herself as the leading prosperity writer of her era whose down-to-earth,...

Although there are many books on women in the ancient world, this is the first to explore in depth what life was like for women in the period of late antiquity (3rd to 6th centuries AD) once Christianity became the dominant religion. It is also unique in...