Women's Studies

Dorothy Arzner was the exception in Hollywood film history-the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades. In Part One, Dorothy Arzner's film career-her work as a film editor to her directorial debut, to her departure...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

Women in Performance: Repurposing Failure charts the renewed popularity of intersectional feminism, gender, race and identity politics in contemporary Western experimental theatre, comedy and performance through the featured artists' ability to...

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...

A "ride-or-die chick" is a woman who holds down her family and community. She's your girl that you can call up in the middle of the night to bail you out of jail, and you know she'll show up and won't ask any questions. Her ride-or-die trope becomes a...

" . . . rich and thought-provoking . . . That kind of collaborative writing is feminist scholarship at its best, and exhaustingly difficult." -The Women's Review of Books"A substantial contribution to women's studies and autobiographical criticism."...

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...

This book brings together in a coherent way the most formative articles in our thinking about women's work in English history for both the early modern and modern periods. The material is presented in an accessible way for seminar discussions and many of...

As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta-the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south-in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an...

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An impressive and innovative follow up to Women's Ways of Knowing, this book shows how the authors' ways of knowing" theory revolutionized the fields of law, education, psychology, and women's studies, to name but a few. In essence, this dynamic...

Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of what a...

This collection of essays traces the evolution of feminist pedagogy over the past twenty years, exploring both its theoretical and its practical dimensions. Feminist pedagogy is defined as a set of epistemological assumptions, teaching strategies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684862750Author Yona Zeldis McDonoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 325gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark's book tells the compelling story of these women, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399528538Author Hilda HutchersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Christopher Lasch has examined the role of women and the family in Western society throughout his career as a writer, thinker, and historian. In Women and the Common Life, Lasch suggests controversial linkages between the history of women and the course...

Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societiesIn The Valkyries' Loom, Michele Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North...

"Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated."--James Tooley in the Introduction To what extent has feminism benefited women? To what extent have women really been liberated? James Tooley argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999705275Author Stephanie J HaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Powrhouse PublicationsPublisher Powrhouse PublicationsWeight(grams)...

While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing. Women in Place offers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies and...

In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head-wraps in high black topknots to match their black boot-cut trousers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211764Author Lillian SchlisselFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

From slut-shaming to the allegedly shrill voices of female politicians, from vocal fry to online misogyny, the language women use (and the language used about them) is as controversial as it has ever been. Our language use and our gender have an enormous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385527484Author Mary JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm)...

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning?...

How to Make It as a Woman outlines the history of prosopography or group biography, focusing on the all-female collections that took hold in nineteenth-century Britain and America. The queens, nurses, writers, reformers, adventurers, even assassins in...

A fully-rounded anthology of women's writing from World War One containing the known and unknown biographers and fiction writers of the period.. Explores the impact of the war on ideology, gender, genre and society and is a perfect complimentary text to...

The exploits of the Persian kings are famous, but who has heard of Irdabama, a formidable landowner who controlled a huge workforce and ran her own wine and grain business? This book is the first to examine the economic and political importance of women...

The gender gap is closing. Today, for the first time in history, tens of millions of women are spending more time at the boardroom table than the kitchen table. These professional women are highly ambitious and highly educated, enjoying the same...

Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did...

It's no secret that most girls, at some point, love all things princess: the poofy dresses, the plastic tiaras, the colour pink. Even grown-up women can't get enough of royal weddings and royal gossip. Yet critics claim the princess dream sets little...

Underneath the dreaming spires of Oxford's world-famous university, generations of women have lived their lives, fighting for the right to study there, and for a role within the city's educational, political and social spheres. Although a few of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456827Author Elizabeth EwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932573Author Helen JaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Original essays by contemporary women of all ages consider what they have learned in the past twenty years of their lives, in a collection that addresses such topics as careers, sex, motherhood, self-esteem, power, and relationships.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556529467Author PH D Phyllis CheslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams)...