Women's Studies

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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...

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...

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...

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...

" . . . 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."...

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...

"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)...

Originally published in 1529, this work argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they have long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062282590Author Leora TanenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 440g

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 9780385419116Author Sally HelgesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

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...

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...

One of the most radical feminist theorists in Europe before the 19th century, Francois Poullain de la Barre (1647-1723) was a man way ahead of his time. Applying Cartesian principles to "the Woman Question", Poullain demonstrated by rational deduction...

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...

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...

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...

"Shows us, in disturbing but illuminating detail, how violence and cruelty register on the psyche. This beautifully written book makes us reckon anew with the deep costs of war."—Eva Hoffman.Book InformationISBN 9780140261905Author Agate NesauleFormat...

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)...

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)...

Many of the babies born at the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia, were not adopted. Instead they mysteriously disappeared, becoming known as butterbox babies - named after the grocery delivery boxes that they were buried in. Since Bette...

We've been duped. We were raised to think we could have it all. In college we were told that men weren't necessary. Pop culture told us that career not family came first. The idea of being a stay-at-home mom was for losers. And yet are we happier than...

"[Western Women and Imperialism] provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of women's studies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173043826Author Kumkum RoyFormat HardbackPage Count 335Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Thirty years have passed since the heyday of the women's liberation movement, yet women remain without equal rights while feminist thought has shifted steadily rightward. This fully updated collection of essays examines these issues from a Marxist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060512187Author Dr Naomi WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607124Author Normandi EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 417Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807059685Author Rae NudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808-14, women are well represented--both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and...

When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Umpire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca...

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...