Women's Studies

How does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from obvious anatomical differences, does being male or female mean? In this book, the distinguished psychologist Eleanor Maccoby explores how individuals express their sexual identity at successive...

During 1996-97, the European Union's Intergovernmental Conference is reviewing the competence, institutional structure and working methods of the Union. This book seeks to make an intervention in the debate on these issues by highlighting the obstacles...

FINALIST FOR THE GREGORY BATESON PRIZE FROM THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONDispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industryCastoffs of Capital examines how female garment workers experience their work and personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385425766Author Peggy OrensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Feminist Groupwork explores the purposes, practice and effectiveness of groupwork with women, drawing upon the authors' own involvement in setting up and running community-based women's groups. The book offers clear accounts of the structured content of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853455387Author Eleanor Burke LeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

This affordable, compact edition, designed specially for use in university courses, consists of two of the most celebrated essays from Toril Moi's highly-acclaimed What Is a Woman? What is a woman? Does it make sense to think of a woman as the...

The term women's liberation remains charged and divisive decades after it first entered political and cultural discourse around 1970. In Feeling Women's Liberation, Victoria Hesford mines the archive of that highly contested era to reassess how it has...

When the movie business adopted some of the ways of other big industries in 1920s America, women--who had been essential to the industry's early development--were systematically squeezed out of key behind-the-camera roles. Yet, as female producers and...

It opens with the author's harrowing and courageous account of her rape and includes the stories of the author's own family's response, plus the voices of black men who have supported rape survivors.About the AuthorCharlotte Pierce-Baker is a professor...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781875559411Author Janice G. RaymondFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 278g

Women shouldn't be discriminated against simply because they are mothers...but they are! The Motherhood Manifesto shares the heartfelt stories of mothers in America who dream of jobs with flexibility and benefits, mothers who can't afford their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805080315Author Sue ShellenbargerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades. In Night of the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson...

"Illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women . . . This small gem of a book is worthy of a Tiffany box." -The New York Times Book Review "A memoir every reader will wish to copy in her own size." -Glamour "Ilene Beckerman's sleek...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791463840Author Hilary NeroniFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538428Author Donna J. DruckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 17mm

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...

The question of difference - between women and men and among women - is at the heart of feminist theory and the history of feminism. Feminists have long debated the meanings of sexual difference: is it an underlying truth of nature or the result of...

Focusing on the lives and work of women teachers in two rural California counties from 1850 to 1950, Country Schoolwomen explores the social context of teaching, seeking to understand what teaching meant to women teachers, what it provided them, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772584479Author Andrea O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583333532Author Deirdre FishelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin Adult Hc/TrPublisher Penguin Adult Hc/TrWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of women in criminal justice systems, and who are seeking to challenge the status quo.Although there is increasing literature and research on...

In this groundbreaking and insightful study Terri Apter traces womens midlife course, drawing on detailed interviews with women in their forties and fifties. Apter finds that women experience a renewed sense of themselves and see the second half of life...

The place of women in the religions, both as expressed in the classical writings and as experienced in life, is carefully considered in this book. It deals with what part women can and/or do play in religious institutions; how relevant religion is to...

The place of women in the religions, both as expressed in the classical writings and as experienced in life, is carefully considered in this book. It deals with what part women can and/or do play in religious institutions; how relevant religion is to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679751137Author Claudia Roth PierpontFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266g

Over the course of the eighteenth century, increasing numbers of French women, from the wives and daughters of artisans and merchants to countesses and queens, became writers-not authors, and not mere signers of names, but writers of letters. Taking as...

To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular is still constrained. Amid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women's rights, including the...

This text is about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so rich in meanings that it has been used to market...

Women's Studies: Essential Readings provides a wide range of readers with an entirely comprehensive selection of ever 140 readings on women's studies, representing the entire diversity of current feminist thinking. The book is a divided into fourteen...

Credit can be instrumental in equalizing opportunity and alleviating poverty, yet historically men and women have not had the same access. Partly because of this, women have been excluded from many previous economic histories. This book fills a...

Chiara Matraini (1515-1604) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though...

This rich collection of writings--many translated especially for this volume and some available in English for the first time--provides a journey through the history of Chinese culture, tracing the Chinese understanding of women as elucidated in writings...

An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways ofknowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for themost part been conducted by scholars operating within Westernepistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the...

For more than a generation, activists and advocacy organizations have been instrumental in agitating for women's health reforms in Ireland. Over the last decade, Irish activists have experienced a number of victories to improve women's health, most...

This first book-length study of gender relations in the Lower Yangzi region during the High Qing era (c. 1683-1839) challenges enduring late-nineteenth-century perspectives that emphasized the oppression and subjugation of Chinese women. Placing women at...