Women's Studies

Before 1970 Oman was one of teh more isolated countries on the Arab peninsula. The growth of the oil economy during the seventies, however, has brought rapid change to the small towns and villages that make up the country. In Women and Community in...

"One of the really significant books to have come out of the women's movement." -Mary Daly"Rape of the Wild is a bold work that stress[es] the absolute necessity of kinship with nature and all forms of life." -Animal's Agenda"This book is constructively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820478739Author Mary Anna BaderFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 450g

The south east coastal town of Eastbourne is probably best known today for being a popular seaside holiday resort, frequented by the retired generation. It has long, golden beaches and a gentile pace of life and, from that point of view, little has...

Parenting brings countless hopes and worries. But when external factors create fear and cast a shadow long and deep across motherhood, what happens to the act of mothering? Through personal and academic essays and poetry from Canada, the United States,...

Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807021415Author Linda BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 411g

This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. It shows how rank, property, and inheritance could confer de facto power...

In the West, a specific ideal for female genitalia has emerged: one of absence, a "clean slit," attained through the removal of pubic hair and, increasingly, through female genital cosmetic surgery known as FGCS.In The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in...

Feminism's origins have often been framed around a limited cast of mostly white and educated foremothers, but the truth is that feminism has been and continues to be a global movement. For centuries, women from all walks of life have been mobilizing for...

"A lot of people in the general public think female bodybuilding is gross and freaky . . . that that's not what a woman is supposed to look like." So says Michelle, a national bodybuilding judge. In fact, athletic women, especially those in sports where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047814Author Sophie HamacherFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Not all women were victims of the gravest economic crisis in the nation's history. Many were talented fighters who helped to shape the response to the expression by government and labor, in public and private arenas. Sixteen of their stories-pieces of...

Uncovers the truth behind the ideas, struggles, and eventually success of Black and Puerto Rican Nationalists regarding key feminist issues of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250072665Author Katha PollittFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227g

Finalist for the inaugural ACLS Open Access Book PrizeCalculating the cost of life in a transnational contextBeginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive...

Women in Tang society enjoyed experimenting with ways to enhance their charms. Not only enthusiastically adopting fashion styles of foreigners who thronged the capital of Chang'an, they were also some of the earliest cross-dressers in history. Through a...

A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the...

Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and class-inflected battles over adolescent women's sexual and reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century...

In recent years, members of legal, law enforcement, media and academic circles have portrayed rape as a special kind of crime distinct from other forms of violence. In Framing the Rape Victim, Carine M. Mardorossian argues that this differential...

This work addresses the question of female spirituality within medieval theological and devotional writings by examining texts in which women play a significant role, either as authors, recipients, or subjects. It suggests that these texts express the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385313841Author Adele M. StanFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Women's vibrant presence in the Italian Renaissance has long been overlooked, with attention focused mainly on the artistic and intellectual achievements of their male counterparts. During this period, however, Italian women excelled especially as...

What is essentialism? What is anti-essentialism? The Essential Difference attempts to answer questions at the heart of current feminist theory and cultural study. The book deals with origins and contexts of the debate; relationships between essentialism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635569Author Mai'a WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

In Ireland, family farming retains enormous ideological and cultural significance. As a social form it is one of the last preserves of male dominance in which women's contributions and concerns are largely overlooked. This book breaks new ground as the...

" . . . a major study of the poetry." -Sandra M. Gilbert, New York Times Book Review" . . . the first book-length study to approach H.D. from a feminist perspective. . . . Psyche Reborn is a valuable book not only for H.D. specialists but also for those...

British women who resisted their own enfranchisement were ridiculed by the suffragists and have since been neglected by historians. Yet these women, together with the millions whose indifference reinforced the opposition case, claimed to form a majority...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385468558Author Sallie TisdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 314gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791406298Author Christine DinsmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

What is philosophy, why does it matter, and how would it be different if women wrote more of it? At a time when the importance of philosophy, and the humanities in general, is being questioned and at a time when the question of gender equality is a huge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034919Author Laura ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 129mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906387310Author Yash TandonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Fahamu BooksPublisher Pambazuka PressWeight(grams) 167gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 8mm

In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553269147Author Carol HymowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 225g

A number of recent books, magazines, and television programs have emerged that promise to take viewers inside the exciting world of professional chefs. While media suggest that the occupation is undergoing a transformation, one thing remains clear: being...

Literature on women, development and environment is abundant. The relationship between women and ecology has been analyzed by various disciplines, by specialists from the North as well as the South. This book offers a new perspective, specifically to...

From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-20th-century American culture. Kitch...

This book features the social literacy of scholarship. Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women's studies that now broadly...

The story of a group of Jewish women who risked their bodies to fight racism Many people today know that the 1964 murder in Mississippi of two Jewish men-Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman-and their Black colleague, James Chaney, marked one of the most...