Women's Studies

Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671788568Author Martha J. LangelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Fireside BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

From small-town life to the national stage, from the boardroom to Capitol Hill, athletic contests help define what we mean in America by "success." And by keeping women from "playing with the boys" on the grounds that they are inherently inferior to men,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757228Author Mary WollstonecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538477Author Lecturer in History Jacqueline RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Book clubs are everywhere these days. And women talk about the clubs they belong to with surprising emotion: "You will never know what a difference it made in my life". But why are the clubs so important to them? Which women join book clubs and why? And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812976397Author Macmillan MargaretPage Count 334Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Misogyny is of course not the whole story of medieval discourse on women: medieval culture also envisaged a case for women. But hitherto studies of profeminine attitudes in that periods culture have tended to concentrate on courtly literature or on...

Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention paid to the topic by social scientists and historians, even within Wales. "Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives"...

Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this collection examine women's activities within the patriarchal structures of the time. Individual essays explore women's challenges to a...

This 'new journalism' by Irish Times women writers originally appeared on the Women First pages during the 1970s. Together, the pieces reflect the enormous social and political upheaval of the years when, as the first woman's page editor Mary Maher put...

Theorizing Feminisms provides a survey of approaches to theoretical issues raised by the quest for gender justice. It takes as its organising questions: What is sexist oppression? What ought to be done about it? The goal of the text is to provide an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894898409Author Lynne Van Van LuvenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

What was it like to be a woman when England was ruled by a queen, but women had almost no legal power? When marriage cost women their property rights? When the ideal woman was rarely seen and never heard in public? In other words, what was it like to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937207182Author Charlotte AddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Creating Calm Network Publishing GroupPublisher Creating Calm Network Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133414Author Zahra HankirFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 129mm *...

Presenting a vivid social history of "the new woman" who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class,...

For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and...

Worlds of Women is a groundbreaking exploration of the "first wave" of the international women's movement, from its late nineteenth-century origins through the Second World War. Making extensive use of archives in the United States, England, the...

In this groundbreaking work, which covers thousands of years and spans the globe, Linda Grant De Pauw depicts women as victims and as warriors; as nurses, spies, sex workers, and wives and mothers of soldiers; as warrior queens leading armies into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Fawcett Society Book Prize 1990.Book InformationISBN 9781854891105Author Jill LiddingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Rivers Oram PressPublisher Rivers...

This book offers an ideal first step for designers looking to disrupt contemporary design practice by challenging gender inequality. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, it outlines key concepts and applies them to a broad spectrum of design activity...

In this anthology of fables, each tells the story of a woman facing the threat of violence who, through bravery, intellect, and the use of a bit of magic, is able to overcome circumstances and take control of her own destiny.About the AuthorAn...

Based on a study of the Israeli kibbutz movement, Gender and Culture discusses the differences in male and female orientations to marriage, the family, and work. Spiro describes the counterrevolution in the kibbutz movement as it evolved over a quarter...

An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary-the first Black woman publisher in North America-declared, "break every yoke . . . let the...

In Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first analysis of Native American women's reproductive healthcare and offers a sustained consideration of the movement for reproductive justice in the United States. The book examines the...

Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred...

In recent years, the topic of ancient Greek hero cult has been the focus of considerable discussion among classicists. Little attention, however, has been paid to female heroized figures. Here Deborah Lyons argues for the heroine as a distinct category...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978597351Author Jennifer Clare BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Homofactus Press, L.L.C.Publisher Homofactus Press, L.L.C.Weight(grams) 320g

Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance. Dandyism has been most closely associated with influential caucasian Western men-about-town, epitomized by the 19th century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884144557Author Cecile MichelFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820441535Author Barbara Alice MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 800g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772584066Author Brooke RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 154mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055625Author Rae NudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

In this latest book by the award-winning author of the hugely influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands, Ifi Amadiume propels gender relations beyond dichotomies and discriminations, and towards a power-sharing argument in discourse, contestation and...

In Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi is often not called by her name. Instead, she is just ""The Lady"", an honorific nickname that signifies her place in the collective imagination of her country. And from global human rights icon to Myanmar's de facto leader,...

A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom Reproductive politics in the United States has always been about who has the power to decide-lawmakers, the courts, clergy, physicians, or the woman herself. Authorities have rarely put...

This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. In recent years, the body has become a `hot item' in both contemporary social theory and research. This renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772581744Author Judy VerseghyFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 156g

Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the...