Women's Studies

A group of distinguished authors review the economic, socio-psychological, and legal aspects of women in traditional and non-traditional jobs.Book InformationISBN 9780865690691Author Phyllis A. WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Praeger...

For the first time, a content-rich survey on Renaissance women for students and the general public is available. The story of the Renaissance has usually been told from the elite male perspective. Here, the lives of women and girls from a wide range of...

Alerting readers to a body of recent work that has gone under-examined, Tania Modleski redraws in Old Wives' Tales the perimeter of popular culture. A critical analysis of films such as The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano and Dogfight, Old Wives' Tales...

This book presents an extensive history of women in the civil rights movement that highlights ordinary women's experiences in their local communities and the impacts of their activism upon American women and society. From the suffrage movement to the...

In Dilemmas of Adulthood, Nancy Rosenberger investigates the nature of long-term resistance in a longitudinal study of more than fifty Japanese women over two decades. Between 25 and 35 years of age when first interviewed in 1993, the women represent a...

Why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did middle- and upper-class southern women-black and white-advance from the private worlds of home and family into public life, eventually transforming the cultural and political landscape of their...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791436080Author Barbara OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

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...

Against a pre-Civil War backdrop of violence and antagonism, three courageous women, in different parts of the country, undertook to teach black children. Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, and Myrtilla Miner lived, respectively, in Connecticut,...

High-profile rivalries between black male leaders in the early twentieth century have contributed to the view that integrationism and black nationalism were diametrically opposed philosophies shaped primarily by men. Bridging Race Divides challenges this...

The International Handbook of Women's Education focuses on the history, current status, and outcome of women's schooling. The book provides comparative information about women's education across a broad spectrum of 23 countries. Each essay considers the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313222382Author Sylvia StraussFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Leading the Way is a collection of personal essays written by twenty-one young, hopeful American women who describe their work, activism, leadership, and efforts to change the world. It responds to critical portrayals of this generation of...

Popular discussions of professional women often dwell on the conflicts faced by the woman who attempts to ""have it all"", raising children while climbing up the corporate ladder. Yet for all the articles and books written on this...

What attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights? This question has vexed feminist scholars for decades and has led to many lively debates in the academy. In this context, during the 1980s, the study of women, gender, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786755370Author Laurie LisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Argo-Navis USPublisher Argo-Navis USWeight(grams) 457g

This perceptive and practical guide explores the growing phenomenon of successful women serving as mentors to other women in academia or in professional careers. In this unprecedented handbook, the team of coeditors and contributors show the immeasurable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313206443Author Edward W. EllsworthFormat HardbackPage Count 345Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759667204Author Miriam L. StrattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 398g

This book deals with a question that currently has a great deal of resonance among historians, feminists, and literary scholars: How was the nature of women redefined and debated during the French Enlightenment? Instead of treating the Enlightenment in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791427385Author Ai Ra KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380729845Author Leslie HaynsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999379417Author Jane R PlittFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Jade PublishingPublisher Jade PublishingWeight(grams) 286g

This study focuses on the job evaluation procedures used in the federal government to evaluate all white-collar non-supervisory occupations. It examines the factor and factor weighing methodologies developed by the Civil Service Commission to provide the...

Fay examines the unacknowledged political uses of language in modern culture that engender and effectuate power imbalances among speakers and listeners. She locates six strategies in which women are particularly targeted by politicized rhetoric and shows...

This book examines the successful organizing and mobilization activities of urban poor women for social change and how they struggled to convince the larger society of the legitimacy of their cause. Challenging traditional views of poverty, women on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546272434Author Brenda Y Person PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543456059Author NiqqiFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820436692Author Susan Douglas FranzosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 315Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 460g

Thinking Outside the Girl Box is a true story about a remarkable youth development program in rural West Virginia. Based on years of research with adolescent girls-and adults who devoted their lives to working with them-Thinking Outside the Girl Box...

This is the tenth anniversary edition of Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey , Martin Duberman's classic memoir of growing up gay in pre-Stonewall America. The tale of his desperate struggle to cure" himself of his homosexuality through psychotherapy is...

Established as an academic field in the 1970s, women's studies is a relatively young but rapidly growing area of study. Not only has the number of scholars working in this subject expanded exponentially, but women's studies has become institutionalized,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313206382Author Margaret Gibbons WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Condensing and interpreting an enormous body of social science research, this book helps young women survive and thrive in their careers. In a recent survey, working women in the millennial generation (aged from 22 to 35) reported persistent concerns of...

A definitive overview of court decisions and legislative victories in the fight for gender equality in U.S. history. Women and the Law: Leaders, Cases, and Documents chronicles the evolution of women's rights from the Revolutionary War to the present day...

Women now receive more college degrees than men, and enter the workforce with better job opportunities than ever before. Indeed, the wage gap between men and women has never been smaller. So why does the typical woman have only 36 cents for every dollar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791430163Author Magali Cornier MichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791431641Author Bettina L. KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This is an account of the Afghan War and its tragic aftermath as told by the women who were caught up in it and became its innocent victims. The voices in this oral history will provide personal snapshots to the news reports of the Taliban activities now...