Women's Studies

This unique reference work brings together a wealth of information about pioneering women who took risks and made remarkable strides in a diversity of fields. Whether in the name of science, sport, or humanitarianism, the spirit of adventure runs through...

Women are vital members of the economics profession, yet they have traditionally received scant recognition for their work. This volume provides information on 51 remarkable women in the profession. They come from all areas of economics-academia, the...

This thought-provoking reference work explores the evolution of America's heated abortion debate in a selection of over 40 primary documents from the 19th century to the present day. The guide includes not only key laws and court cases that have...

In this innovative historical survey, Annegret S. Ogden addresses the need for the modern housewife to adapt to the additional role of wage earner. By examining a variety of diaries, letters, domestic fiction, and household books of the past two...

During an era when many women concentrated on hearth and home, thousands of women quietly and without pay served in law enforcement. They organized, administered, presented reports to county commissioners, prepared for inspections, comforted victims,...

Until recently, scholars assumed that women stopped speaking after they won the vote in 1920 and did not reenter political life until the second wave of feminism began in the 1960s. Nothing could be further from the truth. While national attention did...

Jane Addams is best known as the founder of Hull-House, one of this country's first settlement houses, in the immigrant heart of late Victorian Chicago. This biography chronicles her privileged childhood in rural Illinois, her thirst for a first-class...

Ain't I A Beauty Queen? is a study of black women as symbols, and as participants, in the reshaping of the meaning of black racial identity. The meanings and pracices of racial identity are continually reshaped as a result of the interplay of actions...

Americans today live with conflicting ideas about day care. We criticize mothers who choose not to stay at home, but we pressure women on welfare to leave their children behind. We recognize the benefits of early childhood education, but do not provide...

Women's rights issues have been a part of the political and social fabric of the United States since the Declaration of Independence. In fact, women's rights activists have often wielded principles enunciated in the Declaration as they struggled to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996827645Author Iris MoralesFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Red Sugarcane PressPublisher Red Sugarcane PressWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807062111Author Christian McEwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807036495Author Pamela S. NadellFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791417867Author Professor Esther Ngan-ling ChowFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New...

Twenty Brazilian women, including domestic servants, secretaries, nuns, hairdressers, prostitutes, schoolgirls, and entrepreneurs, discuss their lives.Book InformationISBN 9780813513010Author Daphne PataiFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Rutgers...

A fascinating overview of prostitution and sex work in the United States, from the Colonial era to today, examines the issue as it affects men, women, and transgender individuals of all races and classes. Prostitution and Sex Work is the first book since...

Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.Book InformationISBN 9780252061424Author Mary H. BlewettFormat...

A collection of short essays that seeks to reveal various ways female scholars perceive women in personal and societal roles. . . . New feminist visions are suggested as remedies for such age-old problems as patriarchal control of family and politics,...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313242342Author Karen T. WeiFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313229602Author Richard Edward LapchickFormat HardbackPage Count 197Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

In Face to Face noted commentators on the American scene explore ways of coming to terms with father's authority so that individuals may assert autonomy while preserving and enhancing a sense of community. Fears of all-embracing mother must be confronted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780687156757Author Jean Miller SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon PressWeight(grams) 552g

This is an interdisciplinary approach to sexual harassment that examines the meaning of concepts such as discourse, power, ideology, sexuality, and abuse. The essays explore discursive practice as a way of understanding sexual harassment, how it is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979988561Author Pam ShermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint New Year Publishing LLCPublisher New Year Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 176g

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313233876Author Chun Hesung KohFormat HardbackPage Count 904Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

The chapters in this collection are based on qualitative fieldwork studies and collectively offer the reader a perspective on women, work, and gender relations that is at once multidisciplinary and feminist. Women's work in the household, agriculture,...

This comprehensive bibliography of the literature on women in Ireland presents over 2,300 annotated, classified listings in a one-volume format. It is divided into fourteen subject categories covering women's traditional roles and their participation in...

Recounting the story of America's antebellum woman's rights movement through the efforts of Lucy Stone (1818-1893), this important account differs dramatically from those that focus almost exclusively on Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton...

Identifies changing patterns of labor force participation by married women and analyzes the consequences to women of the work versus family decision.Book InformationISBN 9780865690769Author Eileen R. AppelbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Praeger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857063946Author Mrs Archibald MackirdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 231g

Women with muscles are a recent phenomenon, so recent that, while generating a good deal of interest, both positive and negative, their importance to the cultural landscape has yet to be acknowledged. This newness, along with the ways in which muscular...

This examination of the role of gender stereotyping in media coverage of executive elections uses nine case studies from around the world to provide a unique comparative perspective. In recent years, more and more high-profile women candidates have been...

This revised and updated edition of It Could Happen to Anyone provides a comprehensive examination of why women stay in abusive relationships and why they leave, explaining why women should not be blamed for their victimization.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530018607Author Erika EngstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

On December 20, 2011, Egyptian women of all ages and backgrounds-urban and rural, working class and upper class-came out in force to Cairo's Tahrir Square in one of the largest uprisings in the country's history. The demonstrators gathered as citizens...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874367409Author Martha J. BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint ABC-CLIOPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998990309Author C C LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HIS Publishing GroupPublisher HIS Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 191g

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313235870Author Judith Lang ZaimontFormat HardbackPage Count 406Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313248559Author Nancy SignorielliFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

"This was obviously a labor of love for the author. Libraries large and small will find it a major ready-reference source on historic women in America." Library JournalBook InformationISBN 9780313239847Author Marion TinlingFormat HardbackPage...