Women's Studies

Recent history has witnessed a revolution in women's health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over women's health. Few people today realize the extent to which these...

Unlike most leading works that focus on a broad spectrum of the woman's rights movement, Israel Kugler's volume provides an in-depth analysis of the drive for equalty for women during a specific, influential era in American history: the pioneering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974399805Author Elizabeth WellesFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Peace CommunicationsPublisher Peace CommunicationsWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984222704Author Ani LiggettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beme PublicationsPublisher Beme PublicationsWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780926019812Author Darlene Clark HineFormat PaperbackPage Count 618Imprint Carlson PublishingPublisher Carlson Publishing Inc

Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy is a detailed account of the last six years of Jackson's life (1879-1885), when she struggled to promote the rights of American Indians displaced and dispossessed by the U.S. government. Valerie Sherer...

This book offers a practical guide to the everyday actions and decisions that anyone can take to promote gender equality and social justice in their own life and the world around them. Beyond Burning Bras: Feminist Activism for Everyone is an antidote to...

This comprehensive bibliography abstracts 364 articles concerning the fertility-related attitudes and behavior of Hispanics in the United States. Compiled as part of a research program designed to improve the knowledge of these topics among Hispanic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759693999Author Danielle DelhommeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 223g

This book maintains that there has not been sufficient dialogue and cross-fertilization between various forms of critical approaches to education, notably multicultural/anti-racist education, feminist pedagogy, and critical pedagogy. Contributors from...

On Christmas day, 1993, a 59-year-old British woman gave birth to healthy twins. In Italy the very same week, a black woman bore a white baby, produced from the semen of her white husband and an egg donated by a white woman. Heated debates ensued across...

While great strides have been made in documenting the historical experiences and actions of middle-class white women in United States, scholarship on racial ethnic women has begun to appear only in recent years as women of color and other scholars have...

What does it mean to be a religious conservative, particularly for women, in America today? While it appears that people are returning to conservative religion because they are fed up with the excesses of liberalism, including feminism, a closer look at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313238161Author Jane B. DoneganFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book offers a look at how the lives of women changed in the era when the United States emerged. Spanning the broad spectrum of Colonial-era life, Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America is a revealing exploration of how 18-century American women...

Women in Power profiles 22 world leaders who have held the top positions of political power since 1960. Each chapter is devoted to a region of the world. In addition to providing an overview of the political careers of the women who emerged as leaders in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820486260Author Kate O'RiordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 370g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791405338Author La Roche,Sophie vonFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint 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 9780791419045Author Maxine Schwartz SellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political. They have entered into...

Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the walls...

Although most nineteenth-century American parents relied staunchly on common sense in raising their children, by the 1920s parents were being urged to adopt a scientific approach to child rearing. Today, American parents are besieged with medical and...

The Long Day is a wonderfully readable personal narrative of the trials and tribulations of an "unskilled, friendless, almost penniless girl of eighteen, utterly alone in the world" who arrives in New York City in 1905 to earn her livelihood...

This collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South reevaluates the concept of family by looking at mourning practices, farming practices, tavern life, houses divided by politics, and interracial marriages. Individual essays...

In Morocco today, the idea of female labourers is generally frowned upon. Yet despite this, many women are beginning to find work in factories. Laetitia Cairoli spent a year in the ancient city of Fes; Girls of the Factory tells the story of what life is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313228568Author Renate PoreFormat HardbackPage Count 129Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

While biographical information on many of the women is readily available in other sources, this is a handy compilation, especially for identifying material on contemporary women administrators. It would be appropriate in larger public libraries and...

Zopf provides a compelling answer in his social demographic study of why and how women fall into poverty. . . . Zopf is an articulate guide through [a] forest of data. He uses these statistics effectively to analyze structural flaws in the American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313226861Author Carol MontgomeryFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The first in-depth empirical study that goes beyond the initial trauma of rape and considers the interplay between society and the experience of rape, the interaction between the victim and her own social world.Book InformationISBN 9780313225420Author...

Combining feminist anthropology and theory with culinary history, Catherine Manton examines the place of food in women's history, with a particular emphasis on the life and changing roles of the American woman and her self-image. As Professor Manton...

Changing Woman examines the role of Indian, Mexican-American, and African-American women during the 20th century, focusing on the changes these years have brought about in their lives and comparing each groupBook InformationISBN 9780195054620Author Karen...

Once focusing solely on reproduction and reproductive matters, the study of women's health has expanded to include cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and osteoporosis. The United States has established an office dedicated to...

Based on an extraordinary array of diaries and letters, this engaging book explores the shifting experiences of adolescent girls in the late nineteenth century. What emerges is a world on the cusp of change. By convention, middle-class girls stayed at...

Fundamentalist women are often depicted as dedicated to furthering the goals and ideas of fundamentalist men and thus of ancillary importance to the movement as a whole. Godly Women, Brenda Brasher's groundbreaking ethnographic study, reveals the paradox...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806144566Author L.A. AckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 440g

In this book, Lori D. Ginzberg examines benevolent work performed by middle- and upper-middle-class American women from the 1820s to 1885 and offers a new interpretation of the shifting political contexts and meanings of this long tradition of women's...

The American West looms large in popular imagination-a place where men were rugged and independent, violent and courageous. In this mythic West all the men were white, and the women were largely absent. The few female actors played supporting roles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837193601Author Pierre GascarFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The Cost of Being Female is 30 cents, say the authors of this new book on discrimination against women. They demonstrate their thesis by constructing an index that documents the costs of discrimination against women in five aspects of life: economic,...