Women's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313248962Author Sylvia FreyFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Between 1900 and 1914, the British and American suffrage movements were characterized by interaction among suffragists, their organizations, and their publications on a much broader scale than has been generally recognized or acknowledged. This study...

Joining the debate on gender differences, this book presents a cross-section of current research in communication, language, and gender studies. The first part presents studies that ask how women and men differ on a range of communication variables and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897890526Author Ronald ChesterFormat HardbackPage Count 143Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Writing with a keen eye for detail as well as a real empathy with the first generation of wage-earning women, Tentler reconstructs the day-to-day realities of life on the job, in the home, and in the industrial neighborhoods of major cities.Book...

Despite benefiting from the struggles of previous generations, working women today still face a dismaying gauntlet of sexual discrimination. This encyclopedic collection of 150 original articles by top scholars takes an inter-disciplinary look at the...

From Eleanor Roosevelt to feminist icon Gloria Steinem to HIV/AIDS activist Dazon Dixon Diallo, women have assumed leadership roles in struggles for social justice. How did these remarkable women ascend to positions of influence? And once in power, what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791439180Author Leslie Rebecca BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint 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 9780791409282Author Sherifa ZuhurFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint 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 9780791430880Author Delese WearFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint 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 9780369361226Author Jean Shinoda BolenFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780687027194Author Alice G. KnottsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon PressWeight(grams) 495g

Before the 1830s, women's travels outside the United States were infrequent and usually undertaken in the company of a male relative. With the advent of steam liners and railroads, however, international travel became an accessible and acceptable...

Inspired by her own contact with Africa, Caroline Oliver has written biographies of five intrepid women who traveled through the interior of Africa during colonial times. Two were explorers. Alexine Tinne led her own expedition up the Bahr el Ghazal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313212543Author Margaret MacCurtainFormat HardbackPage Count 125Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

While playing the southern lady for the white political establishment, thousands of mostly middle-class, middle-aged, married white women become grassroots activists in America's civil rights movement, sometimes at the cost of friendships, status,...

.Women in sociology have shaped and changed the development of their field. This volume documents the major outlines of their work and profound impact from 1840 to 1990. The expertise and influence of these women are of such magnitude that it should have...

This is the first of a planned three-volume bibliography that aims to 'bring together all the English language publications written about women in Africa during the United Nations Decade for Women.' It includes books, monographs, government reports,...

During the 1960s, Margaret Mead's argument that gender identity is a product of learning in particular cultural contexts was incorporated into the sex/gender system in feminist theory. In this system, sex refers to physiological differences in the body...

Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender...

This fascinating biographical dictionary surveys the American women who have made significant contributions to major fields of scientific endeavor since 1950. In American Women in Science, each of the concise A-Z biographies of more than 300 women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313237508Author Judith SealanderFormat HardbackPage Count 201Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Newman reinterprets an important moment in the history of the American women's movement. She traces the intellectual roots of the women's movement back to its beginnings, and reveals how it took on racial overtones. The study reveals that the white,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408685Author Jutta BendremerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

Simone de Beauvoir continues to dominate twentieth century feminist theory, yet her work is the focus of inflamed debate amongst theorists of feminism. This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which...

In Colonial America, the lives of white immigrant, black slave, and American Indian women intersected. Economic, religious, social, and political forces all combined to induce and promote European colonization and the growth of slavery and the slave...

This concise historical overview of the existing historiography of women from across eighteenth-century Europe covers women of all ages, married and single, rich and poor. During the 18th century, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution,...

This is an exploration of powerful Muslim women covering issues of gender, culture and politics in Islam. Five women have served as leaders of Muslim countries, namely Megawati Sukarnoputri (Vice President of Indonesia, 1991-2001 and President 2002-4),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530018614Author Erika EngstromFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062666741Author Cathi HanauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint 1st Book LibraryPublisher 1st Book LibraryWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874366945Author Dorothy SchneiderFormat HardbackPage Count 371Imprint ABC-CLIO LtdPublisher ABC-CLIO Ltd

The Compassionate Memsahibs refutes the traditional view--perpetuated in the works of writers like Rudyard Kipling--of the memsahibs as a homogeneous group of aloof, pampered women who had little interest in India. Here Mary Ann Lind presents information...

This massive work, the last of a three-volume set, represents a phenomenal effort in information gathering. One's first reaction to the three volumes is to wish they were on a database, more a commentary on today's research habits than the author's skill...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759685604Author Muliebrity BrawnFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313208911Author Franklin ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

A valuable contribution which breaks new territory of research and analysis into women's roles as sisters and wives.Book InformationISBN 9780313209833Author Karen BrodkinFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837190327Author Milton CantorFormat HardbackPage Count 253Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837188294Author Valeria Kincade OppenheimerFormat HardbackPage Count 197Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837121413Author Margaret Jarman HagoodFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837197852Author Judith A. BaerFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO