Women's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837175348Author Bell Irvin WileyFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837171333Author Mary L. AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252307Author Carol ColatrellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 381g

Large amounts of 'development assistance' in the form of infrastructure and social programs are annually made available to communities across Peru due the presence of extractive industry companies. These investments however do not always achieve the...

Office, home, and the balance between them. When significant numbers of college-educated American women began, in the early twenty-first century, to leave paid work to become stay-at-home mothers, an emotionally charged national debate erupted. Karine...

Office, home, and the balance between them. When significant numbers of college-educated American women began, in the early twenty-first century, to leave paid work to become stay-at-home mothers, an emotionally charged national debate erupted. Karine...

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Feminist Legal Theory is a groundbreaking collection of feminist work proceeding from the core assumption that the differences among women are essential to feminist analysis. Rather than presenting feminist legal theory sequentially, with "African...

When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880 to 1887 is the fourth of six planned volumes of ""The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony"". The entire collection documents the friendship and accomplishments of two...

This engaging ethnography is set in the remote district of Toledo in Belize, Central America, where three women weave personal stories about the events in their lives. Each describes her experiences of motherhood, marriage, family illness, emigration,...

Women's increasing demands for protection and benefits in the workplace, especially with regard to maternity leave, have sparked more than a century of controversy among feminists on how best to serve the needs of working women. This debate continues to...

An engrossing account of the appeal of religious orthodoxy to formerly secular women, many of them once feminist, radical members of the counterculture. . . . This outstanding work of scholarship reads with the immediacy of a novel.DDCynthia Fuchs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256770Author Jennifer PhegleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 363g

Joanna Liddle and Rama Joshi explore the connection in India between gender and caste, and gender and class. They ask whether the subordination of women has diminished as India moves from a caste to a class structure, and what effect colonization had on...

When Thomas Jefferson moved his victorious Republican administration into the new capital city in 1801, one of his first acts was to abolish any formal receptions, except on New Year's Day and the Fourth of July. His successful campaign for the...

A number of recent books, magazines, and television programs have emerged that promise to take viewers inside the exciting world of professional chefs. While media suggest that the occupation is undergoing a transformation, one thing remains clear: being...

War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post-Vietnam era. Analysing literature alongside film, memoir and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political and...

In recent years, members of legal, law enforcement, media and academic circles have portrayed rape as a special kind of crime distinct from other forms of violence. In Framing the Rape Victim, Carine M. Mardorossian argues that this differential...

War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post-Viet Nam era. Analysing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and...

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...

The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth...

The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe V. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth...

After Cuba's 1959 revolution, the Castro government sought to instill a new social order. Hoping to achieve a new and egalitarian society, the state invested in policies designed to promote the well-being of women and children. Yet once the Soviet Union...

After Cuba's 1959 revolution, the Castro government sought to instill a new social order. Hoping to achieve a new and egalitarian society, the state invested in policies designed to promote the well-being of women and children. Yet once the Soviet Union...

Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who analyse and document the diversity, vibrancy, and effectiveness of women's experiences and organising in Latin America and the Caribbean during...

"The originality of Velvet Jihad is in its bringing together a huge amount of data on various aspects of Muslim women's lives from all over the Muslim world. Shirazi challenges the stereotypes that attribute 'exceptionality' to Islam."--Shahla...

Moving beyond the 'main dishes' of traditional literary works, ""Side Dishes"" offers a provocative and delicious new understanding of Latin American women's authorship and activism. The book illuminates a wealth of creative and...

More than a decade ago, three landmark world conferences placed the human rights of women on the international agenda. The first, in Vienna, officially extended the definition of human rights to include a woman's right to self-determination and equality...

Through interviews with 120 pregnant, or recently delivered, drug-using women, this book examines how pregnant drug addicts make choices about drug use, pregnancy and pre-natal care. To combat the stereotype of the negligent, uncaring and even abusive...

In Broken Patterns, journalist Anita Harris reveals how a powerful mother-daughter dynamic has shaped the experience of professional women in America. Using a unique approach that integrates personal interviews and historical and psychological research,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251089Author Robyn R WarholFormat PaperbackImprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807065013Author Ellen Zetzel LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 357g

A thought-provoking collection of essays on life and living Voices from the Heartland is a celebration of women's contributions to Oklahoma's recent past. It records defining moments in women's lives--whether surviving the Oklahoma City bombing or...

African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 is the first major historical anthology on the topic. The editors argue that African American women in the West played active, though sometimes unacknowledged, roles in shaping the political,...

Drawing on feminist theories of women's oppression and on social theories of power, this book offers original analyses of the relationship between gender and power. The Gender of Power presents a critique of feminist theories of power as simply top-down...

In this book an international team of contributors examines critically the relationship between television and women's culture. Although they recognize that television frequently distorts and oppresses women's experience, the authors avoid a simplistic...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797421059Author Josephine Nhongo-SimbanegaviFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Association for the Development of EducationPublisher Association for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791464885Author Kate RousmaniereFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint 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 9780791462577Author Cecilia Konchar FarrFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...