Women's Studies

The essays in this collection explore ideas about women and their positions in Indian society from the earliest historical period up to the present day. The collection is designed both to provide students and researchers with primary material from...

In the 1630s, Anne Hutchinson - the wife of a Boston merchant and mother of fifteen children - defied the Calvinist clergy by holding meetings and espousing a controversial religious stance. When asked to stop, she did not, and as a result of her...

In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal. She argues that during the Progressive era, female reformers built an interlocking set of organizations that...

In the 70 years between the Civil War and World War II, the women of Boston changed the city dramatically. From anti-spitting campaigns and demands for police mothers to patrol local parks, to calls for a decent wage and living quarters, women rich and...

Bringing into historical perspective the critical conflict between woman's right to equality of opportunity and the demands of the family, Degler shows how the modern family has been shaped by woman's search for greater autonomy.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060957063Author B. BoxerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060953324Author Barbara GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 426g

What makes a research project feminist? Connie Miller has complied an annotated bibliography of English-language works that help to answer that question. Each of the titles brought together in this volume addresses some aspect of feminist research. The...

Here is a landmark publication in women's studies. Hidden Aspects of Women's Work is the culmination of years of research by the prestigious Women and Work Research Group. The book offers an unusually comprehensive discussion of women in the work force,...

Engendering Church explores the power, processes, and circumstances that brought about the new gender relations in the African Methodist Church-one of the largest African American denominations in the U.S. Dodson tells the heroic stories of women like...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978223366Author Kaarina KailoFormat PaperbackImprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513207025Author Charlotte Perkins GilmanFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

This is a collection of stories that celebrate the Goddess in a variety of cultures. The author's retelling of the Goddess' legends is designed to be read to the young and curious.Book InformationISBN 9780062502636Author Carolyn McVickar EdwardsFormat...

“In her new chic outfit, she looks like anything but a stewardess working. But work she does. Hard, too. And you hardly know it.” So read the text of a 1969 newspaper advertisement for Delta Airlines featuring a picture of a brightly smiling blond...

Writer and broadcaster Peta Mathias is a woman who has never been afraid to embrace life with all its glorious inconsistencies, joys and heartbreaks. In "Fabulous", she becomes every woman's confidante, as she shares with us the wisdom she has...

Presenting a vivid social history of "the new woman" who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle...

The New Deal administration of Franklin Roosevelt brought an unprecedented number of women to Washington to serve in positions of power and influence. Beyond Suffrage is a study of women who achieved positions of national leadership in the 1930s. Susan...

How do you see women? And how do they see themselves? In her role as Head Strategist at the world famous advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, author Rachel Pashley decided to find out. In a global survey orchestrated over five years, over 8,000 women...

This must-have book tells the modern girl the truth about playing the dating game - and winning at it. A Modern Girl's Guide to Dynamic Dating gives tips, guidance and real-life answers about how to find, seduce and keep the right man. Packed full of...

A treasury of quotations from women throughout the world and throughout history.Book InformationISBN 9780747278795Author Elaine PartnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 671Imprint Headline Book PublishingPublisher Headline Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 775g

In the fight for women's equality, one issue is still undiscussed, according to this book. The issue is women's compulsive pursuit of personal beauty. The book aims to confront this last taboo and expose it for what it really is - divisive, anti-erotic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780961908843Author Anne SeagravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Wesanne PublicationsPublisher Wesanne PublicationsWeight(grams) 381g

A meticulously researched and brilliantly nuanced examination of the rise of feminism and its relationship with union and labor movements.Book InformationISBN 9780252070075Author Meredith TaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Illinois...

Over the past few decades, many young Japanese women have emerged as Japan's most enthusiastic "internationalists," investing in study or work abroad, or in romance with Western men as opportunities to circumvent what they consider their...

Liberty, equality, and justice have long been treasured in American culture as core values. In Liberty, Equality, and Justice, Ross Evans Paulson studies social and intellectual changes in a critical period of American history-from the end of the Civil...

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman's fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational...

Author note: Elsa M. Chaney is Chair of Women in International Development Program and Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Mary Garcia Castro is Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.An...

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A polemical book which assesses the problems with modern feminist approaches.Book InformationISBN 9780385600156Author Dr. Germaine GreerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint DoubledayPublisher Transworld Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 156g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906500163Author D. RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Onlywomen Press LtdPublisher Onlywomen Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780704328488Author Ellen KuzwayoFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint The Women's Press LtdPublisher The Women's Press LtdWeight(grams) 420g

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This book examines the changing roles of Afghani women in the aftermath of the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime in 2001. It describes the success of women in the workforce, and evaluates how their achievements have come about in a nation...

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