Women's Studies

The Power of Good Deeds allows us to see behind the media image of upper-class women and to observe how these women use their social power not only to benefit other, less-fortunate people, but also to benefit themselves and their families. Kendall's...

Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, from Independence to Nehru's death in 1964, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644294833Author Dr Veena AdigeFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 172g

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Succeeding as a Female Superintendent provides a comprehensive look at the journey that several women superintendents of schools took in their pursuit of the top school leadership position. Real life stories relate what these women encountered and how...

Women's Roles and Statuses the World Over stands alone in the unique contribution it makes to the field of women's rights. Based solely on statistics and empirical data as opposed to opinion, authors Stephanie Hepburn and Rita Simon have crafted an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783000267017Author Klaus BruhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Geerdes Media E.K.Publisher Geerdes Media E.K.Weight(grams) 204g

A marriage of mystery fiction and queer concerns, queer crime literature celebrates the pairing of the political and the sexual. Queer crime fiction is a subgenre in which sex, gender and sexuality are among the mysteries to be solved. Its writers use...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498196390Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555912598Author Richard W. EtulainFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Fulcrum Inc.,USPublisher Fulcrum Inc.,USWeight(grams) 357g

Examines and criticizes Niebuhr's and Tillich's doctrines of sin and grace from the perspective of women's experience.About the AuthorJudith Plaskow is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College.Reviews...a carefully argued and...

Women in Fundamentalism examines the striking similarities in three extreme fundamentalist religious communities in their views about and treatment of women. Whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, the fundamentalist off-shoots of these religions subject...

Women and Fitness in American Culture explores and explodes common representations and experiences of American fitness. This book takes women's experiences as the centre of inquiry toward an understanding of the function of fitness in our lives and in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788126113606Author Muniruddin QureshiFormat HardbackPage Count 920Imprint Anmol Publications Pvt LtdPublisher Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782957127023Author Joseph LagrangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Joseph LagrangePublisher Joseph LagrangeWeight(grams) 177g

In this unique and lively ethnography of women who sell cars, sociologist Helene M. Lawson and the "ladies on the lot" take readers behind the scenes of one of the last bastions of a predominantly male workplace: the car dealership. Linking the...

Few topics stir stronger interest than birth control and abortion. Divisive opinions abound. This informative, detailed text contains 39 writings on the history of reproduction in the U.S. The historical path of reproduction control is viewed in the...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century. Her central argument, that "the economic independence and specialization of women is essential to the improvement of marriage,...

All over the world, Black and racialized women engage in the solidarity economy through what is known as mutual aid financing. Formally referred to as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), these institutions are purposefully informal to...

Women Leading Education across the Continents is the first collection of research about and stories of women in basic and higher education leadership from every region of the globe. The chapters are authored by scholars representing every continent,...

Sex trafficking is not a recent phenomenon. Over 100 years ago, the first international traffic in women for prostitution emerged, prompting a worldwide effort to combat it. The Politics of Trafficking provides a unique look at the history of that first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784677042235Author Rathnamma GFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Doctor of Philosophy in Physical EducationPublisher Doctor of Philosophy in Physical...

The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women’s studies in religion in conversation with specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse...

The body is a physical entity and a symbolic artifact. It is both created in the world of nature and also physically reconstructed by a culture. The body is both an internal, subjective environment and simultaneously an object for others to observe and...

In Women in the Modern World, noted feminist and sociologist Mirra Komarovsky begins with a consideration of biology. Reflecting on these now-familiar arguments that the natural biological differences between women and men dictate different social roles,...

S. Weir Mitchell's work on the etiology and treatment of neurasthenia, commonly called "brain drain," provided the intersection of medical diagnoses of a serious ailment with cultural critiques of modernity and the vigorous reassertion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538178355Author Elizabeth BlackwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of...

The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. However, because...

In The Unemployed Man and His Family, noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a provider? Between 1935 and 1936, Komarovsky interviewed 59 families...

Menstruation seldom gets a starring role on screen despite being experienced regularly by nearly all women for a good many decades of their lives. Periods in Pop Culture: Menstruation in Film and Television, by Lauren Rosewarne, turns the spotlight on...

Today's women are so comfortable in their authority that they often forget to credit the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and'70s for paving the way,from the kitchen to the boardroom, from sexual harassment to self-defence, from cheerleading on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532697579Author Loreen MasenoFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The legal treatment of sexual behavior is a subject that receives little scholarly attention in the field of Middle East women's studies. Important questions about the relationship between sexuality and the law and about the societies enforcing that...

The chapters in this book provide in- depth insight into the gender norms and contexts in which women work in the expanding informal mining sector in sub- Saharan Africa.Collectively, the research here provides a nuanced account of women’s livelihood...

Instead of advancing women's social and professional empowerment, popular culture trends appear to be backsliding into the blatant sexual exploitation of women and girls at younger and younger ages. This study investigates the effects of mass marketed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725288461Author Kathleen Gallagher ElkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock...

"Gender", as an idea or concept "defines the feminist critical project." It is in the spirit of this project that Barbara Marshall undertakes a critical examination of gender as a constitutive category, not only in feminist social...

Discussions surrounding the veil often run along essentialist and ahistorical lines, associating Islam with oppression, shame, and honor. Contributing to these stereotypes, the media in both the East and the West obsessively condemn or valorize practices...