Women's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609804193Author Nancy Venable RaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in Mongolia to inform efforts to strengthen women's resilience to climate change and disasters.The report presents findings of a gender analysis of national legal and policy frameworks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679728160Author Antonia FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988829720Author Meera SholevarFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Leylan River PressPublisher Leylan River PressWeight(grams) 191g

In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women's shelters have assisted women in crisis. Much more than a safe place to...

This diary of acclaimed psychologist and radical feminist icon Phyllis Chesler was a pioneering work when it was first published in 1979. A look into the second wave of feminism and the era's changing attitudes toward motherhood and pregnancy, With...

Bad Attitude(s) on Trial is a critical analysis of pornography in the context of contemporary Canada. The notion that pornography both reflects sexual domination and 'victimizes' women has recently found expression in law in the landmark Canadian Supreme...

This approachable and absorbing book offers a unique window into Japanese culture and language. Highlighting the overlooked world of the "silent majority," the housewives and mothers who are the mainstay of Japanese society, this work tells the...

In a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative field research, Women Fielding Danger shows how identity performances can facilitate or block field research outcomes. The book asks questions that are crucial for all women engaged in...

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'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Dilar Dirik The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of the most exciting revolutionary experiment in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle, most...

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market. Starting with mobile phones, now fashion brands are subverted in this way, with many women at...

Media images shape and are shaped by society. They reflect the ways in which the social order changes and stays the same. The contributors to Gender and the Media: Women’s Places consider a variety of media to explore the impact of what is there, as well...

In Women Reshaping Human Rights ,ordinary yet extraordinary women tell their stories, in their own words. Their deeds span continents and have profoundly affected millions worldwide.Readers will meet Vera Laska, who as a teenager joined the resistance...

So serious are the topics of rape and sexual assault that the mere discussion of them is often avoided. In this book, Mary Odem and Jody Clay-Warner examine the complex and painful issue of sexual violence from various perspectives, including sociology,...

This collection of original essays by prominent scholars of political theory contends that contemporary ideas of feminism have reached a theoretical impasse because they are unable to reconcile tensions between principles such as equality and difference...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780810816657Author Dana GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Scarecrow PressPublisher Scarecrow PressWeight(grams) 372g

Fundamental Differences brings together lucid interdisciplinary critiques of social conservative politics and ideas in the areas of welfare, family and school policy, gender representation, and conservative doctrine. The distinguished group of authors...

Palestinian women living in Israel are discriminated against in many aspects of their daily lives. In this book, Shadi Bayadsy examines how this situation motivated Palestinian women to organize and advocate for emancipation and equality through the...

In recent years, the number of strip clubs in the United States has increased dramatically. Dressed up with terms such as ""gentlemen's clubs,"" they often feature valet parking, limousines, executive dining rooms, extravagant menus-and, of course,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452512006Author Anonymous GirlFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 190g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734070422Author Charlena E JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Charlena JacksonPublisher Charlena JacksonWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580052139Author Karen StabinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127772Author Sheila WellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585425549Author Erica JongFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318g

Subjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothing-optional resorts, group masturbation circles, and sex parties. Suzannah Weiss takes the reader through her adventures as a sex and relationship writer to explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413413298Author Gladys L AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891817579Author Riya SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint WD PublisherPublisher WD PublisherWeight(grams) 127g

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...

During the last decade gender equality in business life has become a hot topic. One impetus is the recent reform in Norway, prescribing gender quotas to the boards of directors of public companies. Shortly after the Norwegian reform was enacted, several...

Almost 20 years after the publication of Future Females: A Critical Anthology, feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr, together with a talented crew of the field's established and emerging theorists, reveal new critical insights in Future...

Applying the idea of conversation broadly, Penny A. Weiss offers a collection of essays that are either constructed dialogues, letters, or discussions about voice and silencing. Conversation emerges as both a theory and a method of feminist political...

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...

This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women-and Men symposium. Essays and workshop summaries are divided into four sections, "Masculinities," "Violence,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942545743Author Molly DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Trailhead Coaching & ConsultingPublisher Trailhead Coaching &...

More and more women,mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters,are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there's been little public...

Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political features more than 40 powerful, hard-hitting literary essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and families , both their...

Susan Zimmermann talked with forty women about perhaps one of the most sensitive issues of body image and health - their breasts, the chief attribute of femininity. In the aftermath of the early 1990s controversy over the use of silicone breast implants,...

Autobiography, as evidenced by best-seller lists, is one of the most popular literary genres. However, because critics have long dismissed it as subpar literature, little attention has been paid to autobiography, particularly accounts by women. Women and...

Human Work represents the first ground breaking analysis on the equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. Noted feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman maintains the notion that it was 'sexuo-economic oppression of women' and not women's biology...