Women's Studies

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733685207Author Sue Fagalde LickFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Blue Hydrangea ProductionsPublisher Blue Hydrangea ProductionsWeight(grams) 313g

The Intersectionality of Women's Lives and Resistance uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on...

Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship?...

Tweencom Girls analyzes the different ways character tropes are portrayed in media targeted at eight- to twelve-year-olds, particularly female characters, over the last twenty-five years. The book focuses particularly on sitcoms produced by the cable...

Over the past 20 years, gender relations and the expression of power and authority between men and women in Indonesia have been shaped by the forces of reformasi, decentralisation, a reassertion of central power, and economic transitions. These changes...

Responding to Human Trafficking is the first book to critically examine responses to the growing issue of human trafficking in Canada. Julie Kaye challenges the separation of trafficking debates into international versus domestic emphases and explores...

The issues explored in The Feminist Classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago. This expanded edition offers new material that rereads and updates previous chapters, including a major new...

Following an introduction by Jean Stapleton, essays by five prominent authors examine women's leadership in politics, higher education, business, trade unions, and the military. The book also contains biographies of all the women in Congress and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498067256Author August BebelFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 535g

This groundbreaking collection interrogates protest camps as sites of gendered politics and feminist activism. Drawing on case studies that range from Cold War women-only peace camps to more recent mixed-gender examples from around the world, diverse...

Revolutionary Feminists tells the story of the radical women’s liberation movement in Seattle in the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of a founding member, Barbara Winslow. Drawing on her collection of letters, pamphlets, and photographs as well as...

A collection of essays that addresses the ways that gender has influenced the history, design practice and perception of landscapes. It highlights women's relation to landscape architecture, presents the professional efforts of women in the landscape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789522223272Author Laura StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint Finnish Literature SocietyPublisher Finnish Literature SocietyWeight(grams) 486g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784876984510Author Akio TanabePage Count 309Imprint Kyoto University PressPublisher Kyoto University PressWeight(grams) 659g

Historical opinions regarding Joan of Arc are fraught with contradiction. As one of the most widely studied women in history, she has been labeled both a saint and a criminal, both a pioneering feminist and an ""unnatural"" transvestite. This work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573249676Author Autumn StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Conari Press,U.S.Publisher Conari Press,U.S.

In the period since the Second World War there has been both a massive influx of women into the Canadian job market and substantive changes to the welfare state as early expansion gave way, by the 1970s, to a prolonged period of retrenchment and...

In the period since the Second World War there has been both a massive influx of women into the Canadian job market and substantive changes to the welfare state as early expansion gave way, by the 1970s, to a prolonged period of retrenchment and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725288485Author Kathleen Gallagher ElkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783203125121Author Emmanuel JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Emmanuel JosephPublisher Emmanuel JosephWeight(grams) 68g

The sexual abuse and exploitation of women by members of the clergy is not a new issue. What is new is the public's growing understanding of what is involved when members of the clergy ignore or repeatedly fall short of legal and ethical requirements to...

When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney...

Well before television and the internet, there were women who sought fame, flirted with infamy, and actively engaged with their fan base. In today's pop culture world, it can be hard to understand what the lives of these women were like. In their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597351775Author Hakem Amin SabbagFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Hakem Amin SabbagPublisher Hakem Amin SabbagWeight(grams) 132g

Nearly half of all farmland in the U.S. is owned by women - 295,000 of them. In an enterprise traditionally dominated by men, they are taking a lead role in overhauling a complex, often dysfunctional food system. This book features the stories of eight...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641374385Author Amanda MusolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint New Degree PressPublisher New Degree PressWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498198677Author Dorothy RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735963006Author Patricia M AnninoFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946869005Author Manpreet OlaFormat PaperbackImprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 73g

The debate about women and torture has, until recently, focused on women as victims of violence. But when photographs were released from the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, one featured Lynndie England holding a prisoner by a dog leash. Overnight, she...

Mabel Agnes Elliott: Pioneering Feminist, Pacifist Sociologist provides a history of the life and career of the late Mabel Agnes Elliott (1898-1990), a pioneering female sociologist largely forgotten despite her achievements and contributions. A native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784038764158Author R Priya BharadwajFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Doctor of Philosophy in SociologyPublisher Doctor of Philosophy in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441527066Author Elizabeth JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 91g

No Family History presents compelling evidence of environmental links to breast cancer, ranging from everyday cosmetics to industrial waste. Sabrina McCormick weaves the story of one survivor with no family history into a powerful exploration of the big...

Menstruation provides one of the few shared bodily functions that most women will experience during their lifetimes. Yet, these experiences are anything but common. In the United States, for the better part of the twentieth century, menstruation went...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591094562Author Gabrielle St CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 133g

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Boobs. Tits. Hooters. Knockers. Jugs. Breasts. We celebrate them; we revile them. They nourish us; they kill us. And regardless of what we call them, breasts have fascinated us since prehistoric times. This A-to-Z encyclopedia explores the historical...