Women's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419670466Author Judith C CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420842906Author Valerie Gregory Ed DFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416575252Author Judith Richards HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 478g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250779458Author Denis MukwegeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Flatiron Books: An Oprah BookPublisher Flatiron Books: An Oprah BookWeight(grams) 137g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258907198Author Nora WalnFormat HardbackPage Count 388Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Drawing on the diary entries of twenty young women living in Kibera, a large slum outside of Nairobi, Kenya, Women's Voices from the Margins is an in-depth investigation into women's experiences of gender-based violence in the Global South. Elizabeth...

A critical introduction to key theories and concerns, Gender and Women's Studies celebrates a range of influential feminist thought on topics of race, class, ability, age, rights, and sexuality. Broad in scope, this collection features multiple genres of...

Traces of a Stream offers a unique scholarly perspective that merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States social and political theory, and African American women writers. Focusing on elite nineteenth-century African American women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812277159Author FrankImprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play different roles, frequent different public areas, and face...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692295717Author Stella Nana-FabuFormat PaperbackImprint Miraclaire Academic PublicationsPublisher Miraclaire Academic PublicationsWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805205459Author Miriam GurkoFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 353g

Women in Radio: Unfiltered Voices offers a fascinating look at the women who built their career in broadcasting, the issues specific to them, and their contributions to their field. Each story paints a unique portrait of a person’s or a group’s legacy to...

Carla Bailo, CEO of the Center for Automotive Research, and Terry Barclay, CEO of Inforum, bring together over 30 of the most influential women in the automotive industry to share their insight and advice. From suppliers to OEMs, they hail from every...

This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women's religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and...

Power is the critical ingredient and the missing link in women's struggle for equality and recognition. Although there have been giant steps towards gender parity, there are still barriers to overcome to achieve a semblance of power and equality. This...

Contributions by Susan Eleuterio, Andrea Glass, Rachelle Hope Saltzman, Jack Santino, Patricia E. Sawin, and Adam Zolkover. The 2016 US presidential campaign and its aftermath provoked an array of protests notable for their use of humor, puns, memes, and...

Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organised to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers...

On a summer day in 1846 - two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for woman's rights in the United States - six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their state's constitutional convention,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997360738Author Camelia StraughnFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Rising StarPublisher Rising StarWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780664229238Author RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.Publisher Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 563g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618001828Author Wilma MankillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 1134g

" . . . Fraser and Bartky have brought the encounter between U.S. and French feminism to a new level of seriousness." -EthicsIn the last decade, elements of French feminist discourse have permeated and transformed the larger feminist culture in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890967980Author BlackweldeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas A & M University Press

Quest narratives are as old as Western culture. In stories like The Odyssey, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Harry Potter, men set out on journeys, fight battles and become heroes. Women traditionally feature in such stories as damsels in need of...

African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations faced an arduous journey from Indian Territory to free citizen status in 1890. Following the Trail of Tears in the footsteps of their Indian slaveholders,...

Improbable Women examines the lives of five women writers, all upper-class British women, who rebelled against the conventions of their own societies and lived, travelled and explored the Middle East.About the AuthorWilliam Woods Cotterman is professor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865347236Author Marcia CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 708g

In the 1950s, science was rapidly advancing, and so were scientific opportunities for women. Modern science fiction films reflected these simultaneous social developments. This book proposes that the social ideology of the 1950s, which was partly...

Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in Black women's literary traditions; in examining the sexual politics of the lives of women of color; in representing the lives...

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSpeaking of cabinet appointments he’d made as governor, presidential candidate Mitt Romney famously spoke of having “whole binders full of women” to consider. The line was much mocked; and yet, Kaitlin Sidorsky suggests,...

In this innovative and insightful book, Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469666129Author Cathleen D CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North Carolina...

Some of the most indelible images of women in recent American film have been of working women fighting for labor reform or to expose corporate corruption. This critical text explores films with female labor activists as main protagonists, illuminating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814517973Author Theresa W. DevasahayamFormat PaperbackPage Count 353Imprint Institute of Southeast Asian StudiesPublisher Institute of Southeast Asian...

As a region, Southeast Asia has undergone enormous economic and social changes in the last few decades. Women as a collective have seen their lives transformed as a result of rapid development and economic growth. In exploring the progress made by...

Despite years of propaganda attempting to convince us otherwise, popular media is beginning to catch on to the idea that the home is one of the most dangerous and difficult places for a woman to be. This book examines this emergent trend in popular...

A comprehensive lifestyle guide, this book is for every Black woman-single, partnered, or divorced; employed, underemployed, or entrepreneur.About the AuthorDr Ingrid HicksBook InformationISBN 9780913543245Author Dr. Ingrid D. HicksFormat PaperbackPage...

This volume introduces new sources for the study of the past and present life of Muslim women that challenge paradigms about the ways in which ""they"" have been studied in the past. Most research has treated stereotypical images of...