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Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority by Shireen Hassim 9780299213848
RRP: €29.69€27.76The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women's movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the... -
Women Political Leaders in Africa by Rosemarie Skaine 9780786432998
RRP: €34.50€28.62In Africa, women leaders have a strong legacy. Female pharaohs ruled ancient Egypt, queens and queen mothers have reigned throughout contemporary Africa, and women across the continent have led modern liberation movements. This book's wide-ranging... -
The Singapore Women's Charter: 50 Questions by Leong Wai Kum 9789814311069
RRP: €29.69€26.57Prof Leong Wai Kum not only demystifies the provisions of the Women's Charter, she also situates the Charter in Singapore's political context at the time. The author gives a balanced view of the Charter by highlighting the progressive provisions as well... -
The Misogyny Factor by Anne Summers 9781742233840
€15.86In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery Prime Minister Julia Gillard's own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was... -
He Cheated, She Cheated, We Cheated: Women Speak About Infidelity by Ebony A. Utley 9781476675770
RRP: €26.17€21.38Infidelity raises questions: Why do women stay with a cheater? Why do women cheat? Why do women become "the other woman"? How does the experience of infidelity impact future relationships? What effect does infidelity have on children? How do... -
Women of Faith and Religious Identity in Fin-de-Siecle France by Emily Machen 9780815636090
€71.53In this unique study, Machen explores a moment of intense religious upheaval and transformation in France between 1880 and 1920. In these pre-World War I years, a powerful Catholic community was pitted against equally powerful anticlerical members of the... -
Syrian Women Refugees: Personal Accounts of Transition by Ozlem Ezer 9781476675855
RRP: €26.17€21.38Based on original interviews, this book relates the experiences of nine Syrian women refugees and their perspectives on a range of subjects. Each narrative reveals a displaced woman's concept of the self in relation to memory, history, trauma and... -
Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women's Activism, 1880-1920 by Tara M. McCarthy 9780815635703
€85.78In the late nineteenth century, an era in which women were expanding the influence outside the home, Irish American women carved out unique opportunities to serve the needs of their communities. For many women, this began with a commitment to Irish... -
Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men by Harriet Wistrich 9781911709268
RRP: €26.18€19.06'A brilliant lawyer. A brilliant book' Baroness Helena Kennedy KC'If I was ever in trouble, I would want Harriet Wistrich fighting in my corner.' - Emeritus Professor David Wilson, author of My Life with Murderers'Compelling, inspiring, horrifying and... -
All Things Altered: Women in the Wake of Civil War and Reconstruction by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper 9780786413393
RRP: €34.50€27.82Few readers of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed Scarlett O'Hara tried to rebuild Tara after the Civil War ended. This book examines the problems that Southern women faced during the Reconstruction Era, in... -
Crossing the Line: Women's Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II by Cherisse Jones-Branch 9780813049250
€85.30Although they were accustomed to a segregated society, many women in South Carolina--both black and white, both individually and collectively--worked to change their state's unequal racial status quo. In this volume, Cherisse Jones-Branch explores the... -
The Tao of the Species: Investigations into the Psycho-History of the White Man and the Recovery of Eutopia by Jan Diepersloot 9780964997653
RRP: €35.70€23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964997653Author Jan DieperslootFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Qi WorksPublisher Qi WorksWeight(grams) 644g -
Subordinated Sex:History of Attitudes toward Wo by BULLOUGH 9780820323695
€27.50The Subordinated Sex traces the enduring, powerful legacy of male attitudes toward women, their sexuality, and their roles as wives and mothers. Traditionally the creators and chroniclers of opinion, men have until recently written a history that... -
Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 by Elizabeth Alice Clement 9780807856901
RRP: €45.16€41.95The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and... -
Surviving in the Hour of Darkness: The Health and Wellness of Women of Colour and Indigenous Women by Grisselda Sophie Harding 9781552381014
€45.45Surviving in the Hour of Darkness:The Health and Wellness of Women of Colour and Indigenous Women addresses the health issues - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - of black women, First Nations women, and other women of colour. The book is a... -
Women, Insecurity, and Violence in a Post-9/11 World by Bronwyn Winter 9780815635024
€92.15September 11 has become a temporal and symbolic marker of the world's brutal entry into the third millennium. Nearly all discussions of world politics today include a tacit, if not overt, reference to that historical moment. A decade and a half on,... -
Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity Among Young Orthodox Women in Israel by Tamar El-Or 9780814327722
RRP: €53.49€47.61In traditional Jewish societies of previous centuries, literacy education was mostly a male prerogative. Even more recently, women have not been taught the traditional male curriculum that includes the Talmud and midrashic books. But the situation is... -
Economic Opportunities for Women in the East Asia and Pacific Region by Amanda Ellis 9780821383001
RRP: €26.12€26.01The East Asia and Pacific region as a whole has made substantial progress in improving economic opportunities for women, but significant intraregional differences and important challenges remain. Aspiring entrepreneurs continue to face regulatory,... -
Gulf Women by Amira Sonbol 9780815633099
€45.22This groundbreaking collection of essays provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world and is of relevance to Muslim women everywhere. Featuring research never published before, Gulf Women is the result of a project aimed... -
Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood by Ruby Warrington 9781649633088
RRP: €23.79€14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649633088Author Ruby WarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Sounds TruePublisher Sounds TrueWeight(grams) 454g -
Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism - Jewish and Muslim Women Reclaim Their Rights by Jan Feldman 9781584659730
€28.60Religious women in liberal democracies are "dual citizens" because of their contrasting status as members of both a civic community (in which their gender has no impact on their constitutional guarantee of equal rights) and a traditional... -
Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice by Francesca Miller 9780874515589
RRP: €41.65€28.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895 by Jane Turner Censer 9780807129210
€29.39This impressively researched book tells the important but little-known story of elite southern white women's successful quest for a measure of self-reliance and independence between antebellum strictures and the restored patriarchy of Jim Crow. Profusely... -
Women in Brazil by Caipora Women Group 9780853458838
RRP: €14.28€13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458838Author Caipora Women GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 181g -
Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To be Free, Black and Female in the Old South by Virginia Meacham Gould 9780820320830
€28.20Chained to the Rock of Adversity offers valuable insight into the lives of the Old South's free women of color, using personal letters and a diary to tell an extraordinary story. The letters, from family members and friends, were written between 1844 and... -
Home/Bodies: Geographies of Self, Place, and Space by Wendy Schissel 9781552381847
€43.85With Home/Bodies , Wendy Schissel brings together a diverse range of voices which explore the concepts of home, gender, and identity. The metaphorical geographies of bodies, places, and spaces are the backdrop for such topics as: transgendered... -
Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes by Mary Weismantel 9780226891538
RRP: €101.15€97.22Cholas and Pishtacos are two provocative characters from South American popular culture - a sensual mixed-race woman and a horrifying white killer - who show up in everything from horror stories and dirty jokes to romantic novels and travel posters. In... -
Gender, Religion, and Family Law - Theorizing Conflicts betwen Women's Rights and Cultural Traditions by Lisa Fishbayn Joffe 9781611683264
RRP: €38.08€37.02In many regions of the world, rights guaranteed under the civil law, including rights to gender equality within marriage and rights in the distribution of family property and child custody upon divorce, are in conflict with the principles of religious... -
Regulating Menstruation: Beliefs, Practices, Interpretations by Etienne van de Walle 9780226847436
RRP: €95.20€91.64Menstruation, seen alternately as something negative--a "curse" or a failed conception--or as a positive part of the reproductive process to be celebrated as evidence of fertility, has long been a universal concern. How women interpret and... -
Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation. by Retha M. Warnicke 9780313236112
€61.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313236112Author Retha M. WarnickeFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges Jacqueline Scott 9781848447080
RRP: €58.25€52.66How is women's employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book, written by leading experts in the field, examines twenty-five years of change in women's employment and addresses the challenges facing women today. The authors offer an... -
Keep This Sex out of My Sight: the Undisplayable of Female Sex as Revealed by Women by Elvan Zabunyan 9782914563109
RRP: €26.12€17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563109Author Elvan ZabunyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir -
Princess or Prisoner? - Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914 by Margalit Shilo 9781584654834
RRP: €61.88€59.63This is a fascinating journey into the world of women in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Jerusalem toward the end of Ottoman rule in the Holy Land. Until now, the story of life in the Land of Israel in this period has been told exclusively from... -
Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign Against Woman Suffrage by Susan E. Marshall 9780299154646
RRP: €26.12€19.24When Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in August 1920, giving women the right to vote, one group of women expressed bitter disappointment and vowed to fight against ""this feminist disease"". Why this... -
Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting 9780822323075
RRP: €98.77€85.81Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory articulated in the... -
Land Before Honor by Kitty Warnock 9780853458104
RRP: €19.04€17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458104Author Kitty WarnockFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 137g -
Women's Law and Grassroots Justice in Uganda by Jennifer Okumu Wengi 9789966031112
€34.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966031112Author Jennifer Okumu WengiFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Lawafrica Publishing LtdPublisher Lawafrica Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 367g -
In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence by Kristin Bumiller 9780822342205
RRP: €88.06€44.23In an Abusive State puts forth a powerful argument: that the feminist campaign to stop sexual violence has entered into a problematic alliance with the neoliberal state. Kristin Bumiller chronicles the evolution of this alliance by examining the history... -
Concubines And Power: Five Hundred Years In A Northern Nigerian Palace by Heidi J. Nast 9780816641543
RRP: €24.98€21.86African Studies Association Women's Caucus's Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize winnerA Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe monumental palace of Kano, Nigeria, was built circa 1500 and is today inhabited by more than one thousand persons. Historically, its... -
Women of the Twelfth Century: Remembering the Dead by Georges Duby 9780745617893
RRP: €47.60€41.73In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating enquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account here on a twelfth-century genre which commemorated the virtues of...