Women's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456898045Author Jessica E GodfreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

This collection of new essays explores issues of identity, work and play in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). Fourteen women explore their experiences in this virtual environment. Topics include teaching in Second Life, becoming an SL journalist,...

This book presents the lives and accomplishments of 39 women rulers--not "in-name-only," but wielders of real power. Celebrated queens like England's Elizabeth I share equal space here with lesser-known monarchs like Giovanna I of Naples and Maria da...

Despite a massive overhaul during the 1990s, the American welfare system remains based on a business model most concerned with the bottom line. Crafted by male-dominated legislative bodies of elected officials who most likely never had to choose between...

Although feminist women have existed throughout history, the term 'New Woman' wasn't officially coined until 1894, when countless British novelists began to address the concept of the New Woman through discussions of female suffrage, dress reform,...

When childbirth moved from women's homes into hospitals, women lost more than they had bargained for. As the event became increasingly male-dominated and medically oriented, women's control of the experience all but vanished. Worse, recent clinical...

During the last 20 years of the 19th century, cigarette smoking was transformed from a lower-class habit to a favored form of tobacco use for men and practically the only form available to women. The trend continued to grow through the 1950s, when...

In 1991, the people of Ireland elected Mary Robinson, a women's rights crusader who supported legalized birth control and divorce, as their president. The country seemed poised for massive social and legal change, but it became apparent that even though...

This book assembles translations of the work of leading critical socialist feminist Song Shaopeng, presenting a concise narrative which theorizes China’s political and social development through a gendered lens.Providing insightful editor introductions,...

In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds has remained relatively stagnant. Why are so many women...

Imagine the irritations of getting unsatisfying service with Western corporations whose products are sold strictly online. Perhaps it was another Amazon.com order that was never delivered to a residence in New Delhi, India, an uncertain TransUnion error...

Allegory and Meaning is the study of the allegorical-cum-symbolic mode in selected African, African American, and Caribbean literary works. It argues that the domain of allegory in these works constitutes, at bottom, a contested site of paradoxes. The...

Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world. Imagine a country where a democratically elected president is committed to gender equality and poverty reduction, where urban and rural schools are being wired to the...

No state has a greater density of Chicano community leaders and politicians than does Texas. This study examines the lives and politics of a distinguished group of Chicana women who have risen to positions of power. The authors profile women who serve in...

Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their...

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 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...