Women's Studies

Drawing on surveys and interviews with almost 300 female military personnel, Melissa Herbert explores how women's everyday actions, such as choice of uniform, hobby, or social activity, involve the creation and re-creation of what it means to be a woman,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580056410Author Jaclyn FriedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing Group

A Stanford University Press classic.About the AuthorYamakawa Kikue (1890-1980) was a prominent socialist and feminist who published widely in these fields. The present volume was written in 1943 and is supplemented by excerpts from her later writings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745082Author Miriam SchneirFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

"...a compelling collection of testimonies, dialogues, research and experiences with displaced women in a diversity of locales and from a diversity of angles...This volume should stimulate research at the graduate level and also motivate further...

What does choice really mean for a woman?In I Don't Want to Be a Mom, Irene Olmo recounts her coming-of-age transformation from assuming she will one day start a family to realizing that she just doesn't want to be a mom. With an affecting mix of humor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061989179Author Dr Naomi WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374105952Author Lauren ElkinFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780295747583Author Polly RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Washington PressPublisher University of Washington PressWeight(grams)...

On November 8, 1943, U.S. Army nurse Agnes Jensen stepped out of a cold rain in Catania, Sicily, into a C-53 transport plane. But she and twelve other nurses never arrived in Bari, Italy, where they were to transport wounded soldiers to hospitals farther...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772580181Author Besi Brillian MuhanjaFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550144611Author D. Memee Lavell-HarvardFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876843601Author Yoko HayamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press

This text is about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so rich in meanings that it has been used to market...

"In the powerful essays that make up Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls, Black women and girls are listened to, appreciated and valued in recognition of the unrelenting challenges to our existence in a world that continues to...

Winner of the 2021 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare is the story of a feminist experiment: the self-help movement. This movement arose out of women's...

In 1953, the same year that Elvis Presley cut his first demo, Cash Box magazine named the Hilltoppers the top vocal group of the year. Hits such as "Trying" and "P.S. I Love You" raced up the charts and kept the group in Billboard's...

In April 2000 researchers from around the world met in Lexington, Kentucky to bring together the very latest information on the chemistry and biological effects of the environmental pollutants known as Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs). The result is a...

Women’s Studies is a field that inspires strong reactions, both positive and negative, inside and outside of the classroom. The field, partly due to its activist origins, is often associated with liberal ideology and is therefore chided by students and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988111414Author Alex D. KetchumFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Concordia UniversityPublisher Concordia University

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772584103Author Nancy GarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 227g

Using personal interview accounts, focus group discussions, and semi-structured questionnaires analyzed from a sample of female long-term jail inmates, this book focuses on understanding the experiences of mothers in confinement, particularly with regard...

Abortion and Mothering: Research, Stories, and Artistic Expressions of a Common Intersection is a collection of academic research, personal narratives, and art that comments on different perspectives on abortion and mothering. Scholarly research is...

Originally published in 1981, this study is concerned with the extent to which the goal of sexual equality in employment, as set out, for example, in the Soviet constitutions of 1936 or 1977, had been realised in the USSR at the time. The main focus is...

Originally published in 1932, this title is an attempt to outline the economic position of women at the time, to trace the origin of those features which most sharply differentiated Economic Woman from Economic Man, and to focus in a coherent view of the...

How and why do "ordinary" women engage in various forms of social-change work at different times in their lives? What does it mean for these women to age as activists? Unsettling Activisms brings together insights from academics and activists...

The plays are in Spanish. Los papeles estan en el espanol.Book InformationISBN 9780813120225Author Barbara DarbyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint The University Press of KentuckyPublisher The University Press of Kentucky

The author examines the impact of colonialism and the cash economy on the Nandi, a semi-pastoral and patrilineal people of western Kenya, emphasizing changes in women's and men's economic roles and their respective relations to property and to each other...

In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788121505321Author Tripta DesaiFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Munshiram Manoharlal PublishersPublisher Munshiram Manoharlal PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772581058Author Simone BohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771330602Author Brenda CranneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

This volume, seventh in the ""Service-Learning in the Disciplines"" series, explores the important lessons women's history and women's studies hold for the broader service-learning community and the critical opportunity for women's...

The global professionalisation of women's football has gathered momentum in the twenty first century, and professional women footballers are now more prevalent and evident in cultures around the world. Despite increased professionalisation and...

The authors of the thirteen chapters in this volume bring excitement and innovations to teaching about gender from a wide range of theoretical and discipline perspectives. They exhibit the inclusiveness that is central to feminist pedagogy – a...

In Gender and Biopolitics, Pınar Sarıgöl sheds new light on the life spheres of the woman as a means of examining neoliberal Islamic thinking about individuals and populations. Sarıgöl's exploration of the governmental rationality of post-2002 Turkey's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772584073Author Suzette MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813069425Author Elizabeth S. ManleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams)...

A major phenomenon in the post-World War II world is the rise of Japan as a leading international economic and industrial power. This advance began with American aid in rebuilding the nation after the war, but it has now seen Japan rival and even...