Women's Studies

This is the first book to explore women's judo in all aspects, from the history and governance of the sport to cutting-edge sport science perspectives. The book examines the story of judo for women, and how the history of the sport has paralleled the...

Analyzing the key players and political moments in women's professional tennis since 1968, this book explores the historical lineage of social activism within women's tennis and the issues, expressions, risks, and effects associated with each cohort of...

Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of...

From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women's movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the Nicaraguan Working and Unemployed Women's Movement,...

En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts-primarily novels-produced between 1857...

With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa, the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791463185Author Chava Frankfort-NachmiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Although female athletes are successful in all types of sport, in many countries sport is still a male domain. This book examines and compares the sporting experiences of women from different countries around the world and offers the first systematic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399180095Author Eve EnslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 196g

HIV/AIDS affects women worldwide. Elderly women bear a disproportionate burden of caring for those who are afflicted with the disease, while young women increasingly comprise the majority of new HIV cases. Intervention programs often fail to take into...

Attempting to define the exotic, this text focuses on the shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic "others" and the practice of anthropology, seeking to cast light on gender, race and the public sphere in America's history. It...

In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of Kumasi, Ghana, in order to understand the key social forces that generate, maintain, and continually reshape the...

Holy Terrors presents exemplary original work by fourteen of Latin America's foremost contemporary women theatre and performance artists. Many of the pieces-including one-act plays, manifestos, and lyrics-appear in English for the first time. From...

This refreshing volume introduces a theory for explaining cross-national differences in the social practice of women (and men) in the areas of family and employment. This provides a theoretical framework for the ensuing comprehensive cross-national...

The prominent scholars featured in Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering explore how gender analysis can profoundly enhance human knowledge in the areas of science, medicine, and engineering. Where possible, they provide concrete examples of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932726Author Linta VargheseFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Breaking new ground in Mediterreanean anthropology, this book rejects the discipline's traditional focus on honour and shame in small face-to-face communities, and suggests instead that gender and sexuality interact with material processes in the...

This anthology takes an international and cross-cultural approach to discussions about friendship by curating a set of diverse contributions situated in a transnational context. These interdisciplinary contributions take friendship seriously as a subject...

This interdisciplinary volume opens an innovative space for critical discussion, and production of new imaginaries within, feminist scholarship, analysis and feminist politics, about what is and has been meant by, involved in, required of, and what it...

Interweaving my experiences as a Canadian Muslim woman, mother, (grand)daughter, educator, and scholar throughout this work, I write about living and narratively inquiring (Clandinin and Connelly, Narrative Inquiry) alongside three Muslim mothers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772580044Author Naomi McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lambda Literary Award 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781609804589Author Sarah ErdreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609801373Author Karlene FaithFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 424g

Studies of contemporary black women are rare and scattered, and are often extensions of a legacy beginning in the 19th century that characterized black women as domineering matriarchs, prostitutes, or welfare queens, negative characterizations that are...

The work, education, and health concerns of Canada's increasing population of fisherwomen--rural women who work on inshore fishing boats to supplant family income lost to fish plant closures--are profiled in this study of how women's work in previously...

An inside look at women graffiti artists around the world Since the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously inscribed their tag names on trains, buildings, and...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each of the 22 specially commissioned chapters develops and...

First published in 1999, this volume centres on a case study which looks at the experiences of non-traditional adult women students in universities, from the perspective of the actors. The interaction of structure and agency and the significance of macro...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925950724Author Somer BrodribbFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex Press

In Leaning Out, respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the pandemic has led to a breakthrough. As the historic 2020 Women's March attests, a generation of younger women are speaking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772583571Author Charlotte BeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Today, more and more grandmothers around the world are taking on varied responsibilities and many roles, sometimes concurrently. Consequently, grandmothers continue to play, as in the past, an influential role not only in the lives of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046015Author Marie TessierFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT PressWeight(grams) 133g

Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women's ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms of knowledge such as the imagination and the unconscious. Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism discusses...

Since footballer sexual assault became top news in 2004, six years after the first case was reported, much has been written in the news media about individual cases, footballers and women who have sex with them. Deb Waterhouse-Watson reveals how media...

Women's Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women-past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins, this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the...

What accounts for the oft-noted 'gap' between well-designed policies for women and their inadequate implementation? Why do such policies often fail to benefit the poorest women? How do policies address the intersecting inequalities of gender, class,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304699Author Ronald P LoftusFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912670904Author Joan M. JensenFormat HardbackPage Count 295Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Tracing the progression of images of women's bodies through nearly two centuries of literature, Fasick analyzes selected novels from Samuel Richardson to D. H. Lawrence to construct a historical overview of class and gender relations as reflected and...