Women's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791461105Author Christine AlderFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Body hair, especially on women, provokes, disrupts, and, at times, offends. It is tangled up with culture itself-in art, families, workplaces, relationships, sex, the beauty industry, governments, and capitalism. From Chinese activists challenging the...

Revised and Updated with a New Introduction During the 19th century the Balkan countries became the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women...

Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference looks at the question of difference across the full spectrum of feminist theory from liberal, radical, lesbian and socialist theories to Black and post-colonial feminisms.About the AuthorChris Weedon...

This book brings together a diverse range of critical interventions in sexuality and gender studies, and seeks to encourage new ways of thinking about the connections and tensions between sexual politics, citizenship and belonging. The book is organized...

This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in the Lao People's Democratic Republic to inform efforts to strengthen women's resilience to climate change and disasters.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate...

In fin-de-siecle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some...

The first in a new annual series, Women, Theatre and Performance that will consist of themed volumes on diverse aspects of women's engagement with theatre and performance. Ranging across three hundred years the essays in this volume address key questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Midwest Bookseller's Choice Awards.Book InformationISBN 9781592405329Author Jeffrey ZaslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham...

Cholas 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...

The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military is the first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military. In twenty-one original essays, the contributors tackle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063264410Author Rachel SomersteinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021679Author Joanna BourkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 607gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 141mm * 30mm

The Spirit of Indian Women provides a unique glimpse into a world that is almost inaccessible in our time. Through the combined power of photos, art, and the wisdom of traditional voices, modern readers can come to feel something of the timeless spirit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060528386Author Leora TanenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 205mm...

Why, at a time when women's liberation was gaining force and momentum, did the corset become more cinched and restricting than at any time during the entire preceding century? Why was bra burning a political statement for the feminists of the 1970s? How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812926033Author Elisabeth BumillerFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times BooksWeight(grams) 658g

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The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women and immigrants--in eight wealthy but diverse...

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This study of organizing and decluttering professionals helps us understand—and perhaps alleviate—the overwhelming demands society places on our time and energy. For a widely dreaded, often mundane task, organizing one’s possessions has taken a...

In The Promise of Beauty, Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe. Nguyen conceptualizes beauty, which she observes that we turn to in emergencies and times of destruction, as a...

In The Promise of Beauty, Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe. Nguyen conceptualizes beauty, which she observes that we turn to in emergencies and times of destruction, as a...

Attitudes about abortion cycle between long periods of widespread tolerance, to repression, and back again. What accounts for these pendulum swings? From ancient Greece to the modern West, historian of medicine Mary Fissell argues, abortion repression...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512827231Author Sarah O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512827248Author Sarah O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

Research indicates that adults aged 18-24 are the largest users of Facebook (25.7%), Instagram (32%), and TikTok (45%). The average adult consumes two and a half hours of social media per day, which continued to increase during the COVID-19 pandemic...

Despite being a widely recognised phenomenon, PMS remains difficult to define clinically, with no universally agreed diagnostic criteria or shortlist of deterministic symptoms. This book aims to accurately define and explain cyclical experiences and...

In this book, Sally King interrogates the diagnostic label of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) to expose and challenge sexist assumptions within medical research and practice. She powerfully demonstrates how the concept of the ‘hormonal’ premenstrual woman is...

Research indicates that adults aged 18-24 are the largest users of Facebook (25.7%), Instagram (32%), and TikTok (45%). The average adult consumes two and a half hours of social media per day, which continued to increase during the COVID-19 pandemic...

A critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the fieldThe field of Jewish studies has expanded significantly in recent years, with increasing...

A critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the fieldThe field of Jewish studies has expanded significantly in recent years, with increasing...

The second edition of Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics provides a critical analysis of the widely used (particularly in feminist philosophy) concept of objectification, and offers a new concept (derivatization) in its stead.Cahill suggests an...

This volume captures how women's education is shaped by the lived context of women and girls around the world, focusing on the cultural construction of gender, political economy, religion, and history. In some parts of the world, women's education...

Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439925928Author Sarah L. HoilandFormat HardbackPage Count 193Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438498904Author Jayme N. CantyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772585032Author Jennifer BrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 463g

A must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America.More than a million people lose a pregnancy each year, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination for medical reasons. For most, the experience often casts a...