Women

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to 'save'...

An examination of the influential role music played in the lives of elite southern women during the antebellum period In Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role music collections played in the lives of elite women of Charleston,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578596362Author Deborah G. FelderFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy...

This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the richly complex...

This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that...

Antologia de escritoras espanolas de la Edad Media y el Siglo de Oro ofrece una seleccion de obras literarias de ocho escritoras medievales, renacentistas y barrocas. Cada capitulo presenta una extensa introduccion sobre la autora y su obra. Esta...

For over two centuries the notion that societies have been sharply divided into women's (private) and men's (public) spheres has been used both to describe and to prescribe social life. More recently, it has been applied and critiqued by feminist...

Shakepeare's "lass unparallel", the mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, Cleopatra was born in 69 BC and died before she reached the age of forty, when Alexandria fell to Octavian-Augustus in 30 BC. She is portrayed as the supreme seductress,...

Drawing on evidence that ranges from government records to historical media and oral history interviews, Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. By connecting women's everyday...

For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women's Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent...

Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award 2023 The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women – and then won back again. 'Remarkable work... Extraordinary, meticulous detail' Literary Review 'Deftly fuses scholarly rigour, control...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462702479Author Anke GilleirFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 450g

An LA Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist!"Engrossing... examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in the abolitionist and women's rights movements."...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the equal rights of women belonged in the Constitution. She stood on the shoulders of brilliant women who persisted across generations to change the Constitution. We the Women tells their stories, showing what's at stake...

Discover and celebrate the achievements of some of America's most inspiring women! The first female. African American vice president, first U.S. senator, the 83rd U.S. Attorney General, and first black state legislator in Alaska. The first time a black...

Motherhood, Respectability & Baby-Farming in Victorian & Edwardian London explores the largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian...

This book is about women in World Wars I & II - women working in factories and on farms, or toiling perilously in field stations just behind the front lines, in inhospitable hospitals and convalescent homes. It is, therefore, about the prodigious...

Drawing on letters, personal testimony, works of art, novels and historic Black newspapers, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Black women's contributions to the intellectual life of nineteenth century America. Black Female Intellectuals...

Examining freewomen in Mesopotamian society, ancient Greek hetaira, Renaissance Italy courtesans, historical and modern Japanese geisha, and the Hindu devadasi of India, Stephanie Lynn Budin makes a wide-ranging study of independent women who have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486848648Author Bob BlaisdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Where are the women in Canada's international history? Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds gathers scholars to explore the role of women in twentieth-century Canadian international affairs. They examine the lives and careers of professionals employed...

This concise and stimulating book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to include new material on global connections, masculinity and recent historiography. Amidst the upheavals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492650959Author Kate MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 477Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620052914Author James KavanaghPage Count 12Imprint Waterford Press LtdPublisher Waterford Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137092Author Zahra HankirFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062310736Author Andrea BarnetFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335498526Author Janina RamirezFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 553g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887486982Author Eliza Smith BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University PressPublisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668031971Author Charlotte GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423247036Author David HeadPage Count 6Imprint Quickstudy Reference GuidesPublisher Quickstudy Reference GuidesWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978808911Author Library of CongressFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Women reformers in the United States and Germany maintained a brisk dialogue between 1885 and 1933. Drawing on one another's expertise, they sought to alleviate a wide array of social injustices generated by industrial capitalism, such as child labor and...

The texts reproduced in facsimile in the three volumes of 'Legal Treatises' reconstruct the legal status of the early modern Englishwoman. To facilitate a reading of the treatises by broadly defining many of the laws discussed in great detail in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501178412Author Hillary Rodham ClintonFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1225g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493056484Author Cheryl MullenbachFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

A treasure trove of incredible lives lived.— RICK MERCER, comedian and authorMuir sets out to restore the faces of women who worked and struggled in nineteenth-century Toronto. A fascinating read.— WARREN CLEMENTS, author and publisherEmphasizes the...

In 1869, more than twenty years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony made their declaration of the rights of woman at Seneca Falls, New York, the men of the Wyoming Territorial Legislature granted women over the age of 21 the right to vote...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252086236Author John J. BukowczykFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams)...

Feminist rewriting of history is designed not merely to reshape our collective memory and collective imaginary but also to challenge deeply ingrained paradigms about knowledge production. This feminist rewriting raises important questions for early...