Women

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...

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...

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 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

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...

• Argument incorporates a wide range of sources • Interdisciplinary in approach • Synthesizes existing scholarship whilst bringing a fresh perspectiveBook InformationISBN 9781032220444Author Rebecca J. FraserFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Taylor &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685424Author Carol A StabileFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578597598Author Jessie Carney Smith SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink PressWeight(grams) 152g

Two volumes by a seventeenth-century French gentlewoman and teacher, published in English for the first time.   According to the few historical records that mention Marguerite Buffet, she lived her entire life in seventeenth-century Paris where she...

Do women have a history? Did women have a renaissance? These were provocative questions when they were raised in the heyday of women's studies in the 1970s. But how relevant does gender remain to premodern history in the twenty-first century? This book...

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...

Many of Canada's most famous suffragists lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, which led the way in granting women the right to vote and hold office. In Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice, Sarah Carter challenges the myth that grateful male...

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...

The first wave of trailblazing female law professors and the stage they set for American democracy. When it comes to breaking down barriers for women in the workplace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's name speaks volumes for itself-but, as she clarifies in the...

Soon after his inauguration in 1934, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia began appointing women into his administration. By the end of his three terms in office, he had installed almost a hundred as lawyers in his legal department, but also as board...

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'...

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...

A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world...

Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of women Patriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women's rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women in this period exploited these confines,...