Women

• 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,...

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...

Many women scientists, particularly those who did crucial work in two world wars, have disappeared from history. Until they are written back in, the history of science will continue to remain unbalanced. This book tells the story of Elizabeth Alexander,...

In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her ingenuity and authority with the bold strokes of her pen. Paschall developed an extensive healing practice, consulted medical texts, and...

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces moves beyond stories of individual heroines, taking a thematic, synthesising and global in scope approach to challenge previous understandings of heroines in history. Responding to Joseph Campbell's Hero with a...

Of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the Gulag in the 1940s and 1950s, only half survived. In Survival as Victory, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as...

This book draws upon original research into women's workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class women's political identity and participation in post-war England. Focusing on the voices and experiences of women who fought for equal pay,...

From the first edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook to the latest works by today's celebrity chefs, cookbooks reflect more than just passing culinary fads. As historical artifacts, they offer a unique perspective on the cultures that produced them. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593182970Author Elinor CleghornFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399588747Author Svetlana AlexievichFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Born into a former slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace and Katharine Lumpkin were raised in a culture of white supremacy. While Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her sisters reinvented themselves as radical thinkers, working for racial justice,...

Engendering Transnational Transgressions reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies. Through the lenses of intersectionality, gender analysis, and transnational feminist theory, it...

In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for the expansion of women's electoral rights. Charting the common trajectory of the colonial...

This is the first full-length biography of this mid-twentieth century multi-faceted star. It is the first book to use biography to chart the broad sweep of changes in women's lives during the twentieth century, and to have popular music, movies, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736155806Author Kelly J CogswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint HomocomPublisher HomocomWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 5mm

"I will always be somebody." This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor. President Andrew Johnson issued the award in 1865 in...

If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or '30s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521013461Author Saana SvardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus...

The United Nations declared 1975 the International Women's Year, a time to focus on the issues facing all members of the female sex on a global level. The capstone event of the year was the International Women's Year conference, dubbed "the greatest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537432Author Lauren ElkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

This edited collection aims to look beyond established narratives of feminist history, by focusing on non-English speaking European countries. Recent scholarship on the history of the women’s liberation movement in individual countries has enhanced our...

The early motion picture industry exploded in the 1910s when middle class audiences became hooked on the beautiful storytelling images flashing by them onscreen. As movie attendance exploded, more workers were required to produce this riveting new form...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399420082Author Hetta HowesFormat PaperbackImprint Bloomsbury ContinuumPublisher Bloomsbury Continuum

This book tells the story of Iranian women’s accomplishments and struggles over the course of history, spanning from ancient Elam to the present day. It explores the evolving conditions of women’s lives in each era, and how women’s choices and...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the body was a key focus of discourse. Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century animates discussion and analyses of fatness, highlighting how corporeal expectations fit into larger social systems...

This retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women, from queens to commoners, who navigated the patriarchal world in memorable and life-changing ways. Amy Licence has scoured the records from Europe and beyond to...

This volume explores how art and artifacts can tell women’s stories of war, a critical way into these stories, often hidden due to the second-tier status of reporting women’s accomplishments. This unique lens reveals personal, cultural, and historically...