Gender studies, gender groups Books

The last decade has seen a growing body of research about globalization and climate change in the Caribbean. This collection is a significant addition to the literature on a topic that is of critical importance to the region. It explores research from a...

This book approaches the Scottish women's suffrage campaign from the point of view of the popular press. It investigates how the press engaged with the women's suffrage movement; how suffragettes were portrayed in newspapers; and how different groups...

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational - it must be asserted over...

Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to spectators, overturning ideas of 'typical' feminine subjectivity. This book explores the representation of homicidal women in contemporary art and independent cinema. Examining narrative, style and...

Centering on women's movements before, during, and after the revolutions, Women's Movements in Post-"Arab Spring" North Africa highlights the broader sources of authority that affected the emergence of new feminist actors and agents and their impact on...

Most sociological work on football fandom has focused on the 'malestream', i.e. the experience of men, and it usually talks about socially 'deviant' behaviours, such as alcohol, fighting and general hooliganism. Yet there have always been female fans of...

Unlike many other mainstream disciplines that only seek to broaden knowledge and thus become additive, women's studies try to question and posit new ways of thinking, inaugurating paradigm shifts and thus becoming subversive by trying to question...

According to social commentators, masculinity is in crisis as a result of profound social transformation. This kind of public discussion of the behaviours of boys and men points to a presumed need for policy intervention to act as a corrective to the...

Degradation Rituals describes the socioeconomic and political conditions that give rise to the routinization of sadomasochistic mechanisms of survival under increasingly coercive patterns of human interaction. It describes the distortion of conventional...

In Social Work for Sociologists, a team of international authors with backgrounds in social work and sociology explain and illustrate how "the social work imagination" links theory and practice to interventions and outcomes. Van Heugten, Gibbs, and...

This book is both scholarly and personal. It is scholarly because it addresses and assesses the current Moroccan feminist discourses, a topic the author has been involved with for almost three decades, and it is personal because it brings along her...

Masculinity and Nationhood, 1830-1910 looks at 'masculine' patriotic behaviour in schools, army and parliament in nineteenth century Belgium. Schoolboys singing on excursion, soldiers acting out a shot wound on the maneuvering field and politicians...

The brutal rape of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012 lit a spark of outrage across the world. Young women marched in protest, urging recognition of the rights of women and greater gender equality. This book emerges in response to the young woman's...

Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context explores the efforts of human service practitioners to support communities facing the impacts of large-scale hazardous events. Using the stories of frontline workers and managers who lived through...

Challenging Global Gender Violence provides a qualitative and comparative analysis of women's experiences of violence, healing, and action across cultures. Gender violence is the most pervasive human rights violation affecting women and children across...

Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727 shows how early women novelists drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre and literary omniscience as a point of view. These writers such...

In Pakistan, myriad constituencies are grappling with reinterpreting women's rights. This book analyzes the Government of Pakistan's construction of an understanding of what constitutes women's rights, moves on to address traditional views and...

The chapters assembled in this collection demonstrate a constructive potential in reimagining with doctrine; thus a challenge is brought to notions of doctrine as merely an inert effect of the exercise of patriarchal power during the formative centuries...

As a member of the original Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, I have never forgotten how much that organization advanced my intellectual understanding of the dynamics of America and the world. Poetry and the Black Panther Party: from Ancestral...

Sick As My Secrets is a powerful, compassionate, moving memoir told by a strong and honest woman who overcame a desperate need for alcohol to handle stress in her young life. Patricia L. Brooks, immensely proud of her thirty-five years of sobriety,...

This book explores the under-researched topic of gender and scholarly publishing. Bringing together experts across Applied Linguistics, this book brings to the fore the challenges and opportunities faced by female academics as they participate in the...

The Life and Letters of Frances Baroness Bunsen is a moving and compelling book about the life of this remarkable woman. Written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, this book provides an intimate and illuminating portrait of Bunsen's life and works.This work...

This classic work of history traces the role of women throughout human history, from the earliest civilizations to the modern era. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Stephen Watson Fullom offers a detailed and engaging account of the social and...

This book celebrates the remarkable accomplishments and contributions of women throughout history and across cultures, from ancient Greece to the American frontier. It provides a stirring and inspiring tribute to the bravery, intelligence, and...

The Magazine of Domestic Economy is a fascinating glimpse into the domestic life and concerns of Victorian-era women. Published monthly from 1832 to 1847, the magazine covered a wide range of topics, from food and cooking to fashion and home decor. A...

This book explores the history and legacy of the Female Order of Knights, a little-known but significant group of women who broke gender barriers in medieval Europe. Through the personal stories of these remarkable women, the authors shed light on the...

Clara Elizabeth Collet presents a groundbreaking analysis of the employment data for women and girls in early 20th century England. Her report sheds light on the conditions faced by female workers in a rapidly changing industrial landscape and inspired...

Ce livre, écrit par une femme érudite et philosophe, propose une série de réflexions sur la place des femmes dans la société, l'importance de leur éducation et leur rôle dans la famille et la politique. Cette œuvre est un témoignage fascinant de la...

In this collection of essays, author Helen Rowland reflects on the joys and challenges of being a single woman in the early 20th century. Her witty observations and clever insights offer a glimpse into the social mores of the era.This work has been...

In this book, Wilbraham Taylor speaks out against the Victorian-era 'purity movement'. The book argues that the movement, which aimed to promote sexual abstinence and purity, was damaging to women's health and well-being. This book is a must-read for...

Compiled by Henry Renton for his family, this memorial provides a glimpse into the life of his late wife Agnes Renton. It includes letters, poems, and other personal writings that offer a touching tribute to this remarkable woman.This work has been...

Lady Hester Stanhope was a colorful and eccentric character who travelled extensively throughout the Middle East in the early 19th century. Her memoirs provide fascinating insight into the customs and beliefs of the people she encountered, as well as her...

First published in 1852, this book provides a comprehensive look at the work of female prose writers in America. Covering authors from the colonial period to the mid-19th century, Hart's book explores the contributions of women writers to American...

La Contessa Matilda di Canossa e Iolanda di Groninga sono due donne che hanno lasciato un'impronta duratura nella cultura e nella storia italiana. In questo libro, Antonio Bresciani esamina le loro vite e le loro opere, fornendo anche una dettagliata...

Dans cet ouvrage, Dora d'Istria aborde les thèmes de l'émancipation, de l'éducation et de la condition de la femme. Les réflexions de l'auteure éclairent sur l'histoire des femmes au XIXème siècle et sur la place qui leur est réservée dans la société...

This important historical document chronicles the struggle for women's suffrage in the United States. The National American Woman Suffrage Association was at the forefront of the fight for women's rights, and this book includes their official reports and...

Peg Brennan hasn't held a sword since the day she was captured at sea and imprisoned ten years earlier. But as her fingers slide around the hilt of the rapier laying in the dirt beside her, she knows that the quiet life she has created for her...

This book synthesizes and analyzes three decades of economic, political, and cultural policies and politics toward third world women. Focusing on the impact of the current global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, and...

Even after the turbulent events that culminated in the Revolution of 1848, French women remained disenfranchised and disillusioned due to their exclusion from the public domain. However, a group of pioneering women persistently challenged the issue of...

This is the first major collection to remap the American West though the intersectional lens of gender and sexuality, especially in relation to race and Indigeneity. Organized through several interrelated key concepts, The Routledge Companion to Gender...

“Clearly the definitive book of Eleanor Roosevelt quotes. Albion does excellent work weeding out all the apocryphal quotes so often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, giving us only the real thing.”—Christy Regenhardt, associate editor of...

Questions of genre, identity and female subjectivity comprise the focus of this comprehensive study of the contemporary Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood. It explores the literary sense of the plurality of genres and narrative styles present...

Long before Rachel Carson's fight against pesticides placed female environmental activists in the national spotlight, women were involved in American environmentalism. In Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West, Glenda Riley calls for a reappraisal of...

Innovative and engaging, From the Garden Club explores how older women in a rural town use literacy to shape their lives and community. Deftly weaving elements of memoir with scholarly theory, Charlotte Hogg describes the lives of her grandmother and...

Looking over the great prairie in the early 1880s, Nellie Buchanan said, "I knew I would never be contented until I had a home of our own in the wonderful West." Some were not so sanguine. Mary Cox described the prairie as "the most barren, forsaken...

Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.Timely, controversial, and incisive, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race looks uncompromisingly at how a liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination...

Leading scholars explore how different forms of ignorance are produced and sustained, and the role they play in knowledge practices.Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignorance, this...