Gender studies: women and girls Books

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid work remains elusive, and what more policy might do to achieve better...

This work examines the dramatic changes in America women's comedy performance in the years 1955-1995.The study focuses on the standup of Phyllis Diller and Roseanne andon the character comedy of Lily Tomlin. As the historical arc of women's comedy...

The State of Sex is a study of Nevada's brothels that situates the nation's only legal brothel industry in the political economy of contemporary tourism. Nevada is part of the "new American heartland," as its pastimes, people, and politics have become...

Contemporary challenges for seeking new knowledge in feminist studies are intimately intertwined with methodological renewal that promotes justice and equality in changing global contexts. Written by some of the leading scholars in their fields, this...

This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft-generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement-by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular. While contemporary...

Rape, traditionally a spoil of war, became a weapon of war in the ethnic cleansing campaign in Bosnia. The ICTY Kunarac court responded by transforming wartime rape from an ignored crime into a crime against humanity. In its judgment, the court argued...

Philosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering is a growing area of interest to academic philosophers. This volume brings together a diverse group of philosophers to speak about topics in this reemerging area of philosophical inquiry,...

A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels - villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others - and taking seriously their aspirations,...

Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children's literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle...

A study of American women's narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national...

This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the...

Since the 1970s, the international disability rights movement, the United Nations and national governments across the world have attempted to ameliorate the status of the disabled population through a range of legislative and policy measures primarily in...

Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention within the social sciences and humanities over the past two decades. At the same time, there has also been a growing recognition that the social production of space is fundamental to...

The book attends to a historical question - how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient texts - which has been acknowledged and raised, but left unaddressed within Jain studies. It does so through...

Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? Based on case-studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as...

A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed place within women's studies courses and the women's movement. Feminist Review is produced by a London based editorial collective and publishes and reviews work by...

Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular,...

Taking up the question of the disintegrative condition of Francesca Woodman's final works, Claire Raymond argues that through her use of diazotype, a medium that breaks down when exposed to light, Woodman created art that responds imaginatively to the...

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Female Trouble: Nineteenth-Century Feminism and a Literature of Threat - PART 1: THE 1840s - 'Betsy Prig...try the cowcumbers, God Bless You!': Hierarchy, Transgression, and Trouble in Martin Chuzzlewit - Reading Tennyson...

Where is feminist state theory today? This book offers novel insights into social science debates by analyzing feminist theories of the state. It argues that we need feminist tools for analyzing states and focuses on two debates, domestic violence and...

Michel Foucault identified sexuality as one of the defining biopolitical technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Jemima Repo argues in this book, -gender- has come to be the major sexual signifier of the mid-twentieth and early...

This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor's rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman."Engaging.... Nimble-footed.... Amusing....Throughout, Hauser...

Shanghai in 1930s had a booming prostitution industry which gave the city a certain reputation across Asia, and the beautiful Australian Lorraine Murray was one of its stars - until her patron Edmund Toeg convinced her to leave the high class brothel...

In the depths of grief, a new path unfolds-one that reveals the eternal nature of love. In Heaven Starts Here: What Now? An After Transition Guide, Yasmeen Fatimah, a registered nurse and certified Rebirthing Doula, takes readers on an extraordinary...

In September 2012, sixteen members of the Amish community in Bergholz, Ohio, were sentenced to federal prison for the hair- and beard-cutting crimes committed against members of other Amish communities. Linda Shrock, a daughter of the Bergholz community...

Idalina Mendoza shares her sweet memories of growing up on the island of Flores in the Azores Islands, off the coast of Portugal. Experience the beauty, simplicity and happiness of island life surrounded by family, traditions and faith.

Women's experiences of patriarchy - from a historical point of view. Focusing on European and United States history, American Patriarchy explores life in the United States for women. Seven essays on the American experience of patriarchy become the...

द्रौपदी मुर्मू भारत की नवनिर्वाचित 15वीं राष्ट्रपति हैं। उन्हें किसी और परिचय की आवश्यकता नहीं है। लेकिन अगर आप ओडिशा के एक अनजान आदिवासी गांव से देदीप्यमान रायसीना हिल्स तक की उनकी अद्भुत यात्रा के बारे में विस्तार से जानना चाहते हैं, तो यह पुस्तक...

«... La mariée étant prête et l’heure venue, chacun prit sa chacune et on se mit en marche pour la mairie. Les trois noces se rencontrèrent dans les chemins et on vit une assez belle moitié du cortège...

«... Les théories de M. Proudhon sur l’amour sont trop arriérées, trop en dehors du sentiment général, pour qu’elles aient sur nos contemporains quelque puissance de prosélytisme. Ses doctrines...

«... Malgré ce qu’il recèle d’ironie, j’accepte l’échange avec gratitude, comme tout ce qui me vient de vous, cruelle. Si je mets des larmes dans les yeux de l’amant de Laure, c’est que je...

The corset in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe was a complex andoften contradictory social and cultural symbol. It symbolized both the sensualfemale body and the chaste virgin; the female control over male desires, andthe male's control over the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften allgemein, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern die von Burt beschriebenen Merkmale eines Netzwerk und...

Scientific Study from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Miscellaneous, grade: 4.0, University of Reading, language: English, abstract: The hierarchical social relations inherent to any patriarchal system have...