Gender studies: women and girls Books

The anarchist and radical hero Emma Goldman, brought to vivid life in a graphic biography by an acclaimed artist."You are a terrible child and will grow into a worse woman! You have no respect for your elders or for authority! You will surely end on the...

A brilliant expos of the contradiction between the American myth of self-reliance and the reality of an interdependent society.With the controversy over gay marriages grabbing national headlines, traditional conceptions of family in American society have...

A brilliant approach to the economics of caregiving and feminized work, from the MacArthur Awardwinning economistThe New York Times Book ReviewLost in perpetually controversial conversations about "family values" is an examination of the economic forces...

What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a...

"A Mind Purified by Suffering": Evgenia Ginzburg's "Whirlwind" Memoirsrepresents the first book on one of Russia's most important classics of Gulag literature. Ginzburg's memoirs of her eighteen-year ordeal through Stalinist concentration camps,Journey...

Male voices on women's rights is a timely complement to the studies undertaken in recent years on men's roles in the history of feminism.This unique collection of seminal, little-known or forgotten writings, spanning from 1809 to 1913, will help the...

This volume examines the films of Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers from the 1930s to the present day. It establishes productive connections between film practices across these geographical areas by identifying common areas of concern on the part...