Gender studies: women and girls Books

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

Examines women's food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.

Offers a timely reconsideration of the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, treating issues of multiplicitous agency, identarian politics, and the stakes of coalition building as core themes in the author's work.

A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.

Argues that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina's self-fashioning as a modern nation.The Other/Argentina looks at literature, film, and the visual arts to examine the threads of Jewishness that create patterns of meaning within the fabric of...

Inspite of MummyThe story of my family began six generations ago when my maternal great, great, great grandmother left India in rather confused circumstances to end up as an indented labourer in the West Indian Island of Trinidad.Despite the challenges...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture is an intersectional, diverse and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture.

Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured reflection upon that experience, Ueno and O'Mochain show how entrenched discursive forces exert immense influence in Japanese society...

The book develops a cross-disciplinary paradigm, with economics at its core, to better understand gender in China and women in management in the Chinese business context.

This book provides an overview and analysis of the theoretical foundations of legal feminism from an Italian perspective.

This book explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materialism, science studies, posthumanism, animal studies, ecocriticism, digital media, and life narrative.

This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women's writing from a transnational and trans-historical feminist perspective, rather than postcolonial, from which these texts have been traditionally interpreted. It will be of interest to...

The chapters in this book provide in-depth insight into the gender norms and contexts in which women work in the expanding informal mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa.

Foreward by: Dr. Evelyn Bethune,Contributing Authors: Aviella Aloha, Jennifer Dukes, Elaine Tatum, Sheran Duncan, Melissa Andrewin, Roberta Bell, Nannette Palmore, Samantha Dantzler, Tamara Sidney, Stephanie WalkerEmbark on a soul-stirring odyssey with...

What the Bible Really Says About Women challenges and disproves the widely held belief by various denominations and individuals that women were made by God to be subordinate to men, and are thus denied leadership roles within the church...

"Chick Lit and Postfeminism" is a bold and fascinating exploration of the 'most culturally visible form of postfeminist fiction'--chick lit. Demanding and sometimes dizzying in its range and readings, the book moors the genre in the commodified context...

"A very realistic and readable ethnography."--Susan Schaefer Davis, author of Adolescence in a Moroccan Town"Offers a portrait of the lives of Moroccan women working in factories. With sensitivity and great honesty, Cairoli evokes the struggles women...

Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play different roles, frequent different public areas, and face...

White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead brings together a diverse set of essays exploring topics ranging from public health and child welfare to criminality and industrialization. What the essays have in common is their gendered connection to work,...

The Progressive Era, falling between the conspicuous materialism of the Gay Nineties and the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, promoted a vision of America united by an emphasis on science and progressive reform. The zeal to modernize business,...

Bloomfield Academy was founded in 1852 by the Chickasaw Nation in conjunction with missionaries. It remained open for nearly a century, offering Chickasaw girls one of the finest educations in the West. After being forcibly relocated to Indian Territory,...

Leaving the Confederate Closet: A Southern Lesbian's Journey is a story of survival and persistence. It's a story of a woman, born in the South during the Great Depression to a poor family with deep Confederate roots and how she instinctively knew that...

African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle...

This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of...

This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a...

Women on the Line is a pioneering ethnographic classic of the world of work in a British motor components factory. Miriam Glucksmann (aka Ruth Cavendish), a well-known contributor to the study of gender, work and employment, is for the first time...

An extremely timely translation of a seminal text on the role of women in Muslim society by the early twentieth century thinker al Taher al-Haddad. Considered as one of the first feminist works in Arab literature, this book will be of considerable...

Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth background chapters with more than 400 A-Z dictionary...

In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had...

This book assembles translations of the work of leading critical socialist feminist Song Shaopeng, presenting a concise narrative which theorizes China's political and social development through a gendered lens.

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...

It's easy to feel like we're alone in our struggles, but when we're able to share our stories with other women, we realize how alike we really are. There is comfort in numbers and knowing that we're not alone. -- PatriciaAs women, we take care of...

Brazen and given to transgressions, the narrator of this mordantly witty novel is an aloof, tough talking, married Manhattan woman who carries on three affairs simultaneously, blithely breaking seven of the Ten Commandments in her search for a safe place...

Within the pages of "Shaping Equality: The Feminist Revolution and Its Societal Impact," readers are encouraged to embark on an enthralling voyage through the annals of time, a journey that takes them on a journey that unravels the profound evolution of...

"In BIG DESIRE, Amy Henry turns flaws into fortune, exposing fears that plague many of us but not without spotlighting how to overcome and radically reinvent ourselves into powerful forces that dream and do life big enough to sweep us off our feet. Amy...

In the ever-evolving world of business, dynamic women leaders are shattering expectations, proving that their capabilities extend far beyond the corner office. "The Executivepreneur" delves deep into the journey of executive women who've leveraged their...