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Disciplining Girls
Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
At the heart of some of the most beloved children’s novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental tales of the mid-nineteenth century and continued in the classic...
History Matters
Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett, who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement...
Women in Science
A Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science.
Women in Science includes a detailed survey of the history behind the popular subject and engages the reader with a theoretical and informed understanding...
by Bonnie G. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Women’s Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women—past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins, this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the discipline, exploring its global development...
Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture
Differential Equations
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
Women and Slaves in Classical Culture examines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities of the Greco-Roman world.
The contributors...
Cut of the Real
Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Following François Laruelle's nonstandard philosophy and the work of Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Luce Irigaray, and Rosi Braidotti, Katerina Kolozova reclaims the relevance of categories traditionally rendered "unthinkable" by postmodern feminist philosophies, such as "the real,"...
by Andrea Nye
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
A feminist approach to the history of modern philosophy reveals new insights into the lives and works of major figures such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, and is crucial to an appreciation of the advent of feminist philosophy. Feminism and Modern Philosophy introduces students to the main...
Negotiating Gendered Discourses
Michelle Bachelet and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
It has been argued that the first presidential campaign of Michelle Bachelet in Chile and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina used a rhetoric of newness. Some political observers have said that as the “first women” to successfully run for the highest office in these countries, they were...
Normal Life
Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Revised and Expanded Edition
Wait—what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee...
The Mixed Member Proportional System: Providing Greater Representation for Women?
A Case Study of the New Zealand Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This Brief discusses the adoption of the mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in New Zealand and its subsequent effect on representation for women. Concerns about the homogeneity of the legislature under the Single Member Plurality electoral system and the need for increased representativeness...
Voice Male
The Untold Story of the Pro-Feminist Men's Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
VOICE MALE: The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men’s Movement takes you inside one of the most important social justice movements you may never have heard of-the social transformation of masculinity. Although it’s been underway since the late 1970s, it still largely remains under the radar of much...
Unlikely Dissenters
White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
"An eye-opening account of southern white women who worked to challenge racial segregation. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "Brings to life a small but important group of women who worked hard to change the South. . . . It will help to more fully explicate the motivation and experiences...
Black Slaves, Indian Masters
Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies...
Cybersexism
Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
'The Internet was supposed to be for everyone... Millions found their voices in this brave new online world; it gave unheard masses the space to speak to each other without limits, across borders, both physical and social. It was supposed to liberate us from gender. But as more and more of our daily...