Women category: 49097 books
by Amana Fontanella-Khan
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
A triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of India's women.
In Uttar Pradesh—known as the "badlands" of India—a woman’s life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after fleeing her service...
Muslim American Women on Campus
Undergraduate Social Life and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny—scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on...
Mennonite Women in Canada
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Mennonite Women in Canada traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years. Marlene Epp explores women’s roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life,...
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Women, War, and Violence: Topography, Resistance, and Hope [2 volumes]
Topography, Resistance, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The story of men's roles in war and violence fills headlines and history books, but the women's narrative too often goes unnoticed. This two-volume work brings women's voices to the fore, highlighting new scholarship and journalism to offer a realistic understanding of this timely topic. Including...
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
"Islamic feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Westerners. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force women to accept male authority and surrender to the veil. How could feminism emerge under such a code, let alone flourish? Now,...
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh
Remembering 1971
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act...
New Masters, New Servants
Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their...
Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea
Journeys of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Fusing audience research and ethnography,the bookpresents a compelling account of women’s changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life: television.
Within the historically-specific social conditions of Korean modernity, Youna Kim...
Political Belief in France, 1927-1945
Gender, Empire, and Fascism in the Croix de Feu and Parti Social Francais
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
In the inter war era, the rise of the largest political movement in modern French history, the powerful Croix de Feu (1927–1936), and its successor, the Parti Social Français, or PSF (1936–1945), led to a sharp rightward turn in France’s political culture. Political Belief in France, 1927–1945...
The Macho Paradox
Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Praise for The Macho Paradox
"An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful work that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations."
--Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes
"Jackson...
Women and Capitalism in the Croatian Hinterland
The Practice of Labor and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In Women and Capitalism in the Croatian Hinterland: The Practice of Labor and Consumption, Nila Ginger Hofman examines the effects of post-socialist capitalism on the lives of Croatian women. Croatia’s secession from socialism and a more recent gestating capitalist landscape provide the contexts...
Breadwinning Daughters
Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2010
As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and...
New Orleans Women and the Poydras Home
More Durable than Marble
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
A two-hundred-year-old institution, the Poydras Home -- originally the Poydras Asylum -- stands as an exemplar of woman-led charitable organizations. In a thorough and engaging narrative, Pamela Tyler offers the first complete history of this remarkable New Orleans establishment from its founding...
Violent Femmes
Women as Spies in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television Violent Femmes examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and national identity. Fictional representations...