Women category: 49097 books
by Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, Valerie Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of conflict and war.
The authors compare micro-level gender violence and macro-level state peacefulness...
Shadow Bodies
Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have shown themselves an important voting bloc? How for example, does #sayhername translate into a political agenda that manifests itself in specific policies?...
No Stopping Us Now
The Adventures of Older Women in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
A lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by the beloved New York Times columnist.
"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad--for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace...
Close to Home
A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism
Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists,...
by Francesca Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation. Francesca Morgan finds the first stirrings of a sense of national patriotism--of "these United States--in the work of black and white clubwomen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Morgan...
Calling for Change
Women, Law, and the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2006
Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Change investigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association. Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre bring together essays that investigate...
The Equality Illusion
The Truth about Women and Men Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
In The Equality Illusion, 'the most influential young feminist in the country' (Guardian) and UK Feminista founder Kat Banyard argues passionately and articulately that feminism continues to be one of the most urgent and relevant social justice campaigns today.
Women have made huge strides...
Naturally Woman
The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature examines the ways in which Black immigrant women must adapt to survive in a multicultural...
Remapping Second-Wave Feminism
The Long Women's Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950–1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Scholars of second-wave feminism often center their research on northern thought and political activity and usually overlook the vibrant pockets of activism that existed elsewhere. In Remapping Second-Wave Feminism, Janet Allured attempts to reshape the national narrative by focusing on the grassroots...
The Freedom of the Streets
Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth...
by Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault....
Wonder Woman
The myth of 'having it all'
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
It's your choice, right? Whether or not you have a career and children?
Can today's women really have it all', or have we all been duped? When did the superwomen of the 80s become the wondering women of the new millennium? And where have all our achievements left us?
When leading journalist...
Women, Sport, Society
Further Reflections, Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
During the last four decades women’s and gender history have become vibrant fields including studies of attitudes regarding the limited physical and other abilities of females as well as studies of the accomplishments of notable female athletes. We have become increasingly aware that women have...
by Sarah Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentiethcentury Aboriginal women who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individualsa trader a performer a non-human woman. Other essays...