Women category: 49097 books
Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism
Black Women and Everyday Racism
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Studies of contemporary black women are rare and scattered, and are often extensions of a legacy beginning in the 19th century that characterized black women as domineering matriarchs, prostitutes, or welfare queens, negative characterizations that are perpetuated by both white and non-white social...
Claiming Place
On the Agency of Hmong Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women’s subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women’s...
The Visual Culture of Women's Activism in London, Paris and Beyond
An Analytical Art History, 1860 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Women’s bodies and their portrayals in the media remain at the center of every debate on women’s rights worldwide. This study examines the domains of public and private space—and the interstices between them—with a focus on how women advance in the public arena, drawing on the domestic politics...
Superior Women
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
“Reads easily, even breathlessly. . . . The subtle but intensely felt shifts of closeness among the young women are lovingly and expertly laid bare.” -- John Updike
This ambitious and richly compelling Superior Women is in the grand tradition of The Group and Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon...
Critical Appropriations
African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American women, is more than a product of geographic mobility. Rather, as author Simone C. Drake shows, these constructions illuminate our understanding...
Race Women Internationalists
Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Race Women Internationalists explores how a group of Caribbean and African American women in the early and mid-twentieth century traveled the world to fight colonialism, fascism, sexism, and racism. Based on newspaper articles, speeches, and creative fiction and adopting a comparative perspective,...
by Arthur G. Kleven
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
WOMEN OF POWER Great women have done great things, Since the beginning of history, women have used their power to shape the events in a changing world. Some have been influential in great social advances and some have contributed to great disasters. Each of these women has an interesting story of...
Women in the British Army
War and the Gentle Sex, 1907–1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First and Second World Wars, during peacetime, in the interwar era and in the post-war period.
Providing a unique examination of women’s struggle for...
Divided Spaces
Discourse on Social Exclusion and Women in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
About the Book Social exclusion has become one of the important themes in contemporary social policy debates in both the developed and developing countries. It has become central to policy and academic discourse in Western Europe, and increasingly in other parts of the globe. In India, the exclusion...
Women in Movement (Routledge Revivals)
Feminism and Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
First published in 1992, this book is an historical introduction to a wide range of women’s movements from the late eighteenth-century to the date of its publication. It describes economic, social and political ideas which have inspired women to organize, not only in Europe and North America, but...
by Catherine Delafield
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
First published in 2009, this book investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women’s writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the practice of diary writing, it assesses the interaction between the fictional diary and other forms...
(Un)like Subjects
Women, Theory, Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
What is the relationship between feminist critical theory and literature?
This book deals with the relationship between women and writing, mothers and daughters, the maternal and history. It addresses the questions about language, writing and the relations between women which have preoccupied...
by Anne McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in...
Westerns
A Women's History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns...