Women category: 49097 books
They Used to Call Us Witches
Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
They Used to Call Us Witches is an informative, highly readable account of the role played by Chilean women exiles during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973-1990. Sociologist Julie Shayne looks at the movement organized by exiled Chileans in Vancouver, British Columbia, to denounce...
Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat
Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Drawing on surveys and interviews with almost 300 female military personnel, Melissa Herbert explores how women's everyday actions, such as choice of uniform, hobby, or social activity, involve the creation and re-creation of what it means to be a woman, and particularly a woman soldier. Do women...
by Sarah Apetrei
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The essays contained in this volume examine the particular religious experiences of women within a remarkably vibrant and formative era in British religious history. Scholars from the disciplines of history, literary studies and theology assess women's contributions to renewal, change and reform;...
by Bernadette Andrea
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Bernadette Andrea’s groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Andrea’s thorough...
Women and Capital Punishment in the United States
An Analytical History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment. This historical analysis examines the social, political and economic contexts in which the justice system has put women to death, revealing...
by L. Kay Gillespie
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries. Rather than dealing with these women as numbers and statistics, this book presents them as human beings. Each of these women had lives, histories, and families....
Reading Like a Girl
Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative...
When Sherman Marched North from the Sea
Resistance on the Confederate Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Home front and battle front merged in 1865 when General William T. Sherman occupied Savannah and then marched his armies north through the Carolinas. Although much has been written about the military aspects of Sherman's March, Jacqueline Campbell reveals a more complex story. Integrating evidence...
by Dong-Sook S. Gills, Nicola Piper
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This book sheds light on the real experiences of women in different societies, exploring the impact of globalization through the changing nature of the labour of women. A comprehensive survey of women and work is provided by using case studies and empirical data collected from throughout Asia and...
Maternal Bodies
Redefining Motherhood in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In the second half of the eighteenth century, motherhood came to be viewed as women's most important social role, and the figure of the good mother was celebrated as a moral force in American society. Nora Doyle shows that depictions of motherhood in American culture began to define the ideal mother...
Monica
An Ordinary Saint
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Rarely did ancient authors write about the lives of women; even more rarely did they write about the lives of ordinary women: not queens or heroines who influenced war or politics, not sensational examples of virtue or vice, not Christian martyrs or ascetics, but women of moderate status, who experienced...
Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young
Education and Public Doctrine in Britain 1750–1850
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. Mary Hilton's book serves as a corrective to these biases by culturally contextualising the popular educational writings...
Mothers of the Nation
Women's Political Writing in England, 1780–1830
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2000
British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and political ideology during the years from 1780 to 1830. Anne Mellor demonstrates the many ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behavior in the areas of religious and governmental...
Feminism and Empire
Women Activists in Imperial Britain, 1790–1865
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Feminism and Empire establishes the foundational impact that Britain's position as leading imperial power had on the origins of modern western feminism. Based on extensive new research, this study exposes the intimate links between debates on the 'woman question' and the constitution of 'colonial...