Ellen Cole: 26 books
Women's Work
A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
While most women’s studies texts function “topically” as “readings” for courses and general use, Women’s Work: A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women takes a broad spectrum of women’s disciplines--psychological, artistic, religious, and philosophical--and gives you a diverse, interdisciplinary...
Lesbian Step Families
An Ethnography of Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families’definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for...
Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories
Acts of Love and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Winner of the Women in Psychology Jewish Caucus Award for 2000!
Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage contains touching and personal essays written by contemporary Jewish mothers from different parts of the globe. Their stories reveal the choices that Jewish mothers make...
Breasts
The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1998
Breasts: The Women‘s Perspective on an American Obsession describes and explores our national breast fetish, which is defined as a culturally constructed obsession that is deeply interwoven with beauty standards, breastfeeding practices, and sexuality. By tracing the complex history of this erotic fascination and discovering how it affects men‘s an
Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women
Patterns in a Feminist Sampler
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Jewish women of all ages and backgrounds come together in Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women to explore and rejoice in what they have in common--their heritage. They reveal in striking personal stories how their Jewishness has shaped their identities and informed their experiences in innumerable,...
by Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Phyllis Chesler
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy,...
Women and AIDS
Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
For many women, the advice “Use a condom!” is not enough to help protect them from HIV infection. As Women and AIDS reveals, “negotiating” safer sex practices is a very complex issue for women who are involved in relationships where they do not enjoy physical, social, or economic equality....
Women's Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality
The Relationship Between Food and Sex
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Women’s Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality explores the strong relationships food and sex have represented to women over the years. No other book has spelled out so clearly the parallels between sex and eating nor integrated the relationship of these to women’s basic need to be loved.
Today’s...
by Michele Paludi, Gertrude A Steuernagel, Ellen Cole
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1990
Here is a useful and illustrative guide for those interested in the impact of feminist scholarship on traditional academic disciplines. This important book explores the changes that have taken place in the academic world as a result of feminist approaches to scholarship, including issues of staffing, organization, administration, recruitment, stude
Menopause, Me and You
The Sound of Women Pausing
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Menopause, Me and You will help you put menopause in proper perspective--as a normal and natural developmental process in the lives of women, not as a disorder or state that causes disease. This informative book gives you self-monitoring tools for collecting information and monitoring changes in your...
by Jane Price Knowles, Ellen Cole
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Finally, here is an enlightening and empowering book that defines motherhood from a feminist perspective and then explores the implications of that definition. Feminist authors examine some of women’s full, rich, and varied thoughts and experiences about motherhood. In contrast to the too often...
Fat - A Fate Worse Than Death?
Women, Weight, and Appearance
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Despite the gains of the women’s movement, women are still judged by what they look like--and men, by what they do. Fat--A Fate Worse Than Death? offers hardy resistance to the narrow, random, and irrational appearance standards set for American women through an approach that is personal, eclectic,...
Women and Sex Therapy
Closing the Circle of Sexual Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Outstanding feminist scholars present seldom discussed women’s views of sexuality. In the past, there has been little feminist discussion among sexuality professionals and between feminist therapists and sex therapists. The valuable ideas expressed by the contributors to this book are aimed at increasing...
Refugee Women and Their Mental Health
Shattered Societies, Shattered Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women, yet most of the existent literature does not focus on this group as women. Most of the literature focuses on political, economic, and social issues...
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