Women category: 49097 books
Women in France Since 1789
The Meanings of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2004
This compelling study traces the changes in women's lives in France from 1789 to the present. Susan K. Foley surveys the patterns of women's experiences in the socially-segregated society of the early nineteenth century, and then traces the evolution of their lifestyles to the turn of the twenty-first...
Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603
Authority, Influence and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity,...
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves
How Feminism Travels across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women’s bodies and sexuality, shaped health care policies, energized the reproductive rights movement, and stimulated medical research...
Gender and the Mexican Revolution
Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The state of Yucatan is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Stephanie Smith examines the revolutionary reforms designed to break women's ties to tradition and religion, as well as the ways in which women shaped...
Conceiving a Peaceful World
Women’s Body Wisdom, Leadership, and Peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Conceiving a Peaceful World is a map for how to create Peace On Earth. It describes models for the future, what has to change--and how. Women have been the creators and driving forces behind most U.S. social movements--for example, the Peace, Civil RIghts, and Environmental Movements. Women's leadership...
by Jacob Melish, Judith DeGroat, Cynthia Truant
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range of employments-from printmaking to running whole-sale businesses-although social and legal structures frequently limited their capacity to work independently. The contributors to Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France reveal...
Reconsidering Women's History
Twenty years of the Women's History Network
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Deriving from the 20th Anniversary Women’s History Network Conference entitled ’20 Years of the Women’s History Network: Looking Back – Looking Forward’, this volume reflects on the state of women’s and gender history as well as showcasing the diversity of the current field. The range...
Gender and Neoliberalism
The All India Democratic Women’s Association and Globalization Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book describes the changing landscape of women’s politics for equality and liberation during the rise of neoliberalism in India. Between 1991 and 2006, the doctrine of liberalization guided Indian politics and economic policy. These neoliberal measures vastly reduced poverty alleviation schemes,...
Ladies in the Laboratory IV
Imperial Russia's Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
The first volume of Ladies in the Laboratory provided a systematic survey and comparison of the work of nineteenth-century American and British women in scientific research. Companion volumes focused on women scientists from Western Europe and the former British colonial territories of South Africa,...
Immigration and Women
Understanding the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The popular debate around contemporary U.S. immigration tends to conjure images of men waiting on the side of the road for construction jobs, working in kitchens or delis, driving taxis, and sending money to their wives and families in their home countries, while women are often left out of these...
British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835
Re-Orienting Anglo-India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In her study of newly recovered works by British women, Kathryn Freeman traces the literary relationship between women writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, otherwise known as the Orientalists. Distinct from their male counterparts of the Romantic period, who tended to mirror the Orientalist...
Violence against Women
Criminological perspectives on men’s violences
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Violence against women is an enduring problem around the globe, yet very few books look at the full range of men’s violences against women – perpetrated in relationships, in the family, in public spaces, and in institutions. While books that look at different types of violence, such as domestic...
Women and War in the Middle East
Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. Critically examining the ways in which the actions of various local and transnational...
The Weight of Their Votes
Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. In The Weight of Their Votes Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the consequences this had in states across the South. She shows that from polling places to the halls...