First published in 1987, this volume makes available key documents, giving the contemporary reader a valuble record of women's struggle for eduacation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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.
Promoting Reproductive Security in Developing Countries provides a comprehensive approach to developing and implementing reproductive health programs in the developing world.
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the present discourse on gender and violence, discovering new ways to address the complexities encountered in academic research on the topic.
In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities of women.
Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication.
In einer Welt, die ständig Meinungen und Erwartungen an uns stellt, ist es eine wahre Kunst, sich selbst treu zu bleiben und das eigene Glück zu finden.
By drawing on the experience of trans people who are affected by physical disability, chronic illness and mental illness, this book is the definitive guide on providing best practice in approaches to health and care policy.
Hilfe für belastete Frauen in Schwangerschaft und Postpartalzeit- Angesprochen sind: Alle, die eine Gruppe für Schwangere und Mütter anbieten wollen - von der ÄrztIn und PsychotherapeutIn bis zur Hebamme und BeraterIn- In die Zukunft gedacht: Psychoedukation von Müttern ebnet den Weg für eine sichere Bindung und eine bessere psychische Gesundheit für Mutter und Kind sowie die gesamte Familie- Niederschwellig: Einmal die Woche à 90 Minuten am besten in der Gruppe, um fehlende soziale Kontakte auszugleichen- Hilfe durch: Stabilisierung, Wissensvermittlung und EntlastungBevorzugt im Gruppensetting, aber auch in Einzelsitzungen, lernen Frauen Bewältigungsstrategien sowie mögliche Hilfen im Alltag kennen.
Assertive, tough, and idealistic, the Weatherwomen--members of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) from the late 1960s--were determined to stamp out sexism and social injustice.
In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture.
A New York Times Notable Book for 2017--Now in PaperbackFor more than thirty years, Patience Gray-author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed-lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy.
Die Bibel ist mehr als ein religiöser Text – sie ist ein Fenster in die Vergangenheit, durch das wir die Geschichte der Menschheit und ihre kulturellen Wurzeln betrachten können.
This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach.
The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future.
Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with measurement, or as Karen Barad suggests, the entanglement of matter and meaning.
This ambitious volume shows how nineteenth-century Spanish American writers used the discourses of modernity to envision the place of women at all levels of social and even political life in the modern, utopian nation.
Forty-three women who have made major contributions to the law through their work in the legal profession, scholarly legal research, and political activism directed at socio-legal reforms are profiled in this bio-bibliographical sourcebook.
Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated.
The debate on abortion has tended to avoid the psychological significance of an unwanted pregnancy, dominated istead by the strong emotions the subject excites.
