From the award-winning author of a ';battle-cry of a book' (The Guardian) Rage Becomes Her, comes a fearless and timely manifesto for identifying and rejecting male supremacy in our daily lives.
From the author of the ';insightful and well-crafted' (The Wall Street Journal) Kennedy and King comes a heart-wrenching and sensitive examination of the tragic loss of President John F.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of LGBTQ+ centers and organizations in urban areas, a phenomenon that began in North American and Western European cities four decades ago and now flourishes around the world.
Australia's most sex-positive influencerreveals the reality of being a globally-famousfull-service sex worker in this unflinchinglyhonest, hilarious and wryly intelligent memoir.
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of womens history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy.
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of womens history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy.
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: 1,7, Abo Akademi University, language: English, abstract: In the beginning of the 20th century sexuality in Western culture was considered as a taboo and especially the church acted repressive towards sexual topics.
The works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo (1903-93) are enjoying unprecedented attention from international scholars, writers, journalists, translators and film directors.
Women's Writing and Muslim Societies looks at the rise in works concerning Muslim societies by both western and Muslim women - from pioneering female travellers like Freya Stark and Edith Wharton in the early twentieth century, whose accounts of the Orient were usually playful and humorous, to the present day and such works as Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran and Betty Mahmoody's Not Without My Daughter, which present a radically different view of Muslim Societies marked by fear, hostility and even disgust.
Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic is an innovative new study of the ways in which women writers have used Gothic historical fiction to symbolise and counter their exclusion from traditional historical narratives.
Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statement but as a powerful tool of resistance.
From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statement but as a powerful tool of resistance.
Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
En este ensayo que es también una novela extraordinaria, el historiador revolucionario Jules Michelet (1798-1874) desentierra de los archivos la historia de la persecución más letal que se haya llevado a cabo en Occidente contra las mujeres: la caza de brujas que entre los siglos XV y XVII condenó a decenas de miles de mujeres a la hoguera y que trató de erradicar una sabiduría pacientemente cultivada por ellas a lo largo de la Edad Media.
Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of women's SF in the early magazine period before the Second World War.
This book brings together perspectives on privileged migration and highly skilled migration, illustrating how these concepts intersect with gender, ethnicity, and life course.
This book assesses how policies developed by the National Assembly for Wales are affecting gender inequalities and investigates whether they are having an impact on social justice for women in Wales.
International Relations and Feminisms: Latin American Voices in a Global Debate brings together the voices and experiences of scholars working in Latin American International Relations and offers a timely and critical intervention in a central debate shaping contemporary International Relations scholarship.
This book brings together perspectives on privileged migration and highly skilled migration, illustrating how these concepts intersect with gender, ethnicity, and life course.
Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention paid to the topic by social scientists and historians, even within Wales.
This book assesses how policies developed by the National Assembly for Wales are affecting gender inequalities and investigates whether they are having an impact on social justice for women in Wales.
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International Relations and Feminisms: Latin American Voices in a Global Debate brings together the voices and experiences of scholars working in Latin American International Relations and offers a timely and critical intervention in a central debate shaping contemporary International Relations scholarship.
