Cajun Women and Mardi Gras is the first book to explore the importance of women's contributions to the country Cajun Mardi Gras tradition, or Mardi Gras "e;run.
First published in 1984, Women who do and women who don't join the women's movement asks a variety of women - some of whom chose to align themselves with the women's movement, others who chose not to - to write about their lives and the reasons for choices they have made.
First published in 1984, Women who do and women who don't join the women's movement asks a variety of women - some of whom chose to align themselves with the women's movement, others who chose not to - to write about their lives and the reasons for choices they have made.
This most thorough and contemporary examination of the religious features of the UK state and its monarchy argues that the long reign of Elizabeth has led to a widespread lack of awareness of the centuries old religious features of the state that are revealed at the accession and coronation of a new monarch.
For thirty-five years, the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) has fought for the liberation of their communities through reproductive justice, harm reduction, abolition feminism, racial justice, and sex workers' rights.
Ces mémoires, publiés à titre posthume, retracent un parcours exemplaire, celui d’une femme noire née dans les années 30, qui devint avocate en France et aux États-Unis, et n’aura eu de cesse de défendre les droits des femmes et d’œuvrer pour son pays.
In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women.
Drawing on clinical practice, this book explores how the Black feminist idea of intersectionality is vital to all group work practices, including group analysis.
The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant's journey in life has involved detours and sidestepsnot the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology.
War, Violence and Women's Agency in Pakistan investigates the prominent features of gender ideology in the Swat region, Pakistan and how they influence the norms and forms of women's agency during conflict.
New York Times bestselling author Michael Arceneaux makes his long-awaited return with a hilarious collection of essays about making your voice heard in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world.
Les peuples autochtones de Guyane – Wayãpi, Wayana, Teko, Kali’na, Arawak-Lokono et Parikwene (Palikur) – comptent aujourd’hui près de 15 000 femmes et hommes qui continuent de faire vivre leur langue et leur présence au monde.
Here is an overdue and provocative account from the frontline of how a reporter's search for the truth resulted in bad-guy revenge and professional and emotional demise.
Much is made of the test scores, earning power, and innovative contributions of highly intelligent kids, but we rarely ask what it's actually like to be "e;gifted.
The need for decolonizing cultural institutions and their mismanagement practices in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, of First Nations peoples' materials and knowledge has been widely recognised.
From The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Arrested Development to BoJack Horseman, the American sitcom revolves around crises that must be resolved by episode's end, with a new crisis to come next week.
Private gun ownership for self-defense remains a major personal and public issue in the United States, driven by concerns about crime, vulnerability and a range of 'ideological' factors, including race and gender.
The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis is organized around ways of doing fair and just research, with deliberate transdisciplinary overlap in each of the sections so as to share and demonstrate potential opportunities for lasting alliances.
Cette production scientifique sur « Genre, société et développement en Afrique » est articulée autour de cinq (5) axes de réflexion qui retracent les causes défendues par le professeur BADINI/KINDA Fatoumata durant sa carrière scientifique.
This book is about how the lgbtqia community have BETRAYED the heterosexual community and how they want to ERASE HETEROSEXUALITY and SILENCE, CENSOR AND BULLY STRAIGHT PEOPLE INTO THE "e;CLOSET"e;.
The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights remain key factors effecting women's autonomy.
In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women.
'Against the white sand, the contours of my father's body were well defined, emphasized its existence in a world where everything was liquid, where the blue of the sea melted into the blue of the sky with nothing between.
The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis is organized around ways of doing fair and just research, with deliberate transdisciplinary overlap in each of the sections so as to share and demonstrate potential opportunities for lasting alliances.
The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries, including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and states with different levels and types of government-provided social services.
This book explores why some episodes of mass political violence and genocide are so much deadlier than others and under what conditions perpetrators in government and society opt for brutality as a means of accomplishing their goals.
Schwangerschaft sowie Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie werden in der Soziologie in den letzten Dekaden verstärkt sozialwissenschaftlich erforscht, bisher jedoch nicht zusammengebracht.
