Gender studies, gender groups

This reference offers reliable knowledge about women's diverse faith practices throughout history and prehistory, and across cultures.

Women are now leading companies and other enterprises in significant numbers-in developing countries as well as the Western world.

A comprehensive encyclopedia tracing the history of the women's rights movement in the United States from the American Revolution to the present day.

This expansive, four-volume ready-reference work offers critical coverage of contemporary issues that impact people of color in the United States, ranging from education and employment to health and wellness and immigration.

This reference volume serves as a companion to Third World women's literatures in English and in English translation by presenting entries on works, writers, and themes.

At the turn of the century, America is both retrenching and expanding, becoming more restrictive and more expansive, more utilitarian and, more value- and religion-oriented.

Using documents drawn from newspapers, magazines, and books, this volume provides a documentary history of the relationships between labor and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the Civil War.

Valerie O'Regan examines the relationship between female policymakers and policy outputs.

The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring domains of imagination as revealed in courting songs, ballads, and folktales from across the Highlands but with particular reference to field areas in the western Highlands.

An essential resource for those interested in multicultural issues, this dictionary presents common terms used in multicultural counseling and research.

Afghan women have faced an exhaustive struggle in the battle to change their status and improve their situation.

Greenbaum examines the use of use of myth as a means of social control and examines the corporate mythology of the Gilded Age.

Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil hat in Erinnerung gerufen, wie groß die Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen orthodoxer und katholischer Kirche sind.

Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s.

It doesn't make sense to treat Dan's bleeding ulcer, without attention to the depression that spurs him to drink alcohol excessively, which contributes to ulcer development.

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England.

The book is an essential resource for those interested in investigating the lives, histories, and futures of indigenous peoples around the world.

This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Hispanic Americans engaged in U.

Scholarly considerations of the relationship between the United States government and Native Americans have largely ignored the rhetoric utilized by both in the course of their ongoing conflicts.

This book uses settler colonialism, critical race, and tribal critical race theories to examine the relationship between settler colonialism and Indigenous and Black disproportionality in the criminal justice systems of the English-speaking Western liberal democracies of the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.

This book offers tips, pointers, and advice for women at all levels of the corporate world.

Bringing together 14 journalism scholars from around the world, this edited collection addresses the deficit of coverage of violence against women in the Global South by examining the role of the legacy press and social media that report on and highlight ways to improve reporting.

Why do "e;second wave"e; and "e;trans feminism"e; rarely get considered together?

From the gospel music of slavery in the antebellum South to anti-apartheid freedom songs in South Africa, this two-volume work documents how music has fueled resistance and revolutionary movements in the United States and worldwide.

The African American Woman Golfer: Her Legacy gives a brief historical overview of African American women in golf and examines the sport to uncover all African American women who have been involved in golf over the past 75 years.

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Riveting vignettes show the inner and outer lives of women engaged in extramarital affairs.

This book investigates the ways in which emerging digital technologies are shaping and changing the worlds of sexuality and gender diverse youth in Southeast Asia.

The frontier region was the interface between the American wilderness and European-style civilization.

The national dancers of Uzbekistan are almost always female.

This book examines how, quite by accident and under very unfortunate circumstances, Britain's colony of South Carolina afforded women an unprecedented opportunity for economic autonomy.

Fierce debate has long loomed over Title IX, the landmark legislation prohibiting sex discrimination in schools, whether in academics or athletics.

The first comprehensive account of women's participation in the Israeli labor force, Kraus's book analyzes the trends in the status of women in paid employment since the 1960s.

Moore argues that there is a fundamental incompatibility between race and governance.

Donald Fixico, one of the foremost scholars on Native Americans, details the day-to-day lives of these indigenous people in the 20th century.

Through reconstruction of oral testimony, folk stories and poetry, the true history of Hausa women and their reception of Islam's vision of Muslim in Western Africa have been uncovered.

We all know - have perhaps told a few - stories about mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law.

The plight of the Black male in American society has been well-documented by scholars and practitioners.

The African American struggle for advancement since the late 19th century has had an enormous impact on American society in general.

This is an account of the Afghan War and its tragic aftermath as told by the women who were caught up in it and became its innocent victims.

Today, traditional illnesses and high risk behaviors of adolescents have become interrelated through the multitude of physical, social and emotional changes young people experience.

Designed as a practical reference guide for professional pianists and piano teachers, A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers, Volume I, is an annotated catalogue of the available piano music in print composed by 144 women born before the 20th century.

This work is a description of vulnerabilities that help account for many of the serious problems facing contemporary society in industrialized countries, including high rates of crime; homelessness; alcohol, tobacco, and other drug addictions; and a breakdown of the psychological sense of community.