This book presents original qualitative research on the lives, identities, and experiences of queer Canadian Muslims and is the largest study to date on this population.
Discover the story of the first woman to direct a major public library system in the United States and the first African American president of the American Library Association.
By encompassing the hagiographies of the first centuries, the most famous case of Joan of Arc, numerous chivalrous novels, and the overlooked accounts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, this is the first study to consider cross-dressing for the entire medieval age.
This book presents original qualitative research on the lives, identities, and experiences of queer Canadian Muslims and is the largest study to date on this population.
This book draws on an in-depth ethnographic study to explore the meanings and consequences of race and ethnicity in daily life within two Finnish male prisons.
Discover Your Worth in the Worthiness of GodIn Beyond Priceless: Who God Is When I Feel you can experience the peace of God's presence when you exchange your messy reality for the immeasurable worth of knowing God intimately.
In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (cuny) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
This book draws on an in-depth ethnographic study to explore the meanings and consequences of race and ethnicity in daily life within two Finnish male prisons.
Tragic Resistance analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restricting them.
This book explores gender topics related to social transitions and social struggles in the context of the urban transformations accompanying the evolving political economy of China's New Era, here defined as the period since 2017.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has more than 100,000 members circling the globe, including trailblazing women who created ACM-W (ACM's Committee on Women in Computing) in 1993.
This innovative work tells the story of a unique partnership between a state prison administration and a team of incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, artists, and students known as The WoW Collective due to their joint efforts in developing a peer mentoring program called "e;Women's Words/Women's Worlds (WoW).
While many aspects of leadership development are similar for women and men, women face different cultural expectations and have different experiences than their male counterparts.
This is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre, Mary Irwin builds on the critical work on cinematic romantic comedy to offer a dedicated critical analysis of the romantic comedy on the small screen.
During the 2020-2023 years of the pandemic, when it came to the workplace, public librarians creatively adjusted their practices and their praxis to keep communities engaged with a myriad of virtual information services and distal information delivery during lockdown, lasting for often long and uncertain timeframes.
Welcome to Fluvanna, Bitch is the story of Dell Denise Williams, who was incarcerated at the age of fifty-five years for aggravated malicious wounding.
This authoritative, balanced, and accessible reference resource provides readers with a wide-ranging survey of capital punishment in America, including its history, its legal and cultural foundations, and racial and economic factors in its application.
Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, douard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chic explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris (1855-1885) crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes.
Herland author Charlotte Perkins Gilmans captivating masterpiece takes readers to a hidden utopia where gender roles have been redefined, a secret society where women reign supreme.
This book investigates the ways in which contemporary Indian cinema, particularly 2010 onwards, has projected and represented women on screen - not just on films and TV but also on new media platforms like OTT and other digital media.
This volume is a review of the autobiographical account Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries (1803), Volume III, which sheds light on the controversial role of the female writers in the early nineteenth century.