Gender studies, gender groups

As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (18901979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the perspective of gender analysis.

In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Ren Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills.

In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also provided black women with greater opportunities for political activism during a crucial time in the unfolding of the civil rights movement.

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation.

A riveting work of historical detection, revealing that the origins of one of the world's most iconic Superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story - and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism.

This is a comprehensive text that provides evidence-based examination of the contentious debates surrounding the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) across global communities.

For many women, leadership has never been only about ambition.

'Makes the punchy case that fertility is being driven down by political decisions' Zoe Williams, The Guardian'A compelling and humane case to lower the barriers to having kids for those who want them'The New Republic________________________________For generations, starting a family was an ordinary part of life.

Award-winning historian Tamika Y.

For more than a decade Judith Newton has been at the forefront of defining and promoting materialist feminist criticism.

In recent years, a number of classical scholars have turned their attention to prostitution in the ancient world.

In recent years, a number of classical scholars have turned their attention to prostitution in the ancient world.

From civically and politically engaged women linking their identity as "e;mothers"e; to their fight for prohibition, public sanitation, and protective labor laws to the general call to arms of "e;mama grizzlies"e; issued by Sarah Palin in 2010, American political activists and candidates have used motherhood to rally women's interest, support, and participation throughout American history.

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With the recently-published The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Joy Harjo has emerged as one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation.

With the recently-published The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Joy Harjo has emerged as one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation.

This book provides a critical and timely examination of the commercial and organisational evolution of the women's game.

From civically and politically engaged women linking their identity as "e;mothers"e; to their fight for prohibition, public sanitation, and protective labor laws to the general call to arms of "e;mama grizzlies"e; issued by Sarah Palin in 2010, American political activists and candidates have used motherhood to rally women's interest, support, and participation throughout American history.

This is a comprehensive text that provides evidence-based examination of the contentious debates surrounding the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) across global communities.

One of the most memorable images of the British women's suffrage movement occurred on June 4, Derby Day, 1913.

As the number of women in the U.

Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian.

Violent Inheritance deepens the analysis of settler colonialisms endurance in the North American West and how infrastructures that ground sexual modernity are both reproduced and challenged by publics who have inherited them.

This incisive study reveals the fundamental, paradoxical weakness of colonialism and the enduring power of anticolonial resistance.

This incisive study reveals the fundamental, paradoxical weakness of colonialism and the enduring power of anticolonial resistance.

Tracing the deep roots of womens activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of womens volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution.

Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian.

Winged Words puts the work of H.

The academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color around the country make clear that departments and administrators discriminate in ways that range from unintentional to malignant.

For more than a decade Judith Newton has been at the forefront of defining and promoting materialist feminist criticism.

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This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the timesfrom civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activismhelped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality.

In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Ren Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills.

In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also provided black women with greater opportunities for political activism during a crucial time in the unfolding of the civil rights movement.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation.

The academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color around the country make clear that departments and administrators discriminate in ways that range from unintentional to malignant.

Frances Willard (1839-98), national president of the WCTU, headed the first mass organization of American women, and through the work of this group, women were able to move into public life by 1900.

As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (18901979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the perspective of gender analysis.

In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace.

Willa Cather wrote about the places she knew, including Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia.

Willa Cather wrote about the places she knew, including Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia.

Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means to have a legible body in the West.

Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means to have a legible body in the West.

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One of the most memorable images of the British women's suffrage movement occurred on June 4, Derby Day, 1913.

A study on sex that goes beyond just don't do it.

Tracing the deep roots of womens activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of womens volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution.

A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIntersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on peoples lives.

Offering a unique vantage point from which to view black womens body image and Caribbean migration, Romance with Voluptuousness illuminates how first- and second-generation immigrant black Caribbean women engage with a thick body aesthetic while living in the United States.