Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics, For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black womens involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics.
Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich, new understandings of the United States' complex social and political trends in the post-1960s era.
A People's History of the United States Handbook offers an accessible, thought-provoking exploration of the ideas and historical perspectives associated with Howard Zinn.
Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss.
In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist.
Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre, edited by Lynda Hart, illuminates the dynamic intersection of feminism and theatre.
Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre, edited by Lynda Hart, illuminates the dynamic intersection of feminism and theatre.
In an era marked by global uncertainties and pressing challenges, this scholarly monograph offers insights into the future of European cities based on over a decade of research.
Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich, new understandings of the United States' complex social and political trends in the post-1960s era.
Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of womens studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics, For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black womens involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today.
The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (19071996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession.
Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Scarletts Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional characters flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women.
When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tenniss Battle of the Sexes in 1973, she placed sports squarely at the center of a national debate about gender equity.
Through an analysis of womens reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state.
Nancy Reagin analyzes the rhetoric, strategies, and programs of more than eighty bourgeois womens associations in Hanover, a large provincial capital, from the Imperial period to the Nazi seizure of power.
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha Patsy Jefferson Randolph (17721836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the circles of presidents and aristocrats, and was known on two continents for her particular grace and sincerity.
This book offers the most comprehensive and multidimensional examination to date of child marriage in India, situating the country's experience within global debates on gender, health, and development.
The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (19071996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession.
Between 1880 and 1920, the New Woman novel outraged "e;ladies,"e; rallied women's rights activists, and inspired women readers and writers to harness an emerging popular literary market to their own political purposes.
Advancing Gender Equality in Research Organisations: Key Factors for Success examines how organisational gender equality can be effectively designed, implemented, and evaluated in European universities and research institutions.
Breaking Barriers in Education: Women, Work-Life Balance, and Societal Shifts is a compelling exploration of women's enduring struggle for equity and recognition in a rapidly changing world.
Despite sustained global attention, policy development, and research investment, the prevalence of intimate partner abuse (IPA) worldwide has not diminished.
Women, Peace and Security in Canada and the United States critically examines the challenges and contradictions of implementing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda within the highly polarised political landscapes of Canada and the United States.
Mit einem Fokus auf die Potenziale von Geschichten und aufgrund einer fehlenden dramaturgischen Vielfalt wurde dieses Praxishandbuch für alle entwickelt, die sich mit Storytelling beschäftigen.
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as honor and virtue.
The Routledge International Handbook on the Histories of Sociology starts from a simple but powerful conviction: there is not one history of sociology, but a multitude of histories written in different parts of the world, from diverse standpoints, and through different theoretical and methodological lenses.
Donaldson presents new paradigms of interpretation that help to bring the often oppositional stances of First versus Third World and traditional versus postmodern feminism into a more constructive relationship.
