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.
Gloria Steinem: The Unlikely Development of an American Feminist Icon examines how one of the most prominent feminists in the United States emerged from an atypical background to become a defining voice of the Women's Liberation Movement.
We are living in a time of great panic about ';sex trafficking'an idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas.
We are living in a time of great panic about ';sex trafficking'an idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas.
In 1950, facing artistic and legal persecution by Senator Joe McCarthy because of her inclusion on Louis Budenz's list of four hundred concealed communists, single mother Hannah Weinstein fled to Europe.
In 1950, facing artistic and legal persecution by Senator Joe McCarthy because of her inclusion on Louis Budenz's list of four hundred concealed communists, single mother Hannah Weinstein fled to Europe.
From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Edith Piaf, Colette to Coco Chanel, discover the lives of 21 women who made French history 'Fascinating, gripping, vividly detailed, this is a wonderful book full of unforgettable lives.
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families.
In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's Tribe and Chris Hedges's classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military education in the United States, and how it formed and fuels increasingly volatile strains of American masculinity.
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families.
Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain examines the Female Gothic genre and how it expanded to include not only gender concerns but also social critiques of repressed sexuality, economics and imperialism.
For readers trying to make sense of America's political turmoil and eroding reproductive rights, an incisive examination, enhanced with personal stories, of how care work has been extracted and compelled throughout American history.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Black women academics’ legacy of knowledge production and intellectual thought, while balancing the intersecting pressures of social, familial, and academic responsibilities.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Black women academics’ legacy of knowledge production and intellectual thought, while balancing the intersecting pressures of social, familial, and academic responsibilities.
Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspenseful plotting, and Gothic figures and tropes, play a role within Eliot's ambitions for the Victorian novel.
Engagingly written as a journal of fond memories, life experiences, lessons learned, and tragedies overcome, this is the story of the family that gave the world actress Jennifer Aniston.
Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century.
Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of LGBTQ+ centers and organizations in urban areas, a phenomenon that began in North American and Western European cities four decades ago and now flourishes around the world.
From Beatrice Dixon, founder of The Honey Pot Company, comes an inspiring memoir about overcoming adversitypersonally and professionallyby trusting her intuition and following what she calls her ';soul instinct' to build the life of her dreams.
Female body hatred and fear have been reinforced by religion and culture for centuries, but can be transformed with female agency driven by unearthing and living healthy narratives of female strength and sacredness that will change laws and lives.
From Sunday Times bestselling author Alex Light comes an empowering, incisive new book examining the crushing beauty standards women are subjected to - and how we can learn to fight back.
Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Honorable MentionGenuine Compassion, Expert Understanding Explore the New Edition of Understanding Gender DysphoriaFew topics spark more debate today thangender identity, fueling intense discussions across social, political, and cultural spheres.
Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain examines the Female Gothic genre and how it expanded to include not only gender concerns but also social critiques of repressed sexuality, economics and imperialism.
