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The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness

What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it.

Women's Superiority. Through Quran

Women in the Ramakathas attempts to focus on the unfavourable conditions of women in the various renderings of the Rama legends, originating from Valmiki Ramayana.

Hanging By A Thread:: Afghan Womens Rights and Security Threats

More man a oecaoe aner me Taliban were ousted from power. Afghans' rights and security are at a crossroad, and women's rights hang by a thread.

Islam Discourages Polygamy and Divorce A Reality, Not a Myth

The title of the book "Islam Discourages Polygamy and Divorce-A Reality, Not a Myth" is self-explanatory. It is generally believed that Muslims are a polygamous community and Islam grants unfettered liberty for practicing polygamy.

Combating Violence Against Women: A Reality in the Making

Women are the worst victims of violence as they are subjected to both general and gender based crimes. Gender based crimes are characterized as "Crime against women".

Khap Panchayat, Women and Honour Killing

Die Vagina-Monologe

Das Buch ist eine kleine, kunstfertige Anregung zur weiblichen Selbsterkenntnis, eine liebevolle Aufforderung an alle Frauen, den eigenen Weg zur Lust zu finden. Gleichzeitig ist es ein entschiedenes Plädoyer gegen sexuelle Gewalt.

Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology

Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America

Women, we are told, should not own guns. Women, we are told, are more likely to be injured by their own guns than to fend off an attack themselves.

Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure Among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States

The rise of commercialized leisure coincided with the arrival of millions of immigrants to America's cities.

Nepali Migrant Women

In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growingnumber of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informaleconomy.

Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture

Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms?

Anxiety of Erasure

Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women's repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force.

Citizenship Rites: Feminist Soldiers and Feminist Antimilitarists

In the United States, the question of women in the armed services has been continuously and hotly debated. Among feminists, two fundamentally differing views of women in the military have developed.

Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions

As the 2011 uprisings in North Africa reverberated across the Middle East, a diverse cross section of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms in novel, unauthorized, and often shocking ways.

Is Academic Feminism Dead?: Theory in Practice

What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, and sexual orientation?

The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory

Women, says conventional wisdom, are warm, nurturing caregivers with an intrinsically enhanced capacity for attachment and compassion. Feminists, says the popular image, are full of rage, devoid of the feelings that are natural to women.

A Thesaurus of Women from Water to Music

Within the pages of traditional history books that stand proudly on library shelves lies the accomplishments of many men who have helped to change the world with their talents. Unfortunately what is missing from the pages of those same books is the multitude of women from numerous cultures who have also accomplished great things.

Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland

Motherhood does not just originate in the body, but in the world-a place, a region, a country or nation, a landscape, a language, a culture. Mothers are, as novelist Rachel Cusk once observed, "the countries we come from.

Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South

Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman.

Kadin

Mulheres e crianças na imprensa paulista, 1920-1940

No início do século XX, a zona Araraquarense (atual Noroeste Paulista) passou por um grande desenvolvimento econômico, cultural e social, em virtude do fluxo de imigrações, o que mudou em pouco tempo os padrões daquela sociedade.

Kadin Olmayi Hatirlamak

Annem gibi olmayacagim ve babam gibi biriyle evlenmeyecegim…Allah'im, beni neden erkek yaratmadin?Erkek olsaydim, yapacagimi bilirdim!

Masallar ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet

Timsahlarla ayni irmakta yüzmezsiniz, vahsi bir ormana silahsiz dalmazsiniz, bir aslan karsi dagdan bile kükrese kaçarsiniz. Ama yemyesil bir kirda uzanip göge bakarken rahat; çimlerden yavas yavas zerkedilen bir zehir varsa, savunmasizsiniz.

Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic

Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the lived reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America.

Woman and Nature

In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Plato's fateful division of the world into spirit and matter, her analysis of how patriarchal Western philosophy and religion have used language and science to bolster their power over both women and nature is brilliant and persuasive, coming alive in poetic prose.

Hoofddoek en maagdenvlies

'Waarom haten ze ons?' Dat vroeg de Egyptische journaliste Mona Eltahawy zich twee jaar geleden af in het Amerikaanse blad Foreign Policy.

Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women's Changing Lives

In this groundbreaking book about how women perceive, are prepared for, and cope with ambition and achievement, psychiatrist Anna Fels examines ambition at the deepest psychological level.

Forced Marriage

Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law.

Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, Practice

The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face-social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth-are specific to women's role and identity as mothers.

Femmes éducatrices au siècle des Lumières

Les femmes éducatrices qu'évoque ce livre ont compris les enjeux qui dépassent largement l'individu singulier, garçon et/ou fille.

Taking the Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood, and Social Media

The rise of social media has changed how we understand and enact relationships across our lives, including motherhood.

Women's Magazines in Print and New Media

This book contributes to our collective understanding of the significance of representations of women and gender in magazines in both their print and online forms.

Gender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat

Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation into the written works of U.S.

Wicked Women of Missouri

Marauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of "Outlaw State," but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle "Queen of the Bandits" Starr and Cora Hubbard kept Missouri's sensationalist newspapers and dime novelists in business with exploits ranging from horse thefts to bank heists.

Women's Quick Facts

Women's Quick Facts is the indispensable resource on the status and contribution of women. The only resource of its kind, it is a book that will be highly sought after for multiple uses, both in the US and globally.

Breve storia delle donne

TUTTO QUELLO CHE ABBIAMO IMPARATO SULLE DONNE, E CIOÈ BEN POCOQuesta Breve storia delle donne elenca tutto quel che abbiamo imparato sulle donne nei libri scolastici, che, a dire il vero, è ben poco.

Earth's Daughters: Stories of Women in Classical Mythology

A "Who's Who" of women in classical mythology!

Remarkable Women of Sanibel & Captiva

In the history of Sanibel and Captiva, countless women bucked the system to make their marks. In the early 1950s and '60s, Sarita Van Vlick and Zee Butler led the fight to preserve the island from unbridled growth and destruction.

Remarkable Women of San Diego

San Diego enjoys a diverse legacy of formidable female leaders. Ellen Browning Scripps financed and established the groundbreaking Scripps Oceanography Institute.