Suny Press - Asian muslim women: globalization and local realities

Contesting Feminisms: Gender and Islam in Asia

Creates a new space for hybrid feminist analysis of Asian Muslim women's lives.

It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain

Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.

Huichol Women, Weavers, and Shamans

For centuries the Huichol (Wixárika) Indian women of Jalisco, Mexico, have been weaving textiles on backstrap looms. This West Mexican tradition has been passed down from mothers to daughters since pre-Columbian times.

Maternal Activism: Mothers Confronting Injustice

Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.

Feminist Figure Girl: Look Hot While You Fight the Patriarchy

Analyzes the author's transformation from academic to figure competitor.

Performing Motherhood; Artistic, Activist and Everyday Enactments

Performing Motherhood explores relationships between performativity and the maternal.

Mothering in East Asian Communities;Politics and Practices

Patti Duncan is associate professor and Coordinator of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University where she specializes in transnational feminisms, women of color feminisms, and feminist media studies.

Desiring Emancipation: New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women's claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

Encyclopaedia of Women in Politics

Encyclopedia of Women in Politics, it examines the emergence of women in the light of modernization and democratization process set in lndia and the rest of world.

Welfare And Development Of Women

Welfare can take a variety of forms, such as monetary payments, subsidies and vouchers, health services, or housing. Welfare may be provided directly by governments or their agencies, by private organizations, or by a combination.

Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas

Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas. Taking Risks offers a creative, interdisciplinary approach to narrating the stories of activist scholarship by women.

Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences - A Reader

Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, the first-ever Reader on the subject matter, examines the meaning and practice of mothering/motherhood from a multitude of maternal perspectives.

Joy of Noh, The: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan

Examines Japanese later life learners involved in Noh theater. Centered on questions of identity formation, selfhood, and the body, this ethnography examines the experiences of later life learners in Japan.

Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship By and About Mother with Disabilities

This collection of 18 scholarly works and personal accounts from Canada, the U.S, and Australia explores and analyzes issues of parenting by mothers with a variety of physical and mental disabilities.

Biographical Encyclopaedia of World Great Women

Encyclopaedia Of Women Empowerment

Power has been the focus of such debate within the social sciences. The dominant understanding has been of power as 'power over'.

Women power Status of Women In India

Contributed articles by eminent social Scientists dealing extensively with diverse aspects of the subject, highlighting socio-economic and Political problems facing Indian women.

Women Empowerment A Functional Model

The Title 'Women Empowerment-A Functional written/authored/edited by K. Manoharan Nair & L.

Elderly Women: Vulnerability And Support Structures

Of late, the situation of elderly women has globally attracted the attention of the civil society.

Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us as Feminist Acadamics and Activists

Mothers Unite!: Organizing for Workplace Flexibility and the Transformation of Family Life

Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader

Selected essays on radical social change.

Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood: Resisting Monomaternalism in Adoptive, Lesbian, Blended, and Polygamous Families

Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of "good" mothering.

Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies

Unpacks the myriad ways rhetorical and communication theories and feminist intersectional approaches impact one another.

Forgotten Impulses

To outsiders, they seem the perfect American family. Margaret, the loving, widowed mother.

Hidden Women: The Ruling Women of the Rana Dynasty

Greta Rana MBE (awarded Order of the British Empire in 2005) is an author and poet born in Yorkshire, UK. She has been living in Nepal for over forty years.

Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women

The new celebration of women's aggression in contemporary culture, from Kill Bill and Prime Suspect to the artists group Toxic Titties.

Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America

""Perhaps if the Pill had never been invented, American politics would be very different today," Nancy L.

Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style

Essays on the politics of everyday style. Fashion Talks is a vibrant look at the politics of everyday style.

Women Self Help Groups and Dairy Farming

Late Shriram Ahirrao Memorial Trust was started with a view to provide medical services to masses through public awareness in rural areas in and around Dhule, Maharashtra.

Violent Woman, The: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema

Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.

Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse

New directions in thinking about mothering.

Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability

Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.

Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis

Investigates the theory and practice of transnational feminist approaches to scholarship and activism.

What It Means to Be Human: Historical Reflections from the 1800s to the Present

In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human.

Making Globalization Work for Women: The Role of Social Rights and Trade Union Leadership

Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women. Making Globalization Work for Women explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women in a global context.

Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India

In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive.

Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists

Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women's incarcerated experiences.

Socio-Psychological Dimensions of Women Education

In the present book the stresses and conflicts of the working and non-working women are highlighted and the role of education in meeting the challenges of the modern life is discussed. What will be the futuristic trends in women education?

Girls' Violence: Myths and Realities

A critical look at the perceived increase in girls' violence from a range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives.