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Betrayed

Betrayed for love combines both romance and the South Sudanese struggle for self reliance. The Author depicts the suffering of the people of South Sudan in the life history of a single family.

The Wandering Uterus: Politics and the Reproductive Rights of Women

From the FDA review of RU-486 to the recent growth of fertility clinics to the rights of lesbian parents, women's reproductive lives are aggressively regulated by law and medicine.

Reading Is My Window

Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. Foregrounding the voices of African American women, Sweeney analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban crime fiction, and self-help books.

Talking Gender

Talking Gender assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the perspective of their own academic disciplines and experiences, but they also address more general issues of women's lives and circumstances.

Taking the Lead: Strategies and Solutions from Female Coaches

Catfight: Women and Competition

Catfight: Women and Competition is Leora Tanenbaum's dissection of the gender war waged among women.

Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

Lévi-Strauss tried to convince women that we are spoken, exchanged like words; Lacan tried to teach women we can't speak, because the phallus is the original signifier; and then Derrida says that it doesn't matter, it's just talk.

Tubular Therapy

Tubular Therapy is the story of one answered prayer, an unlikely friendship, and the surprising ministry of two zany women. This story of friendship is one crazy ride down the lazy river of life.

The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired

All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros.

Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963-1975

Beginning in 1963 with the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and reaching a high pitch ten years later with the televised mega-event of the "Battle of the Sexes"-the tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs-the mass media were intimately involved with both the distribution and the understanding of the feminist message. This mass media promotion of the feminist profile, however, proved to be a double-edged sword, according to Patricia Bradley, author of Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963-1975.

Joining the Conversation: Dialogues by Renaissance Women

Avoiding the male-authored model of competing orations, French and Italian women of the Renaissance framed their dialogues as informal conversations, as letters with friends that in turn became epistles to a wider audience, and even sometimes as dramas. No other study to date has provided thorough, comparative view of these works across French, Italian, and Latin.

Girls Transforming: Invisibility and Age-Shifting in Children's Fantasy Fiction Since the 1970s

This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting.

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan

Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

Who Cooked the Last Supper? overturns the phallusy of history and gives voice to the untold history of the world: the contributions of millions of unsung women.

Witnessing History

Zheng (Jennifer) Zeng was a graduate in science from Beijing University. She was a wife, a mother, and a Communist Party member.

The Concept of the Goddess

Bringing together experts from a range of backgrounds, this volume explores the function of goddesses in a cross-section of cultures from around the world, including the Celtic, Roman, Norse, Caucasian and Japanese traditions. The contributors compare the nature of the various cults dominated by a female deity in predominantly patriarchal societies, examining the substance of myths both ancient and modern.

A Different Light

A Different Light is a first-person novel written from the pages of the author's diary during her year's tour of duty in Da Nang, Vietnam from October 1967 to October 1968. Hired by the Red Cross, she worked on the III Marine Amphibious Force, headquarters for the First and Third Marine Divisions.

The Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers

s it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H.

Defying Gravity

Every day, regular women are accomplishing extraordinary things later in life. Prill Boyle gathered the encouraging stories of twelve daring and determined women who accomplished incredible things at an age when most people are beginning to wind down.

Uguaglianza di genere: Il percorso delle pari opportunità in Europa ed in Italia

La scelta del primo numero di una collana è sempre una grande responsabilità. Se è vero che "chi ben comincia è a metà dell'opera", questo primo incontro con i lettori ha una importanza fondamentale per il futuro della rubrica.

A Woman of Distinction

A woman of Distinction is a book geared to enlighten women to Who they are and what they can become. Simply by applying themselves to goals to make their dreams come true.

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

""A fascinating history of…[a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself.

Equality with a Vengeance

This book investigates efforts by fathers' rights groups to undermine battered women's shelters and services, in the context of the backlash against feminism. Dragiewicz examines the lawsuit Booth v.

So, What's Your Play?: How Billie Jean, Bobby and Blindness Begat Tolerance

Millions of people watched The Battle of the Sexes in 1973, but no one knew more about the historic tennis match than a 14 year-old boy.

Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire

Habits of Change: An Oral History of American Nuns

A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation.

Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race

Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship.

The Intersectional Approach

Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women's studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Taking stock of this transformative paradigm, The Intersectional Approach guides new and established researchers to engage in a critical reflection about the broad adoption of intersectionality that constitutes what the editors call a new "social literacy" for scholars.

Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat: Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military

Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls

Hope, Pain and Patience

An edited collection of new research and analysis by a selection of authors-both from Sudan and abroad-this narrative outlines the experiences and contributions of the remarkable women who guided South Sudan in its path to freedom.

Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left

Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s

Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century.

The Origins of Women's Activism

Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution. She examines the entire spectrum of early nineteenth-century women's groups-Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish; African American and white; middle and working class-to illuminate the ways in which race, religion, and class could bring women together in pursuit of common goals or drive them apart.

Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture

Women and Community in Oman

Before 1970 Oman was one of teh more isolated countries on the Arab peninsula. The growth of the oil economy during the seventies, however, has brought rapid change to the small towns and villages that make up the country.

Women of the Catskills: Stories of Struggle, Sacrifice & Hope

Hailing from the home of industrious, strong and creative individuals, the women of the Catskills have embodied this rugged spirit best.

Cell-Shocked: I Crash-Landed into a Maximum Security Prison

Barbara never thought twice about the horrible conditions that exist in this country's prisons until she got sent there. Lucky to get out alive-many of her friends didn't-she has written a gripping account of this terrifying experience.

Birthing in a Hotel Room in San Antonio, Femspec Issue 1.1

This brief introduction to the journal explains why the women writers and critics felt a need to begin an interdisciplinary journal.