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The Suffragette

By 1903, more than fifty years of peaceful campaigning had brought British women no closer to attaining the right to vote. In that year activist Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant organization dedicated to achieving women's suffrage.

Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship by and about Mothers 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.

Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments

Performing Motherhood explores relationships between performativity and the maternal.

Patricia Hill Collins: Reconceiving Motherhood

Patricia Hill Collins has given new meaning to the institution of motherhood throughout her publishing career.

Stay-At-Home Mothers: Dialogues and Debates

This book includes a remarkably diverse range of voices and perspectives on the under-researched topic of mothers electing to stay at home to care for their children or returning home after being in the paid workforce.

On Huron's Shore

Marilyn Gear Pilling brilliantly displayed her competence in describing women in My Nose is a Gherkin Pickle Gone Wrong (1996). Showing them "in all their nakedness.

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

Mothering Mennonite

Mothering Mennonite marks the first scholarly attempt to incorporate religious groundings in interpretations of motherhood.

The Music of Leaving

There is a music of leaving, as surely as there is that of arriving. And it is this distinct soulful music that we often hear, however faintly, in the background of our lives.

Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding

Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding reveals the lighter side of nursing and throws a lifeline to mothers in the thick of lactation.

Mothers, Mothering and Sex Work

Exploring the shared intersections of mothering, motherhood and sex work, Mothers, Mothering and Sex Work weaves together a range of voices from academic and sex-worker communities around the world.

Anansesem: Telling Stories and Storytelling African Maternal Pedagogies

Anansesem: Telling Stories and Storytelling African Maternal Pedagogies is a composite story on African-Canadian mothers' experiences of teaching and learning while mothering.

Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy

Laboring Positions aims to disrupt the dominant discourse on academic women's mothering experiences.

Hijas Americanas

In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina women, Molinary provides a powerful understanding of the inner conflicts and powerful triumphs of Latinas.

Against Citizenship

Numerous activists and scholars have appealed for rights, inclusion, and justice in the name of "citizenship." Against Citizenship provocatively shows that there is nothing redeemable about citizenship, nothing worth salvaging or sustaining in the name of "community," practice, or belonging.

Sexing the Body

Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention?

Repudiating Feminism: Young Women in a Neoliberal World

Gender equality is a widely shared value in many western societies and yet, the mention of the term feminism frequently provokes unease, bewilderment or overt hostility. Repudiating Feminism sheds light on why this is the case.

Sex Testing

In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) implemented sex testing for female athletes at that year's Games. When it became clear that testing regimes failed to delineate a sex divide, the IOC began to test for gender -a shift that allowed the organization to control the very idea of womanhood.

Little Book of Feminism

Calcium oxide

Calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound. It is a white, caustic, alkaline, crystalline solid at room temperature.

Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada

The hidden crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is both a national tragedy and a national shame.

Greyhound

The Greyhound is a breed of dog, a sighthound which has been bred for coursing game and Greyhound racing. Since the rise in large scale adoption of retired racing Greyhounds, it has seen a resurgence in popularity as a family pet.

Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminizing Sources and Interpretations of the Past

Calamity Jane and Her Siblings

The mere mention of Calamity Jane conjures up images of buckskins, bull whips and dance halls, but there's more to the woman than the storied legend she became. Born Martha Canary, she was orphaned as a child and assumed the responsibility of caring for her siblings.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days

What was life like for women in the American colonies? This classic study suggests that, in spite of hardships, many colonial women led rich, fulfilling lives.

The Vagabond

From the author of Gigi comes this tale of 33-year-old Renée Néré, recently divorced and seeking a new life as a vaudeville performer. Maxime, a wealthy playboy, tempts her from the path of independence with the comforts of love and marriage.

The Women of the American Revolution

All Americans are accustomed to view with interest and admiration the events of the Revolution. Its scenes are vivid in their memory, and its prominent actors are regarded with the deepest veneration.

Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France

During the eighteenth-century, at a time when secular and religious authors in France were questioning women's efforts to read, a new literary genre emerged: conduct books written specifically for girls and unmarried young women.

Marriage by Force?: Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa

With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences.

Temporary Mother

Sono molte migliaia i bambini che nascono ogni anno da utero in affitto: più di 2 mila solo negli Stati Uniti, con un incremento annuo del 200 per cento.

Women in Culture: An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women's Studies

The thoroughly revised Women in Culture 2/e explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, gender identity, and spirituality from the perspectives of diverse global locations.

A Voice from the South

A cornerstone of black feminist and political theory, this collection of essays focuses on racial progress and women's rights. A Voice from the South, written in 1892, is regarded as the first statement of black feminism.

The Call

The CALL is not an attempt to seek gender equality or to highlight the essence of women, but rather an eccentric perspective of looking out for the betterment of the Earth and those who dwell within, during an emergency era. With all due fairness, we looked at the polarity (up-down, left-right, life-death, north-south, etc.

Double Bind: Women on Ambition

""Bold, absorbing, insightful, and wise. .

Our Androcentric Culture: or, The Man-Made World

A liberal feminist text. Rather than considering what is appropriate masculine or feminine behaviour, we should investigate what it is to be human.

Wild Girls, Wild Nights

There are the fabled urban myths of lesbians who fill up a U-Haul on the second date and lead sweetly romantic lives of cocoa and comfy slippers. Safe and sound.

Knowing Their Place: The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century

Knowing their Place is a comprehensive account of the public, private and intellectual life of Irish women in the Victorian age.

Femmes du jazz

Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Mary Lou Williams. Les femmes du jazz sont-elles toutes américaines?

How the Pershore Plum Won

The First World War was won not just on the battlefields but on the Home Front, by the men, women and children left behind.

Women in Cybersecurity

Women in Cybersecurity provides a basic overview of the employment status of women in the cybersecurity field. While women comprise over 50% of the workforce in the U.