Ubc Press - Demanding equality: one hundred years of canadian feminism

Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch

Alluring, nurturing, dangerous, and vulnerable the yamamba, or Japanese mountain witch, has intrigued audiences for centuries. What is it about the fusion of mountains with the solitary old woman that produces such an enigmatic figure?

There At The Dawning: Memories of a Lesbian Feminist

There At The Dawning, the memories of Barbara J.

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Women's Studies in Religion

The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women's studies in religion in conversation with specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges.

Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia: Women, Migration, and the Diaspora

Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and art.

What Doesn't Kill Her: Women's Stories of Resilience

""When someone is ill, many old cultures say that they have lost their story. I believe that reading the stories in What Doesn't Kill Her will help each of us to trust and tell our own.

Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital

""A valuable and uncommon perspective. The book covers both theory of women's oppression and the history and politics of women's movements.

Stampede: Misogyny, White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism

Kimberly A. Williams wants the annual Calgary Stampede to change its ways.

From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine

American Women and Flight since 1940

Women run wind tunnel experiments, direct air traffic, and fabricate airplanes.

Voices of Resistance: Testimonies of Cuban and Chilean Women

Latin American women were among those who led the suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their opposition to military dictatorships has galvanized more recent political movements throughout the region.

Women Without Walls: How God Shapes Ordinary Women for Extraordinary Kingdom work

'Women who follow Jesus are passionate and dynamic, forging ahead and unafraid of putting their faith into practice. In their every walk of life, they are God's agents of change.

Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families

An activist calls for better support of young families so they can thrive and reflects on her experiences as a Black mother and college student fighting for opportunities for herself and her child.

Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures

""My guilty pleasure wasn't just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.

Women and the Military: Global Lives in Focus

This addition to the Women and Society around the World series explores the roles, challenges, and accomplishments of women in the military in countries across the globe.

Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age

""An engaging study of the ways women and machines have been represented in art, photography, advertising, and literature.

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.

Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation

The untold history of feminist activism in the American Communist Party from the 1930s-50s and its influence on the women's liberation movement (Publishers Weekly).

Frontiers of Feminism: Movements and Influences in Québec and Italy, 1960-80

From the mid-1960s to the mid-80s, feminist activism in North America and Europe reached its peak, animated by a disparate array of issues and ideas.

Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era

In this collection of informative essays, Noralee Frankel and Nancy S.

Collateral Damage: Women Write about War

From Homer to Tim O'Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are carried by men.

Still a Mother: Noncustodial Mothers, Gendered Institutions, and Social Change

Jackie Krasas traces the trajectories of mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner.

Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century: Hannah's Daughter

Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands.

Climate Girls Saving Our World: 54 Activists SpeakOut

Over 50 girls and young women from 30 countries share how to save our planet from environmental destruction.

Geek Elders Speak: In Our Own Voices: Women Co-creators and Their Undeniable Place in Fannish History

An anthology of essays and interviews exploring the undeniable history of women creators in Science Fiction/Fantasy & Media fandom during the latter half of the 20th century. These women were Writers.

Woman And Labour

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works.

America's Early Women Celebrities: The Famous and Scorned from Martha Washington to Silent Film Star Mary Fuller

Well before television and the internet, there were women who sought fame, flirted with infamy, and actively engaged with their fan base. In today's pop culture world, it can be hard to understand what the lives of these women were like.

Misbehaving: Stories of Protest Against the Miss World Contest and the Beauty Industry

Protests at the Miss World contest in 1970 attracted headlines around the world. This book portrays the new and vibrant women's liberation movement of the 70s.

Pagan, Goddess, Mother

This anthology calls Pagan and Goddess mothering into focus by highlighting philosophies and experiences of mothers in these spiritual movements and traditions.

Of Closures and New Beginnings

Nevertheless: The Resilience of the Modern Woman

In 2019, women held only 28 percent of global managerial positions. Just 18 percent of Chief Executive Officers are women; and, on average, women spend 2.

Modern Day Mary Poppins: The Unintended Consequences of Nanny Work

Through the use of in-depth qualitative interviews, Modern Day Mary Poppins: The Unintended Consequences of Nanny Work examines the experiences of and relationships between nannies and their employers.

I Am What I Am

This is a book based on real events that I witnessed in my life and some observations I found during my field visit for non-academic research on women empowerment in some villages under districts of upper, middle and lower Assam of India.

The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835

This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott's acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers."Elegant and convincing.

South of the Future: Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas

Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas. South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market.

Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement

We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C, and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes

Women, Gender and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture

The age of imperialism ushered in a new phenomenon of large-scale organized migration of labourers through the systems of slavery and indenture, which were devised to feed the colonial political-economy.

Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity

As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty emerged as a business.

The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America: Only White Women Get Pregnant

The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America: Only White Women Get Pregnant examines the ethos of Black and white mothers in America's racialized society. Kimberly C.

Power, Philosophy and Egalitarianism: Women, the Family and African Americans

In this book, Robert C. Smith presents a philosophical and empirical examination on the subordination of women and blacks in the United States.