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Women Still at Work

From Betty White to Toni Morrison, we're surrounded by examples of women working well past the traditional retirement age. In fact, the fastest growing segment of the workforce is women age sixty-five and older.

Women Behind Bars

More and more women-mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters-are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars.

When Janey Comes Marching Home

While women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, in the current war, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even sacrificing their lives in the line of duty.

New Jersey Women in World War II

Real-life Rosie the Riveters worked the lines in New Jersey's factories, such as those of General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division, while women on the vulnerable coast enforced blackout orders.

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. The Reader includes 22 chapters on the following maternal identities: Aboriginal, Adoptive, At-Home, Birth, Black, Disabled, East-Asian, Feminist, Immigrant/Refuge, Latina/Chicana, Poor/Low Income, Migrant, Non-Residential, Older, Queer, Rural, Single, South-Asian, Stepmothers, Working, Young Mothers, and Mothers of Adult Children.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)The first great manifesto of women's rights, published in 1792 and an immediate best seller, made its author the toast of radical circles and the target of reactionary ones.

A Game for Rough Girls?: A History of Women's Football in Britain

Can we truly call football England's 'national' game?How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football?

The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders

The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story.

The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women

The Hidden Half is a collection of papers which are concerned with research and analyses on Plains Indian women.

Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution

Theories and Methodologies in Postgraduate Feminist Research: Researching Differently

This volume centers on theories and methodologies for postgraduate feminist researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research.

Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement

For seventy-two years, American women fought for the right to vote, and many remarkable ladies on Long Island worked tirelessly during this important civil rights movement.

A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler

In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers.

Why Doesn't She Just Leave?

Why would a woman stay in an abusive relationship? Doesn't she have any self-respect?

Living My Life, Vol. 2

""You damn bitch of an anarchist, I wish I could get at you. I would tear your heart out and feed it to my dog.

Women, War, and Violence: Topography, Resistance, and Hope [2 volumes]: Topography, Resistance, and Hope

The story of men's roles in war and violence fills headlines and history books, but the women's narrative too often goes unnoticed.

Wild Women of Prescott, Arizona

Arizona remained a raw, rather uncivilized territory before it became one of the last states to enter the Union. Few towns exemplify this more than Prescott.

Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

Winner, 2013 Best First Book in Women's, Gender, and/or Sexuality History by the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansWinner, 2013 Lawrence W.

Temptress: From the Original Bad Girls to Women on Top

According to Jane Billinghurst, men created the idea of the temptress - an irresistible woman bent on bringing them down - to justify the fact that they so often surrender to women, especially in the bedroom. In this fascinating study, she examines this vision in history, mythology, in the Bible, artwork, and film.

We Don't Need Another Wave

We Don't Need Another Wave is a critique of the ways in which feminism is discussed in the mainstream media. Today's young feminists are wary of being labeled.

Reluctant Feminists in German Social Democracy, 1885-1917

Examining the convergence of socialism and feminism in the German labor movement around the turn of the century, Jean Quataert probes the competing identities and loyalties of class and sex and the problems their adherents faced in reconciling the two. By focusing on the women's movement in particular, she expands our understanding of the German Social Democratic subculture and shows that socialist feminism was far more important than has been recognized heretofore.

Indigenous Women and Work

These essays create a transnational and comparative dialogue on the history of the productive and reproductive lives and circumstances of Indigenous women from the late nineteenth century to the present in the United States, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Canada. Surveying the spectrum of Indigenous women's lives and circumstances as workers, both waged and unwaged, the contributors offer varied perspectives on the ways women's work has contributed to the survival of communities in the face of ongoing tensions between assimilation and colonization.

Gender and Jim Crow

Glenda Gilmore recovers the rich nuances of southern political history by placing black women at its center. She explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the time black and white women gained the vote in 1920.

Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden-and not always stoic-face of the "goodwives" of colonial America.

Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848

When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn't count on one thing: the women.

The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South

The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education.

Her Space, Her Story: Exploring the Stepwells of Gujarat

A fascinating, multi-disciplinary exploration of water, wells and women's spaces in Gujarat. Centuries ago, in the arid landscape of Gujarat, where water is scarce and rains scanty, stepwells sustained life and enabled crops to flourish.

Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sharon Hays' landmark book, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, this collection will revisit Hays' concept of "intensive mothering" as a continuing, yet controversial representation of modern motherhood. In Hays' original work, she spoke of "intensive mothering" as primarily being conducted by mothers, centered on children's needs with methods informed by experts, which are labour- intensive and costly simply because children are entitled to this maternal investment.

A Miracle Every Day

A Miracle Everyday takes an illuminating and intimate look at flourishing single-mother families. Single motherhood and the children of single mothers have been the subject of overwhelmingly negative statistical analysis.

Thirty-Three Secrets Arab Men Never Tell American Women

The author is writing under the pseudonym of "Cassandra" because of the desire to live free from threats of assassination by Islamist terrorists who consider it "blasphemy" when the truth is told about various aspects of the Islamic world. Cassandra, who was married to an Arab and lived among Arab/Muslim foreign nationals for many tumultuous years, has pursued ongoing Islamic studies on ideological Islam, the status and treatment of women and children in Arab/Muslim societies, and the growing terrorism occurring worldwide.

Jane Eyre's Sisters: How Women Live and Write the Heroine's Story

Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work

""Meticulously researched and rewarding to read…Thomas is a gifted storyteller.

Confident Women Designed by Almighty God

This book is designed to help women discover and rediscover the confidence Almighty God has placed inside each one of us. Confident Women Designed by Almighty God is a Bible study highly recommended for women who want to increase their self-esteem and confidence by following the path God ordained in His divinely inspired Holy Word.

South Asian Feminisms

During the past forty years, South Asia has been the location and the focus of dynamic, important feminist scholarship and activism.

A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010

A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship.

Maria or the Wrongs of Woman

Novel by the pioneering champion of women's rights (and the mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein).

Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times

Tanika Sarkars writings on women, religion, and nationhood in the context of colonial Bengal have been pathbreaking.

Rites of Return

The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the widespread effects of a legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present.

Within the Plantation Household

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.

Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives

Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health.