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Crimes Against Women In India

The Book deals with contemporary issues of rape, the aftermath and THE judgment. Rape is rampant in the country.

Voces de juncos en el pantano

Voces de Juncos en el pantano es la historia contada por las mujeres deuna familia, historias que no se dicen, que se han guardado en secretocomo un intento de ayudar al tiempo y al olvido. Pero la memoria obliga a laconfesión, la confesión obliga a contar historias y a cambiarle los nombres anuestra verdad.

Gendering Politics: Women in Israel

What are the cultural and structural mechanisms that exclude women from politics in general and from local politics in particular? What meaning is ascribed to women's political activity?

A History of Women in America: From Founding Mothers to Feminists-How Women Shaped the Life and Culture of America

From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America.

The Captain's Best Mate

The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.

L'inconsapevole… e Silente Potere delle Donne

Il libro, scevro da misoginia e misandria, è un'analisi che pone sotto i riflettori gl'incerti postulati relativi all'ampio libero arbitrio che le donne hanno in società nella scelta e gestione della loro immagine, ed il conseguente potere che ne deriva. concatenato a molteplici ed insospettabili.

Composing a Life

Mary Catherine Bateson has been called "one of the most original and important thinkers of our time" (Deborah Tannen). Grove Press is pleased to reissue Bateson's deeply satisfying treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women.

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements

Reframing feminism for the twenty-first century, this bold and essential history stands up against "bland corporate manifestos" (Sarah Leonard).

Surrendering to Motherhood

Surrendering To Motherhood Losing Your Mind, Finding Your Soul is a life-changing book that send a message to the authors own generation of women programmed to have it all, great jobs and great families.

Minding the Body

A mulitcultural anthology of fiction and non-fiction literary narratives which addresses the psychological and political aspects of a woman's body in today's culture.

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

When Deng Xiaoping's efforts to "open up" China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women.

Southern Strategies

The biographies of more than 800 women form the basis for Elna Green's study of the suffrage and the antisuffrage movements in the South. Green's comprehensive analysis highlights the effects that factors such as class background, marital status, educational level, and attitudes about race and gender roles had in inspiring the region's women to work in favor of, or in opposition to, their own enfranchisement.

Beyond Belief

Beyond Belief addresses what happens when women of extreme religions decide to walk away. Editors Susan Tive (a former Orthodox Jew) and Cami Ostman (a de-converted fundamentalist born-again Christian) have compiled a collection of powerful personal stories written by women of varying ages, races, and religious backgrounds who share one commonality: they've all experienced and rejected extreme religions.

Country Women Cope with Hard Times

""It was hard times," French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echoed by the sixteen other women who talk about their lives in Country Women Cope with Hard Times.

Wagadu Volume 3

The United Nations has proclaimed the 21st century to be the century of water. In this volume, Water and Women in Past, Present and Future, scholars analyze the gendered political economy of water resource allocations and importantly, offer recommendations for viable, women-friendly solutions to address scarcity and distribution, among other issues.

The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau

Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India's elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s.

Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader

Among the most prominent icons of the American south is that of the southern belle, immortalized by such figures as Scarlett O'Hara, Dolly Madison, and Lucy Pickens (whose elegant image graced the Confederate $100 bill).

Red Light Women of Death Valley

From the 1870s to the turn of the century, while countless men gambled their fortunes in Death Valley's mines, many bold women capitalized on the boom-and-bust lifestyle and established saloons and brothels.

Pregnant at 16

""Pregnant at 16" is a deeply personal, informative and impassioned reflection on the outcome of the author's life as a result of her choice to carry and keep her baby when she became pregnant as a teenager, in 1974. Lori's conversational style of writing eases the reader into her story effortlessly.

Sisters in Spirit

Remarkable Women of Stockton

Women played prominent roles during Stockton's growth from gold rush tent city to California leader in transportation, agriculture and manufacturing. Heiresses reigned in the city's nineteenth-century mansions.

Enfants de la déesse

Military Sexual Trauma (MST) - Defense Department Task Force Report on Care for Victims of Sexual Assault

This ebook provides an abridged reproduction of the Defense Department document, Task Force Report on Care for Victims of Sexual Assault.

The Victoria Mxenge Housing Project: Women Building Communities Through Social Activism and Informal Learning

In 1994, at the beginning of South Africa's democratic change, the Victoria Mxenge Housing Project was founded by a group of 12 women who lived in shacks on the barren outskirts of Cape Town.

War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War

Character is Destiny: The Autobiography of Alice Salomon

In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker Alice Salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems. Salomon took the lead in establishing the profession of social work, and built a career as a social reformer, activist, and educator.

Women's Studies on the Edge

At many universities, women's studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments.

Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean: Envisioning a Politics of Coalition

This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies.

Arguments with Silence

Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian. Widely represented in literature and art, they rarely speak for themselves.

All Things Altered: Women in the Wake of Civil War and Reconstruction

Few readers of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed Scarlett O'Hara tried to rebuild Tara after the Civil War ended.

Transforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor in 1898

In 1898, the year Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was inaugurated, five hundred women organized an enormous public exhibition showcasing women's contributions to Dutch society as workers in a strikingly broad array of professions.

Women of the Revolution

Each of the Southern Revolutionary battlefields holds the history of soldiers and legends of women. From the wooded slopes of Kings Mountain to the fields of Cowpens, to the lesser-known sites like Fishing Creek and Hanging Rock, author Robert M.

Women of Early Christianity, Illustrated

First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "Christianity introduced a new moral epoch in the course of human history.

Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

As a young woman, Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked her grandmother for career advice. She was shocked by the reply: "Get married.

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEDrawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.

Capital Intentions

Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that combined family concerns with money-making activities.

The Feminist Classroom

The issues explored in The Feminist Classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago. This expanded edition offers new material that rereads and updates previous chapters, including a major new chapter on the role of race.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens.

Writing Women's History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott

Anne Firor Scott's The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 stirred a keen interest among historians in both the approach and message of her book.

Bi

Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. Bi takes a long overdue, comprehensive look at bisexual politics-from the issues surrounding biphobia/monosexism, feminism, and transgenderism to the practice of labeling those who identify as bi as either too bisexual" (promiscuous and incapable of fidelity) or not bisexual enough" (not actively engaging romantically or sexually with people of at least two different genders).