University Of Georgia Press - Liberation in print: feminist periodicals and social movement identity

Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican-American War

In Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies, John M. Belohlavek tells the story of women on both sides of the Mexican-American War (1846-48) as they were propelled by the bloody conflict to adopt new roles and expand traditional ones.

Women Empowerment through Microfinance

New century has thrown many challenges subjecting many nations to undergo transformation cutting across their established tradition and culture. New issues have to be addressed to affect socioeconomic progress of our nation.

Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 2017/1: A New Land: Rediscovering Agency in Belarusian History, Politics, and Society

This special issue provides a forum for discussion of what Belarusian Studies are today and which new approaches and questions are needed to revitalize the field in the regional and international academic arena.

Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700

Bad Mothers: Regulations, Represetatives and Resistance

Historicizing Post-Discourses: Postfeminism and Postracialism in United States Culture

Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.

Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career

We worry putting our family first means we'll be forced to abandon our careers. We're afraid if we pause our careers, we'll be forever off-track.

Staging Women's Lives in Academia: Gendered Life Stages in Language and Literature Workplaces

Argues that institutional change must accommodate women's professional and personal life stages.

Taking the Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood and Social Media

The rise of social media has changed how we understand and enact relationships across our lives, including motherhood.

UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour

An unknown actress on movie star's arm was how she began. An anonymous activist in a rubber gorilla mask is where she wound up.

Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance

Frames menstruation as a site of resistance, defiance, and shamelessness, showcasing the work of those who fight back against shame and silence.

Honour and Violence: Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan

The practice of karo kari allows family, especially fathers, brothers and sons, to take the lives of their daughters, sisters and mothers if they are accused of adultery.

Rhetorical Healing: The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood

Angels on Earth: Mothering, Religion and Spirtuality

This collection brings together scholarly and creative pieces that reveal how the intellectual, emotional, and physical work of mothering is informed by women's religiosities and spiritualities.

The Roar of the Lionesses: Women's Football in England

Millions watched the 2015 Women's World Cup as the England Lionesses roared in Canada, winning bronze.

Motherhood and Single-Lone Parenting: A 21st Century Perspective

The 21st century sustains one significant commonality with the decades of the preceding century. The majority of individuals parenting on their own and heading one-parent families continue to be mothers.

Muslim Mothering: Global Histories, Theries and Practises

Muslim Mothering is an interdisciplinary volume, concentrating on the experiences of Muslim mothers, largely in the contemporary period.

Are All the Women Still White?: Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms

Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back.

Engaging the World: Thinking after Irigaray

Offers essays demonstrating the critical relevance of Irigaray's thought of sexual difference for addressing contemporary ethical and social issues.

Missing the Mark? Women and the Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Oceania

In the year 2000, United Nations world leaders set out eight targets, the UN Millennium Development Goals, for achieving improved standards of living at the micro level in poorer nations around the globe, by the year 2015.

New Maternalisms: Tales of Motherwork (dislodging the Unthinkable)

Tongue of Fire: Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question

Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives

From multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume explores the roles mothers play in the producing, purchasing, preparing and serving of food to their own families and to their communities in a variety of contexts.

Seven Czech Women: Portaits of Courage, Humanism, and Enlightenment

This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Czech women.

Mothering in Marginalized Contents: Narratives of Women Who Mother In the Domestic Violence

Women in Their Own Words: Quotations to Empower and Inspire

""A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants."Coco ChanelAs writers and thinkers, leaders and innovators, creators and counsellors, women have given us countless words to enlighten, encourage, challenge and console.

What's Cooking Mom? Narratives about Food and Family

What's Cooking, Mom? offers original and inventive narratives, including auto-ethno- graphic discussions of representations, discourses and practices about and by mothers regarding food and families.

The Mother Blame Game

The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century.

Black Motherhood(s) Contours, Contexts and Considerations

This book considers Black Motherhood through multiple and global lenses to engage the reader in an expanded reflection and to prompt further discourse on the intersection of race and gender within the construct of motherhood among Black women.

Asian Muslim Women: Globalization and Local Realities

Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women's lives and agencies.

Contesting Feminisms: Gender and Islam in Asia

Creates a new space for hybrid feminist analysis of Asian Muslim women's lives.

It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain

Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.

Huichol Women, Weavers, and Shamans

For centuries the Huichol (Wixárika) Indian women of Jalisco, Mexico, have been weaving textiles on backstrap looms. This West Mexican tradition has been passed down from mothers to daughters since pre-Columbian times.

Maternal Activism: Mothers Confronting Injustice

Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.

Feminist Figure Girl: Look Hot While You Fight the Patriarchy

Analyzes the author's transformation from academic to figure competitor.

Performing Motherhood; Artistic, Activist and Everyday Enactments

Performing Motherhood explores relationships between performativity and the maternal.

Mothering in East Asian Communities;Politics and Practices

Patti Duncan is associate professor and Coordinator of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University where she specializes in transnational feminisms, women of color feminisms, and feminist media studies.

Desiring Emancipation: New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women's claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

Encyclopaedia of Women in Politics

Encyclopedia of Women in Politics, it examines the emergence of women in the light of modernization and democratization process set in lndia and the rest of world.

Welfare And Development Of Women

Welfare can take a variety of forms, such as monetary payments, subsidies and vouchers, health services, or housing. Welfare may be provided directly by governments or their agencies, by private organizations, or by a combination.