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Invention Of Women: Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses

The "woman question," this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society.

Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth

A stunning celebration and reappraisal of the importance of "women's work," Made from Scratch addresses the tug that many Americans feel between our professional and private lives.

Generations

What are the differences in how your grandmother, your mother, and your daughter experience the world? Compare the story of your grandmother's first date with you mother's, your mother's volunteer work with your own career, your great-grandmother's education and expectations with those of a teen today.

Wie haben Sie das gemacht?

Frauen sind heute überall präsent, wo Filme geschaffen, verbreitet und vermittelt werden.

The Troubles in Ballybogoin: Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland

. Bill Kelleher brings the reader in to the heart of Northern Ireland and its long, tragic conflict.

Breaking Barriers

As members of a tiny ethnic minority in Indonesia-the world's largest Islamic nation-Chinese-Indonesian women face hurdles of race and gender that others would find insurmountable. In Breaking Barriers, author Aimee Dawis profiles nine highly accomplished women who have overcome these obstacles and thrived.

Mothers in Academia

While more mothers are increasingly occupying institutions of higher learning, they still struggle to make headway in a world that privileges a commitment to countless hours of scholarly research and study. Despite some advances in institutional policy, these women continue to feel isolated and the need to strive for respect.

Women According to Men: The World of Tudor-Stuart Women

What was it like to be a woman when England was ruled by a queen, but women had almost no legal power? When marriage cost women their property rights?

Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America

Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America offers an essential perspective on the post-1960 movement for women's equality and liberation.

Starting Over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique

For more than a decade Judith Newton has been at the forefront of defining and promoting materialist feminist criticism. Starting Over brings together a selection of her essays that chart the establishment of feminist literary criticism in the academy and its relation to other forms of cultural criticism, including Marxist, post-Marxist, new historicist, and cultural materialist approaches, as well as cultural studies.

Greatest Caring Secrets Revealed

`Whether you are a teacher, a parent, a foster carer a social worker or work in social policy, Greatest Caring secrets offers you inspiring company'. Politician `Most revealing of the obvious we in authority miss.

Teaching Women's Studies in Conservative Contexts: Considering Perspectives for an Inclusive Dialogue

Women's Studies is a field that inspires strong reactions, both positive and negative, inside and outside of the classroom.

Mujeres de los Andes

El Seminario "Mujeres De Los Andes: Condiciones De Vida Y Salud" tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Quito, del 6 al 10 de junio de 1991.

Remarkable Oregon Women

Without the efforts of inspiring, brave women of the past, the progressive and individualistic Oregon we know today might not exist. From native tribes and Oregon Trail pioneers to Victorian suffragists and unlikely politicians, strong female leaders give profound meaning to the state motto, alis volat propriis-she flies with her own wings.

Resistance Behind Bars

Madison Women Remember

Madison is Wisconsin's capital city and the "land of the four lakes." Since the city's founding 150 years ago, rich and poor have lived in close proximity surrounded by the beautiful lakes, a fact that has played a role in the city's aspirations toward social justice and a good quality of life for all its residents.

Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema

Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyze culturally specific and globally held attitudes about mothers and mothering, as represented in world cinema. Examining films from a range of countries including Afghanistan, India, Iran, Eastern Europe, Canada, and the United States, the various chapters contextualize the socio-cultural realities of motherhood as they are represented on screen, and explore the maternal figure as she has been glamorized and celebrated, while simultaneously subjected to public scrutiny.

Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice

I AM BLACK WOMAN

The celebration of black women is endless, for their struggle and succession is chartered by dreams of past black heroines.

AZADI: Sexual Politics and Postcolonial Worlds

In December of 2012 in Delhi, India a woman was gang raped, tortured, and inflicted with such bodily violence that she died as a result of the injuries. The case caused massive public protests in Delhi and throughout the Indian subcontinent.

Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln's Country

The Dumville family settled in central Illinois during an era of division and dramatic change. Arguments over slavery raged.

A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization

There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements.

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics

Das innere Korsett

Frauen dürfen heute alles - und kommen trotzdem nicht voran. Geblendet von einigen Beispielen erfolgreicher Karrierefrauen, übersehen wir, dass Frauen heute keineswegs vorpreschen, sie treten auch nicht auf der Stelle, sie rudern viel eher zurück.

Women Police in a Changing Society: Back Door to Equality

Women in Political Theory

The first volume to explore comprehensively the intersection of feminism, politics, and philosophy, Women in Political Theory sheds light on the contributions of women philosophers and theorists to contemporary political thought.

Tales Told to the Tooth Goddess

The foundation of this collection of stories and essays is set close to Arunachala Mountain in Tamil Nadu. The stories explore aspects of life and landscape: e.

Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran

This book examines the women's movement in Iran and its role in contesting gender relations since the 1979 revolution.

Women in Management Worldwide

'Excellent', 'Outstanding' and 'Inspirational' were words used to describe the highly acclaimed and award winning first edition of Women in Management Worldwide.

Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island

Experience the history of Rhode Island and learn about the Ocean State's most fascinating and wild women. Read of Mercy Brown, a nineteen-year-old consumption victim who was thought to be a vampire and whose body was exhumed and discovered with blood in the heart.

The St. Louis Woman's Exchange

On the surface, the Woman's Exchange of St. Louis is an exquisite gift shop with an adjacent tearoom-beloved, always packed, the chatter light and feminine, the salads and pies perfect.

The Golden Lane

It was June 14, 1916, a warm, sticky Wednesday morning. The Democratic Convention would soon meet in St.

Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio

In Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio, author Jane Ann Turzillo recounts the misdeeds of ten dark-hearted women who refused to play by the rules. They unleashed their most base impulses using axes, guns, poison and more.

Mad Madame LaLaurie

On April 10, 1834 Firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning home of Creole society couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie. The horrible discovery of chained and mutilated slaves spawned a legend that has endured for over 150 years.

Texas Ranch Women

Texas would not be Texas without the formidable women of its past. Beneath the sunbonnets, Stetsons or high-fashion couture, the women of the Lone Star State carved out ranches, breathed new life into spreads and expanded acreage when husbands, sons and fathers fell.

Portsmouth Women

In the history of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, countless women rose above a rigid society to make their marks on the seaport city. In the eighteenth century, Allice Shannon Hight became a successful tavern keeper, outliving two husbands and providing for ten children.

Women Trailblazers of California

Throughout California's history, remarkable women have been at the core of change and innovation. In this unparalleled collection, Gloria Harris and Hannah Cohen relate the stories of forty women whose struggles and achievements have paved the way for generations.

Maryland Women in the Civil War

On July 9, 1864, young Mamie Tyler crouched in a cellar as Union sharpshooters above traded volleys with Confederate forces. After six excruciating hours, she emerged to nurse the wounded from the Battle of Monocacy.

The Murder of Maggie Hume

On August 16, 1982, an unidentified attacker brutalized and strangled Maggie Hume at her apartment in Battle Creek, Michigan. The daughter of a beloved local football coach, her seemingly senseless murder sparked intense scrutiny that lingers today.

Women in Long Island's Past

Women have been part of Long Island's past for thousands of years but are nearly invisible in the records and history books. From pioneering doctors to dazzling aviatrixes, author Natalie A.