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Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance

Although the international press closely chronicled the dismantling of South Africa's apartheid policies, it paid little attention to the unique role women from a variety of political parties played in establishing the new government. Utilizing interviews, participant observation, and archival research, Women in the South African Parliament tells an inspiring story of liberation, showing how these women achieved electoral success, learned to work with lifelong enemies, and began to transform Parliament by creating more space for women's voices during a critical time in the life of their democracy.

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Women's Lives

Women's lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore.

WARTIME RAPE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Given the extensive body of Holocaust literature, it may be surprising to note that there is a distinct gap of reflection, analysis, and qualification in the area of sexual violence. The subject of sexual violence during the Holocaust, in particular, the sexual violation of Jewish women, is a subject that has been largely repressed and silenced.

Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture

Winner of the 2015 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the National Communication AssociationAs an omnipresent figure of the media landscape, girls are spectacles.

Women of Modern France, Illustrated

First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "Among the Latin races, the French race differs essentially in one characteristic which has been the key to the success of French women-namely, the social instinct.

Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen

A number of recent books, magazines, and television programs have emerged that promise to take viewers inside the exciting world of professional chefs. While media suggest that the occupation is undergoing a transformation, one thing remains clear: being a chef is a decidedly male-dominated job.

Cold War Progressives: Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom

In recognizing the relation between gender, race, and class oppression, American women of the postwar Progressive Party made the claim that peace required not merely the absence of violence, but also the presence of social and political equality. For progressive women, peace was the essential thread that connected the various aspects of their activist agendas.

Analyzing Oppression

The Subjection of Women

Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking

Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order.

Solidarité et inégalités

Le monde carcéral, par le silence qui l'entoure et du fait du tabou dont le concept d'enfermement est entouré depuis toujours, est mal connu du grand public.

Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities

Solitudes of the Workplace focuses on experiences of marginalization, uncertainty and segregation created by the hierarchical structures of categories in universities and by gendered identities.

I Can't Believe It's Not Better: A Woman's Guide to Coping With Life

I Can't Believe It's Not Better is a collection of stories, essays, advice, and drawings from writer and comedian Monica Heisey.

Women's History For Beginners

Women's History For Beginners offers a lively, revealing, and provocative overview of this important (and controversial) academic field. Who are the great women of history, and why don't we know more about them?

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation

Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values.

The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu

A creative writing group unites and inspires girls of the first South African generation "born free."Born into post-apartheid South Africa, the young women of the townships around Cape Town still face daunting challenges.

INVISIBLE WOMEN

This book is based on a phenomenological study on undocumented Mexican immigrant mothers of high school students who have lived in the U.S.

The Sweet Sixteen: The Journey That Inspired the Canadian Women's Press Club

In 1904, sixteen women travelled together by train to cover the St Louis World's Fair. The Sweet Sixteen traces the fateful ten-day trip that resulted in the formation of a professional club for the advancement of Canadian newspaper women.

Intercourse

Andrea Dworkin, once called Feminism's Malcolm X," has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and activism of two generations of feminists.

Women Through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in 19th Century Travel Accounts

The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men.

The Asian Mystique

Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite - and because of - centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons: the tea-pouring, submissive, sexually available geisha girl; the steely cold dragon lady dominatrix; as well as the portrayal of the Asian male as effeminate and asexual.

After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors

Home Sweat Home

Coeditors Elizabeth Patton and Mimi Choi argue that an in-depth examination of media images of housework from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century is long overdue. Modern depictions often imply that certain concerns can be resolved through excessive domesticity, reflecting some of the complicated and unfinished issues of second-wave feminism.

Exporting Perilous Pauline

Exceptionally popular during their time, the spectacular American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority. The most renowned of these serial queens was Pearl White, whose career as the adventurous character Pauline developed during a transitional phase in the medium's evolving production strategies, distribution and advertising patterns, and fan culture.

One Woman's Voice: And How Using Yours Can Start a Revolution

Since I first began my work on the concept for One Woman's Voice, much has changed in the current landscape and outlook for the rights of women and girls, here in 2013 - changed for the better!

The Power of Good Deeds

The Power of Good Deeds allows us to see behind the media image of upper-class women and to observe how these women use their social power not only to benefit other, less-fortunate people, but also to benefit themselves and their families. Kendall's ethnographic research yields the personal narratives of elite women as they describe their views on philanthropy, the need for exclusivity in their by-invitation-only volunteer organizations (such as the Junior League and The Links), their childhood experiences and college years in prestigious schools and sororities, and the debutante presentations and other upper-class rituals in which they participate.

The Best-Kept Secret: Women Corporate Lobbyists, Policy, and Power in the United States

No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism

No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S.

Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan

This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T.

From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals

Barbara Haber, one of America's most respected authorities on the history of food, has spent years excavating fascinating stories of the ways in which meals cooked and served by women have shaped American history.

Smart Girls in the 21st Century: Understanding Talented Girls and Women

Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl.

Spinning Upward

Is the world going to end on December 22,2012? I don't know.

Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault

So serious are the topics of rape and sexual assault that the mere discussion of them is often avoided.

Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses: Walking on the Grass

Walking on the Grass brings to life women's experiences during their doctoral study and the experiences of women who supervise doctoral students.

De l'argent à soi

Séparer scrupuleusement dans son porte-monnaie son argent personnel de l'argent du couple, acheter une maison familiale avec deux hypothèques séparées ou vouloir contribuer autant que son mari au compte du ménage alors qu'on gagne moins que lui.

Out on Assignment

Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major cities-especially New York-from all parts of the United States.

After Pornified: How Women Are Transforming Pornography & Why It Really Matters: How Women Are Transforming Pornography & Why It Really Matters

Conversations with Feminism

Applying the idea of conversation broadly, Penny A. Weiss offers a collection of essays that are either constructed dialogues, letters, or discussions about voice and silencing.

Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture

Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women.