Suny Press - Out for blood: essays on menstruation and resistance

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.

Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas

Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas. Taking Risks offers a creative, interdisciplinary approach to narrating the stories of activist scholarship by women.

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.

Joy of Noh, The: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan

Examines Japanese later life learners involved in Noh theater. Centered on questions of identity formation, selfhood, and the body, this ethnography examines the experiences of later life learners in Japan.

Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship By and About Mother with Disabilities

This collection of 18 scholarly works and personal accounts from Canada, the U.S, and Australia explores and analyzes issues of parenting by mothers with a variety of physical and mental disabilities.

Biographical Encyclopaedia of World Great Women

Encyclopaedia Of Women Empowerment

Power has been the focus of such debate within the social sciences. The dominant understanding has been of power as 'power over'.

Women power Status of Women In India

Contributed articles by eminent social Scientists dealing extensively with diverse aspects of the subject, highlighting socio-economic and Political problems facing Indian women.

Women Empowerment A Functional Model

The Title 'Women Empowerment-A Functional written/authored/edited by K. Manoharan Nair & L.

Elderly Women: Vulnerability And Support Structures

Of late, the situation of elderly women has globally attracted the attention of the civil society.

Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us as Feminist Acadamics and Activists

Mothers Unite!: Organizing for Workplace Flexibility and the Transformation of Family Life