Aadi Publications - Parental attitude towards women education: a critical study

Problems of Working Women in Profession and Family

The financial demands on the Indian families are becoming fiercer by day. The sky rocketing cost of living, increasing expenses on education of children, increasing cost of housing properties in India force every family in India to look for ways and means of increasing the household income.

Anarchism and Other Essays

In the 1890s and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the "notorious Anarchist," feminist, revolutionist, and agitator, Emma Goldberg. A Russian Jewish immigrant at the age of 17, she moved by her own efforts from seamstress in a clothing factory to internationally known radical lecturer, writer, editor, and friend of the oppressed.

Mothering and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives

""The collection of 23 essays provides an exciting snapshot of contemporary theorising on the maternal within psychoanalytic and social theory.

Mothers Under Fire: Mothering in Conflict Areas

""Mothers Under Fire: Mothering in Conflict Areas" examines the experiences of women mothering in conflict areas.

Women's Wit and Wisdom

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact," said Mary Ann Evans, a.k.

Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context: Challenges, Strategies, and Possibilities

This Is What a Feminist Slut Looks Like: Perspectives on the SlutWalk Movement

In April 2011, a team of five people put together Slutwalk Toronto, a protest responding to slut shaming and victim blaming culture, exemplified by a recent event at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.

Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics Second Edition

Queering Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives

Queering Motherhood represents a unique and well-written collection of essays written by a diverse range of authors, including scholars, activists, and queer parents.

Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism

Neoliberal policies and austerity measures have unequivocally altered the landscape of women's lives globally. The most detrimental effect has been on mothers as they are faced with increasing responsibility and decreasing resources.

Texas Girl: A Memoir

At twenty-seven years old, Robin Silbergleid decided to become a single mother. Not as a backup or Plan B, but as first choice.

Milk Fever

In 1789, Armande, a wet nurse who is known for the mystical qualities of her breast milk, goes missing. Ce leste, a cunning servant girl who Armande once saved from shame and starvation, sets out to find her.

Mothering in East Asian Communities: Politics and Practices

In Mothering in East Asian Communities, Duncan and Wong seamlessly rupture a homogenous identity category-that of the "tiger mom.

Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering

As the fastest growing prison population worldwide, more and more women are living in cages and most of them are mothers. This alarm- ing trend has huge ramifications for women, children and communities across the globe.

Birth of the Uncool

Birth of the Cool, a compilation album by jazz great Miles Davis, was released in 1957, the year before I was born. That album defined "cool jazz": elegant, distant, hip, and stylish.

Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood

Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood is a collection of creative non-fiction essays. Through story, contributing authors explore how expectations collide with the complex realities we face as we mother.

Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics

This edited volume maps new advances in theories and practices in feminist economics and the valuation of women, care and nature since Marilyn Waring's 1988 groundbreaking critique of the system of national accounts, If Women Counted.

What We Hold In Our Hands

Borrowed Body

""I could have been born and raised in Africa. But my Spirit was in too much of a rush to be reincarnated.

The Suffragette

By 1903, more than fifty years of peaceful campaigning had brought British women no closer to attaining the right to vote. In that year activist Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant organization dedicated to achieving women's suffrage.

Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship by and about Mothers 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.

Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments

Performing Motherhood explores relationships between performativity and the maternal.

Patricia Hill Collins: Reconceiving Motherhood

Patricia Hill Collins has given new meaning to the institution of motherhood throughout her publishing career.

Stay-At-Home Mothers: Dialogues and Debates

This book includes a remarkably diverse range of voices and perspectives on the under-researched topic of mothers electing to stay at home to care for their children or returning home after being in the paid workforce.

On Huron's Shore

Marilyn Gear Pilling brilliantly displayed her competence in describing women in My Nose is a Gherkin Pickle Gone Wrong (1996). Showing them "in all their nakedness.

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

Mothering Mennonite

Mothering Mennonite marks the first scholarly attempt to incorporate religious groundings in interpretations of motherhood.

The Music of Leaving

There is a music of leaving, as surely as there is that of arriving. And it is this distinct soulful music that we often hear, however faintly, in the background of our lives.

Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding

Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding reveals the lighter side of nursing and throws a lifeline to mothers in the thick of lactation.

Mothers, Mothering and Sex Work

Exploring the shared intersections of mothering, motherhood and sex work, Mothers, Mothering and Sex Work weaves together a range of voices from academic and sex-worker communities around the world.

Anansesem: Telling Stories and Storytelling African Maternal Pedagogies

Anansesem: Telling Stories and Storytelling African Maternal Pedagogies is a composite story on African-Canadian mothers' experiences of teaching and learning while mothering.

Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy

Laboring Positions aims to disrupt the dominant discourse on academic women's mothering experiences.

Hijas Americanas

In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina women, Molinary provides a powerful understanding of the inner conflicts and powerful triumphs of Latinas.

Against Citizenship

Numerous activists and scholars have appealed for rights, inclusion, and justice in the name of "citizenship." Against Citizenship provocatively shows that there is nothing redeemable about citizenship, nothing worth salvaging or sustaining in the name of "community," practice, or belonging.

Sexing the Body

Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention?

Repudiating Feminism: Young Women in a Neoliberal World

Gender equality is a widely shared value in many western societies and yet, the mention of the term feminism frequently provokes unease, bewilderment or overt hostility. Repudiating Feminism sheds light on why this is the case.

Sex Testing

In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) implemented sex testing for female athletes at that year's Games. When it became clear that testing regimes failed to delineate a sex divide, the IOC began to test for gender -a shift that allowed the organization to control the very idea of womanhood.

Little Book of Feminism

Calcium oxide

Calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound. It is a white, caustic, alkaline, crystalline solid at room temperature.

Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada

The hidden crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is both a national tragedy and a national shame.