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The Struggle for Equal Adulthood

In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power. Corinne T.

Pedagogies of Deveiling: Muslim Girls and the Hijab Discourse

Manal Hamzeh's book, Pedagogies of deveiling: muslim girls & the hijab discourse, presents an exploration of a gendering discourse, the hijab (veil) discourse, and how it was negotiated by four girls who self-identified as muslims. Pedagogies of deveiling emerged over a period of three years writing up a 14 months long study in which Hamzeh collaborated with four muslim girls in two US southwestern border towns between October 2005 and December 2006.

Fields of Fire

To read this book is to flip through scenes that rivet us with the intimate intensity of snapshots, both comic and tragic. From the hills of Wyoming to the back streets of Saigon, we see the narrator encounter experiences that test her mettle.

Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city.

Confessions of A Failed Slut

As the only female columnist at controversial, conservative Taki's Magazine, Kathy Shaidle soon found herself covering an unlikely beat: sexuality. "Unlikely" because as the married, 50-year-old Shaidle explains, "my 'number' (as the kids call it these days) is so low that in certain Australian provinces I would still be considered a virgin.

Nation-Building, State and the Genderframing of Women's Rights in the United Arab Emirates

The extensive changes to Emirati women's traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its almost forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about.

Same Sex, Different Cultures

Because homoerotic relations can be found in so many cultures, Gilbert Herdt argues that we should think of these relations as part of the human condition. This new cross-cultural study of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals around the world, Same Sex, Different Cultures provides a unique perspective on maturing and living within societies, both historical and contemporary, that not only acknowledge but also incorporate same-gender desires and relations.

Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy

The history of how abortion came to be banned and how women lost-for the century between approximately 1870 and 1970-rights previously thought to be natural and inherent over their own bodies is a fascinating and infuriating one.

Women's Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices

Globalization is not a new phenomenon; women throughout the world have been dealing with the circumstances and consequences of an international economy long before the advent of the transnational corporate conglomerate. However, in a mercenary example of the tried clich "the more things change, the more they stay the same," women-particularly those of color-continue to be relegated to the lowest rung of the occupational ladder, where their indispensable contributions to global market capitalism are downplayed or invalidated completely through the perpetuation of stereotypes and the denial of access to better job opportunities and resources.

Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities

Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion

Behind the Silence is the first in-depth work in any language to explore the diverse perspectives of mainland Chinese regarding induced abortion and fetal life in the context of the world's most ambitious and intrusive family planning program.

Heroines

A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression.

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single

Women on Their Own includes eleven original essays that embrace a broad definition of singleness-women who never married, those who cohabit but are legally denied the right to marry, divorcees, and widows. Writers describe women who defiantly voted, single mothers who rejected dependency on public assistance, women who ran businesses, and others who found fulfillment in charitable work.

Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950

In the late nineteenth century, midwifery was transformed into a new woman's profession as part of Japan's modernizing quest for empire. With the rise of Japanese immigration to the United States, Japanese midwives (sanba) served as cultural brokers as well as birth attendants for Issei women.

Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964

As tensions mounted before Freedom Summer, one organization tackled the divide by opening lines of communication at the request of local women: Wednesdays in Mississippi (WIMS).

Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement

Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement provides a window into the passion and significance of thirty-eight committed individuals who led a grassroots movement in a socially conservative state.

The Strange History of the American Quadroon

Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex.

Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming

Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators these are the dangerous women of traditional China. Through her exploration of the myth and history of the Ming, Victoria B.

Woman Aware

To be AWARE of the unconscious motivations impinging on our senses is the heart of this book. While the near universal belief that women are the inferior gender is refuted by contemporary empirical scientific evidence, this prejudice, while not restricted to Temple, Church or Mosque, has been conceived, nurtured and promoted by select religious dogmas of 'The Big Three' religions.

Women's Suffrage Memorabilia: An Illustrated Historical Study

While historians have long recognized the importance of memorabilia to the Woman Suffrage movement, the subject has not been explored apart from a few restricted, albeit excellent, studies.

Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical

From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked" female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche.

Travail et propriété de femmes en temps de crise (Turin, XVIIIe siècle)

Ce livre étudie le rôle de la propriété et du travail des femmes de la population urbaine de Turin - sauf la noblesse - durant la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle, dans un contexte de grave crise économique et sociale.

Remapping Gender in the New Global Order

This book analyzes changes in gender relations, as a result of globalization, in countries on the semi-periphery of power.

Kalyani Magazine - Issue 1 Victim

Kalyani's mission is to provide a voice to all those women of color that remain voiceless. It encourages women of colour to express their views, their experiences, their feelings.

Selling Women Short

On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story.

Taboo!: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light Area

Taboo! is a journey of discovery into a famous red light district of Lahore, Pakistan, known as Shahi Mohalla, the Royal Bazaar, or Heera Mandi, the market of diamonds.

Not Only the "Dangerous Trades": Women's Work and Health in Britain 1880-1914

Focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women, this book examines the relationships between gender, work and illness from 1880 to 1914. It looks at the part played by feminist activists in debates about health and industrial work and shows how they went beyond the concerns of suffrage.

Fanny Bixby Spencer: Long Beach's Inspirational Firebrand

The last daughter born to Jotham Bixby, the "Father of Long Beach," Fanny Bixby Spencer (1879-1930) carved her own singular and eccentric path across California history.

Remarkable Women of Rhode Island

Rhode Island proudly claims a long list of remarkable women throughout history, from pioneering education reformers and suffragettes to trailblazing athletes and authors.

Sex Object: A Memoir

Maternal Theory: Essential Readings

Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. This collection, the first ever anthology on maternal theory, introduces readers to this rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory.

Black Motherhood(s)

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. With an aim to extend traditional treatments of Black motherhood that are often centered on a subordinated and struggling perspective, these essays address some of the hegemonic reality while also exploring nuance in experiences, less explored areas of subjugation, as well as pathways of resistance and resilience in spite of it.

Lucinda and The Mighty Oak

Lucinda is a girl with a dream, an improbable goal. She wants to climb the oak tree that is such a big part of her world.

Emily Greene Balch: The Long Road to Internationalism

A well-known American academic and cofounder of Boston's first settlement house, Emily Greene Balch was an important Progressive Era reformer and advocate for world peace. Balch served as a professor of economics and sociology at Wellesley College for twenty years until her opposition to World War I resulted with the board of trustees refusing to renew her contract.

The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance

The Stoning of Soraya M.

Soraya M.'s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn't afford to marry another woman.

The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation

A provocative look at the way our culture deals with menstruation. The Curse examines the culture of concealment that surrounds menstruation and the devastating impact such secrecy has on women's physical and psychological health.

Women of America (Illustrated)

First published in 1907. Six illustrations.

Autobiography of a Blue-eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society

Daughters of the Declaration

America's founding fathers established an idealistic framework for a bold experiment in democratic governance. The new nation would be built on the belief that all men are created equal, and are endowed.