Zubaan - The history of doing: an illustrated account of movements for women's rights and feminism in india, 1800-1990

Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-conflict Peacebuilding

Women are among the most competent, yet marginalized, unnoticed and underutilized actors in efforts to rebuild war-torn societies.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity.

Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East

Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West.

L'ombre et son double

World's Women 2010, The

The World's Women 2010 uniquely reviews and analyses the current availability of data and assesses progress made in the reporting of national statistics, as opposed to internationally prepared estimates, relevant to gender concerns.

Women Singers in Global Contexts

Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-making. Ten unique women constitute the heart of this volume: each one has engaged her singing voice as a central element in her life, experiencing various opportunities, tensions, and choices through her vocality.

A Path Not Strewn With Roses: One Hundred Years of Women at the University of Toronto 1884-1984

In the histories of the University of Toronto which have been written to date women are conspicuous in their absence. It must be stressed that the present book is not intended to stand as a full-scale history of women at the University of Toronto.

X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895

During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain's ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world.

La morte ci fa belle

Non c'è niente di più poetico al mondo della morte di una bella donna, scriveva Edgar Allan Poe a metà dell'Ottocento.

The Scandalous Lives of Carolina Belles Marie Boozer and Amelia Feaster: Flirting with the Enemy

In Civil War Columbia, South Carolina, no women were more gossiped about than Amelia Feaster and her teenage daughter, Marie Boozer.

Marking Time in the Golden State

In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone change in the United States. This case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s and 1990s examines key points in this recent history.

Abiding Courage

Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Drawing on fifty oral interviews with migrants as well as on archival and other written records, Abiding Courage examines the experiences of the African American women who migrated west and built communities there.

Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing the World

In Women Reshaping Human Rights, ordinary yet extraordinary women tell their stories, in their own words. Their deeds span continents and have profoundly affected millions worldwide.

Zelfstandige vrouwen in Meppel en Coevorden 1600-1800

Drentse Historische Reeks, 15 In de gouden eeuw, een tijd van economische en culturele voorspoed, namen in het gewest Holland uitzonderlijk veel vrouwen deel aan het arbeidsproces. Was dat in Drenthe ook het geval?

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 Singapore Women's Charter: 50 Questions

Prof Leong Wai Kum not only demystifies the provisions of the Women's Charter, she also situates the Charter in Singapore's political context at the time.

Women and Leadership: A Contextual Perspective

This book examines womenís access to leadership roles and how these roles are perceived in society. It represents one of the first scholarly examinations of the burgeoning field of leadership.

A Stripper's Handbook: An Ethnographic Portrait of Seven Exotic Dancers

This book is a rare look into the lives of seven exotic dancers. It examines the taboo topic of female sexuality for sale.

Women Pioneers For The Environment

As the torchbearers of environmental activism, women from around the world have created profound changes that are helping to ensure a healthier planet for all living things.

The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-first Century

""One part The Beauty Myth. and one part Backlash"-a provocative exploration of who and what a wife really is.

Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women's History in Canada

We are the Work

""We Are The Work" is about how Men Stopping Violence (MSV), a small, social justice nonprofit, got to do big things, about the intriguing characters that formed and were informed by MSV's mission, about how men and women learned to work in solidarity to address men's violence against women (VAW), about their successes and failures, the lessons which became the Core Principles that guide their work. One of those principles, We Are the Work, means that no matter where or when you enter the struggle to end VAW you have to start and stay with examining yourself.

In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America

In Glory's Shadow explores the history of The Citadel, an institution set on preserving tradition in the face of profound change.

Athena Unbound

Why are there so few women scientists? Persisting differences between women's and men's experiences in science make this question as relevant today as it ever was.

Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca

In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico.

They Used to Call Me Snow White. . . But I Drifted

Published by Viking in 1991 and issued as a paperback through Penguin Books in 1992, Snow White became an instant classic for both academic and general audiences interested in how women use humor and what others (men) think about funny women.

Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art

In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts-life, politics, and art-by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin's account of the evolution of species.

Toda mulher é meio Leila Diniz

Toda mulher é meio Leila Diniz é um livro apaixonado e apaixonante sobre uma mulher carioca que revolucionou os costumes no final da década de 1960. E por que Leila Diniz, entre tantas outras mulheres que viveram intensamente esse momento histórico, se tornou um mito?

Portsmouth Women: Madams & Matriarchs Who Shaped New Hampshire's Port City

In the history of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, countless women rose above a rigid society to make their marks on the seaport city.

The Wisdom Trail: In the Footsteps of Remarkable Women

A Journey on Bare Feet

A Journey on Bare Feet is a personal and deeply moving account of a woman's struggle towards intellectual and emotional self-realisation in a hostile environment.

Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World

Peggy Orenstein's bestselling Schoolgirls is the classic study of teenage girls and self-esteem. Now Orenstein uses the same interviewing and reporting skills to examine the lives of women in their 20s, 30s and 40s.

From the Shtetl to the Lecture Hall: Jewish Women and Cultural Exchange

Until the 19th century, women were regularly excluded from graduate education. When this convention changed, it was largely thanks to Jewish women from Russia.

Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash

Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle

Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic culture from roughly 1880 to 1914 to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal.

LA HOJA DE MI LIBRO

La mujer en el mundo actual sigue luchando con energía por ganarse un lugar sin ocultar sus miedos y ataduras. El siglo XXI trae demasiada información que hace que las mujeres se confundan con su día a día, intentando romper, sin que se rompan verdaderamente, ataduras de antaño.

Fifty Years to Say I Love You

Focusing on what led to chaos, resentment, and hostility from abuse and neglect during my childhood guides my journey to a testimony of hope and healing. During my search for healing, I discovered it's not the details in my story, but the outcome from my journey that holds great substance.

The Breaking Point: How Today's Women Are Navigating Midlife Crisis

""[The Breaking Point] suggests that the national conversation is about to have a hot flash. The passage through middle age of so large a clump of women.

Woman2Woman

Men and women both face challenges in relationships, problems with insecurities, and self-esteem issues. Woman2Woman addresses these issues candidly.

Telling Political Lives: The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States

This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christine Todd Whitman.