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Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939

Widows and Orphans First investigates the importance of local economies and values in the origins of the welfare state through an exploration of widows' lives in three industrial American cities with widely differing economic, ethnic, and racial bases. x000B In Fall River, Massachusetts, employment was regarded as the solution to widows' poverty, so public charitable expenditure was drastically limited.

Die sexuelle Krise

Eine im Jahr 1909 erschienene sozialpsychologische Untersuchung mit dem Titel "Die sexuelle Krise". Hierin vertiefte die Autorin ihren theoretischen Ansatz, indem sie als notwendige Voraussetzung für die sexuelle Befreiung der Frau eine Veränderung der Wirtschafts- und Sozialform forderte.

The Vagina Monologues: 20th Anniversary Edition

Imagining Medea

This ain't no Dreamgirls," Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her expectations are grounded in reality, tempered, for example, by the fact that women are the fastest growing population in U.

Radium Girls

In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark's book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea that the tedious task of dialpainting was any different from the other factory jobs available to them.

North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry

Viola Gentry of Rockingham County, North Carolina, learned to fly in 1924 and quickly achieved greater heights. In 1925, the aviatrix took her first solo flight.

The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit

When Patricia Monaghan traveled to Ireland seeking her roots, what she found was much more than her physical ancestors. This is the story of her journey and the legends, landmarks, and mystical lore she encountered.

Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World

Lifting a Ton of Feathers is not only a survival guide, it is also a destroyer of academic myths about women's career chances in the university, and a revelation of the catch-22 positions in which women find themselves.

Leadership and Agency by Women Engineers in South Africa

The book discusses the current and relevant issues that women engineers face in their work and daily lives in South Africa, as well as the challenges and reward that women experience and the motivation they have for their careers. We share with the reader the reality and truth of being a woman, working as an engineer, in a country as challenging and diverse as South Africa-and suggest solutions that government, companies, and institutions may consider for implementation in the attraction and retention of technical women.

The Freedom of the Streets

Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women-but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes.

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

Venturing into Usefulness, the second volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, documents the experience of this major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author between June 1881, when at twenty-one she had just graduated from Rockford Female Seminary, and early 1889, when she was on the verge of founding the Hull-House settlement with Ellen Gates Starr. During these years she was developing into the social reformer and advocate of women's rights, socioeconomic justice, and world peace she would eventually become.

Labor and Desire

This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges the conventional wisdom that feminism as a discourse disappeared during the decade.

I Do But I Don't

Why is the traditional image of the bride before her wedding day that of a stressed and overly emotional woman, snapping at everyone in sight? And how, over the last decade, has the wedding industry exploded into a hundred-billion-dollar-a-year industry that sends increasing numbers of newly married couples into debt?

Latina Lives in Milwaukee

Milwaukee's small but vibrant Mexican and Mexican American community of the 1920s grew over succeeding decades to incorporate Mexican, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, and Caribbean migration to the city. Drawing on years of interviews and collaboration with interviewees, Theresa Delgadillo offers a set of narratives that explore the fascinating family, community, work, and career experiences of Milwaukee's Latinas during this time of transformation.

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement

An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir

*NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS"A candid, generous, and profound spiritual memoir that deserves a great deal of thoughtful discussion.

Wild Words from Wild Women

A ribald collection of bon mots on everything from bras to babies, shopping to sex, menopause to men, and politics to parties."I'm everything you were afraid your little girl would grow up to be-and your little boy.

Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives

Fundamental Differences brings together lucid interdisciplinary critiques of social conservative politics and ideas in the areas of welfare, family and school policy, gender representation, and conservative doctrine.

Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science

Why are there so few women in science?

Senator Hattie Caraway

Hattie Caraway unexpectedly became the first female U.S.

Simply Irresistible

It's said if you want to succeed, watch successful people and do what they do. Simply Irresistible is a humorous manual of case studies that show how the greatest sirens of history did what they did and got what they wanted, nearly all the time.

Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel

Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem examines how travel shaped ideas about culture and nation in nineteenth-century imperialist England and colonial India.

Wicked Women of New Mexico

New Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect setting in which to seize wealth.

Motherhood and Feminism

How does feminism relate to motherhood, how has it changed over time, and what does the future of motherhood and feminism look like? These are just some of the questions Amber E.

Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage

Sure to take its place alongside the literary landmarks of modern feminism, Elaine Showalter's brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of feminist intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the present.

Women Trailblazers of California: Pioneers to the Present

Throughout California's history, remarkable women have been at the core of change and innovation.

Beauvoir and Her Sisters: The Politics of Women's Bodies in France

Beauvoir and Her Sisters investigates how women's experiences, as represented in print culture, led to a political identity of an "imagined sisterhood" through which political activism developed and thrived in postwar France. Through the lens of women's political and popular writings, Sandra Reineke presents a unique interpretation of feminist and intellectual discourse on citizenship, identity, and reproductive rights.

A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women

In her seminal text, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft crafts a masterful response to the inherently sexist public education system in eighteenth century England.

Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual

Long perceived as the ultimate symbol of social breakdown and sexual irresponsibility, the single mother is now, in the context of welfare-to-work policies, often hailed as the new spokesperson for hard work and self-sufficiency.

Women in Indonesia: Gender, Equity and Development

Indonesia now has its first woman President - Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History

Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada.

Lee and His Army in Confederate History

Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy?

O corpo feminino em debate

São recentes as preocupações de diferentes disciplinas e áreas do conhecimento em relação a questões que envolvem o corpo.

The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

With Bumiller's intimate, beautifully written portrait of a middle-class Tokyo housewife, readers finally penetrate the mysteries of the Japanese people to see how they differ from us, and how they are alike.

Zesty Womanhood at 40 and Beyond: Second Act, New Role

The sacred feminine is rising throughout the world like the Phoenix.

Maids, Wives, Widows

Maids, Wives, Widows is a lively exploration of the everyday lives of women in early modern England, from 1540-1740.

Women of Medieval France, Illustrated

First published in 1907.

Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

A World Without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science

In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology.

Gumboot Girls: Adventure, Love & Survival on British Columbia's North Coast

Forty years ago, droves of young women migrated away from urban settings and settled in rural areas across North America. Many settled on the north coast of British Columbia, on Haida Gwaii or around Prince Rupert.