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The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau

Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India's elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s.

Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader

Among the most prominent icons of the American south is that of the southern belle, immortalized by such figures as Scarlett O'Hara, Dolly Madison, and Lucy Pickens (whose elegant image graced the Confederate $100 bill).

Red Light Women of Death Valley

From the 1870s to the turn of the century, while countless men gambled their fortunes in Death Valley's mines, many bold women capitalized on the boom-and-bust lifestyle and established saloons and brothels.

Pregnant at 16

""Pregnant at 16" is a deeply personal, informative and impassioned reflection on the outcome of the author's life as a result of her choice to carry and keep her baby when she became pregnant as a teenager, in 1974. Lori's conversational style of writing eases the reader into her story effortlessly.

Sisters in Spirit

Remarkable Women of Stockton

Women played prominent roles during Stockton's growth from gold rush tent city to California leader in transportation, agriculture and manufacturing. Heiresses reigned in the city's nineteenth-century mansions.

Enfants de la déesse

Military Sexual Trauma (MST) - Defense Department Task Force Report on Care for Victims of Sexual Assault

This ebook provides an abridged reproduction of the Defense Department document, Task Force Report on Care for Victims of Sexual Assault.

The Victoria Mxenge Housing Project: Women Building Communities Through Social Activism and Informal Learning

In 1994, at the beginning of South Africa's democratic change, the Victoria Mxenge Housing Project was founded by a group of 12 women who lived in shacks on the barren outskirts of Cape Town.

War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War

Character is Destiny: The Autobiography of Alice Salomon

In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker Alice Salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems. Salomon took the lead in establishing the profession of social work, and built a career as a social reformer, activist, and educator.

Women's Studies on the Edge

At many universities, women's studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments.

Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean: Envisioning a Politics of Coalition

This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies.

Arguments with Silence

Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian. Widely represented in literature and art, they rarely speak for themselves.

All Things Altered: Women in the Wake of Civil War and Reconstruction

Few readers of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed Scarlett O'Hara tried to rebuild Tara after the Civil War ended.

Transforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor in 1898

In 1898, the year Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was inaugurated, five hundred women organized an enormous public exhibition showcasing women's contributions to Dutch society as workers in a strikingly broad array of professions.

Women of the Revolution

Each of the Southern Revolutionary battlefields holds the history of soldiers and legends of women. From the wooded slopes of Kings Mountain to the fields of Cowpens, to the lesser-known sites like Fishing Creek and Hanging Rock, author Robert M.

Women of Early Christianity, Illustrated

First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "Christianity introduced a new moral epoch in the course of human history.

Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

As a young woman, Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked her grandmother for career advice. She was shocked by the reply: "Get married.

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEDrawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.

Capital Intentions

Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that combined family concerns with money-making activities.

The Feminist Classroom

The issues explored in The Feminist Classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago. This expanded edition offers new material that rereads and updates previous chapters, including a major new chapter on the role of race.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens.

Writing Women's History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott

Anne Firor Scott's The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 stirred a keen interest among historians in both the approach and message of her book.

Bi

Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. Bi takes a long overdue, comprehensive look at bisexual politics-from the issues surrounding biphobia/monosexism, feminism, and transgenderism to the practice of labeling those who identify as bi as either too bisexual" (promiscuous and incapable of fidelity) or not bisexual enough" (not actively engaging romantically or sexually with people of at least two different genders).

The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege

The issues explored in The Feminist Classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago.

Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a prolific British writer and journalist. Bennett is popular for fiction such as The Old Wives' Tale and also for non-fiction works such as How to Live on 24 Hours a Day and Mental Efficiency.

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

From the author of the bestselling Prozac Nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written.

Conversations with Feminism: Political Theory and Practice

Applying the idea of conversation broadly, Penny A. Weiss offers a collection of essays that are either constructed dialogues, letters, or discussions about voice and silencing.

Hearts Beating for Liberty

Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest. Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest-with its own complicated history of slavery and racism-created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism.

Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

Assembling writers, advocates, and academics, this volume spotlights the sexualization and objectification of girls and women in the media, popular culture, and society.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Seminal work on the rights of woman.

Doulas and Intimate Labour: Boundaries, Bodies, and Birth

Scholars turn to reproduction for its ability to illuminate the practices involved with negotiating personhood for the unborn, the newborn, and the already-existing family members, community members, and the nation. The scholarship in this volume draws attention to doula work as intimate and relational while highlighting the way boundaries are created, maintained, challenged, and transformed.

Off-Ramps and On-Ramps Revisited

The findings were announced at The New York Times auditorium with presentations by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, one of the authors of the study and Founder and President of The Center for Work Life Policy, and Lisa Belkin, the author of the New York Times Magazine cover story The Opt-Out Revolution" which caused a media firestorm about time-outs from careers ( off-ramping") in 2003 and inspired the Center's first study of the trend in 2005.Since the recession, the study found, timeouts or off-ramping" from a career for childcare or other reasons have become increasingly unaffordable to women whose income has become increasingly important to family budgets.

Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary.

Governed through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction

At the center of the "war on women" lies the fact that women in the contemporary United States are facing more widespread and increased surveillance of their reproductive health and decisions.

They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades

Throughout history there have been women, endowed with curiosity and abundant spirit, who stepped out of the cave, cast off the shackles of expectation, and struck out for new territory.

Mabuhay to Beauty

Beauties and beauty pageants are as dear to Filipino hearts as music, dance and basketballa are. To celebrate what we all cherish, the editors have put together humorous, informative, insightful and thoughtful profiles of beauties, reviews of pageants, and a historical essay on the cultural significance of beauties and contests in this ground-breaking book.

Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices

Feminist parenting creates unique challenges. As women experience the unique powerlessness of motherhood, they also hold the uncomfortable power of acting as advocates for and as agents of socialization and social control over their children.

Entitled to Power

The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women's unexpected response to new labor-saving devices.