Vintage - Women, race, & class

Sun, Sex, and Gold

With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to be the cause.

Creating This Place: Women, Family, and Class in St John's, 1900-1950

The twentieth century witnessed both the formation of Newfoundland as a self-conscious national entity and the construction of distinct and self-aware middle and upper classes in its capital city.

The Role of Women in Making and Building Peace in Liberia: Gender Sensitivity versus Masculinity

In the early 2000s, Liberian women wearing wrap skirts and white T-shirts, shouting: 'We want peace, no more war', attracted international attention. After almost fifteen years of civil war, the enduring active, multifaceted, and non-violent campaigning for peace by women's organisations contributed to the end of the fighting and the signing of a peace agreement between the warring factions.

History of Woman Suffrage, volume 3

According to the Preface, this book is "Woven with the threads of this (Woman's suffrage) history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical sketches.

Feminist Afterthought

Presenting a careful approach towards integrating an understanding woman's vulnerability, increased value within empowerment. Aspects of what is sexuality, the purpose of gender role construction, a focus on beauty and proposed standards to include those who are otherwise radical feminism by being pro adult industry supporters.

The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban

Even though the people of Afghanistan in general suffered under the rule of the Taliban, women lived especially difficult lives, enduring terrible hardships. They were denied basic human rights, forced to wear veils and kept in seclusion.

They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism

They Used to Call Us Witches is an informative, highly readable account of the role played by Chilean women exiles during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973-1990.

Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office

Feed your boss's ego. Dress for success.

Doing Women's Film History

Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history is enjoying a period of dynamic growth. A broadening of scope and interests encompasses not only different kinds of filmmaking-mainstream fiction, experimental, and documentary-but also practices-publicity, journalism, distribution and exhibition-seldom explored in the past.

College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now

The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl.A geek who wears glasses?

The Silenced Cry: One Woman's Diary of a Journey to Afghanistan

Winston Moseley Murderer Of Catherine Kitty Genovese

Kitty Genovese's death in March 1963 echoed worldwide as a reminder of man's lack of care for other human beings. Three separate attacks by her assailant were witnessed by 38 of her neighbors in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York.

Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities

Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities investigates how hegemonic and nonhegemonic forms of femininity are constructed in the social institutions of school, the workplace, and the media.

Looking for Ashley: e-reading What the Smith Case Reveals about the Governance of Girls, Mothers and Families in Canada

The 2007 death by self-induced strangulation in prison of nineteen year old inmate Ashley Smith drew a great deal of public attention. The case gave rise to a shocking verdict of homicide in the 2013 inquest into the cause of her death.

From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua

From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women's movements.

No Safe Place

Women and children live in the shadow of violence all the time. Rape, child abuse and sexual assault, pornography, wife battery and sexual harassment are facts of everyday life in our society.

Bridging Generations in Taiwan: Lifestyle and Identity of Mothers and Daughters

This book contributes to an understanding of how globalization affects the lives of ordinary people.

Uprising: A New Age Is Dawning for Every Mother's Daughter

From Africa to Asia to the Americas, women are the key to progress on ending poverty, violence, and conflict.

Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships

Coeditors Elizabeth Patton and Mimi Choi argue that an in-depth examination of media images of housework from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century is long overdue.

Rebel Moms

Modern motherhood has changed; it isn't just frilly aprons, mini-vans, and soccer practice anymore. You are a modern mom-a rebel mom-ready to raise your kids while running a successful business, starting a band, or finding your voice, while doing the things you love and fighting for what's right.

Wagadu Volume 7: Today's Global Flâneuse

Today's Global Flâneuse offers a fresh analysis of the flâneuse on the 21st-century global stage, drawn from the perspectives of art history, mobility studies, sociology, and urban geography. The essays and artwork in this volume offer histories of Eurocentric 19th-century flânerie that still resonate in 21st-century transnational terms.

Fierce Angels: Living with a Legacy from the Sacred Dark Feminine to the Strong Black Woman

The "Strong Black Woman" has been a part of mainstream culture for centuries, as a myth, a goddess, a positive role model, a stereotype, and as a burden.

How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women

How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women looks at the remarkable impact of war on women in Britain. It shows how conflict has changed womens lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning.

Gender Trends in Southeast Asia: Women Now, Women in the Future

As a region, Southeast Asia has undergone enormous economic and social changes in the last few decades. Women as a collective have seen their lives transformed as a result of rapid development and economic growth.

What to Do When You Are Stuck at Toxic U: Strategies for Avoidance, Salvage, and Survival Femspec v. 8.1-2

You see, no one at The College, an all purpose label for the small, religious, liberal arts college at which until recently I was tenure track will discuss any reasons why I am in my last year.

Lesbian And Gay Families Speak Out Understanding The Joys And Challenges Of Diverse Family Life

An important book whose time has come!"-Adele Starr, First President of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) National, and Larry Starr, Co-Founder of PFLAG, Los Angeles, CaliforniaWith an estimated six to fourteen million children living with a gay or lesbian parent, there is a real need for accurate information for and about the realities of these families.

American Chick in Saudi Arabia

It all begins with an ad in the newspaper.

The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power

A probing account of the honored place of older women in ancient matriarchal societies restores to contemporary women an energizing symbol of self-value, power, and respect.

The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary

The Feminism of Uncertainty brings together Ann Snitow's passionate, provocative dispatches from forty years on the front lines of feminist activism and thought.

How I Discovered My Mother Was A Goddess

In How I Discovered My Mother Was A Goddess, Beverly Charles, tells the poignant story of aging and dementia from the point of view of both the parent and child. At some times troubling and other times darkly comic, it provides a vision of a spiritual journey, one that is healing, authentic, and satisfying.

Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America

Female Gladiators is the first book to examine legal and social battles over the right of women to participate with men in contact sports. The impetus to begin legal proceedings was the 1972 enactment of Title IX, which prohibited discrimination in educational settings, but it was the Equal Protection Clause of the U.

Women, Culture & Politics

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.

Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What We Wanted Made Women Miserable

Fifty years after Betty Friedan unveiled The Feminine Mystique, relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional. If women are more liberated than ever before, why aren't they happier?

Women and Work

The notion of work and employment of work and employment for women is complex.

Working Sex

Being a sex worker isn't something to write home about for most women (and men) in the $12 billion-a-year sex industry. Prostitutes, strippers, and adult film stars put themselves, and what they do for a living, out on the street, stage, and TV screen every day, but they often keep their working lives hidden from friends, family, and other employers.

Heroines of Sport

Clipped Wings

During World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) program, however, was comprised entirely of women who flew dangerous missions more commonly associated with and desired by men.

History of Woman Suffrage, volume 4

According to the Preface, this book is "Woven with the threads of this (Woman's suffrage) history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical sketches.

Women for President

Newly updated to examine Hillary Clinton's formidable 2008 presidential campaign, Women for President analyzes the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for America's highest office in 1872. Tracing the campaigns of nine women who ran for president through 2008-Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, Carol Moseley Braun, and Hillary Clinton-Erika Falk finds little progress in the fair treatment of women candidates.

I Am Still a Woman

I am Nina-Ann McCurley.I was born in a small town, an average woman living my life day to day.