A collection of essays on being Jewish and female, touching on topics such as marriage, mothers, family values, feminism, adolescent Jewish female identity, Jewish battered women, and Jewish women after the Holocaust. For students and general readers. Paper edition (1-56023-913-1), $19.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Explores how appearance standards affect women's body images and behavior, and discusses ways to accept and love your body, with a combination of advice, statistics, personal experiences, and reading suggestions. Explains how women are disempowered by concentration on weight and appearance, and suggests way to resist male-defined standards of beaut

A textbook for an introductory course in women's studies. Explains the basics of women's studies, feminist theories, and feminist methods of research then explores such aspects as the process of becoming and being a woman, including women in the evolution and diversity of human society, the influence of capitalism and gender on the spatial organiza

Love Matters: A Book of Lesbian Romance and Relationships is a collection of advice columns and personal reflections that will help lesbian couples validate and appreciate their unique relationships. With excerpts taken from the author s "Love Matters" column in the lesbian newspaper New Phazes, this book explores real-life questions and issues that lesbians have about dating, sex, love, and relationship longevity. From Love Matters, you ll receive honest, informative advice that can help you and your partner share a more open and fulfilling relationship.

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The only extended, first-person narrative about menopause, A Menopausal Memoir: Letters from Another Climate explores the connection between menopause, mourning, and memory through nine fictional letters written to different addressees. The letters explain the author s own experience of having a hysterectomy (without her permission) during surgery for endometriosis and being thrown into instant menopause. Herrmann expresses her experiences differently in each letter based on the recipient s gender, sexual identity, and age, revealing the complexities of accepting menopause. Psychotherapists,...

Breasts: The Women s Perspective on an American Obsession describes and explores our national breast fetish, which is defined as a culturally constructed obsession that is deeply interwoven with beauty standards, breastfeeding practices, and sexuality. By tracing the complex history of this erotic fascination and discovering how it affects men s and women s sexuality and their relationships, this book will help women accept their breasts as they are and provide male readers with insight into how women think and feel about their bodies. This awareness will enable them to better understand and...

Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families'definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for counselors and lesbian step families for creating healthy, functioning family structures and environments. It is the first book to concentrate exclusively on lesbian step families rather than on lesbian mothering in general.

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Draws on feminist and sociocultural theories, as well as interviews and case studies, to examine the role of adult women in their families, looking at how cultures and ethnic traditions contribute to the formation of a woman's identity. Focuses on the importance of views concerning the meaning of women's social status, power, and success, and discu

Powerful women aren't just men walking around in dresses As women continue to assume positions of social leadership in increasing numbers, the dynamics of the social construction of power need to be examined. Have women adopted traditionally male patterns of behavior in an effort to gain and maintain power in business, industry, politics, academics, etc.? And if not, what kind of power are women practicing? The authors of Women, Power, and Ethnicity: Working Toward Reciprocal Empowerment endeavored to find out by conducting a research study on how women from various racial and ethnic...

Countering conservative worries about the rise of single-parent households, this book describes the strength of single mothers and the warmth of their families as depicted in the women's own stories. Single mothers describe the obstacles they face, and tell of their own transformation as they become more independent, resourceful, and satisfied. Pat