Examining freewomen in Mesopotamian society, ancient Greek hetaira, Renaissance Italy courtesans, historical and modern Japanese Geisha and the Hindu devadāsī of India, Stephanie Lynn Budin makes a wide-ranging study of independent women who have historically been dismissed as prostitutes.

Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American Women, this book argues the family saga represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows writers to establish cultural, gender and literary traditions.
 

This collection of essays explores the myriad ways in which the women’s suffrage movement in Britain in the nineteenth century and twentieth century engaged with, and was expressed through literature, art and craft, music, drama and cinema.

This book offers rare insight into how utopian science fiction written by contemporary and historical European women has played an important role in exploring the racial and gender possibilities of the outer limits of the humanist imagination.

Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics collects several theoretically informed close reading of comics and graphic literature that apply an intersectional feminist lens to the interpretation of several contemporary North American graphic narratives.

This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual responsibility.

This book uses the life and work of Caffie Greene, one of the most influential grassroots community activists and public health educators in 20th century Los Angeles as a platform to examine the wider story of black women activists in recent United States history.

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination presents the first transcultural study of women’s forced migration and how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration.

This book is an exploration of the political struggle for visibility engendered by the growing number of women-centered popular films and a critical analysis of the intensifying misogynistic backlash that have accompanied such advances in the depiction of women on screen.