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Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape
ISBN: 9780393320459 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It opens with the author's harrowing and courageous account of her rape and includes the stories of the author's own family's response, plus the voices of black men who have supported rape survivors.
It opens with the author's harrowing and courageous account of her rape and includes the stories of the author's own family's response, plus the voice...
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87,23 |
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American Woman 2001-02: Getting to the Top
ISBN: 9780393321425 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following an introduction by Jean Stapleton, essays by five prominent authors examine women's leadership in politics, higher education, business, trade unions, and the military. The book also contains biographies of all the women in Congress and a comprehensive statistical portrait of American women today. Following an introduction by Jean Stapleton, essays by five prominent authors examine women's leadership in politics, higher education, business, t... |
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102,44 |
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College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now
ISBN: 9780393327151 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As inPink Think, Lynn Peril combines women's history and popular culture--peppered with delightful examples of femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970s--in an intelligent and witty study of the college girl, the first woman to take that socially controversial step toward educational equity.
As inPink Think, Lynn Peril combines women's history and popular culture--peppered with delightful examples of femoribilia from the turn of t...
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64,43 |
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The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860
ISBN: 9780393952643 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By looking at what the Petersburg women did and thought and comparing their behavior with that of men, Lebsock discovers that they placed high value on economic security, on the personal, on the religious, and on the interests of other women. In a society committed to materialism, male dominance, and the maintenance of slavery, their influence was subversive. They operated from an alternative value system, indeed a distinct female culture.
By looking at what the Petersburg women did and thought and comparing their behavior with that of men, Lebsock discovers that they placed high value o...
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94,84 |
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Revelations: Diaries of Women
ISBN: 9780394711515 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excerpts from the private diaries of women, known and unknown, among them Louisa May Alcott, Sophie Tolstoy, George Eliot, Anais Nin.
Excerpts from the private diaries of women, known and unknown, among them Louisa May Alcott, Sophie Tolstoy, George Eliot, Anais Nin.
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57,02 |
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Women of the Four Winds
ISBN: 9780395957844 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru's highest mountain; Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia for America; Louise Arner Boyd led expeditions to perilous East Greenland. Precursors of the modern Jane Goodalls and Sally Rides, these women represent a fascinating but forgotten era in the literature of exploration.
Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru's highest mountain; Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia f...
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72,03 |
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From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond: Cultural Images and the Shaping of US Social Policy
ISBN: 9780415042536 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on methods by which individuals in the USA who control societal institutions, particularly the mass media, operate to retain their power advantage while maintaining African-American women in a socially and economically depressed status. The author argues that the mass media play an important role in maintaining a social hierarchy of discrimination because it is the primary vehicle by which ideology is transmitted through news and entertainment.
This book focuses on methods by which individuals in the USA who control societal institutions, particularly the mass media, operate to retain their p...
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243,34 |
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Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories
ISBN: 9780415047494 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Plays featured include: * King John It will be a must for students and scholars interested in the cultural and social implications of Shakespeare today. Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood i... |
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194,66 |
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Roman Shakespeare : Warriors, Wounds and Women
ISBN: 9780415054508 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, the author brings to these texts a critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies behind Roman virtue. Plays featured include: Titus Andronicus; Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus and Cymbeline. Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historicized feminist perspective. This text should appeal to appeal to Shakespeare scholars and students, those interested in feminist theory, as well as Classicists.
In this study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, the author brings to these texts a critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies behind Ro...
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705,83 |
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Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women
ISBN: 9780415054515 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, CoppElia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind 'Roman virtue'.
Plays featured include: * Titus Andronicus * Julius Caesar * Antony and Cleopatra * Coriolanus * Cymbeline Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historicised feminist perspective. Roman... In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, CoppElia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates ...
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194,66 |
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A History of European Women's Work: 1700 to the Present
ISBN: 9780415055314 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's Work, Deborah Simonton draws together recent research and methodological developments to take an overview of trends in women's work across Europe from the so-called pre-industrial period to the present.
Taking the role of gender and class in defining women's labour as a central theme, Deborah Simonton compares and contrasts the pace of change between European countries, distinguishing between Europe-wide issues and... The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A Histo...
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632,81 |
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Young, Female and Black
ISBN: 9780415067041 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure the economic status and occupational prestige they deserve.
This book presents a serious challenge to the widely held myth that young black women consistently underachieve both at school and in the labour market. In a comparative study of research and writig from America, Britain and the Caribbean Young, Female and Black re-examines our present understanding of what is meant by... Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers...
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705,83 |
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Regulating Womanhood: Historical Essays on Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality
ISBN: 9780415074056 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of original essays looks at a topic of growing interest and debate in feminist and historical circles: the social regulation of women through law during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the resistance which emerged in response. The collection refutes the notion of women oppressed during the 19th century, unable to act in opposition to the law. When issues of motherhood and women's sexuality became areas of public policy, women began to negotiate the law, as case studies from Europe and the USA show. This book should be of interest to students of women's studies, sociology... This collection of original essays looks at a topic of growing interest and debate in feminist and historical circles: the social regulation of wom... |
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238,48 |
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Women in the Face of Change: Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China
ISBN: 9780415075404 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The years 1989 and 1990 will probably be best remembered for the speed and breadth of political and economic change which swept through what used to be referred to as the Communist Bloc. With the disintegration of this bloc, there has been no shortage of western advice on how to democratize economy and polity in these societies. However, little thought has been given to what this change means for the millions of women who have toiled for decades alongside men in the factories and fields as well as performing their womanly mission in the home. This collection from women in Eastern and Western...
The years 1989 and 1990 will probably be best remembered for the speed and breadth of political and economic change which swept through what used to b...
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876,20 |
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Full Circles: Geographies of Women Over the Life Course
ISBN: 9780415075626 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and individual values intersect with the experience of the life course, the book explores the futures open to women in diverse and changing locations.
Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old a...
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253,08 |
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Feminist Review: Issue 42: Feminist Fictions
ISBN: 9780415080262 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This theme issue is an exploration of the way in which feminist ideas appear in popular forms, especially feminist novelists, such as Angela Carter and Marge Piercy, have handled particular issues; it considers writing and it duscusses the popular genres that have been taken up by feminist writers - lesbian romance and stories for teenagers.
The central concern is with the problems of putting across feminist ideas in popular crative writing. Which ideas can be presented in this form? How will they be read? Are some forms more amenable to fiminism than others? Is feminism being distorted by... This theme issue is an exploration of the way in which feminist ideas appear in popular forms, especially feminist novelists, such as Angela Carter an...
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184,93 |
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Between Poverty and the Pyre : Moments in the History of Widowhood
ISBN: 9780415083706 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent decades all aspects of women's history have been explored but widows have been neglected, as they often are in real life. This interdisciplinary collection of studies aims to shed light on this fascinating group of women by offering studies, ranging from Jesus' interest in widows to Hindu wives following their husbands on the pyre, and from famous widows, such as Mohammed's first wife, to widows who were executed as witches or had to sell their bodies to stay alive. The contributors give a rich picture of the many facets of the widows' lives, such as their prominence in marginal...
In recent decades all aspects of women's history have been explored but widows have been neglected, as they often are in real life. This interdiscipli...
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608,48 |
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From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond: Cultural Images and the Shaping of US Social Policy
ISBN: 9780415087773 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on methods by which individuals in the USA who control societal institutions, particularly the mass media, operate to retain their power advantage while maintaining African-American women in a socially and economically depressed status. The author argues that the mass media play an important role in maintaining a social hierarchy of discrimination because it is the primary vehicle by which ideology is transmitted through news and entertainment.
This book focuses on methods by which individuals in the USA who control societal institutions, particularly the mass media, operate to retain their p...
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705,83 |
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Dancing Women : Female Bodies Onstage
ISBN: 9780415096713 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work recasts canonical dance since the early 19th century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, it shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. The book provides a series of re-readings of the canon, from Romantic ballet and Russian ballet to modern ballet and modern dance. It examines the icon status of dancing divas from Marie Taglioni, Isadora Duncan and Josephine Baker to...
This work recasts canonical dance since the early 19th century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-po...
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705,83 |
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Women in Early American Religion 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions
ISBN: 9780415098144 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women in Early American Religion, 1600-1850 explores the first two centuries of America's religious history, examining the relationship between the socio-political environment, gender, politics and religion. Drawing its background from women's religious roles and experiences in England during the Reformation, the book follows them through colonial settlement, the rise of evangelicalism, the American Revolution, and the second flowering of popular religion in the nineteenth century.
Tracing the female spiritual tradition through the Puritans, Baptists and Shakers, Westerkamp argues... Women in Early American Religion, 1600-1850 explores the first two centuries of America's religious history, examining the relationship betwe...
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778,85 |
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