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Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender
ISBN: 9780415916301 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection on women's community activism demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as violence, homophobia and racism, housing, civil rights, economic security, educational equity and environmental justice. It focuses on the complex ways that gender, race ethnicity, culture, class and sexuality shape women's political consciousness and organizing in the USA. Offering an interdisciplinary perspective, the collection includes case studies of activism among lesbians, white European American women, Korean American and African American women, as well as Latinas and...
This collection on women's community activism demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as violence, homophobia and racism...
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273,11 |
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Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
ISBN: 9780415916455 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rayna Rapp, one of the leading feminist anthropologists in the United States, explores the complex and contradictory nature of prenatal diagnosis and its social impact and cultural meaning, through the narratives of the people who have experienced it. Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing.
Rayna Rapp, one of the leading feminist anthropologists in the United States, explores the complex and contradictory nature of prenatal diagnosis and ...
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190,19 |
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Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality
ISBN: 9780415916998 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text focuses on the impact that the process of migration has had on women's sexuality and gender roles. Life narratives of the women interviewed are presented against the backdrop of the historical and social context of migration. European, Latin America, Caribbean and Asian women, aging from early-20s to mid-70s discuss the development of their sexuality in the context of their home culture and the acculturation process demanded by their migration.
This text focuses on the impact that the process of migration has had on women's sexuality and gender roles. Life narratives of the women interviewed ...
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707,28 |
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Gendered Epidemic : Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS
ISBN: 9780415917841 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of essays that question the add women and stir model that governs most HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts. The individual essays in this text describe conflicts and contradictions, and pose theories and practices. Written by HIV positive women, theorists, teachers, artists, policy makers and activists, it offers insights necessary to stem the spread of HIV. Activists have long signalled the inadequacy of prevention strategies and drug protocols that have been developed from research done primarily on men. The latest C.D.C. figures prove they were right; for the first time...
A collection of essays that question the add women and stir model that governs most HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts. The individual essays i...
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195,06 |
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Gendered Epidemic: Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS
ISBN: 9780415917858 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of essays that question the add women and stir model that governs most HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts. The individual essays in this text describe conflicts and contradictions, and pose theories and practices. Written by HIV positive women, theorists, teachers, artists, policy makers and activists, it offers insights necessary to stem the spread of HIV. Activists have long signalled the inadequacy of prevention strategies and drug protocols that have been developed from research done primarily on men. The latest C.D.C. figures prove they were right; for the first time...
A collection of essays that question the add women and stir model that governs most HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts. The individual essays i...
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107,26 |
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Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415918466 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection reconceptualizes women's health and healing, crossing disciplinary boundaries to rupture the biomedicalization of women's bodies. It examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care and offers new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues and nutrition to public health surveillance and AIDS.
This collection reconceptualizes women's health and healing, crossing disciplinary boundaries to rupture the biomedicalization of women's bodies. It e...
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214,58 |
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Nine Black Women: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Writers from the United States, Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780415919050 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology brings together the writings of the earliest black women writers in the East and West Caribbean, Bermuda, Canada, the USA and England. The selections span the American Revolution to the decade following the Civil War. The nine writers included, both slave and free, represent a variety of genres, regions, professions, and political perspectives. Their words suggest the rich cultural history embedded in the writings, and provide a glimpse into the lives of women coping with extreme racism and sexism. As black women, survival guides the construction of their texts and their public...
This anthology brings together the writings of the earliest black women writers in the East and West Caribbean, Bermuda, Canada, the USA and England. ...
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195,06 |
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The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America
ISBN: 9780415921329 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at general trends and specific items such as life in a tenement, women working overseas in World War I, the production of cosmetics in the 1920s, and new female immigration, this atlas portrays the history of American women from a vivid geographical and demographic perspective. In a variety of colourful maps and charts, this important new work documents milestones in the evolution of the social and political rights of women.
Looking at general trends and specific items such as life in a tenement, women working overseas in World War I, the production of cosmetics in the 192...
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804,84 |
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Wise Women : Reflections of Teachers at Mid-Life
ISBN: 9780415923026 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of autobiographical essays by teachers in mid-life. The focus is on how these women negotiate the psychological, physical and social changes of the menopause and how the ageing process affects their lives.
A collection of autobiographical essays by teachers in mid-life. The focus is on how these women negotiate the psychological, physical and social chan...
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195,06 |
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Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at Midlife
ISBN: 9780415923033 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of autobiographical essays by teachers in mid-life. The focus is on how these women negotiate the psychological, physical and social changes of the menopause and how the ageing process affects their lives.
A collection of autobiographical essays by teachers in mid-life. The focus is on how these women negotiate the psychological, physical and social chan...
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112,14 |
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Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care, and Midwifery in North America and Europe
ISBN: 9780415923385 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the United States, Canada and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. The essays focus on the practical side of good social science and feminist-friendly research. The text not only looks at maternity, but also the act of childbirth, with the goal of providing not just comparative perspectives of care, but also to integrate the differences in care within each essay for a truly international understanding of maternity care.
This collection brings together the leading research in maternity care from the United States, Canada and Europe to discuss systems of care for pregna...
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273,11 |
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Using Women : Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice
ISBN: 9780415924139 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 1950s girl junkie to the 1990s crack mom, this work investigates how the cultural representations of women drug users have defined America's drug policies in this century. In analyzing the public's continued fear, horror and outrage wrought by the specter of women using drugs, Nancy Campbell demonstrates the importance that public opinion and popular culture have played in regulating women's lives.
From the 1950s girl junkie to the 1990s crack mom, this work investigates how the cultural representations of women drug users have defined America's ...
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277,99 |
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Mothers and Sons: Feminism, Masculinity, and the Struggle to Raise Our Sons
ISBN: 9780415924894 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between mothers and sons has been explored for ages. From Oedipus to Al Brooks' mother, we are fascinated by the familial bond between a mother and her son. This work looks at many untouched areas of the mother-son relationship including race, sexuality and ability. The contributors to the collection speak from the heart and explore how the institution of motherhood oppresses women, impedes mother-son identification and fosters sexism. The impact of the feminist movement on the mother-son relationship, which has been previously neglected in literature, is explored in-depth in...
The relationship between mothers and sons has been explored for ages. From Oedipus to Al Brooks' mother, we are fascinated by the familial bond betwee...
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780,44 |
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Mothers and Sons: Feminism, Masculinity, and the Struggle to Raise Our Sons
ISBN: 9780415924900 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking work looks at many untouched areas of the mother-son relationship including race, sexuality and ability. The contributors to this collection speak from the heart and explore how the institution of motherhood oppresses women, impedes mother-son identification and fosters sexism.
This groundbreaking work looks at many untouched areas of the mother-son relationship including race, sexuality and ability. The contributors to this ...
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156,04 |
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The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America
ISBN: 9780415925006 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through an examination of the elimination of midwifery, the origins of gynaecology, and general attitudes and advice about sexuality, this text offers a portrait of male attitudes toward masculinity, women and sexuality in 19th-century America.
Through an examination of the elimination of midwifery, the origins of gynaecology, and general attitudes and advice about sexuality, this text offers...
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243,84 |
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Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
ISBN: 9780415925549 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents the literature of contemporary Islamic feminist authors, and analyzes their strategies for self-definition and self-empowerment.
This text presents the literature of contemporary Islamic feminist authors, and analyzes their strategies for self-definition and self-empowerment.
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195,06 |
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Emotionally Involved: The Impact of Researching Rape
ISBN: 9780415925914 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tackling difficult issues, Emotionally Involved gives a vivid picture the challenges researchers who studey traumatic events face. It is essential reading for researchers, therapists, fieldworkers, for those on the frontlines of rape crisis and domestic violence work, and for anyone concerned with the role of emotions in social science.
Tackling difficult issues, Emotionally Involved gives a vivid picture the challenges researchers who studey traumatic events face. It is essential rea...
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Emotionally Involved: The Impact of Researching Rape
ISBN: 9780415925945 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on interviews with over 100 rape researchers, Emotionally Involved explores what it feels like to continually work with these distressing accounts of sexual violence in women's lives.
Based on interviews with over 100 rape researchers, Emotionally Involved explores what it feels like to continually work with these distressing accoun...
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224,33 |
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Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe V. Wade
ISBN: 9780415926768 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unravels the complex, disturbing reality of single pregnancy in the Post World War II era, exploring the way in which race, more than any other factor, defined the experience of unwed motherhood. It is a book that should be of interest to those seeking to understand the complex and disturbing politics of race, class and reproductive rights.
Unravels the complex, disturbing reality of single pregnancy in the Post World War II era, exploring the way in which race, more than any other factor...
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185,30 |
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Getting By on the Minimum : The Lives of Working-Class Women
ISBN: 9780415928014 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Earning the minimum wage, scrambling to pay the bills, living from paycheck to paycheck, worrying about how to put food on the table, such is life for most working-class women. Many have not graduated from high school, let alone college. They are married to working-class men and live with their kids in poor, working-class neighborhoods. Very often the same neighborhoods they grew up in and will likely never leave. These are the women profiled in Jennifer Johnson's book, Getting By On the Minimum. Women who work as grocery-store cashiers, assembly-line workers, bus drivers, secretaries,...
Earning the minimum wage, scrambling to pay the bills, living from paycheck to paycheck, worrying about how to put food on the table, such is life for...
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214,58 |
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