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Behind the G-String: An Exploration of the Stripper's Image, Her Person and Her Meaning
ISBN: 9780786418497 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, the number of strip clubs in the United States has increased dramatically. Stripping has become a big business, with over 3.5 million people, primarily men, attending clubs each week. But what about the women who perform in the clubs? Why do they do it? What is their perception of their job?
In recent years, the number of strip clubs in the United States has increased dramatically. Stripping has become a big business, with over 3.5 million...
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Women Pulitzer Playwrights: Biographical Profiles and Analyses of the Plays
ISBN: 9780786418817 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first century of the coveted Pulitzer Prizes, only 11 women have won it for drama: Zona Gale (1921), Susan Glaspell (1931), Zoe Akins (1935), Mary Coyle Chase (1945), Ketti Frings (1958), Beth Henley (1981), Marsha Norma (1983), Wendy Wasserstein (1989), Paula Vogel (1998), Margaret Edson (1999), and Suzan-Lori Parks (2002). This work presents their stories and the stories of their landmark plays, beginning with Gale's Miss Lulu Bett, which championed the unmarried woman forced to work in the home of a married relative, and closing with Parks' controversial Topdog/Underdog, which made...
In the first century of the coveted Pulitzer Prizes, only 11 women have won it for drama: Zona Gale (1921), Susan Glaspell (1931), Zoe Akins (1935), M...
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Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility
ISBN: 9780786420117 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Margaret Sanger, the American birth-control and population-control advocate who founded Planned Parenthood, stands like a giant among her contemporaries. With her dominating yet winning personality, she helped generate shifts of opinion on issues that were not even publicly discussed prior to her activism, while her leadership was arguably the single most important factor in achieving social and legislative victories that set the parameters for today's political discussion of family-planning funding, population-control aid, and even sex education. This work addresses Sanger's ideas concerning...
Margaret Sanger, the American birth-control and population-control advocate who founded Planned Parenthood, stands like a giant among her contemporari...
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Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace
ISBN: 9780786420551 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elise Boulding has been among the most influential of social reformers to advocate the integration of peace studies and women's studies. Her ideas inspired a number of works addressing the role of the family in producing social change and discussing women's unique capacity for promoting peace through nurturing and networking. Boulding's additional ideas on transnational networks and their relationship to global understanding are considered seminal contributions to modern peace studies and have earned her the title of ?matriarch? of the 20th century peace movement. This biography is divided...
Elise Boulding has been among the most influential of social reformers to advocate the integration of peace studies and women's studies. Her ideas ins...
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Women Scientists in Fifties Science Fiction Films
ISBN: 9780786421305 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1950s, science was rapidly advancing, and so were scientific opportunities for women. Modern science fiction films reflected these simultaneous social developments. This book proposes that the social ideology of the 1950s, which was partly concerned with gender issues, saturated the B science fiction films of that era and inspired a new appreciation for the role of women in scientific advancements and other social achievements. Drawing on feminist literary and cultural theory, the author argues that the emergence of the modern American science fiction film in 1950 and the situation of...
In the 1950s, science was rapidly advancing, and so were scientific opportunities for women. Modern science fiction films reflected these simultaneous...
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Female Genital Mutilation: Legal, Cultural and Medical Issues
ISBN: 9780786421671 / Angielski / Miękka / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Female genital mutilation (FGM) occurs in many parts of the world, especially in Africa. It is a cultural practice thought to have been established centuries ago, though its origins appear to have been lost in the past. International efforts to eliminate it also have a long history. As early as the 17th century, Christian missionaries and colonial administrations in Africa attempted to prevent the practice. Today, efforts to eradicate FGM are under way within and outside of practicing cultures. This book discusses the definition and types of FGM and explores the common justifications for the...
Female genital mutilation (FGM) occurs in many parts of the world, especially in Africa. It is a cultural practice thought to have been established ce...
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Women Characters in Baseball Literature: A Critical Study
ISBN: 9780786421701 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the early 20th century, American writers have both recorded and fictionalized the real-life activities of great athletes, as well as created original characters for sports stories. How have women fared in this literature? "Women Characters in Baseball Literature" is the first comprehensive evaluation of the women characters of baseball literature, including women's crucial roles on and off the field of play. Applying several feminist theories and examining the works in the context of both myth and psychology, the author discusses baseball fiction written by both men and women. Among the...
Since the early 20th century, American writers have both recorded and fictionalized the real-life activities of great athletes, as well as created ori...
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Women and Smoking in America, 1880-1950
ISBN: 9780786422128 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the last 20 years of the 19th century, cigarette smoking was transformed from a lower-class habit to a favored form of tobacco use for men and practically the only form available to women. The trend continued to grow through the 1950s, when smoking was a significant part of America's social fabric for both men and women. This social history traces the evolution of women's smoking in the United States from 1880 to 1950. From 1880 to 1908, women were not allowed to smoke in public places, with strong opposition based on moral concerns. Most smoking was done by upper class women in the...
During the last 20 years of the 19th century, cigarette smoking was transformed from a lower-class habit to a favored form of tobacco use for men and ...
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Wendy Wasserstein: Dramatizing Women, Their Choices and Their Boundaries
ISBN: 9780786423170 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the use of a newly devised critical context called femen(act)ment, or textual or performance drama that is guided by feminist disposition thematically and stylistically, the author here allows for a fresh reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
Through the use of a newly devised critical context called femen(act)ment, or textual or performance drama that is guided by feminist disposition them...
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Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction and Film
ISBN: 9780786428458 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work provides factual accounts of women of the Old West in contrast to their depictions on film and in fiction. The lives of Martha "Calamity Jane" Canary and Belle "The Bandit Queen" Starr are first detailed; one discovers that Starr was indeed friends with notorious bank robbers of the time, including Jesse James and Cole Younger, but was herself primarily a cattle and horse thief. Wives and lovers of some of the West's most famous outlaws are covered in the second section along with real-life female entertainers, prostitutes and gamblers. Native Americans, entrepreneurs, doctors,...
This work provides factual accounts of women of the Old West in contrast to their depictions on film and in fiction. The lives of Martha "Calamity Jan...
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Modernizing Joan of Arc: Conceptions, Costumes, and Canonization
ISBN: 9780786431205 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historical opinions regarding Joan of Arc are fraught with contradiction. As one of the most widely studied women in history, she has been labeled both a saint and a criminal, both a pioneering feminist and an "unnatural" transvestite. This work explores the attitudes that have followed Joan of Arc for centuries, beginning with the notions of gender and authority in the 15th century during Joan's criminal trials. The book's central premise explores the interconnected social and political threads that informed the decision to canonize Joan of Arc in the nineteenth century, with extensive...
Historical opinions regarding Joan of Arc are fraught with contradiction. As one of the most widely studied women in history, she has been labeled bot...
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Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780786432530 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator and protector of kings. Some know of Hildegarde and Beatrice and Blanche and Clare. There are many famous women of the Middle Ages whose lives and leadership brought important changes to history. This encyclopedia contains several hundred entries on the culture, history and circumstances of women in...
Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the Eng...
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Women Political Leaders in Africa
ISBN: 9780786432998 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Africa, women leaders have a strong legacy. Female pharaohs ruled ancient Egypt, queens and queen mothers have reigned throughout contemporary Africa, and women across the continent have led modern liberation movements. This books wide-ranging examination of African women leaders focuses especially on women in elected or appointed national government positions. The author provides an extensive analysis of the progress made by women leaders in each individual country, as well as an overall analysis of the historical role of women in African governments. In addition, the book offers in-depth...
In Africa, women leaders have a strong legacy. Female pharaohs ruled ancient Egypt, queens and queen mothers have reigned throughout contemporary Afri...
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Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
ISBN: 9780786888597 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2015 Edition: With a New Preface, Afterword, and Updates.
"Alexandra Robbins rips into the secret, sordid underbelly of sororities."--Vanity Fair Updated ten years after it is original publication, Pledged by Alexandra Robbins is as timely today as it was when first published. With salacious breaking news about fraternities and sororities shocking the general public (and members themselves) Pledged exposes what really goes on behind the facades of some of these Greek organizations. Robbins, an investigative journalist, went undercover as a sorority sister; her expose is a breathtaking... 2015 Edition: With a New Preface, Afterword, and Updates.
"Alexandra Robbins rips into the secret, sordid underbelly of sororities."--Vanity Fair ... |
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Equity Equation C
ISBN: 9780787902131 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -The Equity Equation deals candidly, thoroughly, and objectively with issues for women in science, engineering, and mathematics?This much-needed study not only investigates the institutional causes of gAnder inequity, but lays out the research, policy, and programs needed to change the status quo.-
-- James Duderstadt, president, University of Michigan and former member, National Science Board -The Equity Equation deals candidly, thoroughly, and objectively with issues for women in science, engineering, and mathematics?This much-needed study...
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Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women : Patterns in a Feminist Sampler
ISBN: 9780789000866 / Angielski / Twarda / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
A collection of essays on being Jewish and female, touching on topics such as marriage, mothers, family values, feminism, adolescent Jewish female ide...
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Women's Work : A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women
ISBN: 9780789002334 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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
A textbook for an introductory course in women's studies. Explains the basics of women's studies, feminist theories, and feminist methods of research ...
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710,17 |
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Breasts: The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession
ISBN: 9780789004222 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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...
Breasts: The Women s Perspective on an American Obsession describes and explores our national breast fetish, which is defined as a culturally construc...
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Women, Families, and Feminist Politics : A Global Exploration
ISBN: 9780789004826 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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
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...
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386,87 |
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Fundamentals of Feminist Gerontology
ISBN: 9780789007612 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors employ a variety of feminist frameworks to discuss a range of issues including older women and the health care system, retirement, abused older women, terminally ill older women, older women of color, older lesbians, the practice and policy of family care, and the need for a critical feminist gerontology. Simultaneously co-published as
Contributors employ a variety of feminist frameworks to discuss a range of issues including older women and the health care system, retirement, abused...
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