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Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India
ISBN: 9780813525525 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1947 India was simultaneously freed--and divided. The departure of the British was accompanied by a bloody partition in which one million people perished and over ten million were displaced. Borders
In 1947 India was simultaneously freed--and divided. The departure of the British was accompanied by a bloody partition in which one million people pe...
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Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women
ISBN: 9780813525600 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Including 13 conversations with women practitioners of leadership from a variety of fields, this volume encourages readers to expand their definition of who a leader is and can be.
Including 13 conversations with women practitioners of leadership from a variety of fields, this volume encourages readers to expand their definition ...
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The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus
ISBN: 9780813525709 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carolina Maria de Jesus' book, Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room), depicted the harsh life of the slums, but it also spoke of the author's pride in her blackness, her high moral standards, and her patriotism. More than a million copies of her diary are believed to have been sold worldwide. Yet many Brazilians refused to believe that someone like de Jesus could have written such a diary, with its complicated words (some of them misused) and often lyrical phrasing as she discussed world events. Doubters prefer to believe the book was either written by Audaulio Dantas, the enterprising newspaper...
Carolina Maria de Jesus' book, Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room), depicted the harsh life of the slums, but it also spoke of the author's pride in he...
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Pregnant Women on Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma
ISBN: 9780813526034 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Library Journal
Sociologists Murphy and Rosenbaum interviewed over 120 women who had children while using drugs. Their interviews reveal how the women became addicted, how they may or may not have modified their behavior to protect their children, and how they have dealt with having children and losing them as a result of their addiction. Not all the women interviewed were from abusive or poor families; there is extensive information on how the study population was selected. Also included are suggestions on how to deal with the problem, including women-centered drug treatment and... From Library Journal
Sociologists Murphy and Rosenbaum interviewed over 120 women who had children while using drugs. Their interviews reveal ho... |
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Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture
ISBN: 9780813526515 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pretty in Punk combines autobiography, interviews, and sophisticated analysis to create the first insider's examination of the ways punk girls resist gender roles and create strong identities.Why would an articulate, intelligent, thoughtful young women shave off most of her hair, dye the remainder green, shape it into a mohawk, and glue it onto her head? What attracts girls to male-dominated youth subcultures like the punk movement? What role does the subculture play in their perceptions of themselves, and in their self-esteem? How do girls reconcile a subcultural identity that is...
Pretty in Punk combines autobiography, interviews, and sophisticated analysis to create the first insider's examination of the ways punk girls resist ...
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Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves
ISBN: 9780813526546 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most research on female labor migration in Thailand focuses on that country's infamous sex industry. Mary Beth Mills offers the first extended ethnographic analysis of rural women's movement into less visible occupations, paying particular attention to the hundreds of thousands of young women who fill the factories and sweatshops of the Bangkok metropolis. Mills follows the women as they travel from the village of Baan Naa Sakae to Bangkok, where they encounter new forms of consumption, new "modern" lifestyles, and a new sense of identity. She finds this rural-urban migration is more than a...
Most research on female labor migration in Thailand focuses on that country's infamous sex industry. Mary Beth Mills offers the first extended ethnogr...
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Women and Politics in Latin America
ISBN: 9780813526935 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, it examines five different arenas of action and debate: political institutions, workplaces, social movements, revolutions, and feminisms. Nikki Craske explores the ways in which women have become more effective in the public arena as the context of politics has altered. Craske demonstrates how gender relations shape political institutions and practices while simultaneously being shaped by them. She examines the moments when women's action...This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, ... |
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Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representation by African American Women
ISBN: 9780813528397 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the recent flood of scholarly work investigating the interrelated issues of race, gender, and representation, little has been written about black women s depictions of their own bodies. Both past and present-day American cultural discourse has attempted either to hypereroticize the black female body or make it a site of impropriety and crime.The essays in this volume focus on how African American women, from the nineteenth century to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of others. Contributors attempt to recover the black female...
Despite the recent flood of scholarly work investigating the interrelated issues of race, gender, and representation, little has been written about bl...
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Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era
ISBN: 9780813529691 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent times? Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era. All hail from urban backgrounds and all have obtained their Ph.D.s in the United States; thus, their memories are informed by intellectual training and insights that only distance can allow. Each of the chapters--arranged by the age of the author--is crafted by a writer who reflects back to that time in a more nuanced manner than has been...
What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent times? ...
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Women, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9780813529837 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and equal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare that women's rights to be human rights, and bring gender issues into the global arena for the first time. The subordination of indigenous and minority women, ethnic cleansing, and the struggle for reproductive rights are some of the most pressing issues facing women worldwide.
Women, Gender, and Human Rights is the first collection of essays that encompass a global perspective on women and a wide... The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and equal. But not until 1995...
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Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990
ISBN: 9780813530710 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In Into Our Own Hands, Sandra Morgen shows us, not just how the women's health movement started, but how it weathered adversity. This book is important reading for everyone who cares about the future of women's health as defined by women themselves." --Cynthia A. Pearson, executive director, National Women's Health Network "This is an analytically sophisticated and engaging contribution to our understanding of the feminist health movement."--Karen Brodkin, professor of anthropology and women's studies, UCLA Recent history has witnessed a revolution in women's health care. Beginning in the...
"In Into Our Own Hands, Sandra Morgen shows us, not just how the women's health movement started, but how it weathered adversity. This book is importa...
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The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars
ISBN: 9780813532929 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributions of female artists to the development of literary and artistic modernism in early twentieth century France remain poorly understood. It was during this period that a so-called modern woman began occupying urban spaces associated with the development of modern art and modernism s struggles to define subjectivities and sexualities. Whereas most studies of modernism s formal innovations and its encouragement of artistic autonomy neglect or omit necessary discussions of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation, the contributors of "The Modern Woman Revisited" inject these...
The contributions of female artists to the development of literary and artistic modernism in early twentieth century France remain poorly understood. ...
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Women, Gender and Fascism in Europe, 1919-45
ISBN: 9780813533087 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights? This question has vexed feminist scholars for decades and has led to many lively debates in the academy. In this context, during the 1980s, the study of women, gender, and fascism in twentieth-century Europe took off, pioneered by historians such as Claudia Koonz and Victoria de Grazia. This volume makes an exciting contribution to the evolving body of work based upon these earlier studies, bringing emerging scholarship on Central and Eastern Europe alongside that of more established Western European...
What attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights? This question has vexed feminist scholars for decades and has led to...
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Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them
ISBN: 9780813534251 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, mainstream magazines established ideal images of white female culture, while comparable African American periodicals were cast among the shadows. Noliwe M. Rooks's Ladies' Pages sheds light on the most influential African American women's magazines--Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion, Half-Century Magazine for the Colored Homemaker, Tan Confessions, Essence, and O, the Oprah Magazine--and their little-known success in shaping the lives of black women. Ladies' Pages demonstrates how these rare and...
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, mainstream magazines established ideal images of white female culture, while comparable African American per...
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Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics
ISBN: 9780813536194 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Established as an academic field in the 1970s, women's studies is a relatively young but rapidly growing area of study. Not only has the number of scholars working in this subject expanded exponentially, but women's studies has become institutionalized, offering graduate degrees and taking on departmental status in many colleges and universities. At the same time, this field--formed in the wake of the feminist movement--is finding itself in a precarious position in what is now often called a "post-feminist" society. This raises challenging issues for faculty, students, and administrators. How...
Established as an academic field in the 1970s, women's studies is a relatively young but rapidly growing area of study. Not only has the number of sch...
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Feminist Inquiry: From Political Conviction to Methodological Innovation
ISBN: 9780813537054 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Succinctly locating three decades of innovative feminist epistemological challenges in relation to Western philosophy and sexual politics, this book] is a boldly erudite tour de force, invaluable and indispensable for specialist scholars and general readers alike."-Judith A. Allen, professor of gender studies and history, Indiana University "Feminist Inquiry accomplishes what many texts claim to, but few achieve, namely, a truly interdisciplinary approach. By explicating the philosophical, political, and empirical concerns that enliven feminist epistemology, Mary Hawkesworth provides a rich...
"Succinctly locating three decades of innovative feminist epistemological challenges in relation to Western philosophy and sexual politics, this book...
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Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Women on the End of Their (Mostly) Long-Term Relationships
ISBN: 9780813538471 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In unflinchingly honest and intelligent prose, mostly older women talk about the end of (mostly) long-term relationships, addressing the gamut of subjects related to the ending of their relationships and giving voice to what it means to be cut loose.
In unflinchingly honest and intelligent prose, mostly older women talk about the end of (mostly) long-term relationships, addressing the gamut of subj...
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Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context
ISBN: 9780813540269 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Female "circumcision" or, more precisely, female genital cutting (FGC), remains an important cultural practice in many African countries, often serving as a coming-of-age ritual. It is also a practice that has generated international dispute and continues to be at the center of debates over women's rights, the limits of cultural pluralism, the balance of power between local cultures, international human rights, and feminist activism. In our increasingly globalized world, these practices have also begun immigrating to other nations, where transnational complexities vex debates about how to...
Female "circumcision" or, more precisely, female genital cutting (FGC), remains an important cultural practice in many African countries, often servin...
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The Japanese 'New Woman': Images of Gender and Modernity
ISBN: 9780813540467 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dawn of the twentieth century in Japan witnessed the rise of a peculiar problem: the "Woman Problem." This, at least, was the term used in an ongoing debate among the government and various intellectuals over how to define gender roles. While the government worked hard to promote the "good wife, wise mother" paradigm, certain female members of society had other notions about how to engage with their world. In "The Japanese "New Woman,"" Dina Lowy focuses on this new female image as it was revealed, discussed, and debated in popular newspapers and magazines in the 1910s, as well as on the...
The dawn of the twentieth century in Japan witnessed the rise of a peculiar problem: the "Woman Problem." This, at least, was the term used in an ongo...
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The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
ISBN: 9780813541815 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. Among many other examples, they examine how... In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their... |
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