CHRISTINE - Women's Studies 1

Droit de femmes, femmes de droit explore l’évolution du droit des femmes à travers les arts, en particulier la littérature, le cinéma et les séries. En abordant les injustices subies par la gent fém……続きを見る

The midtwenties through the midthirties can be a time of difficult transition: the security blankets of college and parents are gone, and it’s suddenly time to make far-reaching decisions about care……続きを見る

The haunting memoir of a girl growing up in the Moso country in the Himalayas -- a unique matrilineal society. But even in this land of women, familial tension is eternal. Namu is a strong-willed da……続きを見る

Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award Highlighting the long unacknowledged role of a group of pioneering professional women, The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida t……続きを見る

Quand discuter devient pinailler, est-ce pour mieux préciser les choses, ou bien est-ce un exercice de vaine rhétorique ? L’ouvrage aborde cette question en posant que le plaisir de parler est ici c……続きを見る

Le Mouvement de Libération de la Femme est d’actualité dans un monde largement dominé par des pouvoirs réactionnaires où la majorité des femmes peine à sortir d’une dépendance se renouvelant chaque ……続きを見る

The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by e……続きを見る

The Civically Engaged Woman: Rhetoric and Activism of the Silenced Voice introduces readers to lesser-known women living in the United States between 1820 and 1920. The contributors address why thei……続きを見る

The relationship between traditional myths, fairytales and current fiction novels featuring women as crime-solvers is examined in this critical study. Using theories from Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung ……続きを見る

Literary Onomastics surveys different methods of studying names in works of literature and offers representative works of literary onomastic analysis. Included in this volume are qualitative studies……続きを見る

Now a New York Times bestseller "A blisteringly personal memoir...a thoughtful exploration of what it feels like to become a main character in a major American reckoning." ーThe Washington Post "An ……続きを見る

In the latter half of the 1800s, widespread suspicion and anxiety emerged when wives of all ages and social status were accused of killing their husbands with poison. However, what seemed like a mas……続きを見る

This book examines selfies as a relational and processual networked social practice, performed between people within digital contexts and that involve online/offline intersections and tensions. It o……続きを見る

The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain’s Long ……続きを見る

The chapters in this volume foreground the ambivalent role of religion and culture when it comes to African women’s health and well-being. Reflecting on the three major religions in Africa, i.e. Afr……続きを見る

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population)……続きを見る

Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women's liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of wheth……続きを見る

This first-ever interdisciplinary study of woman as prophet shows that, in these troubling times, ordinary womenーespecially Christian womenーneed to function as prophets by proclaiming, in word and……続きを見る

A supplemental text for courses on Interest Groups, American Political Parties, Campaigns and Elections, and Women and Politics, and other Women's Studies courses. Filling the gap in knowledge about……続きを見る

When our expectations are met and things go according to plan, we feel a sense of accomplishment; we feel safe, in control, and on track. But when life does not live up to our expectations, we end u……続きを見る

Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. ……続きを見る

What does gender equality mean for peace, justice, and security? At the turn of the 21st century, feminist advocates persuaded the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution that drew att……続きを見る

Dans 'Le trésor de la cité des dames', Christine de Pizan explore la condition féminine à travers une allégorie complexe et enrichissante. En utilisant un style à la fois clair et lyrique, elle bâti……続きを見る

While ethnomusicologists and anthropologists have long recognized the theoretical connections between gender, place, and emotion in musical performance, these concepts are seldom analyzed together. ……続きを見る

In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astra's friends try to reconcil……続きを見る

Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies. How does a woman describe a part of her bo……続きを見る

Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages……続きを見る

Det kan opleves som en selvfølge, at alle danskere over 18 år har valgret, og at vi sammen bestemmer, hvilken politik landet skal styres med. Men det er ikke en ret, der er kommet af sig selv. De re……続きを見る

The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fre……続きを見る

Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism provides critical feminist and womanist analyses of U.S. militarism that challenge the ongoing U.S. neoliberal military-industrial complex and its multivalent……続きを見る