著者:Barbara Burrell
出版社: University of Michigan Press
発売日: 2010年05月07日
In this first comprehensive examination of women candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, Barbara Burrell argues that women are as successful at winning elections as men. Why, then, are the……続きを見る
著者:Ayala Emmett
出版社: University of Michigan Press
発売日: 2010年05月18日
In this powerful and timely book, Ayala H. Emmett examines the political roles of women in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Emmett's insights come from numerous trips to the region that includ……続きを見る
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that improvements in the status of women and girls – however worthy and important in their own right – also drive the prosperity, stability, and security of f……続きを見る
Women’s and girls’ substance use is an important health, economic and social issue in Canada. However, most books about alcohol and other drug use do not address the unique needs and circumstances o……続きを見る
A trailblazing look at how the law regulates women’s bodies as reproductive sites and what can be done about it.
At the center of the “war on women” lies the fact that women in the contemporary Unit……続きを見る
International Book Award in "Women’s Issues"
Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Culture Book"
Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Book Cover"
Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Debut Author"
Indie Book Award for "Histori……続きを見る
著者:Ruth A. Miller
出版社: University of Michigan Press
発売日: 2011年11月16日
Ruth A. Miller demonstrates the potential of taking nonhuman linguistic activityーsuch as the running of machine codeーas an analytical model. Via a lively discussion of 19th-century pro- and antisu……続きを見る
One of the most memorable images of the British women’s suffrage movement occurred on June 4, Derby Day, 1913. As the field of horses approached a turning at Epsom, militant suffragette Emily Wildin……続きを見る
著者:Amy Richlin
出版社: University of Michigan Press
発売日: 2014年08月04日
Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian. Widely represented in literature and art, they rarely speak for themselves. Amy Richlin, among the foremost pioneers in ancient studies, gives voice to……続きを見る
著者:Julie Wosk
出版社: Rutgers University Press
発売日: 2015年07月28日
Runner-up for the 2015 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize
The fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Yet as……続きを見る
In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less ……続きを見る
著者:Amy DeRogatis
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
When it comes to evangelicals and sex, it seems, whatever the question, the answer is "no." In Saving Sex, Amy DeRogatis argues that this could not be further from the truth. Demolishing the myth of……続きを見る
A number of recent books, magazines, and television programs have emerged that promise to take viewers inside the exciting world of professional chefs. While media suggest that the occupation is und……続きを見る
Over the last few decades, television programs have attempted to depict some of the more troubling elements of society with a more conscientious approach. Issues that networks were once reluctant to……続きを見る
Issues relating to alcohol 'misuse' can only properly be understood within their social and environmental contexts. This research and practice based book explores social models of alcohol misuse to ……続きを見る
Antigone's Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa ……続きを見る
No início do século XX, a zona Araraquarense (atual Noroeste Paulista) passou por um grande desenvolvimento econômico, cultural e social, em virtude do fluxo de imigrações, o que mudou em pouco temp……続きを見る
著者:Gillian Clark
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2015年07月01日
Rarely did ancient authors write about the lives of women; even more rarely did they write about the lives of ordinary women: not queens or heroines who influenced war or politics, not sensational e……続きを見る
More than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still standsーalong with her close friend Susan B. Anthonyーas the major icon of the struggle for women’s suffrage. In spite of th……続きを見る
In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. “Borders”ーdefined broadly to include……続きを見る
The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education. The South offered women an education explicitly designed to be equivalent to that of ……続きを見る
How young woman are redefining sex 30 years after the Sexual Revolution
Three decades after the Sexual Revolution, women's power and status have begun to match men's, and women are finally making th……続きを見る
Cut It Out examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists: the cesarean section.
While c-section births pose a higher risk of maternal dea……続きを見る
著者:Mary Anne Poutanen
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2015年07月01日
During a time of significant demographic, geographic, and social transition, many women in early nineteenth-century Montreal turned to prostitution and brothel-keeping to feed, clothe, protect, and ……続きを見る
著者:Doris M. Kieser
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2015年06月08日
This book explores the intersection in contemporary Western culture of Catholic sexual theology and adolescent female developmental and sexual experiences. The voices of adolescent females, so long ……続きを見る
You have an enemy . . . and he’s dead set on destroying all you hold dear and keeping you from experiencing abundant life in Christ. What’s more, his approach to disrupting your life and discreditin……続きを見る
著者:Jennifer Bain
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Since her death in 1179, Hildegard of Bingen has commanded attention in every century. In this book Jennifer Bain traces the historical reception of Hildegard, focusing particularly on the moment in……続きを見る
著者:Milly S. Barranger
出版社: University of Michigan Press
発売日: 2010年02月24日
"In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theat……続きを見る
著者:Gilbert Herdt
出版社: University of Michigan Press
発売日: 2010年02月22日
Gilbert Herdt is Director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is also Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology.
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著者:J. Ellen Gainor
出版社: University of Michigan Press
発売日: 2010年03月25日
Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- bu……続きを見る