Mónica waits in the Anti-Venereal Medical Service of the Zona Galactica, the legal, state-run brothel where she works in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico. Surrounded by other sex workers, she clutches the S……続きを見る
著者:Nancy C. Unger
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年07月30日
In 1931, the New York Times hailed Belle Case La Follette as "probably the least known yet most influential of all the American women who have had to do with public affairs." A dedicated advocate fo……続きを見る
Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance. Dandyism has been most closely associated with influential caucasian Wes……続きを見る
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The need to stop rape is pressing and, since it is the outcome of a wide range of practices and institutions in society, so too must the policies be to ……続きを見る
An update of the feminist classic that “did nothing less than alter the course of gender psychology” (Psychology Today)
In the years since its original publication, this best-selling classic became ……続きを見る
At first sight, tattoos, nudity, and veils do not seem to have much in common except for the fact that all three have become more frequent, more visible, and more dominant in connection with aesthet……続きを見る
In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. Bechtel’s diary, photo……続きを見る
HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls. Since its premiere in 2012, the series has garnered the attention o……続きを見る
著者:Thea Cacchioni
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2015年08月07日
In 2010, Thea Cacchioni testified before the US Food and Drug Administration against flibanserin, a drug proposed to treat low sexual desire in women, dubbed by the media the “pink Viagra.” She was ……続きを見る
In Women of the Right, Kathleen M. Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch bring together a groundbreaking collection of essays examining women in right-wing politics across the world, from the early twentiet……続きを見る
When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the m……続きを見る
Representations of gender in learning materials convey an implicit message to students about attitudes towards culturally appropriate gender roles for women and men. This collection takes a linguist……続きを見る
著者:Bani Shorter
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年08月11日
Originally published in 1987, a well-known Jungian analyst, the late Bani Shorter writes here about how women are initiated into becoming themselves. Her book was an important contribution to the fi……続きを見る
As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of b……続きを見る
In Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s and their Influence on Popular Culture musician and music historian Sean MacLeod surveys the hundreds of girl groups that appeared not only in the Un……続きを見る
From 1920s to 1949, many Samsui women came to Singapore in search of jobs. Most of them worked in the construction industry. Construction jobs, considered to be the toughest kind of job, were shunne……続きを見る
Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.
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著者:Carina E. Ray
出版社: Ohio University Press
発売日: 2015年10月15日
Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and defined these powerfully cha……続きを見る
著者:Rachel Moran
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2015年08月20日
An astonishingly brave memoir of prostitution and its lingering influence on a woman’s psyche and life.
“The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran’s Paid For fuses the memoirist’s l……続きを見る
著者:Vicki Covington
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2009年09月15日
This thoughtful, engaging collection examines resilience, identity, and inequality in the modern workplace produced by one of the nation's most observant and incisive writers.
This collection of war……続きを見る
Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North, is a provocative, engaging and interesting collection of real-world case studies in development and globaliza……続きを見る
Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death. However there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer propose……続きを見る
Pour de nombreuses femmes, entreprendre un traitement à la suite d'un traumatisme constitue une étape difficile qui demande beaucoup de temps, d'argent et d'énergie émotionnelle. Les femmes, la viol……続きを見る
著者:Emily Hemelrijk
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2015年09月02日
Roman cities have rarely been studied from the perspective of women, and studies of Roman women mainly focus on the city of Rome. Studying the civic participation of women in the towns of Italy outs……続きを見る
Taboo!: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light Area is a journey of discovery into the infamous red-light district of Lahore, Pakistan, known as the Shahi Mohalla (the Royal Bazaar) or Heera Mandi (the m……続きを見る
Haunted by representations of black women that resist the reality of the body's vulnerability, Kimberly Juanita Brown traces slavery's afterlife in black women's literary and visual cultural product……続きを見る
著者:Ann Snitow
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2015年08月27日
The Feminism of Uncertainty brings together Ann Snitow’s passionate, provocative dispatches from forty years on the front lines of feminist activism and thought. In such celebrated pieces as "A Gend……続きを見る
著者:Chen Huiqin
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2015年05月21日
Daughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She witnessed the Japanese occupation during World War II, the Communist Revoluti……続きを見る
The Every Woman’s Guide to Equality takes a different look at women’s equality. It is a comprehensive discussion about how inequality exists in every area of women’s lives: the healthcare system, ju……続きを見る
著者:Dorothy Kelly
出版社: Penn State University Press
発売日: 2015年08月26日
Reconstructing Woman explores a scenario common to the works of four major French novelists of the nineteenth century: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Villiers. In the texts of each author, a “new Pygma……続きを見る