GEN - Women's Studies 1

How Black American women have uplifted Black communities and critiqued dominant white memories In Community and Critique, Sara C. VanderHaagen analyzes Black women's memory work, a deliberate, publi……続きを見る

What if the oppression of women was not a betrayal of religionーbut one of its most successful designs? What if the story you were told about women, God, and obedience was never the whole truth? Wha……続きを見る

The history of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, an archive dedicated to preserving Chicana feminist knowledge of the 1970s and memory work. The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed……続きを見る

Es una obra para todas y todos. Reúne a investigadoras comprometidas y apasionadas en sus temas y profesiones. Las investigaciones que se encuentran en los capítulos de este libro nos llevan a conoc……続きを見る

What does it mean to grow up defined by a label you never choseーrefugeeーand still insist on shaping a life of hope and purpose? In A Congolese Refugee’s Quest for a Purpose and Better Life, Gentil……続きを見る

Née dans le tumulte d’un siècle marqué par la guerre, Viviane voit son enfance s’éteindre trop tôt, happée par les épreuves. Nourrice, ouvrière, boulangère, mère avant d’être femme, elle avance avec……続きを見る

Based upon an extensive empirical study of a democratic therapeutic community for women serving long and medium sentences, this book explores the opportunities it provided for restorative rehabilita……続きを見る

Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of ……続きを見る

As tropical as it is topical, this landmark anthology gives voice to three powerful women poets from the Dominican Republic. Together they present a wide array of linguistic and stylistic elements, ……続きを見る

Gesellschaften mit starker Einwanderung kennzeichnen vielfältige Formen von Identitätsbildung und das Ringen um politische und zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für……続きを見る

Le saviez-vous ? Les Françaises sont les championnes européennes de la consommation de chaussures. D’où vient cette passion ? Existe-t-il des raisons historiques ? Sociologiques ? Voire psychologiqu……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

Comment la variété des contextes historiques et aux cultures politiques affecte-t-elle le destin d’une œuvre comme celle de Simone de Beauvoir ? Autour de la Méditerranée, d’Espagne ou d’Italie en I……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

La maternidad no define a una mujer, pero su libertad sí Cada generación tiene más mujeres sin hijos que la anterior, por razones que van desde querer una mayor libertad económica hasta el deseo de ……続きを見る

Throughout films and television series like The Piano, Bright Star, In the Cut and Top of the Lake, Jane Campion has constantly explored gender, subjectivity and narrative representation. In an inte……続きを見る

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children. However, there was growing concern that the determination of scientists t……続きを見る

Mothers, Midwives, and Reproductive Labor in Interwar and Wartime Britain is about the experiences of mothers and midwives as they navigated the changing political and social issues surrounding chil……続きを見る

Containing nearly three dozen original essays penned by the nation's leading newspaper journalists, editors, and executives, this book advances current discussions regarding women in journalism. Sur……続きを見る

Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls. Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published……続きを見る

"A first-rate ethnography of Muslim women in Dakar . . . [an] extremely fine-grained analysis of women's exchange networks." ーRobert Launay, Northwestern University Senegalese Murid migrants have c……続きを見る

A study of the many changes in women's lives in an English town over the course of a century. This book shines a light on women's lives in and around the English town of Watford, in the home and at ……続きを見る

Through a critical discussion of an array of written and visual texts that feature a writer as a main character, Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture a……続きを見る

In seinem aufschlussreichen Werk 'Der Mädchenhandel' widmet sich Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Wagener der Thematik des Frauenhandels im 19. Jahrhundert. Mit scharfsinniger Analyse und eindringlicher Pr……続きを見る

Fluent in at least seven languages and a writer of ravishing prose accounts of her journeys, Freya Stark was one of the great travel writers of the twentieth century. In 1934 her first book, Valley ……続きを見る

Les violences faites aux filles et aux femmes sont au cœur des préoccupations féministes au Québec. En 2013, le Partenariat CRSH de recherches et d’actions entre universités et milieux de pratique T……続きを見る

In this important book, experts assess what the COVID-19 pandemic means for gender inequalities in the Global South, examining how threats to equitable development will impact the most marginalized ……続きを見る

Healing Hope is the first in a series about the different experiences of women living with HIV in San Diego County and Tijuana. A total of 17 stories are highlighted in this volume each with a respe……続きを見る

'THE MOTHERHOOD COMPLEX does for mothers in particular what INVISIBLE WOMEN did for women as a whole: exposes the myriad ways in which the system is stacked against us, while celebrating the strengt……続きを見る

This book presents an ethnographic investigation of intimate and reproductive behaviour in current Japanese society, grounded in the viewpoints of a group of Japanese mothers. It adopts a new approa……続きを見る