Roy - Women's Studies 1

Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspensef……続きを見る

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscapeーthe conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide……続きを見る

A powerful anthology uniting the voices of Indigenous women, Elders, grassroots community activists, artists, academics, and family members affected by the tragedy of Missing and Murdered Indigenous……続きを見る

First published in 1941, the original blurb read: “Women have been among the worst sufferers not only in war-time but in every ill-organized time of peace. The vast “slave class” on whose backs the ……続きを見る

In "Sex and Common-Sense," A. Maude Royden presents a thought-provoking exploration of human sexuality, grounding her discourse in both personal experience and sociocultural critique. Written in the……続きを見る

Women in the Tudor age are often overshadowed by their male counterparts. Even those of royalty were deemed inferior to males. while women may have been classed as the inferior gender, women played ……続きを見る

Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media examines the intricate relationship between marginalized women and work through critical essays about ……続きを見る

Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins provides a novel contribution to the ongoing debates concerning the canon in contemporary sociological theory. In particular, the edit……続きを見る

In Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the conditions of global neoliberalism. The consequences of India’s liberalizatio……続きを見る

Aunque la Paz (en mayúscula y como construcción estatal) ha posibilitado la emergencia de organizaciones de mujeres y oportunidades de participación, también ha supuesto la intervención del Estado, ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful ins……続きを見る

One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903–83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied……続きを見る

The book examines the characteristics of family life of various religious and cultural groups in India and analyses the diversities and complexities of family patterns, practices and pathos that exi……続きを見る

Sati in those days and currently frequent 'dowry death' or 'Bride Burningcases are the obvious evidence of cruelty/atrocity against women. Whatever may be the causes of this-social, economic or psyc……続きを見る

Sati in those days and currently frequent 'dowry death' or 'Bride Burningcases are the obvious evidence of cruelty/atrocity against women. Whatever may be the causes of this-social, economic or psyc……続きを見る

Sati in those days and currently frequent 'dowry death' or 'Bride Burningcases are the obvious evidence of cruelty/atrocity against women. Whatever may be the causes of this-social, economic or psyc……続きを見る

The groundbreaking Kinsey Report study on female sexuality from “one of the most influential figures in American intellectual history” (The New York Times). Originally published in 1953, the materia……続きを見る

A comprehensive history of the Women’s Royal Naval Service of Great Britain in the twentieth century. The Women’s Royal Naval Service was formed in 1917 when the call was for volunteers to release a……続きを見る

Love triangles and Pythagorean women. In Pythagorean Women, classical scholar Sarah B. Pomeroy discusses the groundbreaking principles that Pythagoras established for family life in Archaic Greece, ……続きを見る

An emotional, evocative coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl’s attempt to find her own voice in prerevolutionary Iran “An immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, ……続きを見る

Dancing for Your Life chronicles the true story of a beautiful, young Filipina who, in order to help her family financially, leaves her home in the quiet Philippines countryside to work as a da……続きを見る

Tina Royles was a highly respected police officer, dealing with domestic violence in a professional capacity, who became a victim herself.Today she is considered an expert in the field of domestic v……続きを見る

By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slavery. Here, Julie Roy Jeffrey explores t……続きを見る

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary cultureーand sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphi……続きを見る

“Should feminists clone?” “What do neurons think about?” “How can we learn from bacterial writing?” These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, a……続きを見る

Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history: the vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus; the inscription on a beautiful……続きを見る

This book explores why, in these post-feminist days, otherwise confident and assertive women spend hours waiting for the phone to ring when they meet a man they like. It reveals the effects this pas……続きを見る

Why the gender gap persists and how we can close it. For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and ……続きを見る

American history is teeming with unconventional, trailblazing Lone Star women with big, unprecedented achievements--outstanding, outrageous, outré women who know all about being "Texas Big" and bein……続きを見る

Indian writing in English (IWE) is now a widely recognized and awarded genre, boasting of world renowned authors in its ranks. The ‘fathers’ of IWE, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, and Raja Rao, have ……続きを見る