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What if the constraints placed on women's bodies were never ordained by God? For over a millennium, the Islamic marital framework has been dictated by a rigid, juristic tradition that claims to spea……続きを見る

Across diverse societies, coercion often hides behind cultural norms, religious expectations, legal systems, and gendered power structures. This book exposes a disturbing but overlooked form of abus……続きを見る

More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young woman, nine of the original contributors are backーalong wi……続きを見る

'Two Women Living Together is a wonderfully calming and cosy read. I always adore stories of women who choose to live beyond the confines of cultural expectationーand this book might just be my new ……続きを見る

Farhana Qazi draws on her background as a pioneering counterterrorism professional and a devout Muslim to offer an insider's view of what drives girls and women to join radical Islamic movements and……続きを見る

To survive Totalitarianism and retain their humanity, Czech women writers went underground to write, paint, sculpt, and create supportive communities. This book explores fiction, poetry, and life-su……続きを見る

War, Violence and Women*’*s Agency in Pakistan investigates the prominent features of gender ideology in the Swat region, Pakistan and how they influence the norms and forms of women’s agency during……続きを見る

This timely new book explores the formation of the Radical Feminist Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, its prominent leaders and organizations, and the issues it sought to address. Radical Feminists: ……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

Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric demonstrates the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to……続きを見る

Premodern History and Art through the Prism of Gender in East-Central Europe is a representative collection of current Czech research in premodern history and art history, using gender as a tool of ……続きを見る

The book investigates how teenage girls in South Africa encounter and consume pornography, situating their experiences within wider sociocultural and affective relations of power. It focuses on girl……続きを見る

A arte de lidar com as mulheres no amor requer do homem um estado interior apropriado, que lhe permita resistir aos encantos e fascínios femininos, e um conhecimento estratégico, que permita desarti……続きを見る

Drawing on diverse examples from literature, film, memoirs, and popular culture, Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities analyses cultural representations of male infertility. Going beyond the biomedi……続きを見る

Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a p……続きを見る

Winner of the 21st Century Leader Award and the Humanitarian Award “Qazi gives us insights into rarely visible Kashmir. Her powerful narrative and sensitive, brilliant storytelling, reveal her perso……続きを見る

Winner of the 21st Century Leader Award and The Humanitarian Award for exceptional research "A brilliant read. This book reveals why human security is a global issue." - U.S. Ambassador Prudence Bus……続きを見る

"A brilliant read. This book reveals why human secuity is a global issue." -- U.S. Ambassador Prudence Bushnell “Qazi gives us insights into rarely visible Kashmir. Her powerful narrative and sensit……続きを見る

This book argues that neoliberal discourses prevalent in higher education seek to undermine, commodify, and co-opt the radical, transformative work that many gender and women’s studies departments, ……続きを見る

This book is an attempt to penetrate the silence that surrounds the lives of nurses as migrant women. It offers a perceptive understanding of the trials faced specifically by women from the state of……続きを見る

Are you curious about Reiki? Have you heard of Reiki but it just doesn't make sense? Do you want to learn how an ancient “Japanese" healing technique came to the Western world? Have you heard there……続きを見る

Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance seeks to open a lively and accessible discussion between critical studies of men and masculinities and popular romance studies, especially its continued inter……続きを見る

Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa interrupts the relative silence around teenage constructions of love in South Africa. Against the backdrop of gender inequalities, HIV and viole……続きを見る

In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. U……続きを見る

Changing Narratives of Sexuality examines the tensions and contradictions in constructions of gender, sexuality and women's empowerment in the various narrations of sexuality told by and about women……続きを見る

In this first book-length study of Ayn Rand's anti-utopia Anthem, essays explore the historical, literary, and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to the totalitaria……続きを見る

This unique book offers an innovative feminist critique of attachment theory that offers an alternative understanding of relationships between women and their babies in domestic violence. Fiona Buch……続きを見る

It’s easy to believe the narrative that certain people are just “born” to change the world. But where does that leave the rest of us? Can anyone be a changemaker? Every person has the capacity to cr……続きを見る

Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed……続きを見る

Asha Nadkarni contends that whenever feminists lay claim to citizenship based on women’s biological ability to “reproduce the nation” they are participating in a eugenic projectーsanctioning reprodu……続きを見る