Gender Differences

Mary Lou Kendrigan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies
• Gender differences touch all aspects of life, including the different impact public policy has on men and women. Inequalities persist in the areas tra... Lees meer

Against the Horizon

Jacqueline Vansant, Leonard Grob, Riffat Hassan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 92
• This is the only English-language book to deal in depth with Austrian women writers of the postwar and contemporary period. It is a comparative study ... Lees meer

New Dimensions of Spirituality

S Demetrakopoulos, Karla Holloway

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 84
• This series of essays on Toni Morrison's first four novels-- The Bluest Eye , Song of Solomon , Sula , and Tar Baby is the delightful, intelligent col... Lees meer

The Repair of the World

Kerstin Westerlund-Shands

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 145
• In Marge Piercy's work, the repair of the world involves an affirmation of a healing and nurturing principle, sometimes depicted as matriarchal, but g... Lees meer

Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife

Yaffa Draznin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 179
• Through a detailed description of the life and activities of the middle-class married woman of London between 1875 and 1900, this study reveals how ho... Lees meer

Embracing Space

Kerstin W Shands, Kerstin Westerlund-Shands

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 176
• While there is a predominant celebration of mobility and instability metaphors in contemporary feminist discourse, concepts of home, rest or dwelling ... Lees meer

The Poverty of Life-Affirming Work

Mechthild U Hart

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 194
• While society may applaud middle and upper class women who decide to stay home to raise their children, there exists a decided abhorrence for single m... Lees meer

Beyond the Public/Domestic Dichotomy

Janet Sharistanian

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies
• The eight essays in this volume explore the public, or extra-domestic, lives of women, examining the connections between their activities in the publi... Lees meer

The Dress of Women

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 193
• Originally serialized in 1915 in The Forerunner , and never before published in book form, The Dress of Women presents Gilman's feminist sociological ... Lees meer

Indigenous Navigation and Voyaging in the Pacific

Nicholas J Goetzfridt

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 6
• How have Pacific Islanders voyaged across the vast ocean around them and navigated their small crafts from one distant place to another for thousands ... Lees meer

African American Women and Social Action

Floris Barnett Cash

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 188
• Black women have a long history of collective struggle to create welfare organizations, schools, orphanages, and health centers for African Americans.... Lees meer

Edith Wharton's Prisoners of Consciousness

Evelyn E Fracasso

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 140
• The metaphor of life as prison obsessed Edith Wharton, and, consequently, the theme of imprisonment appears in most of her 86 short stories. In the la... Lees meer

A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792-1995

Mary Ellen Zuckerman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies
• Throughout their history, women's mass circulation journals have played a major role in the lives of millions of American women. Yet the women's magaz... Lees meer

Style and the Scribbling Women

Mary P Hiatt

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 131
• Derogation of nineteenth-century women novelists was often the immediate response to their works. While modern feminist scholarship has repudiated thi... Lees meer

Contemporary Irish Women Poets

Alexander G. Gonzalez

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 174
• So many male critics have attacked Ireland's contemporary women poets -- whether through hostile reviews, outright silence, or condescending praise --... Lees meer

International Women's Writing

Anne E. Brown, Marjanne E. Gooze

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 147
• This collection of essays on women's writing since 1945 is the first to explore the diversity of female identity as it is expressed in the literatures... Lees meer

The Feminization of Poverty

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Eleanor Kremen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 117
• This comprehensive and carefully organized collection provides an overview of the relationship between gender and economic stratification in seven ind... Lees meer

The Foreign Woman in British Literature

Marilyn D. Button, Toni Reed

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 171
• While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and political complexities ... Lees meer

New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence

Greta M Coger

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 154
• Nearly all of Laurence's works from Africa and Canada are critiqued in this volume. The essays highlight Laurence's innovative narrative styles, showi... Lees meer

From the Hearth to the Open Road

Barbara Frey Waxman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 113
• This literary critical book deals exclusively with contemporary fiction by women that focuses on aging of women. It discusses the emergence of a new f... Lees meer

From Crime to Choice

Nanette J Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies
• This work provides the first broadly based documentation and analysis of the evolution of abortion from criminal act to personal choice. The author pl... Lees meer

The Sea of Becoming

Mary S. Vasquez

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies
• One of the most powerful and original of the women authors who have emerged in post-Franco Spain is Esther Tusquets. Her work has awakened an ever-gro... Lees meer

Speaking of Friendship

Helen Gouldner, Mary Symons Strong

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies | nr. 80
• Speaking of Friendship provides an in-depth look at the friendships of middle-class women. It explores the details of their everyday experiences with ... Lees meer

Seeking Common Ground

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Women's Studies
• This book is the first interdisciplinary reader focusing on immigrant women in the United States. Part I includes three chapters by a historian, a soc... Lees meer