Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis

Elizabeth Abel

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society | nr. 1
• "A stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of m... Lees meer

City of Dreadful Delight

Judith R Walkowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expe... Lees meer

Manliness and Civilization

Gail Bederman

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johns... Lees meer

Civilization without Sexes

Mary Louise Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming ... Lees meer

Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice

Jutta Gisela Sperling

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• In late sixteenth-century Venice, nearly 60 percent of all patrician women joined convents, and only a minority of these women did so voluntarily. In ... Lees meer

Feeding the Family

Marjorie L DeVault

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• Housework-often trivialized or simply overlooked in public discourse-contributes in a complex and essential way to the form that families and societie... Lees meer

Women Adrift

Joanne J Meyerowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• Starting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie , Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of singl... Lees meer

How to Make It as a Woman

Alison Booth

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• How to Make It as a Woman outlines the history of prosopography or group biography, focusing on the all-female collections that took hold in nineteent... Lees meer

What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do

Stephanie J Shaw

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerm... Lees meer

The Weak Body of a Useless Woman

Anne Walthall

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind by traveling to Kyoto, the old imperial capital. Peasant, poet, and local political... Lees meer

Nails in the Wall

Amy Leonard

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther instituted new ideologies addressing gender, marriage, chastity, and religious life that threatened C... Lees meer

Oglala Women

Marla N Powers

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Pow... Lees meer

Equivocal Beings

Claudia L Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men-upon the masculine cultivati... Lees meer

Women Strike for Peace

Amy Swerdlow

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• Women Strike for Peace is the only historical account of this ground-breaking women's movement. Amy Swerdlow, a founding member of WSP, restores to th... Lees meer

Reign of Virtue

Miranda Pollard

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France. D... Lees meer

Africa Wo/Man Palava

Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• Africa Wo/Man Palava offers the first close look at eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a new vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa... Lees meer

Plant Allometry

Karl J Niklas

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• Allometry, the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole, has produced exciting results in research on animals. Now dis... Lees meer

Justice by Lottery

Barbara Goodwin

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• In this imaginative and provocative book, Barbara Goodwin explores the question of how lottery systems can achieve egalitarian social justice in socie... Lees meer

Equal in Monastic Profession

Penelope D Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule,... Lees meer

Women, History, and Theory

Joan Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• These posthumous essays by Joan Kelly, a founder of women's studies, represent a profound synthesis of feminist theory and historical analysis and req... Lees meer

The Honest Courtesan

Margaret F Rosenthal

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of ... Lees meer

Making Gray Gold

Timothy Diamond

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• This first hand report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set powerfully in the context of wider political, economic, and... Lees meer

Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But... Lees meer

Downtown Ladies

Gina A Ulysse

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Culture and Society
• The Caribbean "market woman" is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challengi... Lees meer