Argues that Islamic law does not accord a lesser status to women and elaborates Muslim women's rights in a variety of areas.

Explores how a pivotal event in U.S. history—the killing of nearly 300 Shoshoni men, women, and children in 1863—has been contested, forgotten, and remembered.

Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.

Shows how battered women's personal theologies help them survive and heal, despite the women's knowledge that religion may also have contributed to their oppression.

Incorporates memoir in the context of philosophical and political theory and argument.

Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today.

Crucial conversations about feminist theories and how they can fall apart, rupture, and fragment.

Examines the rich and multiple meanings of food in women's writing.

Examines the crucial role that coming-of-age narratives have played in American feminism.

Second volume of biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.

Wide-ranging and poignant reflections on literature, art, science, and memory.

The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville’s classic, Democracy in America.

A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.

Discusses portrayals of domestic violence in six major works of mid-nineteenth-century literature.

Presents the political, social, and cultural context behind Ottoman charity.

Explores the experiences of women imprisoned for killing their male abusers and their treatment by the criminal justice system.

Offers critical assessments of feminism from the 1960s to the present.

Biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.

Looks at changing conceptions of spinsterhood in modern American culture.

This interdisciplinary consideration of women in world religions features new scholarship across traditions and approaches.

Examines the intricate relationships between time and gender in the novels of five fin-de-siecle British writers--Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard, Sarah Grand, and Mona Caird.

Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution.

An in-depth examination of the work of this important medieval woman mystic.

A fascinating story of the first generations of women who went to college to learn to be writers and then launched their careers writing poetry and prose.

Highlights the struggles of a group of women from rural Kenya to provide educational opportunities for their children.