Presents stories and commentaries on women saints from the Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.

A rare look at female empowerment in the Muslim world.

This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.

Charts the emergence of a new kind of heterosexual rhetoric in eighteenth-century British literature, providing a nuanced reinterpretation of gender and its role in the major genres of the period.

Surveys the works of three important female writers of postcolonial societies.

Probes the complementary yet contested relations between psychoanalysis and feminism, emphasizing the plural nature of each.

This is the first book to address the entire career of this key Victorian author.

Explores alternatives to the gender binary in twentieth-century women's fiction.

Tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s--the choices they made, and the boundaries within which they made them.

Through memoir, interviews, and historical overview, chronicles the evolution in the U. S. of the Grail—an organization of Catholic lay women dedicated to restoring the Christian spirit to all aspects of life.

Explores the lives and religious imaginations of colonial women and the contributions they made to colonial religious discourse.

Presents the first book-length examination of both the biological and cultural factors in human sexuality.

Takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from Christian saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to contemporary s/m practices.

A detailed look at how domestic labor and childcare done by women provides the space for others to participate in sport, contributing directly to individual sporting careers and generally servicing sport as an institution.

An entertainingly satirical vision of today's academy, in which a woman academic lands, with her cat, in a university, largely populated by males.

Offers a multiple-genred mosaic of multiple resistances to oppression through a variety of styles and mediums.

Presents a social history of gender stratification at the University of California at Berkeley through a combination of organizational theory and biography.

Reads a wide range of contemporary feminist theorists to show how they invest in sound as a medium of critical thought.

Examines the subversive and constructive narrative of female journey in American literature, from the seventeenth century to the present.

An important contribution to our understanding and interpretation of fetishism and of what fetishism can teach us about sexuality, gender, belief, and knowledge.

A thought-provoking look at how silence is embedded in our language, society, and institutions. Sexual harassment is explored as an example.

Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, this book provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, an important but neglected Renaissance mystic.

Using postmodern social theory, this book expands our understanding of sport, the body, and the broader physical culture.

Applies the perspectives of gender and ethnicity in a feminist analysis of the Eichmann controversy and offers a wholly new interpretation of Arendt's work, from Eichmann in Jerusalem to The Life of the Mind.

A translation of women's testimonies about their experiences in the prisons of Spain following the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 collected by Tomasa Cuevas, herself a surviving victim of the Francoist prison system.