Examines the construction of gender in public school employment.

Argues that women's relationship to books and their promotion of reading contributed greatly to the cultural and intellectual vitality of the Enlightenment.

Recovers a dynamic women’s tradition of vision and sexuality, challenging Darwinian and Freudian accounts of women as nonvisual sexual agents.

Provides a comparative look at women's texts across the Americas.

Offers a new perspective on the psychological and affective dynamics of Jamaica Kincaid’s fiction and nonfiction.

Art historical and literary perspectives on the place of women in the medieval church.

A feminist reconsideration of Sikh identity, discussing its original egalitarianism and current hypermasculine quality, which is harmful to both men and women.

A critique of public policy rhetoric from multiple feminist perspectives.

Uses personal narratives to highlight the development of feminist sport studies.

The first book-length biography of Margaret Haley (1861–1939) focuses on her political vision, her activities as a public school activist, and her life as a charismatic woman leader.

A collection of sixty short stories by women writers from across the Arab world.

Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.

Interrogates the comfortable and stable contours of "home," asking what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places.

Brings the writings of de Cleyre out of undeserved obscurity.

Examines female infanticide in colonial and postcolonial India.

A son’s coming to terms with his mother’s decision to abandon her career as a concert pianist in order to raise her children.

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

Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.

Links radical feminist writings of the 1960s and 1970s to contemporary online women's networks.

Compares plays by Latin American women dramatists born after 1945.

Examines the implications and meanings of the makeover and aesthetic surgery industry in American popular culture.

Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.

Looks at Buddhist women's activism for social change from the time of Buddha to the present day.

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

A critical look at the perceived increase in girls' violence from a range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives.

Documents the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers in poverty confront in the current welfare climate.

An in-depth exploration of women's lives after a natural disaster.

Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.

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.

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.

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

A comparative history of single women's independent migration to the textile cities of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland.

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

A comprehensive look at the ERA debates of the 1920s.

A treasure trove of information for women and minorities in the academy who are beginning their quest for tenure.

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

Interviews with women in cross-cultural marriages, offering a unique insight into Japanese life.

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.

Analyzes East German feminism for an American audience through an exploration of their women writers.

Men from a wide range of traditions discuss gender justice in world religions.

A rare look at female empowerment in the Muslim world.

Looks at the forging of a new Jewish political culture at the turn of the century.

An in-depth consideration of women's activism in the AIDS and breast cancer movements.

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

Set in 1929, before the Crash, Paradise Farm probes the disintegration and rebirth of a wealthy Jewish family at a time when the New York art world was in ferment, women's roles were changing, the psychoanalytic movement was burgeoning--and Hitler's menace was recognized only by a prescient few.

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

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.

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.

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.

Written by one of twentieth-century Spain's most prominent intellectuals, this book--part memoir, part lyrical novel--is both a Bildungsroman about a young woman's intellectual formation during a crucial period of Spanish history (1929-1931) and a philosophical meditation upon the individual's place in society.

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

This original interdisciplinary book combines autobiographical reflections with a scholarly analysis of a diary the author kept while learning Japanese in Hiroshima.

Tells the story of some Afrikan mothers who, under European domination with the United States and the United Kingdom, have struggled to survive and maintain their (and their children's) cultural identities within European-oriented societies.

Written by leading women scholars, this first and only book published about Lithuanian women details the historical, social, economic, and political issues affecting women during the transition from communism to democracy.

Offers a rare look at the world of Hasidic women activists in the years since World War II, and how they have challenged the rise of American feminism.

This broad-ranging collection, the first of its kind, gathers essays on the representation of women in recent German cinema, as well as recent interviews with German women filmmakers.

Irena Koprowska's autobiography illuminates the struggles of a young immigrant woman to combine family responsibilities and a demanding medical career.

A philosophical questioning of reading and writing that focuses on metaphors of women and women's roles in our cultural and intellectual heritage.

This book draws mutually enlightening parallels between controversial themes in contemporary feminist thought and Hegel's political philosophy. Jeffrey A. Gauthier argues that feminism can gainfully employ ...

Considers how Lessing's exposure to a particular aspect of tasawwuf, the classical Sufi Way, has shaped her work. Impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our present Western ways of life.

Madeleva was a close friend of C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Jacques Maritain, and Clare Booth Luce. This book paints a picture of daily life in communities of religious women and explores the inner life of a passionately spiritual woman who was known as an advocate for women in the church as well as a scholar, poet, and essayist.

Analyzes and illustrates the demonization of women and Jews in medieval sermon stories, retelling over one hundred of these tales in modern English.

Offers a lucidly written analysis of the complex and provocative terrain of lesbian literary and cultural theory.

This collection of feminist essays from a variety of disciplines explores the idea of the body as a site for the production of political ideologies.

Challenges Beauvoir's self-portrait and argues that she was a philosopher in her own right.

Provides the first English translation of the Tibetan and Chinese texts on monastic discipline for Buddhist nuns and presents a comparative study of the two texts. An important contribution for studies of women’s history, feminist philosophy, women’s studies, women in religion, and feminist ethics.

Asks how and with what measure of success women and minorities fare in comparison with white males in American professions.

An anthology of personal narratives reflecting the issues confronting women in the medical academy today, including sexual harassment, equity issues, and maternity leave policies.

This collection of six interviews with internationally known scholars explores feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism.

This book presents a feminist perspective on educational leadership, and demonstrates that women conceptualize leadership differently than men.

This book is an ethic of inclusion leading from gender and sexual difference through the social world of race and culture to the natural world.

Postmodern theory at its best--a call for an ecofeminist dialogical method of reading literature and nature.

This book combines a case study of industrial homework in the electronics industry with a world-systems approach to understanding the role of home-based work in economic development. It spans the period ...

"Here comes a walking fire," the Fool says to Lear as he sees Gloucester walking across a heath carrying a torch. This novel opens in fall, 1988, as Cora, an anti-war activist, returns to the U.S. from ...

The Center of the Web examines the complexities of how solitude is perceived by women. Each contributor describes how solitude is a dimension of her personal and public life: how she defines it, if and ...

This book compares and analyzes different forms of reduced work: conventional part-time employment, temporary employment, job sharing, and work sharing. Through interviews, workers reveal their experiences ...

Gothic fiction usually has been perceived as the special province of women, an attraction often attributed to a thematics of woman-identified issues such as female sexuality, marriage, and childbirth. ...

The Education of Fanny Lewald is the autobiography of the most popular and prolific German woman writer of her period (1811-1889). The author of more than fifty books of fiction, travel memoirs, and articles ...

For Norma Rosen, the Holocaust is the central event of the twentieth century. In this book, she examines the relationship of post-Holocaust writers to their work in terms of subject, language, imagery, ...

What distinguishes this Buddhist text from so many others is the timelessness of its ideas. It constitutes a radical attempt toward deconstructing Buddhist philosophy, and presents a feminist perspective ...

Who are the women who became engineers in the 1970s and 1980s?

How have they fared in the most male-dominated profession in America? This is the first book to answer these questions. It explores the backgrounds, ...

This book examines the transformations in women's work and education and assesses their effects on women from different social and cultural backgrounds.

This book presents translations of poems by the Spanish poet, Rosalía de Castro, who is today considered one of the outstanding figures of nineteeth-century Spanish literature. Her poetry, often compared ...

This is the first translation of this work into English since 1776, and the only English version that is complete and unadulterated.

Sophie von LaRoche is credited with being the first German female novelist ...

This book examines the effect of state policies on women's roles in the economy. At the most concrete level it investigates the relative lack of response of women's labor force activity rates to export-led ...

Du Toit contributes to the study of the climacteric as an important phase of the life cycle among women of different cultures (the later reproductive and postreproductive years). Drawing upon perspectives ...

Explores the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly.

Looking at the discourse on female weight reduction in American culture, Confessing Excess analyzes contemporary dieting and the weight loss literature by taking up the themes of confession and surveillance. ...

production for family consumption and for the wider market. While the importance of women's domestic labor has been generally recognized, the complex articulation between household activities and the ...

What happens when traditionally-trained academics begin to reconsider their disciplines in light of recent feminist scholarship? This book was written by academics outside Women's Studies programs who ...

By providing new understanding and insights into the backgrounds and experiences of women pursuing administrative careers in education, Pushing the Limits fills a critical void in the existing literature. ...

Many common assumptions about work are challenged in this book. For example, the findings refute the common assertion that work tasks can be categorized into '"instrumental," or task activities, versus ...

This collection of essays deals with the interplay of language and social change, asking the question: How can language and society be made gender equal? The contributors examine the critical role of ...

In this comprehensive, wide-ranging analysis, Susan Lehrer investigates the origins of protective labor legislation for women, exposing the social forces that contributed to its passage and the often ...

Women, State, and Ideology examines the underlying ideologies that make female subordination a universal experience. It analyzes government policies directed at women in African and Asian countries. It ...