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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A scandalous bestseller of mid-nineteenth-century France, translated here for the first time into English.

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

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.

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

Explores the impact of women's studies on methodology in religious studies.

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

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

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

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

Argues that contemporary female Gothic novels of death can, in fact, breathe new life into feminist debates about victimization, essentialism, agency, and the body.