Contributions in Women's Studies – serie
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76 produkter
From the Field to the Legislature
A History of Women in the Virgin Islands
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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Women of the Virgin Islands: From the Field to the Legislature recognizes and restores women to their central role in the history of the Virgin Islands by examining their lives from the earliest days of the colony's settlement. Constrained by their sex, race, and colonized status, women, …
Clara Barton
In the Service of Humanity
E-bok, 1995
1169 kr
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This book is a concise, interpretive account of the life of Clara Barton from her childhood in Massachusetts through her feats of heroism during the Civil War, her founding of the American Red Cross, which she led for 20 years, and her bitterly contested ejection from office which clouded her last …
Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife
What She Did All Day
E-bok, 2000
1091 kr
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Through a detailed description of the life and activities of the middle-class married woman of London between 1875 and 1900, this study reveals how housewives unwittingly became engines for change as the new century neared. In marked contrast to the stereotypical depictions of Victorian women in …
Women of Courage
Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York
Av Rose Laub Coser, Laura S. Anker m. fl.
E-bok, 1999
1169 kr
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In the wake of World War I, a diverse group of women emigrated from Europe to the United States under austere conditions and adapted in different ways to life in the new country. Based on a major new study that includes in-depth interviews with 100 Italian and Jewish women who immigrated to the New …
On Top of the World
Women'S Political Leadership in Scandinavia and Beyond
E-bok, 2000
1481 kr
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An examination of the political and social characteristics particular to Scandinavia which have made women's rise to power more rapid than in other regions of the world, this study also explores how the resulting election of women has provided valuable evidence of the impact of women leaders and …
Nineteenth-Century American Women Theatre Managers
E-bok, 1994
993 kr
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Many women held positions of great responsibility and power in the United States during the 19th century as theatre managers: managing stock companies, owning or leasing theatres, hiring actors and other personnel, selecting plays for production, directing rehearsals, supervising all production …
Russian Women in Politics and Society
E-bok, 1996
1169 kr
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An examination of women's roles in politics and society in the contemporary Russian Federation as it creates a new market economy and democratic course born of a millennium of history and nearly 75 years of authoritarian communist rule. The stage is set in the introduction followed by an …
Before Equal Suffrage
Women in Partisan Politics from Colonial Times to 1920
E-bok, 1995
935 kr
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Dispelling the myth that women became involved in partisan politics only after they obtained the vote, this study uses contemporary newspaper sources to show that women were active in the party struggle long before 1920. Although their role was initially limited to attending rallies and hosting …
Silent Voices
Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers
Av Brenda Ayres
E-bok, 2003
1491 kr
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Some of the greatest English novels were written during the Victorian era, and many are still widely read and taught today. But many others written during that period have been neglected by scholars and modern readers alike. A number of these novels were written by women and were popular when …
Hard News
Women in Broadcast Journalism
Av David H. Hosley, Gayle K. Yamada
E-bok, 1987
1315 kr
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A major scholarly and readable history of women in broadcast news, covering the broadcast journalistic roles of women from the 1920s through the mid-1980s. Authors Hosley and Yamada, both with extensive professional experience in broadcasting and broadcast news as well as serving on the faculty of …
Charitable Words
Women, Philanthropy, and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin
E-bok, 2004
1169 kr
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Mismanaged by local authority, in the 19th-century, Dublin lacked sufficient industrial development to provide adequate employment. Dublin's charitable workers attempted to improve the lives of the thousands who flocked to the city in search of relief. As a means to examining the hidden incentives …
Women's Vision in Western Literature
The Empathic Community
E-bok, 2005
1344 kr
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From ancient Greece through the present day, women writers have confronted the male urge to make war by imagining communities in which intuitive bonding among individuals questions and replaces masculinist values of aggression and competition. Women's Vision in Western Literature traces the gender …
Scheherazade's Sisters
Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature
E-bok, 1998
2088 kr
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Based on the author's discovery of a new folktale type, the female trickster, Jurich's book identifies and celebrates those female protagonists in folktales who use trickery to save themselves and others, to find new directions for their lives, and to declare their individual autonomies, especially …
Dress of Women
A Critical Introduction to the Symbolism and Sociology of Clothing
Av Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Michael R. Hill m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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Originally serialized in 1915 in The Forerunner , and never before published in book form, The Dress of Women presents Gilman's feminist sociological analysis of clothing in modern society. Gilman explores the social and functional basis for clothing, excavates the symbolic role of women's clothing …
Poverty of Life-Affirming Work
Motherwork, Education, and Social Change
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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While society may applaud middle and upper class women who decide to stay home to raise their children, there exists a decided abhorrence for single mothers, welfare queens, who collect public funds but do not work. Here, Hart challenges traditional notions of welfare mothers by providing …
Women of Color
Defining the Issues, Hearing the Voices
Av Diane Long Hoeveler, Janet K. Boles
E-bok, 2001
1481 kr
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Beginning in the late 1960s, women's studies scholars worked to introduce courses on the history, literature, and philosophies of women. While these initial efforts were rather general, women's studies programs have started to give increasing amounts of attention to the special concerns of women of …
Saddling La Gringa
Gatekeeping in Literature by Contemporary Latina Writers
E-bok, 2000
1344 kr
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Because of their ethnic identity, Latinas sometimes face discrimination in the United States. Latinas are additionally oppressed because of their gender—because they are women, they hold a subordinate position in patriarchal Latino culture. The oppression of Latinas is maintained through various …
Adventures Abroad
North American Women at German-Speaking Universities, 1868-1915
E-bok, 2003
1136 kr
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In the period between the Civil War and World War I, German universities provided North American women with opportunities in graduate and professional training that were not readily available to them at home. This training allowed women to compete to a greater degree with men in increasingly …
Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany
The Campaigns of the Judischer Frauenbund, 1904-1938
Inbunden, 1979
712 kr
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Silent Hattie Speaks
The Personal Journal of Senator Hattie Caraway
Inbunden, 1979
853 kr
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Sisters and Wives
The Past and Future of Sexual Equality
Inbunden, 1979
1065 kr
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A valuable contribution which breaks new territory of research and analysis into women's roles as sisters and wives.
Women as Interpreters of the Visual Arts, 1820-1979
Av Adele M. Holcomb, Claire R. Sherman
Inbunden, 1981
879 kr
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Second Assault
Rape and Public Attitudes
Av Karen A. Holmes, Joyce E. Williams
Inbunden, 1981
1065 kr
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The first in-depth empirical study that goes beyond the initial trauma of rape and considers the interplay between society and the experience of rape, the interaction between the victim and her own social world.
World of Women's Trade Unionism
Comparative Historical Essays
Av Norbert C. Soldon, Norbert C. Soldon
Inbunden, 1985
1065 kr
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This book is a timely contribution to the study of the impact of trade unionism on women in the work force and how women have exercised power within trade unions. This collection of essays contains brief yet comprehensive histories of women's trade union movements in many of the principal …
Against All Odds
The Feminist Movement in Mexico to 1940
Av Anna Macias
Inbunden, 1982
1065 kr
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Female Soldiers--Combatants or Noncombatants?
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Inbunden, 1982
1065 kr
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Women and Death
Linkages in Western Thought and Literature
Inbunden, 1984
819 kr
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Bassein examines the pervasive linkage between women's sexuality and death in Western thought and literature and concludes that there is no reasonable basis for much of it. She first explores how language reveals and reinforces the bond between women and death. She then discusses traditional …
Only Mothers Know
Patterns of Infant Feeding in Traditional Cultures
Inbunden, 1985
853 kr
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Only Mothers Know is a very good, indeed a consummate, summary of research, discussion, and controversy, and it is also a very levelheaded as well as compassionate appeal to common sense, to valid cultural experience, and to the realism of Third World modernization. Raphael's project has come a …
Give to the Winds Thy Fears
The Women's Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874
Inbunden, 1985
1065 kr
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Jack S. Blocker Jr. traces the Women's Temperance Crusade of 1873-74 from its origins in public lectures by health reformer Dio Lewis through its rapid spread across the nation, to its culmination in the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The non-violent tactics of the Crusaders are described, and …
