Outlaw Women: Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty on the New American Frontier, Hardcover - Susan Dewey

A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too...

The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap ...

Contributor(s): Author: Susan DeweyAuthor: Tonia St GermainExplores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based pros...

Contributor(s): Author: Beth E. RichieBlack women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking ...

Reducere. In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River. Taking the name Edward ...

DescriptionIn the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incr...

Will public policy address these issues - and how can feminism respond, especially radicals who see violence as an expression of male sexuality and...

Reducere. A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians C-SPAN's yearlong histo...

A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Jacqueline...

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Reducere. How We ThinkJohn Dewey No words are oftener on our lips than thinking and thought. So profuse and varied, indeed, is our use of these words that it...

Publisher: American Oriental SocietyAuthor(s): Michael BonnerNumber of pages: 238Collection: American Oriental SeriesPublication date: 2013Dimensio...

Reducere. In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and tradi...

Reducere. Features twenty-one of the West's gun-slinging bad girls, from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hange...

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists togethe...

In a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of p...

Home to over 730, 000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population ...

I know I m not a man . . . and I ve come to the conclusion that I m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we re living in a world t...

Focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and v...

Reducere. Andre Norman's early life put him on a path to prison. Raised in poverty and surrounded by dysfunction, Andre gravitated to his neighborhood gang. ...

Reducere. Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 is a collection of essays that include biographical sketches and writings from women of all walks of li...

African American Women Warrant Officers - The New Trailblazers pays tribute to African American Women who are serving or have served in the militar...

A new theoretical concept is becoming increasingly visible within the current human rights framework on violence against women (VAW): intersectiona...

Reducere. This tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life.``Interesting in its spirit a...

'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller' The TimesA New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a rive...

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Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Number of pages: 344Collection: Io SeriesPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 156 x 228 x 19Cover type: Paperback...

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and wides...

Reducere. Every year, millions of women across the world turn to the law to help them live free from intimate partner violence. They engage with child protec...

Reducere. Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet's largest public work: the 42, 795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highway...

Reducere. For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indian...

Contemporary lawlessness and criminality on the high seas are explored in this casting of light on to piracy, smuggling, wreck theft, oil-dumping, ...

Reducere. Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America's general level of prosperity along with a fairly w...