Women, Culture & Politics

Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From "Bitch" to "Badass" and Beyond examines the negotiation of feminist politics and gendered political leaders...

DescriptionThis innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinshi...

This interdisciplinary collection explores new ways of assessing the impact of the English Revolution, focusing on its 'public politics'. Contribut...

This wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the relevance of contempo...

Is it time to be bolder? Leadership opportunities for women are increasing in the Middle East. As debates about gender parity and gender politics c...

Analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an integration of ontemporary me...

Reducere. "A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is" Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features n...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ruth BarrettFemale Erasure is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposin...

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights move...

Reducere. Men dominate history because men write history. There have been many heroes, but no heroines. This is the book that overturns that -phallusy of his...

Mormon Women's History: Beyond Biography demonstrates that the history and experience of Mormon women is central to the history of Mormonism and to...

Reducere. The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the...

DescriptionGriselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics a...

Reducere. What bestselling authors like Sheryl Sandberg and Brigid Schulte have done for women's work lives, Jaclyn Friedman does here for women's sexuality:...

A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious ...

Brings together the diverse poetry collections of six contemporary Arab diasporic women poets. Spanning multiple languages and regions, this volume...

Psychology and Pop Culture: An Empirical Adventure examines the psychological aspects of pop culture preferences, personality, and behavior from ac...

Witch, Slut, Feminist: these contested identities are informing millennial women as they counter a tortuous history of misogyny with empowerment. T...

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, P...

Reducere. Leading while female--whether in business, politics, the home, local communities, or the church--can be incredibly life-giving and spiritually fulf...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tanisha C. FordFrom the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyon...

DescriptionReexamining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the pivotal but less well-known roles women have played in culture a...

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human ...

Reducere. In this Seal Studies title, author and professor Maythee Rojas offers a look at the intricate crossroads of being a woman of color. Women of Color ...

In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas....

Reducere. Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves explores the untold story of cannery workers in Southeast Alaska from 1878, when the first cannery was erected on the Al...

DescriptionRecently, Black women have taken the world stage in national politics, popular culture, professional sports, and bringing attention to r...

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history o...

Reducere. Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfini...

Contributor(s): Author: Kate ManneDown Girl is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics. Kate Manne argues that misogyny should not b...

DescriptionThis is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves ...

"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole ra...

This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against...

DescriptionGloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejec...

This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton's plays - Women Beware Women; The Changeli...

Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these L...

The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories fo...

"A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women."--David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass "Readers expecting hoop-skirted l...

A biochemist by profession, a polymath by inclination and erudition, Yeshayahu Leibowitz has been, since the early 1940s, one of the most incisive ...

This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanit...

DescriptionThis volume uniquely draws together seven contemporary plays by a selection of the finest African women writers and practitioners from a...

An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyonc . Daphne A. Brooks explo...

Reducere. These twenty pieces address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate and opinionated, often funny,...

Reducere. This is Sparta Are you ready to enter the fascinating world of Ancient Greece? Do you want to understand the unique warrior culture of the famous S...

Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biase...

Reducere. Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her...

Reducere. In this ethnographic examination of Mexican-American and white girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory ...

Reducere. From fiery superstars like singing sensation Selena, who blazed new trails in pop culture, to little-known heroes like the Mirabal Sisters, who die...

The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers, " historical and contemporary, and also the authors o...

Reducere. Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultura...

In this timely analysis of the economics of access that surround contemporary female celebrity, Hannah Yelin reveals a culture that requires women ...

Reducere. This textbook is intended for advanced intermediate students preparing for work or research in Vietnam or with materials written in Vietnamese. It ...

Contributor(s): Author: Gloria WekkerIn White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial ...

Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it's the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Car...

Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular understanding of...

Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book-now...

'Angela Carter meets Derek Jarman's Jubilee in a Max Ernst landscape. Excellent' - Time Out In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, ...

Reducere. National Book AwardsWinner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the esteemed author of the classics The Painted Bird and Being There comes t...

Reducere. The "golden age of Islam" in the eighth and ninth centuries was as significant to world history as the Roman Empire was in the first and second cen...

Contributor(s): Author: Nancy LevitAuthor: Robert R. M. VerchickAuthor: Martha MinowFeminist legal theory is one of the most dynamic fields in the ...

Reducere. Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exp...

Reducere. First published in 1973, revised in 1983, and updated in 2007 with new demographic information about the Arab world, The Arab Mind takes readers on...

Reducere. A newly revised version of a classic in American historyWhen The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synth...

Reducere. The lives of two women living centuries apart are connected by an enigmatic painting in this mesmerizing debut based on historical events Art histo...

Reducere. When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transfor...

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard SennettFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life--how women and men moved in public and private spa...

Reducere. THE BRA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD... The 1970s saw women coming into their own, working hard to create new roles at home and in sports, culture, polit...

This richly textured, critically acclaimed portrait of American Muslims introduces the basic tenets of the Muslim faith, surveys the history of Isl...