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Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 60.00These essays consider women's alliances in early modern England, ranging over a variety of communities and classes of women to explore the traces of women's connections. The essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studies of race. more...
Marriage in Men's Lives
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 44.99Examining men and women's differing realities within marriage, this text focuses on marriage as a system of rules, customs, and expectations. It shows that marriage changes men on basic dimensions because it reinforces certain behaviours as part of adult masculinity. more...
The Image of Man
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 38.00What does it mean to be a man? This text examines the manly stereotype, which stresses courage, moral restraint and athletic comportment, which has become representative of normative modern society. The role of women and the "unmanly men" in maintaining the stereotype and its erosion is studied. more...
Revising Herself
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 22.99In 1972, Ruthellen Josselson was a young psychologist fascinated by the riddle of how a woman creates an identity and chooses one path over another in life--particularly in the face of the nascent feminist movement, which challenged as never before the traditional role models of earlier generations. Selecting at random thirty young women in their last... more...
With Pleasure
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 34.00This study argues that human sexuality cannot be understood if its significance is limited to reproduction alone. The authors define sexual pleasure as a unifying phenomenon to account for the practices of sexuality. They show that reproduction itself occurs as a by-product of pleasure. more...
Women and Elective Office
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 18.99Includes coverage of women on the congressional level, women officeholders of color, and analysis of women parliamentarians worldwide. This book offers a comprehensive look at the experiences and influence of women politicians, while considering women's prospects for political leadership in the twenty-first century. more...
Women and Social Protest
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 37.99Examines the role of women in social protest movements in many countries, concentrating on four categories of protest: those resulting from economic hardship; racial, ethnic, or nationalist struggles; humanistic, global causes; and feminist movements. more...
At the Root of This Longing
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99In At the Root of This Longing, Flinders identifies the four key points at which the paths of spirituality and feminism seem to collide?vowing silence vs. finding voice, relinquishing ego vs. establishing 'self', resisting desire vs. reclaiming the body, and enclosure vs. freedom?and sets out to discover not only the sources of these conflicts, but... more...
Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 40.00Examines human smuggling and trafficking into the U.S. from around the world and the implications it has for national security, criminal activity, and our economy. more...
Lydias Open Door
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton 2004; US$ 15.95Examines the lives of the women who work in the Zona Galactica, a state-run brothel in Chiapas' capital city. By delving into lives that would otherwise go unremarked, this book documents the modernization of the sex industry during the neoliberal era in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez. more...









