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Contemporary Portraits of Japanese Women
ABC-CLIO 1995; US$ 31.95As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift. Husbands worked longer hours, leaving all the household chores and child rearing to their wives while fulfilling their responsibilites as corporate soldiers. The economy was fueled... more...
The Material of Knowledge
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 19.50Susan Hekman believes we are witnessing an intellectual sea change. The main features of this change are found in dichotomies between language and reality, discourse and materiality. Hekman proposes that it is possible to find a more intimate connection between these pairs, one that does not privilege... more...
Women's Movements in Asia
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 46.95Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women?s activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women?s movement in 12 countries: the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Japan, Burma, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia,... more...
Feminism and Women's Rights Worldwide
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 155.00Feminism and Women's Rights Worldwide is both a richly detailed history of the womenÕs movement around the globe and a road map for the next stages in the ongoing fight for gender equality. ||In this landmark three-volume set, a remarkable team of contributors draws on a wealth of contemporary research to discuss pivotal events, issues, and controversies... more...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to the educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who wanted to deny women an education.... more...
Herland
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of white European women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkins' monthly... more...
The Man-Made World
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other... more...
The Yellow Wallpaper
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. Excerpted from Wikipedia,... more...
What Diantha Did
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other... more...
Making Their Place
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 25.95Offering a comparative analysis of feminist social movements in the aftermath of the collapse of state socialism, this book offers a unique opportunity to examine how shifting gender relations interact with local identities to create new understandings of gender, the state, and strategies for resistance. more...









