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Women. Feminism

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  • The Means of Reproductionby Michelle Goldberg

    Penguin Group Inc. 2010; US$ 12.99

    A groundbreaking new work on the global battle over reproductive rights by the author of The New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming Award-winning journalist Michelle Goldberg shows how the emancipation of women has become the key human rights struggle of the twenty-first century in The Means of Reproduction . Deeply reported across four continents, the book explores issues such as abortion, female circumcision, and Asia's missing girls to dramatize the connections between international policymaking and individual lives. Goldberg demonstrates how women's rights are key to addressing both overpopulation and rapid population decline, reducing world poverty, and retarding the spread of AIDS. Sweeping and ambitious, this is a must-read... more...

  • Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japanby Dorothy Ko; JaHyun Kim Haboush; Joan R. Piggott

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95

    Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canonical tradition and examine the presence of women in politics, family, education, and art in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. more...

  • The Handbook of Women, Psychology, and the Lawby Andrea Barnes

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005; US$ 65.00

    The Handbook of Women, Psychology, and the Law is a groundbreaking book that presents legal and psychological perspectives on how society has responded to the most vital (and often controversial) contemporary women's issues. The Handbook covers such important topics as abortion, rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, divorce, poverty, welfare, and mental health. Written by experts in the fields of jurisprudence, clinical psychology, feminist psychology, ethics, and public policy, this essential volume shows how crucial social issues have effected civil and criminal law. This comprehensive resource Describes the evolution of gender-related legal decisions Explores sexual harassment in the workplace from... more...

  • Female Chauvinist Pigsby Ariel Levy

    Simon & Schuster 2005; US$ 11.99

    Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women--and of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them. In her quest to uncover why this is happening, Levy interviews college women who flash for the cameras on spring break and teens raised on Paris Hilton and breast... more...

  • Gender, Identity, and Placeby Linda McDowell

    University of Minnesota Press 1999; US$ 70.50

    How is gender linked to geography? Do men and women live different lives in different parts of the world? And if gendered attributes are socially constructed, then how do femininity and masculinity vary over time and space? These are some of the questions Linda McDowell explores in this accessible, wide-ranging, and thorough introduction to feminist perspectives on geography. more...

  • Political Women and American Democracyby Christina Wolbrecht; Karen Beckwith; Lisa Baldez

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00

    Provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research on women in American politics. more...

  • Feminist Amnesiaby Jean Curthoys

    Routledge 1997; US$ 37.95

    This book criticises current trends in feminist theory from the perspective of forgotten and allegedly outdated feminist ideas. more...

  • Baudrillard's Challengeby Victoria Grace

    Routledge 2000; US$ 55.95

    This book draws on the full range of Baudrillard's work and is essential reading for students of sociology, feminist theory and cultural theory. more...

  • Abortionby Eva Pattis Zoja

    Routledge 1997; US$ 37.50

    The psychological significance of abortion is often ignored in a debate which excites strong emotions. Rather than polarising her views for or against abortion, Eva Pattis Zoja presents its significance in terms of a woman's inner life. more...

  • Feminisms and the Selfby Morwenna Griffiths

    Routledge 1995; US$ 39.95

    Feminisms and the Self is both a critique and a construction of feminist philosophy, bringing an original contribution to the current debate surrounding identity and subjectivity. more...