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When Women Lead
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 49.99Until recently, the study of legislative leadership has been the study of men. Scholars have taught students that legislative leadership is transactional, a kind of competitive bargaining procedure to broker particular interests. When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures brings to light the important contributions that women as... more...
Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415-1815
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 84.99Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415-1815 more...
Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 24.95Why has the integration of women into Congress been so slow? Why are there so many more Democratic women in Congress than Republican? This is a book on women in US politics, with key data from primary and general election for House and Senate since 1956. It is meant for students who need a guide to the subject. more...
Female Prostitution in Costa Rica
CRC Press 2006; US$ 95.00This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of the coffee producing highlands due to differential economic,... more...
The Womanist Reader
Routledge 2006; US$ 33.95Comprehensive in its coverage, The Womanist Reader is the first volume to anthologize the major works of womanist scholarship. Charting the course of womanist theory from its genesis as Alice Walker's African-American feminism, through Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi's African womanism and Clenora Hudson-Weems' Africana womanism, to its present-day expression... more...
Lost Voices
Zed Books 2005; US$ 34.95Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes offers a timely analysis into the lives of Muslim women in Central Asia during the Soviet era, and considers the impact of the shift from Soviet communism to Western capitalist ideals on gender relations in the region. The uneasy synthesis between socialism and Islam under the Soviet regime offered many women considerable status... more...
Embodying Women's Work
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 151.00Considering 'women's work' from two perspectives, the first of which conceptualises the labour of maternity (potential and actual) as women's work, the second of which explores the dynamics between women's bodies and employment, this title explores the debate on gender, women's bodies, and work. more...
The Fire This Time
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.95Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic?and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time , Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and multicultural activist organization--and Vivien Labaton,... more...
The Female Thing
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.00From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century.Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing an injured party and... more...
Feminism in Modern Japan
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 38.00A pathbreaking book tracing the history of feminist thought and women's activism in Japan. more...









