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New Labour's Women MPs
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 55.95It was not long after the election of a record number of women to the House of Commons in 1997 that the backlash began. The criticism was all-encompassing: they wore the wrong clothes, they voted the wrong way and they were concerned with the wrong issues. Above all, they were accused of failing to make difference, to have failed women, and were dismissed... more...
Transforming the Disciplines
Haworth Press 2001; US$ 69.95All too many students enter academia with the hazy idea that the field of women's studies is restricted to housework, birth control, and Susan B. Anthony. Their first encounter with a women's studies textbook is likely to focus on the history and sociology of women's lives. While these topics are important, the emphasis on them has led to neglect of... more...
Feminist Perspectives on the World Bank Project
Routledge 2005; US$ 69.95In this book, an international team of contributors including Diane Elson, Suzanne Bergeron and Cheryl Doss, provide an assessment of the World Bank. more...
The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 34.95Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth background chapters with more than 400 A-Z dictionary entries. The background chapters are written by major figures in the field of feminist studies,... more...
Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 35.00Brooke Ackerly examines the methods by which Third World feminist activists have criticised society. She argues that their activities show how feminist theory can move beyond its theoretical impasse towards articulating a social criticism relevant to dealing with real world inequalities. more...
The Curious Feminist
University of California Press 2004; US$ 27.95In this collection of lively essays, Cynthia Enloe makes better sense of globalization and international politics by taking a deep and personal look into the daily realities in a range of women's lives. She proposes a distinctively feminist curiosity that begins with taking women seriously, especially during this era of unprecedented American influence.... more...
A Companion to Feminist Geography
Wiley 2008; US$ 218.95A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today. Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers.... more...
Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister
University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95Minoo Moallem challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Writing with a deep personal and scholarly concern for recent Iranian history, Moallem refers to the gendered notions of brother and sister... more...
Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 59.95Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism is the first British feminist anthology to examine concepts of womanhood and feminism within the context of `race' and ethnicity. Challenging contemporary feminist theory, the book highlights ways in which constructions of womanhood have traditionally excluded black women's experience, and proposes... more...
The Dancing Girls of Lahore
HarperCollins 2005; US$ 10.99The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated... more...









