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With All Our Strengthby Anne E. Brodsky
Routledge 2003; US$ 31.95The inside story of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) and its fight for the rights of Afghan women. This book shines light on the lives of women under some of the most brutal sexist oppression in the world. more...
Other Kinds of Dreamsby Julia Sudbury
Routledge 1998; US$ 41.95Accounts of political activism in African Caribbean and Asian communities often overlook the role of black women activists, contributing towards an image of passivity, apathy and exclusion. Through an empirical study of black women's organizations, this book interrogates contemporary theories of racism and racialization, political mobilization and feminism relating experiences of black women to wider issues of politics and difference, class and coalitions. more...
Women, Clubs and Associations in Britainby Peter Gordon; David Doughan
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 37.95A fascinating social and political history of club and association membership, looking at the direct and indirect exclusion of women from many such clubs and asking why this inequality arose and what outcomes it has had. more...
Lives Full of Struggle and Triumphby Bruce L. Clayton; John A. Salmond
UPF 2003; US$ 59.95''A splendid sampler of the very latest and best of scholarship in the field of southern women's history.''--Thomas Appleton, Eastern Kentucky University Spanning the sweep of southern women's history from colonial times to the late 20th century, this collection represents the best scholarship on the lives and experiences of black and white southern women. more...
Women and COllective Action in Africaby Filomina Steady
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 95.00Examines women's movements and women's collective action in Africa. The author uses Sierra Leone as the focus of her inquiry, in order for a detailed story to illustrate larger themes, but in every area makes comparisons to different parts of Africa. The case study included in this book guides a larger inquiry. more...
Faithby Marilyn Lake
Allen & Unwin 2002; US$ 36.31The life and times of the extraordinary Faith Bandler by Australia's foremost women's historian. more...
Educational Work of Women's Organizations, 1890-1960by A. Knupfer; C. Woyshner
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 90.00This book explores womens organizations and their various educational contributions through local, state, and national networks from 1890 to 1960. ;Contributors investigate how women united to support and sustain education in both formal and informal settings, and examine various associations. more...
Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brotherby Krista Cowman
Liverpool University Press 2004; US$ 70.00This book offers the first detailed regional study of womens politics in the United Kingdom in the period before the First World War. Its purpose is to investigate how womens politics functioned at the grass roots, away from the schisms and personality clashes of the national political scene. The book investigates the membership, activities and campaigning methodologies of a variety of formal political organisations ranging from branches of national auxiliary bodies such as the Womens Liberal Federation through womens involvement in local branches of the Independent Labour Party and on to the autonomous suffrage organisations. The impact of the all-female suffrage campaigns on older political groups in which women still... more...
Righting Feminismby Ronnee Schreiber
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 29.95When we think of women's activism in America, figures such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan invariably come to mind--those liberal doyennes who have fought for years to chip away at patriarchy and achieve gender equality. But women's interests are not synonymous with organizations like NOW anymore. As Ronnee Schreiber shows, the conservative ascendancy that began in the Reagan era has been accompanied by the emergence of a broad-based conservative women's movement. And while firebrands like Ann Coulter and Phyllis Schlafly may be the public face of rightwing women's activism, a handful of large and established women's organizations have proven to be the most effective promoters of the conservative agenda. Righting Feminism... more...
The Origins of Womenby Anne M. Boylan
The University of North Carolina Press 2002; US$ 55.00Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, this text analyses over 70 women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution. She explores the aims and foundation of these groups and how they were structured, as well as their effect on defining women's roles. more...









