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Liberty's prisoners
Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who...
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Unmarriages
The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one ...
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A venetian island
Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems. Evidence of damage caused by industrial pollution has contributed to the need to recover a common culture and establish a sense of con...
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Thinking sex with the early moderns
What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists a...
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Accidental feminism
Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country’s lawyers are female, but women in the most prestigious firms are significantly rep...
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Performing female blackness
Examines race, gender and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. Written in poetry, prose and journal-form and drawing from the author’s own life and artistic works, this book examines what performances of female blackness reveal about race, gend...
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She animates
This book showcases the accomplishments and triumphs of women in Russian animation and reveals their past contributions to not only animation, but also world cinema. Through archival research, historical analysis, and close readings of animated films this book recuperates the often-overlooked con...
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The rebellion of the daughters
An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in ...
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Bodily citations
In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, Bodily Citations is the first a...
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The #metoo effect
Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases. She reframes #MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism.
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Gender, power, and talent
Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses marked themselves as a distinct gendered religious and social group. The first comprehensive study of the lives and roles of Daoist priestesses in Tang China, Gender, Power, and Talent restores women to ...
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Buddhist masculinities
This transdisciplinary book brings together essays that explore the variety and diversity of Buddhist masculinities, from early India to the contemporary United States, and from bodhisattva-kings to martial monks.
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Tainted witness
Tainted Witness examines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness.
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Excessive saints
Rachel J. D. Smith combines historical, literary, and theological approaches to offer a new interpretation of Thomas of Cantimpré’s hagiographies, showing how they employ vivid narrative portrayals of typically female bodies to perform theological work in a rhetorically specific way.
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Sex, marriage, and family in world religions
Spanning thousands of years, this new collection brings together writings and teachings about sex, marriage, and family from the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucian traditions. The volume includes traditional texts as well as contemporary materials showing how the religions...
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No separation
Powerful illiberal Christian movements have upended liberal democracies in countries that were once seen as paradigms of secular governance. Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey offers new insight into the foundations of these movements, demonstrating how they emerge from the contradictions at the intersect...
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Illicit monogamy
Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. Based on many years of in-depth ethnographic research, Illicit Monogamy considers the plural family from the points of view of husbands, wives, and children, giving a b...
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Women in the mosque
Juxtaposes Muslim scholars’ debates over women’s attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women’s activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques.
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The struggle to stay
The Struggle to Stay is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women’s experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access to churches in the United States and the United Kingdom, Katie Gaddini relates the struggles of four women, interwoven with her own story of leaving b...
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Inside the second wave of feminism
A landmark account of a key radical feminist organization, offering lessons for today’s women’s liberation movement.
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Eslanda
The first biography of the bold, principled, and fiercely independent woman who defied convention to make her own mark on the world.
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Empowering women through italy's recovery and resilience plan
Empowering Women through Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan provides a comprehensive examination of women’s empowerment within the framework of Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
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Mapping the deep
Mapping the Deep takes you on an adventure into the depths of Challenger Deep, showcasing one woman's perseverance and innovation needed for ocean exploration.
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Between the street and the state
Deepens our understanding of Black women’s anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on CrimeBeginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencies established to carry out the federal “war on crime” offered financial and ideological support to t...
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"i humbly beg your speedy answer"
A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercury—a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London—included the world’s first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Priz...
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Undivided rights
Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.
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What the oceans remember
In this memoir that traverses five continents and spans two centuries, Sonja Boon explores archives, family stories, and her memories in a search for origins, belonging, and home. Her journey is interwoven with reflections on the meaning of music, love, legacy, freedom, memory, ruin, and the rele...
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I know what the red clay looks like
Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new generation of writers and readers. The first edition of I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, published in 1994, remains an essentia...
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The black antifascist tradition
The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition is an essential book for unde...
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Compromised bodies
This ethnography unravels the continuing political tensions surrounding Senegal’s 1999 national ban on “female genital mutilation”The Senegalese parliament authorized a national ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in 1999. Because only a third of the Senegalese population practiced female genital ...
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Reimagining academic activism
How can we reimagine the relationship between academia and activism to provide new opportunities for social change? Based on an ethnography with an anti-violence feminist collective, this vibrant and vital book develops an interdisciplinary approach to activism and activist research, helping us r...
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The life and writings of maria teresa de sá nogueira
The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira, revealing how her fearless writing challenged colonial power and gave voice to the marginalized in Mozambique and Portugal. A vital contribution to Lusophone postcolonial studies.
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Forgotten wives
Throughout history, records of women's lives and work have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Wives, especially, disappear as supporters of their husbands’ work, as unpaid and often unacknowledged secretaries and research assistants, and as managers of men’s domestic do...
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Voices of black graduate deans in advancing graduate education at historically white universities
Through personal narratives and institutional case studies, this edited collection highlights the resilience, innovation, and impact of Black graduate deans, offering essential guidance for educators, administrators, and policymakers committed to meaningful change.
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Managing change
Managing Change: Sustainable Practices, Inclusive Leadership, and Gender Equality in the Digital Industrial Revolution is a timely exploration of the multifaceted transformations occurring in today’s business environment under the influence of the Digital Industrial Revolution.
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Sex and style
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rh...
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Working women in the sandwich generation
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Working Women in the Sandwich Generation helps present a clearer view of how supervisors and policy makers can support Sandwich Generation women who care for both children and the elderly, with lessons for both no...
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Recovering women’s voices
Reham ElMorally draws upon Sylvia Walby’s Six Structures of Patriarchy, tailored for the Egyptian context, to dissect how this patriarchal construct has historically suppressed and exploited women.
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Transnational migration, gender and rights
This book examines the vulnerability caused by migration, in particular, the vulnerability of women that may cause forced migration, and the ways in which this is dealt with by national authorities in affluent European states. It explores transnational migration, gender and human rights, migratio...
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Educating about/for food security through environmental education
Addressing food insecurity requires new approaches to enhance sustainable food systems. Education plays a key role in broadening understanding and fostering action toward just food systems. Alishia Valeri's book explores tackling food insecurity in Canada through educational efforts.
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The sociology of housework
In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed sociologist Ann Oakley undertook one of the first serious sociological studies to examine women’s work in the home. She interviewed 40 urban housewives and analysed their perceptions of housework, their feelings of monotony and fragmentation, the length of ...
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From here to maternity
Ann Oakley is a pioneer in the field of sociological research. In this classic re-issue, she interviewed 60 women to find out what it’s really like to have a baby. Covering pregnancy, birth and child care, she relies on the stories mothers tell to discuss whether and why women want to become preg...
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Women, politics and the public sphere
Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the...
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The key to everything
An intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poetMay Swenson (1913–1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and her lette...
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Local woman
A pulpy, mytho-poetic dispatch from an “anarchist jurisdiction” that explores the liberatory possibilities of community and womanhood. Enter: Local Woman, an archetypal figure, fresh from the forest into the streets of Portland, Oregon. She is a Black trans woman, seeking survival and satisfactio...
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Gender and freelancing in the communication industries
Gender and Freelancing in the Communication Industries is the first edited volume to focus specifically and exclusively on the intersection of gender and freelancing within the communication industries, challenging the assumption that freelancing is inherently liberating.
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The marriage of maria braun
A new reading of Fassbinder's most popular film that highlights the roles of race and gender.The Marriage of Maria Braun is the most popular film by the enfant terrible director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the leading exponent of the "New German Cinema" of the early sixties to early eighties. It ex...
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Women’s work in public relations
Reconceptualising human experience through a holistic feminist approach, this book takes us behind the scenes to connect with women navigating the problems and contradictions of everyday working life.
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