Unaccompanied Women

Author : Peter Vronsky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0425213900

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Female Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky Pdf

In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill—and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim. How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish killers? For centuries we have been conditioned to think of serial murderers and psychopathic predators as men—with women registering low on our paranoia radar. Perhaps that’s why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to “the female monster.” From history’s earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain’s notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to ‘Honeymoon Killer’ Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournos—the first female serial killer-as-celebrity—to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and our pop-culture fascination with the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky not only challenges our ordinary standards of good and evil but also defies our basic accepted perceptions of gender role and identity. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

Author : Mary Maynard,Jalna Hanmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349185924

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Women, Violence and Social Control by Mary Maynard,Jalna Hanmer Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1656 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435067538223

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Camillia Fawzi El-Solh,Judy Mabro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000323269

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Muslim Women's Choices by Camillia Fawzi El-Solh,Judy Mabro Pdf

This volume counters the prevailing Western views and stereotypes of Muslim women - usually projected through male interpretations - by presenting a cross-cultural perspective of their experiences and choices in contemporary Muslim communities. The main theme running through these papers is the manner in which Muslim women consciously as well as unconsciously manipulate religious belief to negotiate their gender roles within the context of their lives.

Author : Joachim Schlör
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 186189015X

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Nights in the Big City by Joachim Schlör Pdf

This elegantly written book describes the changes in the perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin and London. The lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night, in respect of both work and pleasure. Nights in the Big City explores this new awareness of the city in all its ramifications. Joachim Schlor has spent his days sifting through countless police and church archives, and first-hand accounts, and his nights exploring the highways and byways of these three great capitals. Illustrated with haunting and evocative photographs by, among others, Brandt and Kertesz, and filled with contemporary literary references, Nights in the Big City has already been acclaimed in the German press as a milestone in the cultural history of the city. " Schlor] is erudite, and his literary style is alluring." Architect's Journal"

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : SRLF:E0000738492

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A-E by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2710 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195148909

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History by Bonnie G. Smith Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease. With its rich and insightful entries by leading scholars and experts, this reference work is sure to be a valued, go-to resource for scholars, college and high school students, and general readers alike.

Author : Shannon Speed,R. Aída Hernández Castillo,Lynn M. Stephen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292714403

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Dissident Women by Shannon Speed,R. Aída Hernández Castillo,Lynn M. Stephen Pdf

Yielding pivotal new perspectives on the indigenous women of Mexico, this book presents a diverse collection of voices exploring the human rights and gender issues that gained international attention after the first public appearance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army in 1994.

Author : Judith R. Baskin
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611688696

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Midrashic Women by Judith R. Baskin Pdf

While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansions of the biblical text, rabbinic ruminations, and homiletical discourses that constitutes the non-legal component of rabbinic literature. Examining rabbinic convictions of female alterity, competing narratives of creation, and justifications of female disadvantages, as well as aggadic understandings of the ideal wife, the dilemma of infertility, and women among women and as individuals, she shows that rabbinic Judaism, a tradition formed by men for a male community, deeply valued the essential contributions of wives and mothers while also consciously constructing women as other and lesser than men. Recent feminist scholarship has illuminated many aspects of the significance of gender in biblical and halakhic texts but there has been little previous study of how aggadic literature portrays females and the feminine. Such representations, Baskin argues, often offer a more nuanced and complex view of women and their actual lives than the rigorous proscriptions of legal discourse.

Author : Amanda Flather
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780861932863

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Gender and Space in Early Modern England by Amanda Flather Pdf

A nuanced re-evaluation of the ways in which gender affected the use of physical space in early modern England. Space was not simply a passive backdrop to a social system that had structural origins elsewhere; it was vitally important for marking out and maintaining the hierarchy that sustained social and gender order in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Gender had a considerable influence on its use and organization; status and gender were displayed physically and spatially every moment of the day, from a person's place at table to the bed on which he orshe slept, in places of work and recreation, in dress, gesture and modes of address. Space was also the basis for the formation of gender identities which were constantly contested and restructured, as this book shows.Examining in turn domestic, social and sacred spaces and the spatial division of labour in gender construction, the author demonstrates how these could shift, and with them the position and power of women. She shows that the ideological assumption that all women are subject to all men is flawed, and exposes the limitations of interpretations which rely on the model and binary opposition of public/private, male/female, to describe gender relations and theirchanges across the period, thus offering a much more complex and picture than has hitherto been perceived. The book will be essential reading not just for historians of the family and of women, but for all those studying early modern social history. AMANDA FLATHER is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Essex.

Author : Esther Breitenbach
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748683413

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Scottish Women by Esther Breitenbach Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of source materials from across Scotland, this sourcebook provides new insights into women's attitudes to the society in which they lived, and how they negotiated their identities within private and public life.

Author : Francine Pickup,Suzanne Williams,Caroline Sweetman
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0855984384

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Ending Violence Against Women by Francine Pickup,Suzanne Williams,Caroline Sweetman Pdf

8. Challenging the state.

Author : Jane Juska
Publisher : Villard
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307417602

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Unaccompanied Women by Jane Juska Pdf

“Before I turn 67, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like.” This inspired personal ad from Jane Juska drew tremendous response and swept the retired teacher into a whirlwind existence she barely recognized as her own. She relayed her fun and frank exploits in the bestseller A Round-Heeled Woman. Now Juska continues her astonishing story in this much anticipated new adventure. Five years after that fateful ad, Juska has become a friend and confessor for women of all ages who confide in her their poignant, tragic, or blissful stories– unaccompanied women who are alone for now, but ever searching for intimacy. And in spite of Juska’s own success, “unaccompanied” is a description that applies to her as well. She’s still looking for a man to keep her company–not a husband, not even a partner, but simply the perfect lover, once described by Katharine Hepburn as one who “lives nearby and visits often.” Unaccompanied Women embraces not only Juska’s continuing explorations of Eros (note to fans: her younger lover, Graham, is still on the scene) but also a blossoming literary career that catapults her from San Francisco to New York, London, and Paris. At book signings, earnest men place themselves purposely at the end of the line in order to engage her in private conversations, while women linger to confess their own erotic longings and their experiences with the good, the bad, and even the ugly. All the while, Juska is coping with the unnerving possibility of losing her home, a tiny cottage in Berkeley, California–and so her search broadens and intensifies, not just for love, friendship, and sex but also for enough money to keep a roof over her head. Jane Juska shares all this richness of living in a poignant and humorous exploration of emotional terrain rarely discussed in our society. This wise and warmhearted book provides vivid evidence that the pursuit of pleasure and lasting relationships is not just for the young, but also for the young at heart.

Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780333985243

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Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing by Gina Wisker Pdf

This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.

Author : David R. Martin
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788141263

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Foreign Assistance by David R. Martin Pdf

A review of the efforts of the Agency for International Development (AID) and the State Dept. to comply with a 1973 directive to use foreign assistance as a tool to promote women's economic and political participation in developing societies. This report evaluates: AID's development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of women-in-development policies and activities and its barriers to effective implementation of the directive; and State Dept. policy development and leadership on women's issues at U.N. agencies, including issues relating to women refugees.