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Author : Lillian Schlissel,Vicki Ruíz,Janice J. Monk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0826310907
These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.
Author : Sandra Schackel
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 082632245X
An anthology of essays about 20th-century women living in the western U.S., showing that the image of the pioneer woman has been replaced not with another dominant one, but with many.
Author : Susanna Hoe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035232904
This book presents a history of western women in Hong Kong and the Canton delta from the earliest years of the colony.
Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0060932252
Author : Chilla Bulbeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521589754
The agenda of contemporary western feminism focuses on equal participation in work and education, reproductive rights, and sexual freedom. But what does feminism mean to the women of rural India who work someone else's fields, young Thai girls in the sex industry in Bangkok, or Filipino maids working for wealthy women in Hong Kong? In this 1998 book, Chilla Bulbeck presents a bold challenge to the hegemony of white, western feminism in this incisive and wide-ranging exploration of the lived experiences of 'women of colour'. She examines debates on human rights, family relationships, sexuality, and notions of the individual and community to show how their meanings and significance in different parts of the world contest the issues which preoccupy contemporary Anglophone feminists. She then turns the focus back on Anglo culture to illustrate how the theories and politics of western feminism are viewed by non-western women.
Author : Anne Jacobson Schutte,Thomas Kuehn,Silvana Seidel Menchi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271090955
This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women’s lives. It moves beyond men’s prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. The contributors show that women’s lives changed over the life course and differed according to region and social class. They also demonstrate that in the early modern period the largely private spaces in women’s lives were not enclosed worlds isolated from the public spaces in which men operated. Contributors to this important collection are leading international scholars and offer strong, substantial, and archival-based research.
Author : Robin Morgan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003227704
An anthology of writings from the women's Liberation Movement.
Author : Lillian Schlissel,Vicki Ruíz,Janice J. Monk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Indian women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040843315
Author : Nupur Chaudhuri,Margaret Strobel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253207053
" Western Women and Imperialism] provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of women's studies and (primarily British) imperial history, in that many of the essays explore problems of cross-cultural interaction that have been heretofore ignored." --Nancy Fix Anderson "A challenging anthology in which a multiplicity of authors sheds new light on the waves of missionaries, 'memsahibs, ' nurses--and feminists." --Ms. "... a long-overdue engagement with colonial discourse and feminism.... excellent essays..." --The Year's Work in Critical Cultural Theory
Author : Emilie Amt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134720606
Praise for the first edition: 'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a curriculum that takes class, gender, and ethnicity as central to an understanding of world cultural history.' - The Medieval Review Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material. This new edition includes expanded sections on marriage and sexuality, and on peasant women and townswomen, as well as a new section on women and the law. There are brief introductions both to the period and to the individual documents, study questions to accompany each reading, a glossary of terms and a fully updated bibliography. Working within a multi-cultural framework, the book focuses not just on the Christian majority, but also present material about women in minority groups in Europe, such as Jews, Muslims, and those considered to be heretics. Incorporating both the laws, regulations and religious texts that shaped the way women lived their lives, and personal narratives by and about medieval women, the book is unique in examining women’s lives through the lens of daily activities, and in doing so as far as possible through the voices of women themselves.
Author : Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674727502
Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights. In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism—conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West—are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam—as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.
Author : Katherine L. French,Allyson M. Poska
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Women
ISBN : 0618246258
[This book] is a survey of women's history in Western Civilization from the earliest days of human experience to the present. It examines women of all classes, religions, and ethnicities and provides balanced coverage of political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. The text focuses on five major themes: the relationship between historical events and ideas and women's lives; the history of the family and sexuality; the social construction of gender; the differences between cultural ideas about women and the lives of actual women; women's perceptions of themselves and their roles.-Back cover.
Author : Susan Bordo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520930711
"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body—weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more—in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape—finally! This is a great book for anyone who wonders why women's magazines are always describing delicious food as 'sinful' and why there is a cake called Death by Chocolate. Loved it!"—Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (2001)
Author : Rafia Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781324006626
A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights. Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of the movement itself in whiteness and speaking over Black and Brown women in an effort to uphold privilege and perceived cultural superiority. An American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher, Rafia Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism in Against White Feminism, centering women of color in this transformative overview and counter-manifesto to white feminism’s global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist ideals. Covering such ground as the legacy of the British feminist imperialist savior complex and “the colonial thesis that all reform comes from the West” to the condescension of the white feminist–led “aid industrial complex” and the conflation of sexual liberation as the “sum total of empowerment,” Zakaria follows in the tradition of intersectional feminist forebears Kimberlé Crenshaw, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde. Zakaria ultimately refutes and reimagines the apolitical aspirations of white feminist empowerment in this staggering, radical critique, with Black and Brown feminist thought at the forefront.
Author : Kumari Jayawardena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136657146
In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, and Mirra Richard and highlights the stories of dozens of women whose names have been forgotten today. In the course of this telling, Jayawardena raises the issues of race, class, and gender which are part of current debates among feminists throughout the world.
