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Author: Carolyn Elaine Tate

Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking st ...

Author: Christine Redfern

"Ana's death is one of millions that, despite four decades of feminist struggle, remain underestimated--social crimes that have yet to be fully confronted. . . . The very directness of the graphic novella is an ideal ...

Author: Sandra F. VanBurkleo

"Belonging to the World" surveys the treatment of women in American law from the nation's earliest beginnings in British North America to the present. An original work of historical synthesis, the book aims to build brid ...

Author: Clara Wing

Explores overt and covert information on Chinese women in a vast quantity of textual and nontextual, conventional and unconventional, source materials. Some chapters re-read well-known texts or previously rnarginalized t ...

Author: Cherise Smith

The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their co ...

Author: Arlie Hochschild

An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than twenty years after its original publication.

More than twenty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Ar ...

Author: Carmen Aguirre

Interweaving recollections of her revolutionary life in Chile under Augusto Pinochet's regime with her fleeting attempts to realize a "vision" of love in Los Angeles, Carmen Aguirre's one-woman show "Blue Box" is a fi ...

Author: Tillie Olsen

First, published in 1978, Tulle Olsen's 'Silences' revolutionised literary studies and inspired an explosion of new creative voices. By exploring the social and economic conditions that make creativity possible, Olsen sh ...

Author: Linda Fierz-David & Nor Hall

Originally published as two separate titles, this new edition combines Nor Hall's study of the lives of Jungian women analysts with Linda Fierz-David's classic psychological analysis on the mystery chamber in Roman Pompe ...

Author: John Bowles

Beginning in 1972, the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the streets of New York in a moustache, Afro wig, and mirrored sunglasses with a cigar in the corner o ...

Author: Caitlin Kelly

A controversy that has divided America for decades.A decision more women must confront every day.In the long-standing and heated debate between gun-control advocates and supporters of the Second Amendment, the perspectiv ...

Author: Mick LaSalle

Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality and led unapologetic careers. Before then, women on screen had come in two var ...

Author: Margaret H. Darrow

Despite acts of female heroism, popular memory, as well as official memorialization in monuments and historic sites, has ignored French women's role in the First World War. This book explores stories that were never told ...

Author: Myra Miranda Bom

This book is a detailed study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages. It analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position ...

Author: Diane Touliatos-Miles

This is the first publication that narrates the significant contributions of Greek women in the various genres of the arts in a historical perspective from antiquity to contemporary Greece. It discusses Greek women in th ...

Author: Sherrie A. Inness

Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. "Action Chicks" is a collection highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. W ...

Author: Margot Mifflin

Bodies of Subversion was the first history of women's tattoo art when it was first released in 1997, providing a fascinating excursion to a subculture that dates back to the 19th century and includes many never-before-se ...

Author: Khaled Abou El Fadl

This challenging book reviews the ethical foundations of the Islamic legal system, suggesting that an authoritarian reading of scripture has often had grave consequences for parts of Muslim society. Drawing upon both rel ...

Author: Claudia O'Keefe

Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker tells a mother's tale of reunion between her daughters: one trapped in Southern poverty, the other making it big in the city. Marilyn French movingly depicts two young women gro ...

Author: June Purvis & Sandra Holton

This work provides a re-examination of the suffrage movement, presenting perspectives which challenge the existing literature on this subject. It charts the history of the movement in Britain from the 19th century to the ...