Showing titles in Women's Studies

When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked.

Taboo!: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light Area is a journey of discovery into the infamous red-light district of Lahore, Pakistan, known as the Shahi Mohalla (the Royal Bazaar) or Heera Mandi (the market of diamonds). The phenomenon of prostitution coupled with music and dance performances has ancient roots in South Asia. Regardless of the stigma attached to prostitution, it has for centuries given rise to many well-known performing artists. Here author Fouzia Saeed paints a more realistic picture of the phenomenon.

Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves’ insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she crisscrosses five continents and chases the exotic, both in culture and in romance.

Women have been instrumental in the success of American cinema since its very beginning. One of the first people to ever pick up a motion picture camera was a woman, as was the first screenwriter to win two Academy Awards, the inventor of the boom microphone, and the first person to be credited with the title film editor. Throughout the entire history of Hollywood women have been revolutionizing, innovating, and shaping how we make movies. Yet their stories are rarely shared. This is what film reporter Alicia Malone wants to change. Backwards and in Heels tells the history of women in film in a different way.

What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it. For women, though, pursuing happiness is a complicated endeavor, and if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, as Jill Filipovic has done...

Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine, In Praise of Difficult Women is an ode to the bold and charismatic women of modern history. Karen Karbo spotlights the spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for expectations: Amelia Earhart, Helen Gurley Brown, Edie Sedgwick, and Shonda Rhimes, among others. Their lives provide inspiration and instruction for the new age of feminism we have entered. Karbo distills these lessons with wit and humor, examining the universal themes that connect us to each of these mesmerizing personalities today.

As parents, we all want to raise kind and loving kids who will grow up to be conscientious adults. But when you look closely at our society - especially at the statistics surrounding rape, domestic violence, and sexual assault - it's clear that something needs to change. It's time to teach our sons compassion and empathy.

Shehnaz was a beautiful, erudite woman from the royal family of Bhopal, who was almost cast to play Anarkali in K. Asif's Mughal-e-Azam. Her daughter Sophia Naz tells her story as she heard it from her-about her childhood as part of the royal household in Bhopal, where she led a revolt among the...

America’s most sought-after voice in the fight to save female sports shares her unbelievable story and inspires readers to embrace common sense and truth in discussions about women's rights. Riley Gaines has been called many things: Collegiate athlete. All-American. Champion. But in 2022...

Exploring the growing phenomenon of women gun owners in middle America, this book challenges the conventional narratives that often dominate discussions of gun culture. By applying a feminist and critical cultural framework, A Gun of Her Own: The Everyday Lives of Women Who Shoot argues that...

In Die Mütter setzt sich Hedwig Dohm mit schonungsloser Klarheit mit dem gesellschaftlichen Bild der Mutter auseinander – ein visionärer Text über Erziehungsnormen, weibliche Selbstbestimmung und patriarchale Machtverhältnisse. Mit analytischem Blick entlarvt sie Ideale von Mutterliebe, Erziehungsauftrag und Familiendisziplin als soziale Konstrukte. Was damals provozierte, regt auch heute noch zum Nachdenken an. Ein kraftvoller Klassiker der Frauenbewegung – unbequem, hellsichtig und mutig.

In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands to critical acclaim. Here Amadiume boldly argues that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference.

Die aktuellen politischen Entwicklungen sind kein Beweis für die bleibende Stärke des Patriarchats, sondern Anzeichen für dessen Ende. Das Patriarchat war eine hierarchische Ordnung mit »alten weißen Männern« an der Spitze, gestützt auf anerkannte Institutionen wie Universitäten, Parlamente und Kirchen. Diese Zeiten sind vorbei. Heute basiert Macht auf dem Recht des Stärkeren, physischer Gewalt, ökonomischer Überlegenheit und Willkür. Das ist kein Patriarchat, sondern postpatriarchales Chaos.

In the shadows of history's greatest conflicts, women have always been warriors—yet their stories remain untold. Women in War uncovers over twenty raw, true accounts of the fearless women who fought and served, from ancient battlefields to the jungles of Vietnam and the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan. Step into their combat boots: nurses dodging gunfire, spies sabotaging enemies, soldiers enduring unimaginable loss. Facing sexism, trauma, and overwhelming odds, these heroines reveal that true valor beats in the heart, not just on the battlefield.

Una obra literària impecable. Un testimoni impressionant. Un llibre que ha fet història. Seduïda a l'edat de catorze anys per Gabriel Matzneff, cèlebre escriptor de cinquanta, Vanessa Springora desgrana, tres dècades més tard, el control i la manipulació que aquell home va exercir sobre...

In elf ehrlichen und emotionalen Briefen wendet sich Nathalie Klüver an alle Mütter, die ihre Töchter stärken wollen. Dieses Buch übersetzt das Weltgeschehen ins Persönliche, verbindet Fakten mit gesellschaftlicher Analyse und gibt konkrete Impulse für den Alltag. So zeigt es, wie aus weiblicher Wut Zuversicht werden kann – und wie wir unseren Kindern eine starke Haltung mit auf den Weg geben.

जनाब यह सुन्दर दुनिया एक दूसरे से नफ़रत, कुढ़न और बदले की कामना से बदरंग हो इससे पहले ही क्यों न इसरे रंगों को सहेज...

Le destre reazionarie si stanno impossessando di temi e parole che accompagnano da decenni le battaglie femministe, e ne stravolgono il significato. La stessa parola "femminista" è stata svuotata e manipolata, piegata a servire un progetto politico di esclusione delle minoranze e delle alterità, una nuova idea di società e di umanità, in cui nel nome delle donne si invocano razzismo, xenofobia, omotransfobia, guerra.

Ogni donna che oggi in Italia scelga di avere un figlio deve mettere in conto di "spingere": per difendere il lavoro e la propria indipendenza economica, per mantenersi spazi di realizzazione personale e - addirittura - per proteggere il suo stesso corpo da forme devastanti di violenza, psicologica e fisica. Perciò in questo libro Bubba presenta un'inchiesta senza precedenti su ogni aspetto dell'esperienza di maternità, fino alla violenza ostetrica e alle derive irrazionali, portando casi sconvolgenti e chiedendo a gran voce un radicale cambio di paradigma.

Neither Man Nor Beast explores the common link between cultural attitudes to women and animals in modern Western culture that have enabled the systematic exploitation of both. A vivid work that takes in environmental ethics, theological perspectives and feminist theory.