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Doing Gender in Heavy Metal: Perceptions on Women in a Hypermasculine Subculture (Paperback)

This book provides a sociological examination of gender issues concerning the evolving place and role of women in the world of heavy metal. Grounded in feminist theories of gender difference and in close dialogue with relevant thematic studies from... more

Pre-owned Doing Life : Reflections of Men and Women Serving Life Sentences Paperback by Zehr Howard ISBN 156148203X ISBN-13 9781561482030

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Pre-owned Woman Doing Life : Notes from a Prison for Women Paperback by George Erin; Johnson Robert (EDT); Martin Alison B. (EDT); Johnson Robert (INT); Pollock Joycelyn (AFT) ISBN 0199935882

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Pre-Owned Visiting Life : Women Doing Time on the Outside 9780307338365

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Critical Studies in Gender Sexuality a The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows (Hardcover)

Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry with her own account of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather s cattle business Halley juxtaposes the two worlds and creates a link between the meat industry and her own experience... more

From the Other Side: Women Gender and Immigrant Life in the U.S. 1820 1990 (Paperback)

An impressive achievement by a scholar well-versed in the field. --Virginia Yans-McLaughlin Sweeping in scope and prodigious in research Gabaccia is able to make insightful comparisons between these female newcomers in both the past and the present and... more

Gender Culture and Politics in the Middle East: No Shame for the Sun: The Lives of Professional Pakistani Women (Hardcover)

This groundbreaking work sheds new light on the status conflicts and social realities of educated Muslim women in Pakistan. Six candid interviews introduce readers to a class of professional Muslim women that is rarely if ever acknowledged in the West.... more

Pre-Owned Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women s Lives Human Rights (Paperback 9780415780797) by Debra Bergoffen Paula Ruth Gilbert Tamara Harvey

9780415780797. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Language: English. Contains: Illustrations black & white Halftones black & white Line drawings black & white Tables black & white. Includes: line drawings black & white halftones black & white tables... more

Pre-Owned Gender Ideology and Action: Historical Perspectives on Women s Public Lives (Hardcover 9780313242731) by Janet Sharistanian

9780313242731. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 268. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 268 p. Contributions in Women s Studies. The nine essays in this volume examine women s public and private lives... more

Pre-Owned Out to Work: Migration Gender and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China Paperback

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Pre-Owned From the Other Side: Women Gender and Immigrant Life in the U.S. 1820-1990 (Paperback 9780253209047) by Donna Gabaccia

9780253209047. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 216. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 216 p. An impressive achievement by a scholar well-versed in the field. -Virginia Yans-McLaughlin Sweeping in scope and... more

On Our Own Terms : Race Class and Gender in the Lives of African-American Women 9780415912860 Used / Pre-owned

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White Lives: The Interplay of Race Class and Gender in Everyday Life (Paperback)

This revealing book explores the processes of racialization class and gender and examines how these processes play out in the everyday lives of white women living in London with young children. Winner of the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2007 more

Routledge Research in Gender and Society Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives (Paperback)

Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. When same-sex violence is considered it is most commonly as an added on without close attention to the specificity and meaning of violence within the lives of lesbian/... more

Skirting Gender: Life and Lessons of a Cross Dresser (Paperback)

Everybody has a sense of fashion and how they feel most comfortable and confident. But for some that means stepping outside of the kinds of clothes people label as being for men or for women. And for some it goes beyond just what is worn; sometimes... more

Social Indicators Research: Gender Lifespan and Quality of Life: An International Perspective (Hardcover)

This publication addresses the gender dimensions of people s lived experience and emphasizes how gender relationships differentially impact on women s and girls as well as men s and boys subjective well-being across the lifespan. It therefore fills a... more

Pre-Owned Uncertain Justice: Canadian Women and Capital Punishment 1754-1953 (Paperback) 1550023446 9781550023442

An exposition of the patriarchal values that lie at the core of criminal law and the class and gender biases that permeate its procedures and applications. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage... more

Struggling in the Land of Plenty : Race Class and Gender in the Lives of Homeless Families (Paperback)

Struggling in the Land of Plenty examines how gendered and racialized poverty social structural inequality intimate partner violence and welfare reform have contributed to the rise in family homelessness exposing the devastating consequences for women... more

Pre-Owned Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender Fear and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez (Paperback) 0292718241 9780292718241

Between 1993 and 2003 more than 370 girls and women were murdered and their often-mutilated bodies dumped outside Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua Mexico. The murders have continued at a rate of approximately thirty per year yet law enforcement officials... more

Pre-Owned Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender Fear and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez (Paperback 9780292718241) by Kathleen Staudt

9780292718241. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 212. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 212 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Inter-America. Between 1993 and 2003 more than 370 girls and women were... more

Routledge Contemporary Japan Women and Political Inequality in Japan: Gender Imbalanced Democracy (Paperback)

Eto analyses the various factors which have led to women s low presence in the Japanese legislature. She evaluates ways in which it might be possible for Japan to catch up and in doing so examines the ways in which Japanese society continues to... more

Women in Culture and Society: Manliness and Civilization : A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States 1880-1917 (Paperback)

When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno Nevada he boasted that he was doing it for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is... more

Global Gender Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Girls of Tomorrow (Paperback)

This book explores the life scholarly oeuvre and intellectual connections of the significant first generation Hungarian female psychoanalysts situating their lives within the wider context of social history and the history of psychoanalysis. Budapest... more

Routledge Research in Gender and Society Muslim Women Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in Post-9/11 Cultural Practice Book 42 (Hardcover)

Following a long historical legacy Muslim women s lives continue to be represented and circulate widely as a vehicle of intercultural understanding within a context of the war on terror. Following Edward Said s thesis that these cultural forms reflect... more

Men s Business Women s Business : The Spiritual Role of Gender in the World s Oldest Culture (Paperback)

Beautiful stories of life in Australian Aboriginal society--where gender influences every aspect of existence--that show a new way to find happiness in our modern Western culture - Follows an Australian Aboriginal boy and girl from childhood through... more

Routledge International Studies of Women Gender Migration and Domestic Service (Paperback)

This book examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen and exposes the tensions and difficulties including: legal and empowerment issues cultural and language diversities and barriers and the impact of live-in employment. The book... more

Routledge Research in Gender and Society Transnational Migration Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters (Paperback)

This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West. Why do women move? What are the actual conditions of their transnational lives? How do they make sense of their... more

Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Unmarried Women in Japan: The drift into singlehood (Paperback)

This book aims to answer the question of why many women remain single in Japan based on life history interview research conducted in Japan. It argues that singlehood increased in Japan due largely to structural barriers and culture which have caused... more

Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Render Me Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex Class Color Nation Studmuffins (Hardcover)

In day-to-day life people often act as if they know exactly what they mean by boys and girls masculine and feminine butch and femme. Render Me Gender Me challenges comfortable assumptions about gender by weaving Kath Weston s own thought-provoking... more

Women s Studies: Re-Thinking Gender Equality and Development: Perspectives from Academia (Paperback)

Since birth we have been ensnared in a gendered world. Gender is so deeply ingrained in various aspects of our lives such as social political legal and economic institutions and the related actions ideas and aspirations that it appears natural. As a... more

Pre-Owned Breaking Women: Gender Race and the New Politics of Imprisonment (Paperback) 0814761496 9780814761496

Discusses the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual lives CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good... more

Gender and American Culture: Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology 1913-1963 (Paperback)

The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women s unexpected response to new labor-saving devices. Federal farm... more

London s Women Teachers: Gender Class and Feminism 1870-1930 (Paperback)

Dina Copelman s investigation of the public and private lives of women teachers reveals a strikingly different model of gender and class identity than the orthodox one constructed by historians of middle-class gender roles and middle-class feminism.... more

London s Women Teachers: Gender Class and Feminism 1870-1930 (Hardcover)

Dina Copelman s investigation of the public and private lives of women teachers reveals a strikingly different model of gender and class identity than the orthodox one constructed by historians of middle-class gender roles and middle-class feminism.... more

Oxford Studies in Gender and Internation The Political Economy of Violence Against Women (Paperback)

Violence against women is a major problem in all countries affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage. Nowhere in the world do women share equal social and economic rights with men or the same access as men to productive... more

Doing the Best I Can (Hardcover)

M grows up to become a much-loved and loving woman even though she experiences many challenges and adversities throughout her long life. In spite of the difficulties M survives and thrives. She achieves happiness love and respect from everyone who... more

The Truth That Never Hurts 25th anniversary edition : Writings on Race Gender and Freedom (Hardcover)

Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s describing a Black feminism for Black women. This collection contains some of her major essays on Black women s literature Black lesbian writing on racism in the women s movement... more

Moving with the Times: Gender Status and Migration of Nurses in India (Hardcover)

This book is an attempt to penetrate the silence that surrounds the lives of nurses as migrant women. It offers a perceptive understanding of the trials faced specifically by women from the state of Kerala in their personal and professional spheres in... more