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ACTIVISMS
[Dorothy Hodgson & Ethel C Brooks (eds)]
Focusing on the global south, international contributors explore women's activism around social and political issues. Contributors from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada, and more explore social justice and gender equality, particularly in the global south. The issue includes photo-essays about US and South African performance art, an interview with renowned feminist activist Charlotte Bunch, and a discussion forum on Mary Wollstonecraft. Articles and fiction examine how art, humour, protests, detective novels, and transnational networks promote progressive agendas.
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343pp,
155x230mm,
December 2007;
PB,
£14.99,
1558615660:9781558615663
, Feminist Press
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AMPUTATED MEMORY
: A Novel
[Werewere Liking; Translated by Marjolijn de Jager]
A modern day 'Things Fall Apart', THE AMPUTATED MEMORY explores the ways in which an African woman's memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible. Pinned between the political ambitions of her philandering father, the colonial and global influences of encroaching and exploitative governments, and the traditions of her Cameroon village, Halla Njokè recalls childhood traumas and reconstructs forgotten experiences to reclaim her sense of self. Winner of the NOMA Award -- previous honorees include Mamphela Ramphele, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Ken Saro- Wiwa -- The Amputated Memory was called by the NOMA jury "a truly remarkable achievement... a deeply felt presentation of the female condition in Africa; and a celebration of women as the country's memory."
{
445pp,
155x230mm,
November 2007;
HB,
£16.99,
1558615555:9781558615557
, Feminist Press
} |
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BORN IN THE BIG RAINS
: A Memoir of Somalia & Survival
[Fadumo Korn; Translated by Tobe Levin]
This powerful memoir by international anti-FGM activist Fadumo Korn portrays both her life-altering transformation after she undergoes a brutal female circumcision at the age of seven and her journey to recovery and empowerment. As a feisty nomad, Fadumo freely roamed the wild steppes of her native Somalia until her mother delivered her into the hands of an excisor to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), to be made a woman in the eyes of her tribe. Fadumo Korn weaves together a sensitive understanding of traditional practices with revelations about their disturbing effects. This deftly crafted tale, full of sorrow and surprising humour, provides a candid history of a life sculpted by crippling rheumatism and an unexpected path to recovery.
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186pp,
140x215mm,
September 2006;
HB,
£15.99,
1558615318:9781558615311
, Feminist Press
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BRANDING MISS G____
: Third Wave Feminists & the Media
[Michelle Miller]
Women's studies is now well entrenched in the university curriculum. But why isn't it a core part of high school education? The Miss G__ Project for Equity in Education, founded in 2004 by two first-year university students, is lobbying the Ontario government to make this happen. The group's namesake is the historical Miss G__, who was among the first wave of young women to attend university in the United States in the 1870s. During her studies, Miss G__ died suddenly and her death was used as proof that women put themselves at risk when pursuing higher education, a theory that was once used to bar women from higher education. Today, the Miss G__ Project has chapters in eleven universities across Ontario. As third wave feminists, the members of the group understand just how difficult it is for feminist organisations to win the media attention crucial to their lobbying efforts. As a strategy to gain more exposure, they have created a public image that relies heavily on heterosexual femininity -- casting themselves as "ladies", posing coyly in skirts, wearing full make-up and offering perfect smiles. The author herself is a member of the Project. While she supports the group's initiative, she has serious concerns about the appropriateness of a feminist organisation using "personal appearances" as a political tool. Will this strategy help the Project reach its political objective? Or will the media reframe the image to shape a negative public opinion that erodes the Project's overall support? To answer these questions, Miller interviews the group and contrasts their interpretation of their strategy against critical media analyses to better understand how their message is being communicated and how it is likely to be taken up by the public. Branding Miss G__ is an exciting and insightful discussion that takes a fresh look at how third wave feminists are engaging with the media to foster social change.
{
192pp,
150x230mm,
May 2008;
PB,
£17.50,
1894549724:9781894549721
, Sumach Press
} |
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CIRCLE OF EMPOWERMENT
: Twenty-five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
[Hanna Schöpp-Schilling & Cees Flinterman (eds)]
The Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is one of the most important human rights tools ever created. Adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly, it is often described as an international bill of rights for women. These essays and personal reflections from individuals who have served on the committee that monitors CEDAW introduce readers to the issues and the activism. Only a handful of countries have refused to ratify CEDAW; the U.S. is the only industrialised country among them. The Circle of Empowerment reveals the profound impact the convention has had on women's lives around the world and its potential to affect U.S. women. With examples and moving reminiscences from Japan to Tunisia to the Caribbean and beyond, this readable collection addresses CEDAW's impact on women in Islam, labour markets, migration, violence against women, human trafficking, women in politics and more.
{
410pp,
155x230mm,
December 2007;
PB,
£16.99,
1558615636:9781558615632
, Feminist Press
} |
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CRESS DELAHANTY
: A Novel
[Jessamyn West]
Set in rural California in the 1940s, this novel wittily portrays an adolescent girl navigating pivotal moments of growing up between 12 and 16. West is equally insightful about the eternal problems of parenthood and how raising children transforms a marriage.
REVIEW: "Brimming with humour and charm and youthful animal spirits... There is much true wisdom in Cress Delahanty." -- The New York Times.
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348pp,
140x215mm,
July 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1558615164:9781558615168
, Feminist Press
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DEFIANT MUSE
: Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present
[Nguyen thi Minh Ha, Nguyen thi Thanh Bình & Lady Borton (eds)]
The only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women's poetry available anywhere. This unique collection offers over one hundred poems from over one hundred poets in the only bilingual anthology of Vietnamese women's poetry available anywhere in the world. From the deeply personal to the dramatically political, "The Defiant Muse" gives a remarkable insight into the lives of women whose voices have long been consigned to history's margins. As diverse as Vietnam itself, this anthology ranges from the earliest oral poetry and the first written Buddhist spirituals to the angry poems of rebellious youth in Vietnam today. Native Vietnamese speakers and scholars carefully compiled, translated, and edited the texts to maintain the delicate authenticity of each work. Far-reaching in scope, this volume includes groundbreaking new Vietnamese translations of several ancient poems, a number of works from such canonic Vietnamese poets as Ho Xuân Huong, Anh Tho, and Xuân Quynh, as well as poems from contemporary writers from the Diaspora. Whether it is the legendary uprising of the Trung sisters against Chinese rule or the quiet cultivation of silkworms, this volume captures a staggering wealth of women's experiences. These extraordinary texts speak to exceptional moments in everyday realities of women in love and war, in the fields and cities, in their homeland and far abroad.
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286pp,
155x235mm,
August 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
1558615490:9781558615496
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HB,
£23.50,
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, Feminist Press
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DESIRE FOR DEVELOPMENT
: Whiteness, Gender, & the Helping Imperative
[Barbara Heron]
Heron draws on post-structuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in the post-development recollections of white Canadian women who have worked in Africa. Following the narrative arc of the development worker story from the decision to go overseas, through the experiences abroad, the return home, and final reflections, the book interweaves theory with the words of the participants. She posits that the desire for development is about the making of self in terms that are highly raced, classed, and gendered. The construction of white female subjectivity is thereby revealed as contingent on notions of goodness and Othering, played out against, and constituted by, the backdrop of the North-South binary, in which Canada’s national narrative situates us as the 'good guys' of the world.
{
191pp,
155x230mm,
February 2008;
PB,
£19.50,
1554580013:9781554580019
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
} |
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DISSONANT DISABILITIES
: Women with Chronic Illness Theorize Their Lives
[Diane Driedger & Michelle Owen (eds)]
This much-needed collection of original articles invites the reader to examine the key issues in the lives of women with chronic illnesses. The authors explore how society reacts to women with chronic illness and how women living with chronic illness cope with the uncertainty of their bodies in a society that desires certainty. Additionally, issues surrounding women with chronic illness in the workplace and the impact of chronic illness on women's relationships are sensitively considered.
{
258pp,
155x230mm,
April 2008;
PB,
£18.99,
0889614644:9780889614642
, Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press)
} |
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ENVY
[Jane Gallop (ed)]
Envy, as one of the seven deadly sins, sparks the imagination towards shades of green, sinful deeds and wicked desires. But while the act of coveting is not unknown to men and women alike, stereotypically the US mainstream conceives the notion of envy in relationship to women. Freud's idea of penis envy made envy feminine. New Wave feminists of the 1970's renegotiated women's envy as part of the concept of Sisterhood. Today, envy has been embedded in a large body of work focusing on emotions, ranging across disciplines from philosophy to neuroscience. With Envy, Women's Studies Quarterly tackles the genealogy of feminist thought and the aims of contemporary feminist cultural criticism.
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295pp,
155x230mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£14.99,
1558615245:9781558615243
, Feminist Press
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EXERCISE & WOMEN'S HEALTH
[Laura A Charlington (ed)]
In the last 50 years significant numbers of men and women take little exercise in the course of their occupation. The computer keyboard, the rise of private transport, the world by television, household 'labour saving' devices mean that with the minimal of physical effort people work and play. The benefits of doing regular exercise include a reduced risk of: heart disease, stroke, bowel cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and obesity. In addition, many people feel better in themselves during and after exercise. Regular exercise is also thought to help ease stress, anxiety, and mild depression. This new book focuses on exercise and women's health.
{
181pp,
180x260mm,
January 2008;
HB,
£85.99,
1604560134:9781604560138
, Nova Science Publishers
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FROM EVE TO DAWN
: A History of Women - Volume 1: Origins From Prehistory to the First Millennium
[Marilyn French; Foreword by Margaret Atwood]
Readable reference guide to the beginnings of women's history, from the best selling author, Marilyn French. Working over two decades with a team of researchers and historians, international best selling author Marilyn French synthesises women's history from our pre-historical roots through the rise of states across the globe to the onset of state-backed religions in this first of four readable volumes.
REVIEW: "...draws on a vast body of research and help from consultants in all sorts of fields, to open out areas that are rarely accessible... Above all, she recalls the depth and breadth of the war that has been waged on women down the centuries, the restrictions placed in so many times and so many places on their sexuality, their education, their freedom to travel, their voices" -- The Guardian. "As a reference work it's invaluable: the bibliographies alone are worth the price. And as a warning about the appalling extremes of human behavior and male weirdness, it's indispensable." -- Margaret Atwood, The Times (London). "Nowhere have I ever seen assembled such a quantity and diversity of material about women. Nowhere have I seen such material forged into a consistently readable, entertaining whole, unashamedly slanted in its sympathies towards women and definitely designed to instruct women of this and future generations." -- Clara Thomas, Books in Canada.
{
352pp,
155x230mm,
April 2008;
PB,
£11.99,
1558615652:9781558615656
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
FROM EVE TO DAWN
: A History of Women - Volume 2: The Masculine Mystique From Feudalism to the French Revolution
[Marilyn French; Foreword by Margaret Atwood]
Women's history: spanning from Europe to Japan, from the fifth century to the eighteenth. Analysing feudalism in Europe and Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and their own culture?
REVIEW: "...draws on a vast body of research and help from consultants in all sorts of fields, to open out areas that are rarely accessible... Above all, she recalls the depth and breadth of the war that has been waged on women down the centuries, the restrictions placed in so many times and so many places on their sexuality, their education, their freedom to travel, their voices" -- The Guardian. "As a reference work it's invaluable: the bibliographies alone are worth the price. And as a warning about the appalling extremes of human behavior and male weirdness, it's indispensable." -- Margaret Atwood, The Times (London). "Nowhere have I ever seen assembled such a quantity and diversity of material about women. Nowhere have I seen such material forged into a consistently readable, entertaining whole, unashamedly slanted in its sympathies towards women and definitely designed to instruct women of this and future generations." -- Clara Thomas, Books in Canada.
{
477pp,
155x230mm,
April 2008;
PB,
£13.50,
1558615679:9781558615670
, Feminist Press
} |
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GENDER, FOOD SECURITY & RURAL LIVELIHOODS
[Maithreyi Krishnaraj (ed)]
Food security remains a major concern in India as agriculture is in crisis. Food security depends not only on production and the market but also on the social and political structures which include gender within which markets are situated. Women have always been engaged in agriculture. And today the figure is close to 80 percent. Left with the responsibility of running farms because of male migration, women find work burdens have increased without growth in productivity. They lack rights to land. Technological change means that women lose their jobs like threshing rice or making rice products at home. They may get jobs in rice mills, but at low wages. They end up having less to eat when they never got enough anyway. So though agriculture has more women working, they are earning less, and there is less food security for them and their families. Malnutrition is common because when there is less food going around, women earn less so that men and children get more. In this changing context, the contributors explore women's roles in agriculture and the household, both areas where their contributions are unwaged, and discuss the interrelated concepts of gender, livelihood and food security.
{
380pp,
140x220mm,
October 2007;
HB,
£28.00,
8185604894:9788185604893
, Stree
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GIVE YOUR OTHER VOTE TO THE SISTER
: A Woman's Journey into the Great War
[Debbie Marshall]
"Give Your Other Vote to the Sister" tells the story of Roberta MacAdams, the first woman elected to the Alberta legislature. In fact, she was one of the first two women elected to a legislature anywhere in the British empire. Her triumph was extraordinary for many reasons. Not only did she run while serving as a nursing sister overseas during the Great War, but over 90 per cent of her electors were men -- Alberta soldiers stationed in England & in the muddy trenches of the Western Front. "Give Your Other Vote to the Sister" describes MacAdams' journey overseas, her work at a large military hospital in London, & the personal sacrifices she endured during the war. It also chronicles Debbie Marshall's own journey to reclaim MacAdams' life, one that took her across Canada & to the places where MacAdams lived & worked in England & France. It was a search that would change her own perceptions about how & why so may women willingly participated in the world’s first "great war".
{
350pp,
125x190mm,
July 2007;
PB,
£17.99,
1552382281:9781552382288
, University of Calgary Press
} |
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GLOBAL & THE INTIMATE
[Geraldine Pratt & Victoria Rosner (eds)]
Grand narratives of globalization have frequently adopted a gender-neutral (and implicitly masculine) stance, while women typically are represented as pure victims of globalization, either coerced to migrate or limited to the local scale, mired in their bodies and familial relations. 'The Global and the Intimate' seeks to push past this dichotomy to locate agency for women and to understand how deeply global forces penetrate the intimate spaces of our psyches and bodies.
{
536pp,
155x230mm,
June 2006;
PB,
£14.99,
1558615156:9781558615151
, Feminist Press
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HELEN FOSTER SNOW
: An American Woman in Revolutionary China
[Kelly Ann Long]
Helen Foster Snow: An American Woman in Revolutionary China tells the story of a remarkable woman born in rural Utah in 1907, who lived in China during the 1930’s and became an important author, a lifelong humanitarian, and a bridge-builder between the United States and China. As Kelly Ann Long recounts in this engaging biography, Helen Foster Snow immersed herself in the social and political currents of a nation in turmoil. After marrying renowned journalist Edgar Snow, she developed her own writing talents and offered an important perspective on emerging events in China as that nation was wracked by Japanese invasion, the outbreak of World War II, and a continuing civil war. She supported the December Ninth Movement of 1935, broke boundaries to enter communist Yenan in 1937, and helped initiate the "gung ho" Chinese Industrial Co-operative movement. Helen Foster Snow wrote about the people and events in China’s remote communist territories during an important era. She relayed detailed portraits of female communist leaders and famous figures such as Mao Zedong and Zhu De, as well as common people struggling to survive in a period of increasing turmoil. Her informed, compassionate depictions built a bridge linking American interest to the welfare of the Chinese. Long’s account recovers the story of a controversial and important commentator on a critical period in U.S.-China relations and in Chinese history.
{
238pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
HB,
£23.50,
0870818473:9780870818479
, University Press of Colorado
} |
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IMPLEMENTATION OF QUOTAS
: European Expriences
[Julie Ballington & Francesca Binda]
This report examines women's political representation in Europe. Although the overall representation of women in European Parliaments (including the Commonwealth of Independent States' nations) stands at approximately 18 percent, the differences among the many countries are staggering; from a low of three percent in Kyrgyzstan to a high of 45 percent in Sweden. In all of Europe, only eight countries have legislated quotas at the national or sub-national level. In 27 countries, political parties have voluntarily adopted some form of quotas. Gender quotas are increasingly viewed as an important policy measure for boosting women's access to decision-making bodies throughout the world. The proponents of quotas in many European countries face an unusual dilemma compared to other regions -- rejection and scepticism based on previous experience with quotas. In many communist states of the 20th Century, quotas were employed as a way of paying lip-service to equality declarations made by state-sponsored socialism. Thus in several, modern European democracies of the 21st Century, quotas are not regarded as positive measures but rather negative reminders of non-democratic practices. This report looks in depth at this particular impediment and compares strategies and ways of overcoming the stereotypes. There are 11 country case studies included in the report: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro and Slovenia.
{
164pp,
210x295mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£10.00,
9185391638:9789185391639
, International IDEA
} |
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IN THE NAME OF LOVE
: Women's Narratives of Love & Abuse
[Heather Fraser]
Although love is the hallmark of humanity, it is not widely discussed in social work and other related professions with respect to its potential connection to abuse. In this ground-breaking book the author argues that, while love and abuse should not co-exist, they often do. Using a feminist narrative approach, stories about love, abuse, and social work are told with the purpose of understanding domestic violence and other forms of abuse. Based on interviews with 84 women of varying ages in Canada and Australia, the author shows how the pain and shame of intimate abuse can leave its mark on the bodies, minds, and souls of victims/survivors long after abusive episodes have ended. Additionally, Fraser also discusses the importance of hope, 'enlightened witnesses', income support, and educational opportunities for women who refuse to renounce love relationships altogether, but are instead, trying to foster relationships that are respectful as well as erotic.
{
270pp,
155x230mm,
June 2008;
PB,
£17.99,
0889614628:9780889614628
, Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press)
} |
 |
INVENTING THE AMERICAN WOMAN, VOLUME 1, 4TH EDITION
: An Inclusive History
[Glenda Riley]
Thoughtfully re-edited with the student reader in mind and featuring expanded coverage of women in the military, women's healthcare, divorce, and women of colour -- especially Spanish speaking, American Indian, African American, and Asian American -- this well-balanced interpretive account of women's experiences as they shaped and were shaped by American history resounds as a remarkable feat of insight and inclusion.
{
260pp,
140x215mm,
January 2007;
PB,
£16.99,
0882952501:9780882952505
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PB,
£16.99,
088295251X:9780882952512
, Harlan Davidson
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KADIN / WOMEN 2000
: Journal for Woman Studies: Volume 5 - Issue1-2
[Dr Netice Yildiz (ed)]
This publication is published biannually and is a multi-disciplinary, refereed and bilingual journal (both Turkish and English) dedicated to the scholarly study of all aspects of women's issues. The articles published are primarily on topics concerning women rights, the socio-cultural aspects and position of women in society as well as particular legal issues. Articles are accepted from all disciplines such as literature, sociology, psychology, anthropology, law, political science, economics, medicine, cultural history as well as book reviews on recent publications and news and reports on important scientific events. KADIN/WOMAN 2000 is indexed in GenderWatch, Contemporary Women's Issues, General Academic ASAP International, IT One File, General Reference Center, General Reference Center Gold, IT Custom, MLA International Bibliography, Turkologischer Anzeiger and Index Islamicus.
{
193pp,
155x230mm,
June 2004;
PB,
£21.00,
13029916
, Eastern Mediterranean University Press
} |
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KILLING WOMEN
: The Visual Culture of Gender & Violence
[Annette Burfoot & Susan Lord (eds)]
The essays in "Killing Women" find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of identity politics and debates about the ethics and politics of representation itself. Does representation produce or reproduce the conditions of violence? Is representation itself a form of violence? The book adds significant new dimensions to the characterisation of gender and violence by discussing nationalism and war, feminist media, and the depiction of violence throughout society.
{
328pp,
155x230mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£22.99,
0889204977:9780889204973
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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LAURA
[Vera Caspary]
Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms-not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura's death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power. Soon he realises he's been seduced by a dead woman -- or has he? 'Laura' won lasting renown as an Academy Award-nominated 1944 film, the greatest noir romance of all time. Vera Caspary's equally haunting novel is remarkable for its stylish, hardboiled writing, its electrifying plot twists, and its darkly complex characters-including a woman who stands as the ultimate femme fatale.
{
219pp,
140x215mm,
March 2006;
PB,
£9.50,
1558615059:9781558615052
, Feminist Press
} |
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LISTEN TO NGARRINDJERI WOMEN SPEAKING
: Kungun Ngarrindjeri Miminar Yunnan
[Diane Bell (ed)]
"Namawi rawul-inyeri thulun-ar: Our footprints [come] from the past. From our ancestors to us, we are the traditional owners, still guiding our young ones, connecting the Stolen Generations back to family and country, standing strong in our history and culture and heritage", announce these remarkable Ngarrindjeri miminar. Ngarrindjeri came to prominence in the 1990s with the Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair. Labelled "liars" in 1995 by a South Australian Royal Commission then vindicated in the Federal Court in 2001 as "truth-tellers", these Ngarrindjeri miminar have much to be angry about. But, they also have stories to tell about their lives and their visions for the future. Here they take us into their world of caring for their country, their families and their nation. What are our needs? What do we want to address our needs? Where are we going? What does the future hold for us, our children, our grandchildren, our young women? Their stories will charm and delight and their stories will jar and shock. They ask that you Kungun, listen, to their Yunnan, speaking.
{
146pp,
175x240mm,
July 2008;
PB,
£16.95,
1876756691:9781876756697
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
MISTRESS OF HERSELF
: Speeches & Letters of Ernestine Rose, Early Women's Rights Leader
[Paula Doress-Worters (ed)]
Susan B. Anthony hung a picture of her on her study wall. Elizabeth Cady Stanton publicly eulogised her invaluable contributions to the women's rights movement. Unique among her peers as an immigrant of Jewish background, celebrity orator Ernestine Rose won the title 'Queen of the Platform' for her brilliant speeches advocating, and linking together women's rights, the abolition of slavery, and religious freedom. The culmination of 20 years of research, Mistress of Herself chronicles Rose's journey as a 'founding mother' of the women's rights movement. Having dedicated much of her career to gathering and preserving the works found in this collection, Paula Doress-Worters has infused her passion and expertise into the preface, introduction, and headnotes of this volume. This first comprehensive collection of her extant papers reclaims Ernestine Rose's place in history alongside Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
{
389pp,
155x230mm,
January 2008;
PB,
£12.99,
1558615431:9781558615434
/
HB,
£36.99,
155861544X:9781558615441
, Feminist Press
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ONE STEP OVER THE LINE
: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests
[Elizabeth Jameson & Sheila McManus (eds)]
This eclectic and carefully organised range of essays -- from women's history and settler societies to colonialism and borderlands studies -- is the first collection of comparative and transnational work on women in the Canadian and US West. It explores, expands, and advances the aspects of women's history that cross national borders. Out of the talks presented at the 2002 'Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women's History', Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus have edited a foundational text for pioneering scholars of an emergent, interdisciplinary field.
{
446pp,
155x230mm,
June 2008;
PB,
£20.99,
0888645015:9780888645012
, University of Alberta Press (Athabasca University Press)
} |
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POWER OF WEAKNESS
: Stories of the Chinese Revolution
[Ding Ling & Lu Hsun; Afterword by Tani Barlow]
Take the riveting social criticisms and literary wit of Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll House' and transplant them to Chinese soil: what emerges is this unique collection juxtaposing the works of the Chinese writing master Lu Xun with his literary successor Ding Ling. Each of the works by these two astute authors carries a biting social commentary on the hypocrisies of the burgeoning Chinese state in regards to women during the first half of the twentieth century. Containing six works in total, this fascinating collection reveals the force tradition and social expectation wield in historical moments where they are being renegotiated. In his speech 'What Happens After Nora Leaves Home?' and his short stories 'New Year's Sacrifice' and 'Regret for the Past', Lu Xun exposes how the anti-Confucian nationalist movement of the 1920s liberated women's thoughts beyond the constraints of tradition only to leave them the victims of social expectation and financial dependency. Ding Ling, writing in response to the clash between the nationalist and communist movements during the late twenties into the mid-forties, echoes Lu Xun's sentiments in her speech 'Thoughts on March 8 (Women's Day)' and the short stories 'New Faith' and 'When I Was in Xia Village'. The result is a compelling collection that questions the options created for empowered, intelligent women living in a nation still clinging to tradition.
{
156pp,
125x170mm,
June 2007;
PB,
£8.99,
1558615482:9781558615489
, Feminist Press
} |
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QUEEN IS IN THE GARBAGE
[Lila Karp; Afterword by Sharon Holland]
A startling stream-of-consciousness novel that engages questions of feminism which are as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1969. Shifting beautifully between past and present, consciousness and dreams, Lila Karp explores the complex psyche of thirty-two year old Harriet Battenberg as she painfully reflects on her life while in the midst of a fourteen hour labour. Unmarried and entering premature labour during a holiday in her native New York, Harriet meditates on questions of motherhood, marriage and identity. Vividly told scenes of her past reveal how her history, marked by an embittered relationship with her mother; a series of unfulfilling relationships with men; a miscarriage and an abortion; and an ongoing struggle to understand what being a woman means for her, has brought Harriet to this moment. It is difficult to find authors who deal as candidly with a woman's experience of childbirth as Karp, who writes with a rare, disquieting honesty of its physical and emotional trauma without having her characters dip into self-pity. Karp's wit and unique literary style make her a distinct voice amongst writers from the 1960s US feminist movement, a voice which still resounds today for everyone desperately fighting to find themselves and write their own histories, and futures. This is a shocking and absorbing story which magnificently applies a feminist perspective to deconstruct the fundamental questions of womanhood, autonomy, and the very essence of human existence.
{
170pp,
140x210mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£10.99,
1558615385:9781558615380
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
RESTLESS WAVE
: My Life in Two Worlds, A Memoir
[Ayako Ishigaki]
With this critically acclaimed 1940 memoir, pioneering Japanese writer and activist Ayako Ishigaki made history. 'Restless Wave' is the first book written in English by a Japanese woman, introducing Western readers to a largely unknown world; a unique voice; and a writer of great talent, integrity and courage. In exquisite prose, Ishigaki recalls coming of age in a privileged family and rebelling against strict codes of women's behaviour. She also traces the political awakening that would force her to flee Japan for the United States and would eventually make her an internationally renowned activist for peace, social justice and women's rights. As The Nation noted, "In lyrical, poetic terms, 'Restless Wave' tells the story of a single individual who lived at a turning-point of history."
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290pp,
140x215mm,
April 2004;
HB,
£36.99,
1558614702:9781558614703
, Feminist Press
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SEXUAL BODY
[Shelly Eversley & Jennifer Morgan (eds)]
The mid-1970s witnessed a turning-point in feminist critiques of the female body, sex, and pornography, igniting a debate which has yet to die down. Through critical essays, fiction, poetry, and images, this provocative issue of WSQ probes this dynamic territory in the light of current debates and emerging areas of study. Engaging the fields of film studies, history, literary criticism, performance studies and political theory, 'The Sexual Body' energises the debates on the status of sex, pleasure, power, and desire with in-depth explorations of the works of performance artist Sarah Jones, photographer Renee Cox, cyber-pornographer Shu Lea Cheang, and filmmaker Spike Lee. From cultural theories about soul food to an exploration of dance hall music to new discussions of female- and transgender-directed pornography, this issue mobilises cutting-edge feminist, race, and queer theory to push critical theories of the body to their limits and to anticipate where race and sex will inform the next generation of scholarship on this seductive subject.
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344pp,
155x230mm,
June 2007;
PB,
£14.99,
1558615512:9781558615519
, Feminist Press
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT & VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
: Developments in Federal Law
[Charles V Dale]
Gender-based discrimination, harassment, and violence against women in the home, workplace, and society at large are continuing topics of legislative and judicial concern. Legal doctrines condemning the extortion of sexual favours as a condition of employment or job advancement, and other sexually offensive workplace behaviours resulting in a 'hostile environment', have evolved from judicial decisions under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and related federal laws. The earlier judicial focus on economic detriment or quid pro quo harassment -- making submission to sexual demands a condition to job benefits -- has largely given way to Title VII claims alleging harassment that creates an 'intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment'. In 1994, Congress broke new legal ground by creating a civil rights cause of action for victims of 'crimes of violence motivated by gender'. The new law also made it a federal offence to travel interstate with the intent to 'injure, harass, or intimidate' a spouse, causing bodily harm to the spouse by a crime of violence. In recent years, the US Supreme Court has addressed a range of issues from the legality of same-sex harassment to the vicarious liability of employers and a local school district for monetary damages as the result of harassment by supervisors and teachers. In Oncale vs Sundowner Offshore Services Inc., the US Supreme Court resolved a conflict among the federal circuit courts by ruling that sex discrimination consisting of same-sex harassment is actionable under Title VII. Faragher vs City of Boca Raton and Burlington Industries vs Ellerth, held employers vicariously liable for sexual harassment of an employee by a supervisor with immediate or successively higher authority of that employee. Where the harassment results in a 'tangible employment action' -- such as demotion or discharge -- against the victim, Title VII liability is automatic and no defence is available to the employer. In cases not involving tangible reprisals or loss of job benefits, however, the failure of a complaining employee to take advantage of any anti-harassment policy and procedures made available by the employer may be asserted as an affirmative defence. Doe vs Lago Vista Independent School District, by contrast, ruled 5 to 4 that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 imposes no liability on local school districts for teacher harassment of students unless a school official with authority to institute corrective measures has actual knowledge of the alleged misconduct and is deliberately indifferent to it. On June 14, 2004 the Supreme Court considered the defences, if any, that may be available to an employer against an employee’s claim that she was forced to resign because of 'intolerable' sexual harassment at the hands of a supervisor. In Pennsylvania State Police vs Suders, the plaintiff claimed the tangible adverse action was supervisory harassment so severe that it drove the employee to quit, a constructive discharge in effect. The Court, in an opinion by Justice Ginsburg, only Justice Thomas dissenting, accepted the theory of a constructive discharge as a tangible employment action, but it also set conditions under which the employer could assert an affirmative defense and avoid strict liability under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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64pp,
140x215mm,
December 2005;
PB,
£52.99,
1594547858:9781594547850
, Nova Science Publishers
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SILENCES
: 25th Anniversary Edition
[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 sheds new light into the gaps in the literary landscape and the canon. She reveals that working-class people, people of colour, and all women have in fact always written -- though their work has been officially ignored -- and she examines the forces they struggled against in order to create, forces that led in many cases to premature silence. With fascinating testimony from authors' diaries and letters, Olsen takes us inside the artistic process, examining the effects of poverty, family duties (especially motherhood), political and religious censorship, and rigid literary norms on writers ranging from Thomas Hardy and Herman Melville to Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath. For those disadvantaged by gender, class, or race, these obstacles loom even larger. In particular, Olsen makes the case that women writers have faced crushing odds, their talents underestimated, their achievements ignored, the themes of their writing scorned, their very attempt to write condemned as a breach of family duty -- and of feminine nature. And yet, as she shows, they have written. This special 25th anniversary edition includes an introduction tracing the impact of Silences on women's studies, women's writing, and women's publishing. It also provides a key document of Olsen's work: the famous reading lists that she assembled from her years of research in public libraries.
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352pp,
155x230mm,
April 2003;
HB,
£27.99,
1558614419:9781558614413
, Feminist Press
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TAKING ON THE BIG BOYS
: Or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business & the Nation
[Ellen Bravo]
Enough about 'breaking the glass ceiling'. Here are the blueprints for a redesign of the entire building, ground up, to benefit women and men -- and even the bottom line. The feisty humour of Molly Ivins and the journalistic flair of Barbara Ehrenreich meet when long-time labour activist Ellen Bravo relates stories from business and government, and women’s testimonies from offices, assembly lines, hospitals, and schools. Bravo unmasks the patronising, trivialising, and minimising tactics employed by "the big boys" (the powerful men and women that maintain the status quo) and their surrogates: they portray feminism as women against men, and they dismiss as outrageous demands for pay equity, family leave, and overtime. Practical tips on everything from dealing with a sexual harasser to getting family members to share the chores (and build equal relationships) enliven many chapters. Bravo argues for feminism as a system of beliefs, laws, and practices that fully values women and work associated with women, while detailing activist strategies to achieve a society where everybody -- women and men -- reach their potential. Ultimately, "Taking On the Big Boys" provides a plan of action -- practical ways in which activists can create and implement new policies that will provide real social change.
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294pp,
155x230mm,
April 2007;
PB,
£10.99,
1558615458:9781558615458
, Feminist Press
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THIS WILD SPIRIT
: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada
[Colleen Skidmore (ed)]
In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp to get things in order for the morrow's conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood... I can hardly wait to be off again.". Vaux's compulsion was shared by many women whose intellects, imaginations, and spirits rose to the challenge of the mountains between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This Wild Spirit explores a sampling of women's creative responses -- in fiction and travel writing, photographs and paintings, embroidery and beadwork, letters and diaries, poetry and posters -- to their experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.
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475pp,
155x230mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£20.99,
0888644663:9780888644664
, University of Alberta Press
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TO STIR THE HEART
: Four African Stories
[Bessie Head & Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Afterword by Tuzyline Jita Allan]
From origin myths to tales of modern prostitutes in search of dignity -- even for only one moment -- these powerful stories by two of Africa's most renowned twentieth century authors explore African cultures at the intersection of tradition and modernity, colonialism and independence. Botswana's first lady of writing, Bessie Head, and East Africa's best known author, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, each use the politics and history of an Africa in the midst of change as the background for their compelling stories of characters who, like their countries, are in search of their identity. As part of that search, these two talented authors examine the uneasy coexistence created between men and women struggling when their individual natures and desires oppose societal expectations. Featuring Thiong'o's 'Wedding at the Cross' and 'Minutes of Glory' and Head's 'The Deep River' and 'The Collector of Treasures', this anthology holds four beautifully crafted stories that show strong women who fight not only to survive but to succeed on their own terms, as they demand their right to marry or not, earn a living, and, most importantly, be respected.
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109pp,
125x170mm,
June 2007;
PB,
£8.99,
1558615474:9781558615472
, Feminist Press
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WAITING
: A Novel of Uganda at War
[Goretti Kyomuhendo; Afterword by M Daymond]
Set during the last year of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s brutal regime, "Waiting" exposes the fear and courage of a small, close-knit community uncertain of what the edicts of a madman and the marauding of his uncontrollable army will bring with each coming day. Safe for years in their poor remote country village far from Amin’s political battlefield, Alinda and her family are plunged into the rippling effects of war when the troops of the self-proclaimed "Last King of Scotland" use the local highway as an exit route from the pursuing Ugandan and Tanzanian liberators. With her mother on the verge of labour, her brother anxious to join the liberators, and a house full of hungry siblings, neighbours, and displaced refugees, Alinda learns what it takes to survive and eventually plan for a new life. "Waiting" captures the intimate details of a home front battle inflicted on individuals locked in a personal, daily war too often overshadowed by the atrocities of Amin’s dictatorship and the eccentricities of his character. Here the hidden realities and despair of the state-sponsored war on the Ugandan people gives way to the hope forged by the coming of the liberators and the renewed spirit of the people themselves as they reconstruct their homes and lives.
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136pp,
140x215mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£9.50,
1558615393:9781558615397
, Feminist Press
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WIDER BOUNDARIES OF DARING
: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
[Di Brandt & Barbara Godard (eds)]
This book announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay, P K Page, Miriam Waddington, Phyllis Webb, Elizabeth Brewster, Jay MacPherson, Anne Wilkinson, Anne Marriott, and Elizabeth Smart. In the introduction, editors Di Brandt and Barbara Godard champion particularly the achievements of Livesay, Page, and Webb in setting the visionary parameters of Canadian and international literary modernism. The writers profiled in "Wider Boundaries of Daring" were the real founders of Canadian modernism, the contributors of this volume argue, both for their innovative aesthetic and literary experiments and for their extensive cultural activism. They founded literary magazines and writers' groups, wrote newspaper columns, and created a new forum for intellectual debate on public radio. At the same time, they led busy lives as wives and mothers, social workers and teachers, editors and critics, and competed successfully with their male contemporaries in the public arena in an era when women were not generally encouraged to hold professional positions or pursue public careers. The acknowledgement of these women writers' formidable contribution to the development of modernism in Canada, and along with it "wider boundaries of daring" for women and other people previously disadvantaged by racial, ethnic, or religious identifications, has profound implications for the way we read and understand Canadian literary and cultural history and for the shape of both national and international modernisms.
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444pp,
August 2008;
PB,
£21.99,
1554580323:9781554580323
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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WITNESS
[Kathryn Abrams & Irene Kacandes (eds)]
Explores how 'bearing witness' exposes inequalities of power and can lead to revolutionary movements like feminism. Feminism was born of acts of witness, and throughout its many transformations bearing witness has played crucial roles. Women speaking out about their own experiences, or the injustices they see around them, have provoked resistance, and called entrenched structures of power to account. But witnessing can also be an equivocal process: opportunities for bearing witness are strongly shaped by their institutional, political, and cultural settings; and potentially powerful messages may be assimilated to dominant discourses, or isolate those bearing witness outside influential processes of governance. In this issue, we explore the challenges of bearing witness: we look at the legal and political contexts that have structured women's efforts to testify to injustice; we examine new methodologies -- such as the graphic novel -- that feminists have used to bear witness, and the role of objects in the process of witnessing; and we highlight the experience of contemporary and historical feminist witnesses to oppression, genocide, and transformation. Featuring essays by scholars such as Susan Brison, Ann Cvetkovich, Marianne Hirsch, Rosanne Kennedy, Nancy Miller, Judith Resnik, Valerie Smith, and Leo Spitzer, and a retrospective on the work of Judith Herman, this issues asks how witnessing might be understood and fortified as a vehicle for feminist understanding, resistance and change.
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346pp,
155x230mm,
June 2008;
PB,
£14.99,
1558615776:9781558615779
, Feminist Press
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WIVES, MOTHERS & THE RED MENACE
: Conservative Women & the Crusade Against Communism
[Mary Brennan]
Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II. She describes the Cold War context in which these women functioned and the ways in which women saw communism as a very real danger to domestic security and American families. From writing letters and hosting teas to publishing books and running for political office, they campaigned against communism and, incidentally, discovered the power they had to effect change through activism. Brennan reveals how the willingness of these deeply conservative women to leave the domestic sphere and engage publicly in politics evinces the depth of America's postwar fear of communism. She further argues that these conservative, anti-communist women pushed the boundaries of traditional gender roles and challenged assumptions about women as political players by entering political life to publicly promote their ideals.
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197pp,
155x230mm,
February 2008;
HB,
£23.50,
0870818856:9780870818851
, University Press of Colorado
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WOMEN BETWEEN
: Construction of Self in the World of Sharon Butala, Aganetha Dyck, Mary Miegs & Mary Pratt
[Verna Reid]
Author Verna Reid explores the evolving perceptions of "self" in the work of four Canadian women -- visual artists Aganetha Dyck and Mary Pratt, and writers Sharon Butala and Mary Meigs. All four came into prominence in middle age, doing their most significant work in their mature years. They, along with the author, are members of a transitional generation of women, occupying the space between the traditional world of their mothers and the postmodern world of their daughters. The multiple roles they have played are reflected in the strong autobiographical content present in their work. Applying feminist and autobiographical theory, Reid considers the work of Butala, Dyck, Meigs, and Pratt in light of the influences that have shaped their senses of identity. As a contemporary of her subjects, Reid was able to interview all four women for this project, infusing her exploration of their lives and work with a sense of intimacy and immediacy. Reproductions of pieces by Aganetha Dyck and Mary Pratt are also included.
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327pp,
155x230mm,
August 2008;
PB,
£23.50,
1552382427:9781552382424
, University of Calgary Press
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WOMEN IN CONCERT
: An Anthology of Bengali: Muslim Women's Writings, 1904-1938
[Shaheen Akhtar & Moushumi Bhowmik]
Translated from the original anthology in Bengali by Stree. Throwing light on the work and lives of unknown or forgotten Muslim women writers of pre-Independence Bengal, when the state was not yet partitioned between India and East Pakistan (today's Bangladesh), in 1947, this anthology is like a rediscovery of their lives. First published in Bengali as Zenana Mehfil: Bangali Musalman Lekhikader Nirbachita Rachana, 1904-38, it compiles, for the first time, eleven Bengali Muslim women's writings: essays, short stories, poetry, a novel and some correspondence, each introduced and discussed separately. This anthology also gives a glimpse of their lives that were not always confined within the household. The writers include Akhtar Mahal, Sayyada Khatun and M. Fatema Khanum, and other much more familiar names like Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Shamsundar Mahmud. Among the immensely valuable interviews are those of Mohammed Nasiruddin, who devoted his life to the cause of Bengali Muslim women's emancipation, his daughter Nurjehan Begum, the poet Sufia Kamal, the writer Hameeda Khanam and Syed Mustafa Siraj, the celebrated Bengali novelist who witnessed the social changes that were to alter the Bengali Muslim world.
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400pp,
140x215mm,
August 2008;
HB,
£32.00,
8185604576:9788185604572
, Stree
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WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT, 2ND EDITION
: Beyond Numbers
[Azza Karam et al]
DESCRIPTION FROM 1ST EDITION: Now that women have made some inroads into this political arena, how are they impacting on it? What obstacles impede women from impacting? By what means can women overcome these obstacles? What are the strategies women can and have used to change policies and the political process through parliament? What are some of the changes that have occurred now that women are entering this traditionally male world? This book takes a closer look at these issues. Following extensive consultation with former and present women MPs, this handbook was written with the input of parliamentarians, academics and activists. With a foreword by Frene Ginwala, Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa, and case studies covering Costa Rica, Egypt, India, Jordan, Lebanon, Norway, Russia and South Africa the book gives a global perspective on women's political struggle to impact on parliamentary politics. Also gives a detailed account of ways that the rules of parliaments can be changed to better serve women and to promote issues of concern to women.
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265pp,
175x245mm,
June 2006;
PB,
£20.00,
9185391190:9789185391196
, International IDEA
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WOMEN WORKERS & GLOBALIZATION
: Emergent Contradictions in India
[Indrani Mazumdar]
Investigating the impact of globalisation on women workers, the author demystifies the phenomenon of globalisation, offering an overview of its prime drivers, processes and forces. Four sectoral studies of women workers are provided: two on factory women in garment exports and electronics; the third on home-based workers in a range of manufacturing processes and industries and the fourth on middle class women working in Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES). Offering an analysis of the effects of the changed policy paradigms on women workers, of global sectoral trends and their ramifications, and cutting through the hype on India's growth statistics, the author makes a valuable contribution to the reality of women's work in conditions of increasing insecurity.
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349pp,
140x220mm,
May 2007;
HB,
£30.00,
8185604843:9788185604848
, Stree
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WOMEN WRITING AFRICA
: Volume 3: The Eastern Region
[Amandina Lihamba, Fulata L Moyo, Mugyabuso M Mulokozi, Naomi L Shitemi & Saïda Yahya-Othman (eds)]
This third volume, The Eastern Region, highlights 23 languages including English, German, and Swahili, and 5 east African countries: Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. It focuses on the daily lives of women, who have crafted descriptions of personal sufferings and triumphs, parliamentary speeches, fiction, poetry and songs, and the roles of women in creating an educated people in nations free from colonial rule.
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478pp,
155x230mm,
February 2007;
HB,
£49.99,
1558615350:9781558615359
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PB,
£19.99,
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, Feminist Press
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WOMEN'S HEALTH IN THE MAJORITY WORLD
: Issues & Initiatives
[Laurie Elit & Jean Chamberlain Froese (eds)]
This is an innovative text using didactic information and case studies to address those issues that affect most of the worlds women. The first half of the book focuses on health issues that specifically affect women such as maternal mortality, fistulas, and cervical cancer. The second part of the book discusses how agencies such as governments, non-governmental organisations, and professional societies can partner and improve standards for women. By affecting the status of women, the whole family and community ultimately benefit.
{
236pp,
180x260mm,
January 2007;
HB,
£52.99,
1600214932:9781600214936
, Nova Science Publishers
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WOMEN'S ISSUES
: Economic, Societal, & Personal
[Dorothy V Stickle (ed)]
This book presents materials on issues of particular interest to women including economic, societal, and personal.
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199pp,
180x260mm,
May 2008;
HB,
£59.50,
1604563834:9781604563832
, Nova Science Publishers
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WOMEN'S VOICES
: Female Authors & Feminist Criticism in the Finnish Literary Tradition
[Päivi Lappalainen & Lea Rojola]
Finnish women writers from the nineteenth century onwards have dealt with various problems concerning women's daily lives, their rights, their identities and their own voice. And these same questions can still be heard in contemporary women’s literature. The articles in "Women's Voices" survey some of the ways in which Finnish female authors from the 1840s to the 1990s have dealt with these questions, and the solutions to these problems they have envisioned in their writing. How has the idea of freedom changed? What has been the relationship between female authors and the women’s movement? What happens when female authors gradually become aware of the multiplicity of their identity? How do different literary genres affect the way women write? These are some of the questions focused on in Women’s Voices. At the same time the volume presents an overview of the range of approaches to feminist criticism drawn on by Finnish feminist scholars.
{
208pp,
155x230mm,
December 2007;
PB,
£23.50,
9517467605:9789517467605
, Finnish Literature Society
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