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Book cover for Signe Arnfred: African Gender Scholarship

African Gender Scholarship : Concepts, Methodologies and Paradigms

Signe Arnfred
Paperback - $38.95



Book cover for Signe Arnfred: Re-Thinking Sexualities in Africa

Re-Thinking Sexualities in Africa

Signe Arnfred
Paperback - $57.95

The volume brings together papers by African and Nordic /Scandinavian gender scholars and anthropologists in an attempt to investigate and critically discuss existing lines of thinking about sexuality in Africa, while at the same time creating space ...

Book cover for Haleh Ashfar: Women and Politics in the Third World

Women and Politics in the Third World

Haleh Ashfar
Paperback - $96.95

An innovative feminist analytical perspective on the specific forms of resistance, organisation and negotiation used by women in Third World states.

Book cover for Sarah Ashwin: Gender, State and Society in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Gender, State and Society in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Sarah Ashwin
Hardcover - $306.95

Addressing the important questions raised by the rise and fall of the Soviet experiment in transforming gender relations, this study argues that the consideration of men and masculinity is vital to our understanding gender relations in Soviet and Pos ...

Book cover for Mitzi Auchterlonie: Conservative Suffragists

Conservative Suffragists : The Women's Vote and the Tory Party

Mitzi Auchterlonie
Hardcover - $168.95

One of the most significant gaps in our knowledge of modern British history is how the Conservative Party dealt with the controversial issue of the women's suffrage movement. While most suffrage studies focus on the activities of Liberal and Labour s ...

Book cover for Nina Auerbach: Woman and the Demon

Woman and the Demon : The Life of a Victorian Myth

Nina Auerbach
Paperback - $49.95



Book cover for Gillian Balfour: Criminalizing Women

Criminalizing Women : Gender and Injustice in Neo-Liberal Times

Gillian Balfour
Paperback - $74.95

This reference focuses on the key issues addressed by feminists in their engagement with criminology over the past four decades. Exploring women's lives as "errant females," this volume maps out the connections between the choices women make and thei ...

Book cover for Julie Ballington: Women in Parliament

Women in Parliament : Beyond Numbers

Julie Ballington
Paperback - $58.95

Written by parliamentarians and researchers, this second version of the IDEA Handbook on Women in Parliament examines the obstacles women face in getting elected to parliament, how to overcome such barriers, and ways to make a greater impact once the ...

Book cover for Sarah Banet-Weiser: Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Most Beautiful Girl in the World : Beauty Pagents Natl Ident

Sarah Banet-Weiser
Paperback - $50.95

The Miss America pageant has assumed a recognizable, if not uncontroversial, place in American culture. In this nuanced study of the politics and culture of beauty pageants, Sarah Banet-Weiser moves beyond standard feminist rhetoric. From interviews ...

Book cover for David P. Baresh: Gender Gap (Ppr)

Gender Gap (Ppr)

David P. Baresh
Paperback - $54.95

Let's face it, say Barash and Lipton: Males and females, boys and girls, men and women are different. To be sure, these differences are often heightened by distinctions in learning, cultural tradition, and social expectation, but underpinning them al ...

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