Browse books about "Women's Studies"
Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa
Zahia Smail Salhi
Not yet published — due 01/19/2010
The images of women in chadors or burqas as contrasted with images of belly dancers which circulate today as representations of Muslim/Middle Eastern women do...
Resisting Citizenship
Martha A Ackelsberg
Published 10/30/2009
Political participation in America—supposedly the world’s strongest democracy—is startlingly low, and many of the civil rights and economic equity initiatives that were instituted in the...
Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand
Andrea Whittaker
Published 08/14/2009
This book discusses abortion in a non-Western, non-Christian context - in Thailand, where over 300,000 illegal abortions are performed each year by a variety of...Series Name: ASAA Women in Asia Series
Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle
Helen Macnaughtan
Published 08/14/2009
This book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside, and different from, the better...Series Name: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Feminist Movements in Contemporary Japan
Laura Dales
Published 06/29/2009
In contemporary Japan there is much ambivalence about women’s roles, and the term "feminism" is not widely recognised or considered relevant. Nonetheless, as this book...
Series Name: ASAA Women in Asia Series
Women and Religion
Pamela Klassen
Published 06/26/2009
This collection is an essential research tool for all students specializing in religion and women’s studies, and will be equally useful to those working in...
Series Name: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies
Women and Work in Indonesia
Michele Ford, Lyn Parker
Published 05/12/2009
This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. It takes a broad definition of work in order to interrogate assumptions about...
Series Name: ASAA Women in Asia Series
The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia
ELIZABETH MARTYN
Published 04/30/2009
This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions...Series Name: ASAA Women in Asia Series
International Perspectives on Women and HIV
Samuel A MacMaster, Brian E Bride, CINDY DAVIS
Published 02/12/2009
Throughout the world, the threat of HIV/AIDS to women’s health has become the focus of increased concern. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2004)...
Women's Health and Social Change
Ellen Annandale
Published 07/30/2008
Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009
Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being...
Series Name: Critical Studies in Health and Society