- African American Women and Christian Activism
- Judith Weisenfeld
- When the middle class black women of Judith Weisenfeld's history organized a black chapter of the Young Women's Christian Association in 1905, it was a clear step toward establishing a suitable environment for young working women. Weisenfeld's account gives a vibrant picture of African American women as significant actors in the life of New York. It also bears telling witness to the religious, class, gender, and racial negotiations so often involved in American social reform movements.
- Hardcover 1998
- Articulated Ladies
- Paul Rouzer
- This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 B.C. until 1000 A.D.
- Hardcover 2001
- Barren in the Promised Land
- Elaine T. May
- Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.
- Paperback 1997
- Berthe Morisot's Images of Women
- Anne Higonnet
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Beyond Feminist Aesthetics
- Rita Felski
- Paperback
- Century of Struggle
- Eleanor Flexner
- Ellen Fitzpatrick
- Century of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1996
- Coming on Strong
- Susan K. Cahn
- Susan Cahn's story of how sport has changed women's lives and women have transformed sport is an important chapter in the wider history of women's struggles to define their role in the twentieth century.
- Paperback 1998
- Coming to Writing" and Other Essays
- Helene Cixous
- Deborah Jenson, Ed. and Trans.
- Sarah Cornell, Translator
- Ann Liddle, Translator
- Susan Sellers, Translator
- Susan Rubin Suleiman
- This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, Cixous here explores how the problematics of the sexes--viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning--manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Countertraditions in the Bible
- Ilana Pardes
- In this eye-opening book, llana Pardes explores the tense dialogue between dominant patriarchal discourses of the Bible and counter female voices.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback
- Daycare, Revised Edition
- Alison Clarke-Stewart
- Hardcover 1993 / Paperback
- The Emergence of Sexuality
- Arnold I. Davidson
- Moving between philosophy and history, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sexuality.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- The Female Body in Western Culture
- Susan Rubin Suleiman, Editor
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1986
- Feminism Unmodified
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback
- Figures of Ill Repute
- Charles Bernheimer
- Hardcover 1989
- Gaylaw
- William N. Eskridge
- In a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual nonconformity in the United States, William Eskridge presents a rigorously argued case for the "sexualization" of the First Amendment, showing why, for example, same-sex ceremonies and intimacy should be considered "expressive conduct" deserving the protection of the courts. The book also locates the author's legal arguments within the larger currents of liberal theory and integrates them into a general stance toward freedom, gender equality, and religious pluralism.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002
- The Gender of Modernity
- Rita Felski
- In an innovative exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity and calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either demonized the modern as inherently patriarchal, or else assumed a simple opposition between men's and women's experiences of the modern world.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995
- Gender, Emotion, and the Family
- Leslie Brody
- Integrating a wealth of perspectives and research--biological, sociocultural, developmental--Leslie Brody's work explores the nature and extent of gender differences in emotional expression, as well as the endlessly complex question of how such differences come about. Nurture, far more than nature, emerges here as the stronger force in fashioning gender differences in emotional expression.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- Gendering Modern Japanese History
- Edited by Barbara Molony
- Edited by Kathleen Uno
- The sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the present. Together, these essays construct a history informed by the idea that gender matters because it was part of the experience of people and because it often has been a central feature in the construction of modern ideologies, discourses, and institutions. Separately, each chapter examines how Japanese have (en)gendered their ideas, institutions, and society.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008
- A Generation of Women
- Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
- Lagemann's concern is education--not in the limited sense of going to college, but education as a lifelong "process of interaction that changes the self." The relationships Lagemann shows between education and individual achievement and between education and social change create a new understanding of feminism and progressivism in the early twentieth century.
- Hardcover 1979
- Has Feminism Changed Science?
- Londa Schiebinger
- Has Feminism Changed Science? is a history of women in science and a frank assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge. Londa Schiebinger first considers the lives of women scientists, past and present: How many are there? What sciences do they choose--or have chosen for them? Is there something uniquely feminine about the science women do? Schiebinger debunks the myth that women scientists--because they are women--are somehow more holistic and integrative and create more cooperative scientific communities.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- Hermeneutics and Honor
- Asma Afsaruddin, Editor
- Foreword by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
- Women's traversal of public space in Islamic/ate societies and the ensuing process of negotiating gendered identities are the central concerns of this collection of essays. Elaborate cultural codes of honor and traditional, masculinist interpretations of scripture have reinforced the public-private polarity and restricted Muslim women's access to the public realm as conventionally defined. The distinguished contributors to this volume provide insight into how women from different social strata and historical periods in various Islamic/ate societies have creatively engaged with these limitations upon their behavior.
- Paperback 2000
- A History of Women in the West, Volume V, Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century
- Georges Duby, Series Editor
- Series edited by Michelle Perrot
- Françoise Thébaud, Editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- This fifth volume in the world-acclaimed series brings the history of women up to the present, placing it in the context of momentous events and profound social changes that have marked our time.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- How Sex Changed
- Joanne Meyerowitz
- From early twentieth-century sex experiments in Europe, to the saga of Christine Jorgensen, whose sex-change surgery made headlines in 1952, to today's growing transgender movement, Meyerowitz gives us the first serious history of transsexuality. She focuses on the stories of transsexual men and women themselves, as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, journalists, lawyers, judges, feminists, and gay liberationists.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- In a Different Voice
- Carol Gilligan
- This is the little book that started a revolution. First published almost twenty years ago, it made women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than three-quarters of a million copies sold around the world. In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate-and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light.
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1993
- It Changed My Life
- Betty Friedan
- First published in 1976, "It Changed My Life"--a classic of modern feminism--brings back years of struggle for those who were there, and recreates the past for the readers of today who were not yet born during these struggles for the opportunities and respect to which women can now feel entitled. In changing women's lives, the women's movement has changed everything.
- Paperback
- Justice and Gender
- Deborah L. Rhode
- This is the first book to provide a comprehensive investigation of gender and the law in the United States. Deborah Rhode describes legal developments over the last two centuries against a background of historical and sociological changes in women's activities and attitudes toward these new developments. She shows the way cultural perceptions of gender influence and in turn are influenced by legal constructions, and what this complicated interaction implies about the possibility-or impossibility-of using law as a tool of social change.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991
- Making Manhood
- Anne S. Lombard
- Countering our image of early Anglo-American families as dominated by harsh, austere patriarchs, Anne Lombard challenges long-held assumptions about the history of family life by casting a fresh look at the experience of growing up male in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. Drawing upon sources ranging from men's personal writings to court records to medical literature, Lombard finds that New England's Puritan settlers and their descendants shared a distinctive ideal of manhood that decisively shaped the lives of boys and men.
- Hardcover 2003
- Making Sex
- Thomas Laqueur
- Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice; and Making Sex tells the astonishing story of sex in the vest from the ancients to the moderns. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Laqueur's story--the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm--but we will be amazed at the plots into which they have been woven by scientists, political activists, literary figures, and theorists of every stripe.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992
- The Making of Man-Midwifery
- Adrian Wilson
- In seventeenth-century England midwives ran childbirth. But in the eighteenth century there emerged a new practitioner: the "man-midwife" who acted in lieu of a midwife and who soon achieved a permanent and central place in the management of childbirth. This authoritative work explores and explains this remarkable transformation.
- Hardcover 1995
- Manhood at Harvard
- Kim Townsend
- On the battlefields of the American Civil War a new masculine ideal was forged. Its defining terms--the glorification of male elites, activities, and games, and the marginalization of women and others--were most clearly set forth at Harvard University. Kim Townsend introduces us to the college men who were the most influential supporters and vocal critics of the new ideal of manhood: William James, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles William Eliot, W. E. B. Du Bois, George Santayana, and others.
- Paperback
- Mapping the Moral Domain
- Carol Gilligan, Editor
- Janie Ward, Editor
- Jill McLean Taylor, Editor
- Betty Bardige, Editor
- In the fourteen articles collected in this volume, Gilligan and her colleagues expand the theoretical base of In A Different Voice and apply their research methods to a variety of life situations. The contrasting voices of justice and care clarify different ways in which women and men speak about relationships and lend different meanings to connection, dependence, autonomy, responsibility loyalty, peer pressure, and violence.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1990
- Meeting at the Crossroads
- Lyn Mikel Brown
- Carol Gilligan
- Hardcover
- Mother Tongues
- Barbara Johnson
- The existence of sexual difference precludes an original or ultimate "one" who would represent all of mankind; the plurality of languages makes it impossible to think that one doesn't live in translation; and the plurality of the sexes means that every human being came from a woman's body, and some will reproduce this feat, while others won't. In her most personal and deeply considered book about difference, Johnson asks: Is the mother the guardian of a oneness we have never had? The relations that link mothers, bodies, words, and laws serve as the guiding puzzles as she searches for an answer.
- Hardcover 2003
- Only Paradoxes to Offer
- Joan W. Scott
- When feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy, they faced an impossible choice. On the one hand, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. On the other hand, by the fact that they acted on behalf of women, they introduced the very idea of difference they sought to eliminate. This paradox was the constitutive condition of the long struggle by women to gain the right of citizenship. In this book the award-winning historian Joan Wallach Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox of sexual difference.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Only Words
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- MacKinnon contends that pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and racial hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Ordaining Women
- Mark Chaves
- In a revealing examination of the complex interrelationship of religion, social forces, and organizational structure, Ordaining Women draws examples and data from over 100 Christian denominations to explore the meaning of institutional rules about women's ordination.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Passing Lines
- Edited by Brad Epps
- Edited by Keja Valens
- Edited by Bill Johnson González
- Passing Lines seeks to stimulate dialogue on the role of sexuality and sexual orientation in immigration to the U.S. from Latin America and the Caribbean. The book looks at the complexities, inconsistencies, and paradoxes of immigration from the point of view of both academics and practitioners in the field.
- Paperback 2005
- The Private Roots of Public Action
- Nancy Burns
- Kay Lehman Schlozman
- Sidney Verba
- Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2001
- Race Men
- Hazel V. Carby
- A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race Men shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society--and how they exclude women altogether. A powerful statement by a major voice among black feminists, Race Men holds out the hope that by understanding how society has relied upon affirmations of masculinity to resolve social and political crises, we can learn to transcend them.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Restoring the Balance
- Ellen S. More
- Drawing on rich archival sources and her own extensive interviews with women physicians, Ellen More shows how the Victorian ideal of balance informed and influenced the practice of healing for women doctors in America over the past 150 years. Restoring the Balance demonstrates that women doctors--collectively and individually--sought to balance the distinctive interests and culture of women against the claims of disinterestedness, scientific objectivity, and specialization of modern medical professionalism.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- The Second Stage
- Betty Friedan
- First published in 1981, The Second Stage is eerily prescient and timely. Warning the women's movement against dissolving into factionalism, male-bashing, and preoccupation with sexual and identity politics rather than bottom-line political and economic inequalities, The problem Friedan identifies is as real now as it was years ago: "how to live the equality we fought for," and continue to fight for, with "the family as new feminist frontier."
- Paperback
- The Sex Revolts
- Simon Reynolds
- Joy Press
- The first book to look at rock rebellion through the lens of gender, The Sex Revolts captures the paradox at rock's dark heart--the music is often most thrilling when it is most misogynistic and macho. And, looking at music made by female artists, the authors ask: must it always be this way? Provocative and passionately argued, the book walks the edgy line between a rock fan's excitement and a critic's awareness of the music's murky undercurrents.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- The Sexual Metaphor
- Helen Haste
- Hardcover
- Skin Trade
- Ann DuCille
- Challenging the increasingly popular argument that blacks should settle down, stop whining, and get jobs, Skin Trade insists that racism remains America's premier national story and its grossest national product. From Aunt Jemima Pancakes to ethnic Barbie dolls, Ann duCille explains, corporate America peddles racial and gender stereotypes.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1996
- Speaking of Sex
- Deborah L. Rhode
- Speaking of Sex explores a topic that frequently is absent from our discussions about sex: the persistence of sex-based inequality and the cultural forces that sustain it. On critical issues affecting women, most Americans deny either that gender inequality is a serious problem or that it is one which they have a personal or political responsibility to address. In tracing this "no problem" problem, Speaking of Sex examines the most fundamental causes of women's disadvantages and the inadequacy of current public policy to combat them.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Substance and Shadow
- Stephen Kandall
- The more things change, the more they remain the same: Substance and Shadow shows how, though attitudes and drugs may vary over time--from the laudanum of yesteryear to the heroin of the thirties and forties, the tranquilizers of the fifties, the consciousness-raising or prescription drugs of the sixties, and the ascendance of crack use in the eighties--dependency remains an issue for women. Kandall traces the history of questionable treatment that has followed this trend. From the maintenance clinics of the early twenties to the "federal farms" of mid-century to the detoxification efforts and methadone maintenance that flourished in the wake of the Women's Movement, attempts to treat drug-dependent women have been far from adequate. As he describes current policies that put money into drug interdiction and prisons, but offer little in the way of treatment or hope for women like Jennifer Johnson, Kandall calls our attention to the social and personal costs of demonizing and punishing women addicts rather than trying to improve their circumstances and give them genuine help.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999
- Subversive Intent
- Susan Rubin Suleiman
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992
- Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- Toward a Feminist Theory of the State presents Catharine MacKinnon's powerful analysis of politics, sexuality, and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centered on sexual subordination and applies it to the state. The result is an informed and compelling critique of inequality and a transformative vision of a direction for social change.
- Paperback 1991 / Hardcover
- Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman
- Nicole Loraux
- In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet and exemplary existence as wife and mother. Her glory was to have no glory. In Greek tragedy, however, women die violently and, through violence, master their own fate. It is a genre that delights in blurring the formal frontier between masculine and feminine. Through the subtlety of her reading of these powerful and ambiguous texts, Nicole Loraux elicits an array of insights into Greek attitudes toward death, sexuality, and gender.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1991
- Unequal Freedom
- Evelyn Nakano Glenn
- The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- The Virgin and the Bride
- Kate Cooper
- During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically transformed: the pure but fertile heroines of Greek and Roman romance were replaced by a Christian heroine who ardently refused the marriage bed. How this new concept and figure of purity is connected with--indeed, how it abetted--social and religious change is the subject of Kate Cooper's lively book.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999
- What Men Want
- John Ross
- Hardcover
- What Trouble I Have Seen
- David Peterson del Mar
- In the first sustained history and interdisciplinary study of violence toward wives in America,David Peterson del Mar reflects on the changes in American society that have affected violence: wife-beating was quietly condoned until the spread of an ethos of self-restraint in the late nineteenth century; the practice increased with a vengeance with the florescence of expressive individualism during the twentieth century.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- The Woman That Never Evolved
- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Hailed as a ground-breaking synthesis of feminism and evolutionary theory when first published, The Woman That Never Evolved is a bold and refreshing answer to contemporary versions of social Darwinism that shoehorn female nature into narrow stereotypes. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a leader in modern primatology, argues that evolutionary theorists' emphasis on sexual competition among males for access to females overlooks selection pressures on females themselves. In a vivid account of what female primates themselves actually do to secure their own reproductive advantage, she demolishes myths about sexually passive, "coy," compliant, exclusively nurturing females. Her lucid and compelling account of the great range of behaviors in many species of primates expands the concept of female nature to include the full range of selection pressures on females, and reminds us of the true complexity and dynamism of the evolutionary story.
- Paperback
- The Woman That Never Evolved
- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Hailed as a ground-breaking synthesis of feminism and evolutionary theory when first published, The Woman That Never Evolved is a bold and refreshing answer to contemporary versions of social Darwinism that shoehorn female nature into narrow stereotypes. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a leader in modern primatology, argues that evolutionary theorists' emphasis on sexual competition among males for access to females overlooks selection pressures on females themselves. In a vivid account of what female primates themselves actually do to secure their own reproductive advantage, she demolishes myths about sexually passive, "coy," compliant, exclusively nurturing females. Her lucid and compelling account of the great range of behaviors in many species of primates expands the concept of female nature to include the full range of selection pressures on females, and reminds us of the true complexity and dynamism of the evolutionary story.
- Paperback 1999
- Woman and the Demon
- Nina Auerbach
- Paperback 1984 / Hardcover
- Women in Ancient Egypt
- Gay Robins
- An idealised version of women appears everywhere in the art of ancient Egypt, but the true nature of these women's lives has long remained hidden. Robins' book, gracefully written and copiously illustrated, cuts through the obscurity of the ages to show us what the archaeological riches of Egypt really say about how these women lived, both in the public eye and within the family.
- Paperback
- Women in Science
- Yu Xie
- Kimberlee A. Shauman
- Why do so few women choose a career in science--even as they move into medicine and law in ever-greater numbers? In one of the most comprehensive studies of gender differences in science careers ever conducted, Women in Science provides a systematic account of how U.S. youth are selected into and out of science education in early life, and how social forces affect career outcomes later in the science labor market.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- Women's Quest For Economic Equality
- Victor Fuchs
- Paperback 1990
- Writing Women in Jacobean England
- Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover