- Are Women Human?
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? She exposes the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation as she points toward fresh ways of targeting its toxic orthodoxies. A critique of the transnational status quo that also envisions the transforming possibilities of human rights, this bracing book makes us look as never before at an ongoing war too long undeclared.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- At Home in the Studio
- Laura R. Prieto
- This engaging cultural history examines the emergence of a professional identity for American women artists. By focusing on individual sculptors, painters, and illustrators, Prieto gives us a compelling picture of the prospects and constraints faced by women artists in the United States from the late eighteenth century through the 1930s.
- Hardcover 2001
- At Women's Expense
- Cynthia Daniels
- No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and pregnancy itself, on a woman's relationship with the fetus. How exactly, Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect a woman's rights?
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Behind the Mask
- Dana Crowley Jack
- Drawing from in-depth interviews with sixty women of different ages and ethnic and class backgrounds--police officers, attorneys, substance abusers, homemakers, artists--Dana Jack provides a rich account of how women explain (or explain away) their own hidden or actual acts of hurt to others. With sensitivity but without sentimentality, Jack gives readers a range of compelling stories of how women channel, either positively or destructively, their own powerful force and of how they resist and retaliate in the face of others' aggression in a society that expects women to be yielding, empathetic, and supportive.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- Being a Buddhist Nun
- Kim Gutschow
- This book offers the first ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns. Gutschow lived for more than three years among these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways, and studying their lives. This richly textured picture of the little known culture provides valuable insight into the relationship between women and religion in South Asia today.
- Hardcover 2004
- Between Voice and Silence
- Jill McLean Taylor
- Carol Gilligan
- Amy Sullivan
- When adolescent girls silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed and develop a range of psychological problems. When they remain outspoken they are labeled as troublemakers. If this is true in an affluent suburban setting, where much of this groundbreaking research took place, what of girls from poor and working-class families? In Between Voice and Silence, Taylor, Gilligan, and Sullivan grapple with these questions.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Beyond Suffrage
- Susan Ware
- The New Deal administration of Franklin Roosevelt brought an unprecedented number of women to Washington to serve in positions of power and influence. Beyond Suffrage is a study of women who achieved positions of national leadership in the 1930s. Susan Ware discusses the network they established, their attitudes toward feminism and social reform, and the impact they had upon the New Deal's social welfare policies and on Democratic party politics.
- Hardcover 1981 / Paperback
- Beyond the Synagogue Gallery
- Karla Goldman
- Focusing on the nineteenth century, Beyond the Synagogue Gallery recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Karla Goldman's study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation--of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society. This account of the evolving religious identity of American Jewish women expands our understanding of women's religious roles and of the Americanization of Judaism in the nineteenth century.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- 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
- Competing Devotions
- Mary Blair-Loy
- Competing Devotions focuses on the broad social and cultural forces that create women's identities and shape their understanding of what makes life worth living. Mary Blair-Loy examines the career paths of women financial executives who have tried various approaches to balancing career and family. These mavericks, she suggests, who face great resistance but are aided by new ideological and material resources that come with historical change, may eventually redefine both the nuclear family and the capitalist firm in ways that reduce work-family conflict.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- Daughters of Eve
- Lenard R. Berlanstein
- This pathbreaking study delineates the distinctive place of actresses, dancers, and singers within the French erotic and political imaginations. Drawing upon newspaper accounts, society columns, theater criticism, government reports, autobiographies, public rituals, and a huge corpus of fiction, Lenard Berlanstein argues that the public image of actresses was shaped by the political climate and ruling ideology; thus they were deified in one era and damned in the next
- Hardcover 2001
- Daughters of the Union
- Nina Silber
- This book casts a spotlight on some of the most overlooked and least understood participants in the American Civil War: the women of the North. Unlike their Confederate counterparts, who were often caught in the midst of the conflict, most Northern women remained far from the dangers of battle. Nonetheless, they enlisted in the Union cause on their home ground, and the experience transformed their lives.
- Hardcover 2005
- Deliverance and Submission
- Kelly H. Chong
- Hardcover 2008
- Disembodying Women
- Barbara Duden
- Lee Hoinacki, Translator
- Hardcover
- Dubious Conceptions
- Kristin Luker
- This powerful book takes us behind the stereotypes, the inflamed rhetoric, and the flip media sound bites to show us the complex reality and troubling truths of teenage mothers in America today.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Eve's Herbs
- John M. Riddle
- In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve's Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times?
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Female Spectacle
- Susan A. Glenn
- When the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term "feminism" had not yet entered our national vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to center stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly modesty. Female Spectacle reveals the theater to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Feminism and Its Discontents
- Mari Jo Buhle
- With Sigmund Freud notoriously flummoxed about what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. But in this surprising history, Mari Jo Buhle reveals that the twentieth century's two great theories of liberation actually had a great deal to tell each other. Feminism and Its Discontents brings together far-flung intellectual tendencies rarely seen in intimate relation to each other-and shows us a new way of seeing both.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Freda Kirchwey
- Sara Alpern
- Freda Kirchwey was a salient figure in twentieth-century America, a beacon for liberals and activists of her era. A journalist with The Nation from 1918 to 1955--owner, editor, and publisher after 1937--she was an advocate of advanced ideas about sexual freedom and birth control and a tireless foe of fascism. The quintessential new woman, she combined a private and highly visible public life. In this full-scale biography of Kirchwey, Alpern weaves the strands of gender-related issues with larger social explorations.
- Hardcover 1987
- 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
- Hearts of Wisdom
- Emily K. Abel
- The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years, this has hardly been the case.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- A History of Women in the West, Volume I, From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints
- Georges Duby, Series Editor
- Michelle Perrot, Series Editor
- Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- Informed by the work of seventy-five distinguished historians, this five-volume series sets before us an engaging, panoramic chronicle that extends from antiquity to the present day
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1994
- A History of Women in the West, Volume II, Silences of the Middle Ages
- Georges Duby, Series Editor
- Michelle Perrot, Series Editor
- Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- Drawing on myriad sources--from the faint traces left by the rocking cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve's fall from grace--this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve renowned historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1998
- A History of Women in the West, Volume III, Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes
- Series edited by Georges Duby
- Series edited by Michelle Perrot
- Natalie Zemon Davis, Editor
- Arlette Farge, Editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- This book draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in the contexts of work, marriage, and family.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- A History of Women in the West, Volume IV, Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War
- Series edited by Georges Duby
- Series edited by Michelle Perrot
- Genevieve Fraisse, Editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- The fourth volume in this world-acclaimed series covers the distance between the French Revolution and World War I. It gives us a vibrant picture of a bourgeois century, dynamic and expansive, in which the role of woman in the home was stressed more and more, even as the economic pressures and opportunities of the industrial revolution drew her out of the house.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- Hot and Bothered
- Judith A. Houck
- How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical and pharmacological intervention? By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- In a Dark Time
- Linda Isako Angst
- Since Japanese sovereignty from American occupation in 1972, these islands have become the site of a complex colonial and postcolonial relationship of resistance and dependence between Okinawa, Japan, and the United States. Angst looks behind this historical and geopolitical experience by drawing upon diverse perspectives of Okinawa women from different generational and economic backgrounds.
- Hardcover 2008
- Intimate Politics
- Sara L. Friedman
- Distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labor, and powerful same-sex networks have long distinguished villages in this coastal region of southeastern China from other rural Han communities. Intimate Politics explores these practices that have constituted eastern Hui'an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han. This book asks what such practices have come to mean in a post-1949 socialist order that has incorporated forms of marriage, labor, and dress into a developmental scale extending from the primitive to the civilized.
- Hardcover 2006
- Jane Austen
- Tony Tanner
- Tanner guides us through Austen's novels from relatively sunny early works to the darker, more pessimistic Persuasion and fragmentary Sanditon--a journey that takes her from acceptance of a society maintained by landed property, family, money, and strict propriety through an insistence on the need for authentication of these values to a final skepticism and even rejection. In showing her progress from a parochial optimism to an ability to encompass her whole society, Tanner renews our sense of Jane Austen as one of the great novelists, confirming both her local and abiding relevance.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback
- Letter to the World
- Susan Ware
- Susan Ware deftly chronicles the professional and private lives of seven notable American women of our century. She shows how the creation or re-creation of their personae was an essential element in their success, whether they craved fame or chose a different lifestyle. All seven women chose to live exceptional and unconventional lives, offering other women examples of the ability to live beyond the limits imposed by society or family, to dream and strive, to be independent and fulfilled.
- Paperback 2000
- Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833
- Susan Staves
- Hardcover 1990
- Monstrous Imagination
- Marie-Hélène Huet
- Hardcover 1993 / Paperback
- The Murder of Regilla
- Sarah B. Pomeroy
- Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 BCE, Regilla was married at the age of fifteen to Herodes, a wealthy Roman. Twenty years later--and eight months pregnant with her sixth child--Regilla died under mysterious circumstances, after a blow to the abdomen delivered by Herodes's freedman. Though Herodes was charged, he was acquitted. Pomeroy's investigation suggests that despite Herodes's erection of numerous monuments to his deceased wife, he was in fact guilty of the crime.
- Hardcover 2007
- Nisa
- Marjorie Shostak
- This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in her own words--earthy, emotional, vivid--to Marjorie Shostak, a Harvard anthropologist who succeeded, with Nisa's collaboration, in breaking through the immense barriers of language and culture, the story is a fascinating view of a remarkable woman.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover
- Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 1-3, 1607-1950
- Edward T. James, Editor
- Janet Wilson James, Editor
- Paul Boyer, Editor
- This superb biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists, lawyers, reformers, educators, entrepreneurs, physicists, writers, pioneers, presidents' ladies, film stars. Here are those known for their deeds and those famed for their looks--the genteel and the disreputable, the highborn and slave-born. Here are the famous in all areas of endeavor. Here also are many names rescued from obscurity.
- Hardcover 1971 / Paperback
- Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 4, The Modern Period
- Barbara Sicherman, Editor
- Carol Hurd Green, Editor
- The life stories of American women--442 of them--who have in some way affected contemporary American life are explored in this lauded companion to Notable American Women, 1607-1950. The basics--the crucial dates, ancestry, parents, education, marital status, and children--provide invaluable material for both the researcher and the general reader. Beyond these essentials, a brief essay focuses on each woman's life and personality, and evaluates her career from a historical framework. Sixteen new pages of photographs specially selected for the paperback edition have been included.
- Paperback
- Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 5, Completing the Twentieth Century
- Susan Ware, Editor
- Stacy Braukman, Assistant Editor
- This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.
- Hardcover 2005
- A Price Below Rubies
- Naomi Shepherd
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- Raising Their Voices
- Lyn Mikel Brown
- This book, filled with the voices of teenage girls, corrects the misperceptions that have crept into our picture of female adolescence. Based on the author's yearlong conversation with white junior high and middle school girls--from the working poor and the middle class--Raising Their Voices allows us to hear how girls adopt some expectations about gender but strenuously resist others, how they use traditionally feminine means to maintain their independence, and how they recognize and resist pressures to ignore their own needs and wishes.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- Return to Nisa
- Marjorie Shostak
- The story of two women--one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist--this powerful book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Here, however, the ground has perceptibly shifted. First published in 1981, Nisa served as a stirring introduction to anthropology's most basic question: Can there be true understanding between people of profoundly different cultures?
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Risking Who One Is
- Susan Rubin Suleiman
- Susan Suleiman sets forth in this insightful work an intimate and provocative exchange with contemporary writers and artists such as Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Cixous, Elie Wiesel, Mary Gordon, Max Ernst and Angela Carter. Suleiman includes us in her voyages of self-discovery as she confronts the conflicts between the problematic and crucial relations between individual life-story and collective history.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Sexual Reckonings
- Susan K. Cahn
- This is the engaging tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during its most explosive decades. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts, with the modern awareness of female sexuality clashing mightily against the white supremacist and patriarchal legacies of the old South.
- Hardcover 2007
- Sexual Science
- Cynthia Russett
- The spectacle presented in Russett's book, of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men--thereby providing, along with "savages" and "idiots," an evolutionary buffer between men and animals--is by turns appalling, amusing, and saddening. Surveying the work of real scientists as well as the products of more dubious minds, Russett has produced a learned yet immensely enjoyable chapter in the annals of human folly.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991
- Silencing the Self
- Dana Crowley Jack
- Hardcover 1991
- Sisters in Arms
- Jo Ann Kay McNamara
- Sisters in Arms is the first definitive history of Catholic nuns in the Western world. Unfolding century by century, this epic drama encompasses every period from the dawn of Christianity to the present.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- The Solitary Self
- Linda Georgianna
- The Ancrene Wisse is a spiritual guide for female recluses, written at the request of three young anchoresses who were voluntarily enclosed for life within small cells. With rare sensitivity and discernment, Linda Georgianna analyzes this complex and skillfully composed treatise and examines its detailed portrayal of the rich, sometimes rewarding and sometimes frustrating inner life of the solitary.
- Hardcover 1981
- Stri
- Kevin McGrath
- Paperback 2008
- Their Right to Speak
- Alisse Portnoy
- In this groundbreaking study, Portnoy links antebellum Indian removal debates with crucial, simultaneous debates about African Americans--abolition of slavery and African colonization--revealing ways European American women negotiated prohibitions to make their voices heard. Situating the debates within contemporary, competing ideas about race, religion, and nation, Portnoy examines the means by which women argued for a "right to speak" on national policy.
- Hardcover 2005
- To 'Joy My Freedom
- Tera W. Hunter
- In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter weaves a rich tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War South. Using a variety of sources, Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- To the Ends of the Earth
- Thomas Bonner
- Thomas Bonner unveils the dramatic history of women's long struggle to become physicians, focusing both on international comparisons and on the personal histories of many of the pioneers.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback
- 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
- The Two Sexes
- Eleanor E. Maccoby
- How does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from obvious anatomical differences, does being male or female mean? In this book, the distinguished psychologist Eleanor Maccoby explores how individuals express their sexual identity at successive periods of their lives. A book about sex in the broadest sense, The Two Sexes seeks to tell us how our development from infancy through adolescence and into adulthood is affected by gender.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover
- Understanding Poverty
- Sheldon H. Danziger, Editor
- Robert H. Haveman, Editor
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002
- What Women Want
- Gayle Graham Yates
- Paperback
- The Woman Beneath the Skin
- Barbara Duden
- Thomas Dunlap, Translator
- In this provocative study, Barbara Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms that we use to describe our own bodies--male and female, healthy or sick--are indeed cultural constructions. To illustrate this, Duden delves into the records of an eighteenth-century German physician who meticulously documented the medical histories of eighteen hundred women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1998
- Woman Suffrage and The Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920
- Suzanne Marilley
- Suzanne Marilley examines how woman suffragists introduced liberal feminist dissent into an emerging national movement against absolute power in the forms of patriarchy, church administrations, slavery, and false dogmas. In their struggle, these women developed three types of liberal arguments, each predominant during a different phase of the movement.
- Hardcover 1997
- The Woman in the Surgeon's Body
- Joan Cassell
- Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. Cassell observed thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover
- Women at War with America
- D'Ann Campbell
- Hardcover 1984
- Women for Hire
- Alain Corbin
- Alan Sheridan, Translator
- Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1996
- 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 on the Margins
- Natalie Zemon Davis
- As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves three women's lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian were living "on the margins" in seventeenth-century Europe, North America, and South America. They left behind memoirs and writings that make for a spellbinding and informative tale of life in early modern Europe.
- Hardcover 1995 / paper 1997
- Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940
- Winifred D. Wandersee
- Hardcover 1981
- Wounds of War
- Julie M. Lamb
- Marcy Levy
- Michael R. Reich
- The book focuses on the impact of war on women and girls, and the potential for women as peacemakers. The text addresses major policy issues facing organizations involved in humanitarian assistance, and highlights actions to address and resolve armed violence and conflict.
- Paperback 2005