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  • 2010-2014  (13)
  • 1985-1989
  • Rothblum, Esther D.  (9)
  • Turner, Bryan S.  (4)
  • Hoboken : Taylor and Francis  (13)
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  • 1
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    God's Country : A Case Against Theocracy (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781560241034
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (150 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version God's Country : A Case Against Theocracy
    DDC: 306.7/0973
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    Abstract: Explore the influence of religion on the privacy rights of U. S. citizens in this controversial new book!Here is a compelling and controversial new book that explores the enormous political influence that some religious groups currently wield. God's Country focuses particularly on the issue of personal privacy rights and the strategies and rhetoric these religious groups are using to diminish those rights among select segments of society. Author Sandy Rapp, a grassroots activist, shares her experiences in one-on-one debates with religious fundamentalists who have been on opposite sides of the
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; God's Country A Case Against Theocracy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: A Gay Male Experience; Chapter 2: A Lesbian Perspective; Chapter 3: Psychology; Chapter 4: Politics; Chapter 5: Abortion; Chapter 6: Religion; Chapter 7: Metaphysics; Chapter 8: Action!; Bibliography; Index
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  • 2
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    Conflicts About Class : Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780582275676
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (316 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Conflicts About Class : Debating Inequality in Late Industrialism
    DDC: 305.5
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    Abstract: In recent years there has been growing debate among sociologists about the concept of class and its relevance to the highly industrialised world of the late twentieth century. This book makes available in a single volume all of the key contributions to this debate and takes it a step further with a number of specially commissioned pieces. An editorial introduction which sets the main arguments in context, additional commentary and two alternative conclusions help to make this a unique text for a subject that remains crucial yet highly contentious.〈BR〉〈BR〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Editorial Introduction: Myths of classlessness and the ''death'' of class analysis; Part One Class in a Post-Communist World; Overview: Class metaphors and triumphant individualism; Chapter 1 Has class analysis a future?; Chapter 2 Are social classes dying?; Chapter 3 The persistence of classes in post-industrial societies; Chapter 4 The dying of class or of Marxist class theory?; Chapter 5 Succession in the stratification system; Part Two British Sociology and Class Analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Overview: Class structure, class position and class actionChapter 6 Is the emperor naked?; Chapter 7 The promising future of class analysis; Chapter 8 A reply to Goldthorpe and Marshall; Chapter 9 Gender and class analysis; Chapter 10 Class analysis: Back to the future?; Part Three Researching Class; Overview: Class research and class explanations; Chapter 11 Class in Britain since 1979: Facts, theories and ideologies; Chapter 12 Patterns of capitalist development; Chapter 13 Comparative studies in class structure; Chapter 14 Classes, underclasses and the labour market
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 15 Class and politics in advanced industrial societiesChapter 16 Class inequalities and educational reform in twentieth-century Britain; Chapter 17 Social class and interest formation in post-communist societies; Editorial Conclusions Weak class theories or strong sociology?; Capitalism, classes and citizenship; References; The Editors; Notes on contributors; Index of principal topics; Index of authors
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  • 3
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    Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women : Patterns in a Feminist Sampler (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780789000866
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (364 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women : Patterns in a Feminist Sampler
    DDC: 305.48/6/96
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    Abstract: Jewish women of all ages and backgrounds come together in Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women to explore and rejoice in what they have in common--their heritage. They reveal in striking personal stories how their Jewishness has shaped their identities and informed their experiences in innumerable, meaningful ways. Survivors, witnesses, defenders, innovators, and healers, these women question, celebrate, and transmit Jewish and feminist values in hopes that they might bridge the differences among Jewish women. They invite both Jewish and non-Jewish readers to share in their discussions and st
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors; About the Authors; Foreword; Preface; Section I: From Generation to Generation: The Meanings of Mishpacha; Chapter 1. Living in a Glass Bowl: Tales of a Rabbi's Daughter; Chapter 2. Bris, Britah: Parents' First Lessons in Balancing Gender, Culture, Tradition, and Religion; Chapter 3. Married - Without a Chupa; Chapter 4. Queer Jewish Women Creating Families: New Perspectives on Jewish Family Values; Chapter 5. Mothers, Judaism, and True Honor; Chapter 6. Backwards and Forwards in America
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7. Personal Reflections on Being a Grandmother: L'Chol Dor Va DorSection II: Wandering Jews: Lives Fractured by Geography; Chapter 8. Jewish Identity Lost ... and Found; Chapter 9. Trials and Tribulations in the First Year of a ""Mixed Sephardi/Ashkenazi Marriage""; Chapter 10. The Joys of Mitsvoth; Chapter 11. In Search of Eden; Chapter 12. Family Memories and Grave Anxieties; Section III: The Journey Home; Chapter 13. Really Jewish; Chapter 14. You Don't Know Me Because You Can Label Me: Self-Identity of an Orthodox Feminist
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 15. The Journey Home: Becoming a Reconstructionist RabbiChapter 16. Becoming Jewish; Chapter 17. How Jewish Am I?; Chapter 18. The Politics of Coming Home: Gender and Jewish Identities in the 1990s; Chapter 19. ""Why Kafka?"" A Jewish Lesbian Feminist Asks Herself; Section IV: Eve and the Tree of Knowledge: Woman's Place Among the People of the Book; Chapter 20. ""I Don't Know Enough"": Jewish Women's Learned Ignorance; Chapter 21. Learning to Leyn; Chapter 22. Better Late Than Early: A Forty-Eight-Year-Old's Bat Mitzvah Saga
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 23. Exploring Adolescent Jewish Female Identity: Reflections About Voice and RelationChapter 24. First There Are the Questions; Section V: Pain and Healing, Sorrow and Hope; Chapter 25. Jewish Battered Women: Shalom Bayit or a Shonde?; Chapter 26. Canadian Jewish Women and Their Experiences of Antisemitism and Sexism; Chapter 27. We Are Not As We Were: Jewish Women After the Holocaust; Chapter 28. Violent Legacies-Dialogues and Possibilities; Glossary; Index
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  • 4
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    Lesbian Communities : Festivals, RVs, and the Internet (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781560233374
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (200 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Lesbian Communities : Festivals, RVs, and the Internet
    DDC: 306.76/63/0973
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    Abstract: ?I had just witnessed women who shingled their own roofs, drove eighteen-wheeler trucks, and built their own houses?as well as kept them clean and cooked a damn good meal. On women's land I am a first-class citizen, I'm treated as an equal. I now see the world with righteous anger and hope. Living in womyn's community has provided that lens for me.??Elizabeth Sturrus, third wave feministOne of the driving forces in the lives of many lesbians is the search for community in a society that favors heterosexuality and often turns a cold shoulder toward women who love women. Lesbian Communities: Fes
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; The Mirror Dance in Retrospect; Entering the Lesbian World in Japan: Debut Stories; Lesbian Quarters: On Building Space, Identity, Institutional Memory and Resources; My Life in a Lesbian Community: The Joys and the Pain; Negotiating Lesbian Worlds: The Festival Communities; Hallomas: Longevity in a Back-to-the-Land Women's Group in Northern California; The Friday Night Bunch: A Lesbian Community in West Texas; Dykes and Tykes: A Virtual Lesbian Parenting Community
    Description / Table of Contents: The Heirs of Aradia, Daughters of Diana: Community in the Second and Third WaveLesquire's Pub-An Essay on Virtual Community Building; ""Amazon Music Party Drummers,"" Santa Cruz, California, Mountains, 1974; The Visible Lesbian: The Lesbian Community Action Association and Lesbian Visibility; Lesbian Community: From Sisterhood to Segregation; More than a Bookstore: The Continuing Relevance of Feminist Bookstores for the Lesbian Community; A New Generation of Lesbian Jewish Activism; Lesbian Communities Across the United States: Pockets of Resistance and Resilience; Index
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    Lesbian Ex-Lovers : The Really Long-Term Relationships (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781560232827
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (401 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Lesbian Ex-Lovers
    DDC: 306.76/63
    Keywords: Interpersonal relations ; Lesbian couples ; United States ; Case studies ; Separation (Psychology) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ?We have earned a certain place in each other's lives, and in the best of times we can rest on what we have made together.? Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships examines the need for the development of better understanding and more critical analysis of lesbian ex-lover relationships. This eye-opening look into the minds and hearts of women offers personal insight into the possibilities for and potential pitfalls of lesbian ex-lover relations. This book contains personal stories, fictional accounts, poetry, and theoretical analyses of the frequency and significance of ex-lover
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Lesbian Ex-Lover Relationships: Under-Estimated, Under-Theorized and Under-Valued?; "The Changer and the Changed": Ex-Lovers as Contexts for Development; To All the Girls I Left Before; Tenth Anniversary; Coming Out of My Closet; Coming Out of My Closet; In My Dream: My Ex-Lovers' Unconventional Convention; These Most Difficult Tasks; These Most Difficult Tasks; Passion; Moving Costs: Challenges of (Re)Defining Our Relationships and Dealing with Unfinished Business; Still the One; Joan; Michelle; Joan; Michelle
    Description / Table of Contents: JoanMichelle; Joan; Michelle; Loading Up the U-Haul: Traveling the Spaces Between Friends and Lovers; Daring to Take the Risk; Introduction; How did it Start?; An Awakening! the Walk; Working it Out; The Good Times; A Horrible Year; Different Lives; The Wasteland-Living Without Each Other; The Catalyst-Becoming Friends Again; How We did it; Lovers Again; Family Affairs; Family Affairs; Highly Favored Ex; For Emily, Many Years Too Late/Years Later, in Another City, I Still Think of Her; For Emily, Many Years Too Late; Years Later, in Another City, I Still Think of Her
    Description / Table of Contents: Too Much Tsoras? The High Costs of Maintaining TiesTruth, Dreams and the Li(v)es Between; Temporary Temptation; Temporary Temptation; Lost Love; Lost Love; Neurotic Love Letters; Before: Illusion; During: Lust; After: Betrayal; Goodbye Note to My Lover; Goodbye Note to My Lover; Leaving Liza; Lesbian Ex-Lovers by the Numbers: A Reflective but Not Contemplative Love Poem of Sorts; Not Lovers but not "Just Friends": Reconstructing Families, Friendships, and Communities; Personal Stories; I'm Not Lisa; The House on Transcript Avenue
    Description / Table of Contents: One true story: The Lesbian Herstory of My Last Home, Heretofore Referred to as the HouseA Linear Herstory of the House to Date; House Update; The Last Update; Epilogue; The Politics of Potlucks; Family Doggerel; Family Doggerel; The Visit; Irritating and Constricting/Elating and Elastic-Being "Ex" as a Lesbian; Theoretical Reflections; Consummated Friends and Ex-Wives: Two Types of Lesbian Ex-Lovers; When Three's a Crowd: Ex-Lovers and Lesbian Families in 2 Girls in Love; Plot Summary: The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 'Did you hear About her Family? They're, Like, all Lesbians!'Arrival of the Ex-Lover; Toward a Family of Friends; Conclusion; Making the Transition: Understanding the Longevity of Lesbian Relationships; Female-Male Relations; Female-Female Relations; Positive Viewpoints Towards Female-Female Relations; Negative Viewpoints Towards Female-Female Relations; Lesbian-Lesbian Relations; Lesbian FLEX-ibility: Friend and/or Family Connections Among Lesbian Ex-Lovers; Introduction: Setting the Stage; GOKWA-"God Only Knows What We Are"; Telling Tales; Naming Our Terms
    Description / Table of Contents: Background Research: Examining the Relevant Literatures
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    The Dominant Ideology Thesis (RLE Social Theory) (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781138788114
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (223 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    Parallel Title: Print version The Dominant Ideology Thesis (RLE Social Theory)
    DDC: 301.01
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    Abstract: 〈P〉As a radical critique of theoretical sociological orthodoxy, 〈I〉The Dominant Ideology Thesis〈/I〉 has generated controversy since first publication. It has also been widely accepted, however, as a major critical appraisal of one central theoretical concern within modern Marxism and an important contribution to the current debate about the functions of ideology in social life.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Theories of the Dominant Ideology; 2 Theories of the Common Culture; 3 Feudalism; 4 Early Capitalism; 5 Late Capitalism; 6 The End of Ideology?; Appendix: The Concept of Ideology; Bibliography; Index
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    Dominant Ideologies (RLE Social Theory) (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781138788121
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (279 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Dominant Ideologies (RLE Social Theory)
    DDC: 306.2
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    Abstract: In this volume leading international scholars elaborate upon the central issues of the analysis of ideology: the nature of dominant ideologies. The ways in which ideologies are transmitted; their effects on dominant and subordinate social classes in different societies; the contrast between individualistic and collectivist belief systems; and the diversity of cultural forms that coexist within the capitalist form of economic organization.This book is distinctive in its empirical and comparative approach to the study of the economic and cultural basis of social order, and in the wide range of s
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Britain: The Dominant Ideology Thesis after a decade; 2 Poland: ideology, legitimacy and political domination; 3 Coercion as ideology: the German case; 4 Re-reading Japan: capitalism, possession and the necessity of hegemony; 5 Argentina: dominant ideology or dominant cleavage?; 6 Australia: the debate about hegemonic culture; 7 Japan and the USA: the interpenetration of national identities and the debate about orientalism
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Popular culture and ideological effects9 Conclusion: peroration on ideology; Index
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    Feminist Foremothers in Women's Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781560247678
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (560 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Feminist Foremothers in Women's Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health
    DDC: 305.42/0973
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    Abstract: Feminist Foremothers in Women's Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and '70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy, feminist psychology, and women's mental health as they exist today. The 48 women share their life stories in the hope that they will inspire and encourage readers to take their own risks and their own journeys to the outer edges of human possibility. Authors write about what led up to their achievement
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; A Leader of Women; Incest: A Journey to Hullabaloo; Working with the Light: Women of Vision; Working on Gender as a Gender-Nonconformist; By My Sisters Reborn; Women's Psychology, Goddess Archetypes, and Patriarchy: A Jungian Analyst, Feminist Activist, Visionary Feminist Foremother; Notes of a Feminist Therapy "Foredaughter"; Spiritual Dandelions; The Fitting Room; "Weak Ego Boundaries": One Developing Feminist's Story; Judy Chicago, Feminist Artist and Educator; Becoming a Feminist Foremother
    Description / Table of Contents: Pauline Rose Clance: The Professor from AppalachiaFeminist and Activist; Fighting Sexual Abuse; Bridging Feminism and Multiculturalism; "Fag Hags," Firemen and Feminist Theory: Girl Talk on Amtrak; Lesbian Feminist Fights Organized Psychiatry; A New Voice for Psychology; On Being a Feminist and a Psychotherapist; Judy Herman: Cleaning House; Revolutionizing the Psyche of Patriarchy; Feminism: Crying for Our Souls; Progress Notes; Working with Feminist Foremothers to Advance Women's Issues; Enlightened, Empowered and Enjoying It!; Feminist Reflections from the Wheat Fields
    Description / Table of Contents: Who Ever Thought I'd Grow Up to Be a Feminist Foremother?When Aphrodite Called I Listened; Learning from Women; Adventures of a Feminist; Foremothers/Foresisters; Testing the Boundaries of Justice; Words of Honor: Contributions of a Feminist Art Critic; Feminist Anthropologist Anointed Foremother!; Reminiscences, Recollections and Reflections: The Making of a Feminist Foremother; From Suburban Housewife to Radical Feminist; Politicizing Sexual Violence: A Voice in the Wilderness; A Feminist in the Arab World; A Late Awakening; Count Me In; Reclaiming the Sacred
    Description / Table of Contents: Steps Toward Transformation: A Conversation with Gloria SteinemCatharine R. Stimpson: Charting the Course of Women's Studies Since Its Inception; A Woman Undaunted: Bonnie R. Strickland; Some Contributions to Feminist Research in Psychology; The Transmogrification of a Feminist Foremother; An Unlikely Radical
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    The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780415686082
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (729 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge International Handbooks
    Series Statement: Routledge International Handbooks Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies
    DDC: 303.48/2
    Keywords: Globalization - Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook examines many negative aspects - new wars, slavery, illegal migration, pollution and inequality - but concludes with an examination of responses to these problems through human rights organizations, international labour law and
    Description / Table of Contents: The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Part I: Theories and definitions; 1 Theories of globalization: issues and origins; 2 Limiting theory: rethinking approaches to cultures of globalization; 3 Economic theories of globalization; 4 Internet and globalization; 5 Anti-globalization movements: from critiques to alternatives; 6 History and hegemony: the United States and twenty-first century globalization; 7 Vulnerability and globalization: the social impact of globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: Substantive issues8 Transformations of the world's population: the demographic revolution; 9 All that is molten freezes again: migration history, globalization, and the policies of newness; 10 Climate change, globalization, and carbonization; 11 Infectious disease and globalization; 12 Globalization, disasters, and disaster response; 13 The globalization of crime; 14 Religion out of place? The Globalization of fundamentalism; 15 Globalization and Indigenous peoples: new old patterns; 16 Genocide in the global age; 17 Global elites; 18 Globalization, ethnic conflict, and nationalism
    Description / Table of Contents: 19 The global drive to commodify pensionsPart III: New institutions and cultures; 20 Popular culture, fans, and globalization; 21 Film and globalization: from Hollywood to Bollywood; 22 Global cities; 23 Crossing divides: consumption and globalization in history; 24 Pluralism, globalization, and the "modernization" of gender and sexual relations in Asia; 25 Globalization and food: the dialectics of globality and locality; 26 Borders, passports, and the global mobility; 27 Globalization of space: from the global to the galactic; 28 Globalization and Americanization; Part IV: Critical solutions
    Description / Table of Contents: 29 Globalization and labour: putting the ILO in its place30 The globalization of human rights; 31 Global civil society and the World Social Forum; 32 Muslim cosmopolitanism: contemporary practice and social theory; 33 New cosmopolitanism in the social sciences; 34 Globalization and its possible futures; Index;
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    Women's Work : A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780789002334
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (723 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Women's Work : A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women
    DDC: 305.4
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    Abstract: While most women's studies texts function "topically" as "readings" for courses and general use, Women's Work: A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women takes a broad spectrum of women's disciplines--psychological, artistic, religious, and philosophical--and gives you a diverse, interdisciplinary view of this important and ever-expanding field of study in one accessible volume. You'll see that women are leading the world into the twenty-first century in such areas as education, business, health, and science. You'll also find your appreciation for the current developments in women's studies in
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; About the Editor; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction to Women's Studies and Feminist Theories; What is Women's Studies?; Feminism and Feminist Theory; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Chapter 2. Research for Women: Feminist Methods; What is Feminist Research?; Challenging Traditional Research; Feminist Perspectives on Methods; Conclusions; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Chapter 3. Women in Science: Rediscovering the Accomplishments of Women; Overview; The Underrepresentation of Women in Science
    Description / Table of Contents: Science as a Male DomainWomen in Science as an Example of Gender Inequity; History of Women in Science; Conclusions; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Chapter 4. The Biology of Women: The Process of Becoming and Being Female; Introduction; The Anatomy of Women; Menstruation; Sexual Differentiation; Reproduction; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Chapter 5. Women's Health: Identifying Women's Health Issues and Concerns; Women's Health Defined; Women and Societal Images; Nutrition; Smoking; Contraception; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion Questions
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6. Psychology of Women: Theories of Sex Differences and Sex Role DevelopmentWhat is Psychology?; Sex Differences and Similarities; Gender Roles; Theories of Sex Differences and Sex Roles; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Chapter 7. Women and Sociology: How the Structure of Society Affects Women; Sociology Defined; Feminist Sociology; Social Movements and Social Change: The Women's Movement; Violence Against Women; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Chapter 8. Women and Anthropology: Including Women in the Evolution and Diversity of Human Society; What is Anthropology?
    Description / Table of Contents: Anthropology and Women's StudiesAnthropology and the Evolutionary Viewpoint; Biological Anthropology and Women; Anthropologists Study Women of the Past Through Archaeology; Social Anthropology Looks at Women in Simple Social Systems; Foraging Societies; Women in Small-Scale Farming Societies; The Effect of Colonialism on Women's Position in Societies; A Look at Global Development as It Affects Women's Lives; Conclusions; key Terms; Discussion Questions; Chapter 9. The Geography of Women: The Influence of Capitalism and Gender on the Spatial Organization of Society; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: Gender, Patriarchy, and GeographyCity Spaces and Gendered Work Roles; The Geography of Capitalist Change; A Nonsexist City; Postmodern and Postcolonial Geography of Women; Summary and Conclusion; Key Terms; Discussion Questions; Chapter 10. Women in Business: The Experiences of Women in the U.S. Workforce; Introduction; Government Recognition of Women's Rights in the Workplace; The Socialization Process and Sex Stereotyping; Gender-Based Discrimination; Women in Management; Woman-to-Woman Mentoring; Women as Entrepreneurs; Sexual Harassment in the Workplace; Summary; Key Terms
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    Lesbian Step Families : An Ethnography of Love (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780789004369
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (257 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Lesbian Step Families : An Ethnography of Love
    DDC: 306.87
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    Abstract: Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families'definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for counselors and lesbian step families for creating healthy, functioning family structures and environments. It is the first book to concentrate exclusively on lesbian step families rather than on lesbian mothering in general.In Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love, you'll explore in detail the
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Complexity and Opportunity; Beginning; Theoretical Perspectives; Method: The Complex Relationship of Researcher to Researched; Study Design; The Participant Families; Data Analysis; Validity; Ethical Considerations; Back to the Beginning; Chapter 2. The Family Gestalt; Description of the Participant Families; Introduction; The Norden/Westby/Engleking Family; The Iliff/Dubrovsky/Iliff-Hernandez Family; The Uphoff/Dillard Family; The Peterson/Timms/Taylor Family; The Stark Family
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3. We are (Normal) FamilyIntroduction; Discipline Disagreements; The Other Parent; The Children as Active Agents in Family Creation; The Impact of Herstory-Families of Origin; Job Stress; Conclusion; Chapter 4. The Lesbian Couple as Heads of Household: Attempting Matriarchy in the Shadow of Patriarchy; Introduction; Female Coupling; Household Tasks Degendered; Mothering and Fathering Degendered; We Can Father but We Can Never Be Male; Conclusion; Chapter 5. Outside/Insight: Creating the Step Mother Role and Redefining the Mother Role; Introduction; Commitment of Step Mother to Child
    Description / Table of Contents: The Nature versus Nurture DebateStep Parents Develop Unique Relationships with the Children; Defining the Step Parent Role: Three Stances; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Forging Families in a Heterosexual Supremacist Environment; Introduction; Children; Parenting in the Mouth of a Dragon; It Takes a Whole Village; Conclusion; Chapter 7. Free to Be You and Me; Introduction; Modeling Gender Flexibility; Shared Parenting; The Impact of Heterosexual Supremacy; Theoretical Implications; Implications for Research and Policy; Conclusion; Appendix A. Informed Consent Forms
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix B. Structured Interview QuestionsFirst Interview-Couple; Second Interview-Couple; Mom Interview; Step Mom Interview; Child Interview; Appendix C. Journal Instructions; Adults' Journal; Children's Journal; Appendix D. Letters to Participants; References; Index
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    Foundations for a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines (2012)
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    ISBN: 9780918393647
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (297 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Foundations for a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines
    DDC: 305.40711
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Here is a useful and illustrative guide for those interested in the impact of feminist scholarship on traditional academic disciplines. This important book explores the changes that have taken place in the academic world as a result of feminist approaches to scholarship, including issues of staffing, organization, administration, recruitment, student support, faculty advancement, and learning. Appropriate for readers not familiar with feminist scholarship as well as for those who are deeply interested in the message of feminist scholarship, Foundations for a Feminist Restructuring of the Acade
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Foundations for a Feminist Restructuring of the Academic Disciplines; Copyright; Contents; About the Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Feminism and Women's Studies in the Academy; Women's Lives: Images and Realities; Images of Women: A Literature Perspective; Images of Women: Views from the Discipline of History; Images of Women: An Economic Perspective; "Men Do Not Do Housework": The Image of Women in Political Science; Images of Women in Psychology; Images of Women: Reflections from the Medical Care System; Directory of Curriculym Integration Resources; Index;
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    Breasts : The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession (2012)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780789004222
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (211 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Breasts : The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession
    DDC: 391.6
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Breasts: The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession describes and explores our national breast fetish, which is defined as a culturally constructed obsession that is deeply interwoven with beauty standards, breastfeeding practices, and sexuality. By tracing the complex history of this erotic fascination and discovering how it affects men's and women's sexuality and their relationships, this book will help women accept their breasts as they are and provide male readers with insight on how women think and feel about their bodies. This will enable them to better understand and empathize wit
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Breasts: The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: Image and Icon; Chapter 1. Love and Loathing; Chapter 2. Initiation; Chapter 3. Dressing the Part; Chapter 4. A Matter of Life and Death; Part Two: We two are the universe; Chapter 5. Garden of Paradise; Chapter 6. When Instinct Meets Culture; Part Three: Sex; Chapter 7. Circles of Desire; Chapter 8. Breast Men; Part Four: Thinking about breast; Chapter 9. How the Woman Got Her Breasts; Chapter 10. The Great and Terrible Breast; Chapter 11. Breasts Unbound; Notes
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