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The fortune teller's kiss

The fortune teller's kiss


Brenda Serotte



From Publishers Weekly Poet Serotte relives a childhood cataclysm in this culture-rich, affecting memoir, part of the Ame...
The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art

The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art


Christine Mitchell Havelock



The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art...
Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women

Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women




Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women...
Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War

Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War


Tabea Alexa Linhard



About the Author   Tabea Alexa Linhard is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis.  ...
Political Women in the High Middle Ages: Berenguela of Castile and Her Family

Political Women in the High Middle Ages: Berenguela of Castile and Her Family


Miriam Shadis



Review "Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages provides a thorough and though...
Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)


Leslie Brown, Anne Valk



Review “An indispensible contribution to African American and women’s history. Essential.”—CH...
Queens and power in medieval and early modern England

Queens and power in medieval and early modern England


Carole Levin, R. O. Bucholz



Review "These excellent essays are a joy to read. Together they question assumptions about pre-modern culture and offer n...
Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)


Suroopa Mukherjee



Review “From the outset this superb book does more than represent the voices of those maimed or bereaved; it suggest...
Getting out: life stories of women who left abusive men

Getting out: life stories of women who left abusive men


Ann Goetting



Review Getting Out offers new insight into how women victimized in abusive relationships can successfully exit these tumul...
Empowerment of North American Indian girls: ritual expressions at puberty

Empowerment of North American Indian girls: ritual expressions at puberty


Carol A. Markstrom



Review "Carol Markstrom''s book is a notable contribution to the literature on women in North American Indian societies."...
DES daughters: embodied knowledge and the transformation of women's health politics

DES daughters: embodied knowledge and the transformation of women's health politics


Susan E. Bell



Review “DES Daughters is a pleasure to read. In addition to Bell’s sensitivity and intelligence, she brings...
Merchants' Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China

Merchants' Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China


Helen F. Siu



About the Author Helen F. Siu is professor of anthropology at Yale University and director of the Hong Kong Institute for...
Vrouw en recht: de beweging, de mensen, de issues

Vrouw en recht: de beweging, de mensen, de issues


Margreet De Boer, Marjan Wijers



Vrouw en recht: de beweging, de mensen, de issues...
Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin

Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin


Belinda J. Davis



Review Davis's sensitivity both to the material and symbolic dimensions of these women's life-world makes this a rich and...
Behind the mask of the strong black woman: voice and the embodiment of a costly performance

Behind the mask of the strong black woman: voice and the embodiment of a costly performance




From Publishers Weekly Sociologist Beauboeuf-Lafontant explores the sociocultural lore invoked in imaging the strong blac...
Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe

Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe


Jill Massino, Shana Penn



From Publishers Weekly The commonly held view that women in Communist Eastern Europe uniformly suffered under the double ...
Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent (New Middle Ages)

Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent (New Middle Ages)


Shennan Hutton



About the Author Shennan Hutton is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Dav...
Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference (Race, Gender, and Science)

Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference (Race, Gender, and Science)


Claudia Henrion



Review 'Mathematicians do their best work in their youth'; 'mathematicians work in complete isolation'; 'mathematics and po...
Psychology of women: a handbook of issues and theories

Psychology of women: a handbook of issues and theories


Florence Denmark



Review "Although great strides have been made in the psychology of women since its conception in the 1970s, the societal co...
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China


Leslie T. Chang



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Chang, a former Beijing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, explores the ur...
Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics

Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics


Caron E. Gentry, Laura Sjoberg



About the Author Laura Sjoberg is Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.Her first book Gender, Jus...
A to Z of American Indian Women (A to Z of Women)

A to Z of American Indian Women (A to Z of Women)


Liz Sonneborn



A to Z of American Indian Women (A to Z of Women)...
Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Education

Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Education


Anna L. Green, Reitumetse Mabokela



About the Author Reitumetse Mabokela is an Assistant Professor in the Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education program at Mi...
Gender and the politics of history

Gender and the politics of history


Joan Wallach Scott



From Library Journal Feminist history and post-structuralist theory have changed the way we perceive history, Scott state...
Pregnancy and power: a short history of reproductive politics in America

Pregnancy and power: a short history of reproductive politics in America


Rickie Solinger



From Publishers Weekly This succinct, highly readable political and cultural history of a wide range of reproductive issu...
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is

The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is


Davis W. Houck, Maegan Parker Brooks



From the Inside Flap The first collection of speeches from one of the movement's valiant firebrands About the Autho...
The language of battered women: a rhetorical analysis of personal theologies

The language of battered women: a rhetorical analysis of personal theologies


Carol Lea Winkelmann



From the Back Cover This study of battered women living in a shelter offers a rhetorical analysis of survivors' personal ...
Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education: A Feminized Future?

Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education: A Feminized Future?


Barbara Read, Carole Leathwood



About the Author Carole Leathwood is a Professor in Education in the Institute for Policy Studies in Education at London ...
Most College Students Are Women: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy (Women in Academe Series)

Most College Students Are Women: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy (Women in Academe Series)


David Sadker, Diane R. Dean, Jeanie K. Allen, Susan J. Bracken



About the Author Jeanie K. Allen is Visiting Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University. Diane R. D...
Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education (Lifelong Learning Book Series)

Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education (Lifelong Learning Book Series)


Pamela Cotterill, Gayle Letherby, Sue Jackson



From the Back Cover There is much ambivalence in women’s experience of the academy as teachers and students. Altho...