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A concise survey of the treatment of jailed women in America since the early 1800s, their unique problems, the effect on their families, and the state of prisons today.

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This book is an intimate journey into the experiences and insights of 79 Australian women in relationships with bisexual men. The research, revelations, and reflections in this book tell us much about global constructions and understandings of intimate relationships, sexual desires, and love, and the socio-cultural representations and labeling of genders and sexualities.

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Thus, scholars in disciplines other than sociology, including American studies, criminology, economics, history, literature, political science, law, psychology, social psychology, social work, women's studies, and urban studies, will find this volume of significant interest.

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Erin Solaro delivers a wake-up call on the damage and repercussions of government neglect, rightist fervor, and feminist ambivalence about women in the military

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Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, this book presents a concise and comprehensive history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. It shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women.

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Reflecting on arguments that the natural biological differences between women and men dictate different social roles, this title demolishes these arguments by reviewing studies that find sex differences in cognitive abilities, achievement, and psychological predispositions.

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Discusses the contributions that women have made to Balkan history, re-evaluating it through an interdisciplinary analysis in which gender takes its place alongside other categories such as class, culture, religion, ethnicity and nationhood. This book focuses on social relations that crossed ethnic and confessional intercommunal boundaries.

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Provides a balanced survey of existing literature on women throughout the third world.

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This study examines the experiences of East German women and their transition into the capitalist order in reunited Germany, attempting to make a valuable contribution to the understanding of the gendered contexts in transitional societies.

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This book captures not only statistical data about the position of women in basic and higher education in over 17 countries, but relates compelling insights and stories about the challenges that women face in leadership, the limited access to education by young women, and some...

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The first and only comprehensive biographical dictionary devoted to mythological women.

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This latest Seal Studies title explores a new discourse of feminism within ethnic studies

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Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community examines how women of color make use of social media as a social, professional, personal, and political tool for navigating the world.

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Women of Color and Social Media Multitasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community examines how women of color make use of social media as a social, professional, personal, and political tool for navigating the world.

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Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships examines the opportunities and challenges presented in mentoring relationships involving women of color. Contributors to this edited collection highlight the role of race, class, and gender-oriented constructions in the mentoring relationships in which women of color are engaged

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The book also focuses on the place of women of color in higher education, including chapters on women of color and the women's studies curriculum, and the role of librarians in shaping women's studies programs.

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Explores a series of questions about the family and work lives of Italian and Jewish women who immigrated to New York City in the early 1900s. After World War I, a diverse group of women emigrated from Europe to the United States. Based on interviews with 100 Italian and Jewish women who immigrated to the New York City areas in the early 1900s.

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There are narratives describing women's social, cultural and political networks before and after immigration, the isoilated struggles of individuals, their work as legal or illegal aliens abroad, and their involvement with underground resistance movements.

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Combining firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal with cultural and economic analysis, this work radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that prevails in the anthropological literature on Europe and the Mediterranean.

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The first study of how a group of diverse women spread, built and sustained a national network of branches supporting the militant suffrage campaign in Britain in the years before the First World War -- .

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Selecting thirty-seven key orators, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell provides entries on a diverse group of women. Entries conclude with information on primary sources, critical works, key rhetorical documents, and selected sources of historical and biographical information.