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Drawing on a wide range of historical sources - court records, newspaper reports, medical records, novels, oral histories and personal papers - A Lesbian History of Britain presents the extraordinary history of lesbian experience in Britain.

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First published in the United States of America in a dual-language edition as A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out = Mi opinion sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer by Arte Publico Press 2004. English translation published in Penguin Books 2021.

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Topics examined include migration, ecology, settlement patterns and modes of production, social and religious values, and the interplay between individual experience and social convention.

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This comprehensive picture explores the many issues confronting the American Jewish community today, including the desire to remain a distinct entity while also participating in the larger American culture.

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Combines passages from Islamic texts with a commentary of the author. This book enables the reader to grasp the bases of Muslim faith and to get some sense of the breadth and depth of Islamic religious culture as a whole.

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People from South Asia have been coming to Britain since the beginning of the 17th century. From the 1950s, increased immigration produced new generations of British Asians, who experienced both racism and economic hardship as they strove to express their entrepreneurial spirit and assert their religious identity. This book presents their story.

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In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and Twilight, men and women track a dense social imaginary through stories of traumas, apparitions, encounters, and eccentricities. This book explores how this storytelling imbues everyday life in the hills and forms a cultural poetics.

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African Americans have faced considerable obstacles in pursuing careers in engineering in the United States. In this book, David Wharton charts the history of black efforts to advance in this field from emancipation to the present, utilising contemporary correspondence and documents.

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This major contribution to young adult genealogy studies helps create ethnic pride, self-esteem, and awareness of the extraordinary accomplishments each ethnic group has brought to the American experience.

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From a coauthor of Women's Ways of Knowing comes a fascinating book that shows how nurturing community groups and caring community intervention can help impoverished, uneducated women to "find their voice" and become articulate and empowered thinkers.

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A major social and educational experiment in race relations was conducted in Berea, Kentucky, from 1866 to 1904.

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This study assembles the evidence in search of an integrated view of royal women's position and power in critical functions of monarchy, challenging customary assumptions about women's place in the royal harem.

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Of those which deal with sex and love addiction, this work is alone in that it examines adolescents as a specific population. The number of case histories presented in the text are a prominent feature. The book addresses the case of adolescent sex and love addicts as was done with adolescent chemical dependents 20 years ago.

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This is an annotated guide to young adult literature, organised into specific problem areas: alienation and identity; disabilities; homosexuality; divorced and single parents; adopted and foster families; abuse; eating disorders; alcohol and drugs; poverty; dropouts; and other problems.

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The authors conclude that the majority of families and their adopted children are well integrated into society and that the adoptees now, as adolescents, do not see themselves as any less black than their in-racially raised peers.

Chapters 1 and 2 examine the historical and legal background of transracial adoption.