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This book offers a practical guide to the everyday actions and decisions that anyone can take to promote gender equality and social justice in their own life and the world around them.

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The eight essays in this volume explore the public, or extra-domestic, lives of women, examining the connections between their activities in the public and private domains.

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This book employs a sociological perspective to examine the situation of the African American female in light of changing global economic, political, and educational events.

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Explores the social, political, and economic implications of enduring gender discrimination. The author argues that despite formal protections under the law, women are still routinely harassed and discriminated against, to the detriment not only of individual growth and development, but of workplace productivity and social welfare.

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How feminism, hypergamy, the "#" movement, and a culture plagued with mental illness and delusion have destroyed the future of American families.

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This work discusses the activism in the 60s of progressive women who came of age during the Popular Front era of the 30s and 40s.

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The experiences of Muslim women in Australia cannot be typecast as a sisterhood of oppressed females. Challenging Identities questions the assumption of incompatible Australian values and Islamic values, and provides valuable first-person accounts from the lives of Muslim women in Australia.

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"Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood" investigates the stereotyping of Black womanhood and the larger sociological impact on Black women. The text details the historical and contemporary use of stereotypes against Black women and how Black women work to challenge and dispel false perceptions.

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This book examines the religious context from which emerged the German women's movement in the mid-nineteenth century.

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When Verschuur-Basse, a French sociologist specializing in the family, was invited by the Academy of Social Sciences to Beijing in 1985, she interviewed women from three generations and a variety of professions about their lives as women, wives, mothers, and daughters-in-law.

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When Verschuur-Basse, a French sociologist specializing in the family, was invited by the Academy of Social Sciences to Beijing in 1985, she interviewed women from three generations and a variety of professions about their lives as women, wives, mothers, and daughters-in-law.

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Impressive, enlightening, and fascinating to read, this easy-to-use narrative chronology records the triumphs, obstacles, and conditions of women's lives from prehistory to the present and profiles the achievements of nearly 5,000 women from practically every corner of the globe.

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This book offers an in-depth sociological exploration of present-day colorism in the lives of black women, investigating the lived experiences of a phenomenon that continues to affect women of African descent.

Race still matters.

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As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift.

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As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift.

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Explores post colonial relationships with "the wild" in the US and Russia, using spaceships, horoscopes and dolphins as examples.

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A companion volume to "Mass Media and Society", this textbook is an introduction to cultural studies, offering a critical guided tour through the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity and theories of ideology. It considers the communication circuit in its entirety.

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Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from textual nature of the world to how social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. This book explores the development and direction of notion of performativity. It explores ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities.

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Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from textual nature of the world to how social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. This book explores the development and direction of notion of performativity. It explores ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities.

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This book presents an extensive history of women in the civil rights movement that highlights ordinary women's experiences in their local communities and the impacts of their activism upon American women and society.

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Explores women's lives in four ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. Beginning with the images of goddesses and women's roles in the religious sphere, this book details the foundations of women's activities in all other social realms, giving a deeper understanding of the lives of women in each.