Abnormal Psychology: Current Perspectives

Product Description: Though this book narrates the story of an armed movement by ascetics and common farmers of India against East India Company rule, yet it does not corresponds to a particular date and place but beautifully portrays the love between two souls, endless, unceasing and beyond time...read more

Product Description: Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894) left the free black community of Salem, Massachusetts, where she was born, to become one of the first women to travel on extensive lecture tours across the United Kingdom. Remond eventually moved to Florence, Italy, where she earned a degree at one of Europe's most prestigious medical schools...read more

Product Description: This analysis of female adolescence in an Australian Aboriginal community focuses on adolescent sexual behavior, marriage, and the conflict between adult expectations and adolescent behavior in these domains.

Product Description: 2012 Abortion Dilemma Update Personal Views on a Public Issue MIRIAM CLAIRE Foreword by Marcy L. Bloom The Abortion Dilemma is a remarkable guide for anyone thinking about abortion, especially women forced to deal with the very personal decision to have, or not have, an abortion...read more

Product Description:  The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms “pro-choice” and “pro-life” were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy...read more

Product Description: The feminist position on abortion is little changed from thirty years ago, argues Leslie Cannold. Mired in the rhetoric of "rights," feminists have failed to appreciate women's actual experience of abortion and have ceded the debate on the morality of abortion to the anti-choice contingent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Women earn nearly half of all new PhDs in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Why, then, do they occupy a disproportionate number of the junior-level university positions while men occupy 80 percent of the more prestigious jobs? In Academic Careers and the Gender Gap, Maureen Baker draws on candid interviews with male and female scholars, previous research, and her own thirty-eight-year academic career to explain the reasons behind this inequality...read more

Product Description: Women earn nearly half of all new PhDs in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Why, then, do they occupy a disproportionate number of the junior-level university positions while men occupy 80 percent of the more prestigious jobs? In Academic Careers and the Gender Gap, Maureen Baker draws on candid interviews with male and female scholars, previous research, and her own thirty-eight-year academic career to explain the reasons behind this inequality...read more

Academic Motherhood tells the story of over one hundred women who are both professors and mothers and examines how they navigated their professional lives at different career stages. Kelly Ward and Lisa Wolf-Wendel base their findings on a longitudinal study that asks how women faculty on the tenure track manage work and family in their early careers (pre-tenure) when their children are young (under the age of five), and then again in mid-career (post-tenure) when their children are older. The women studied work in a range of institutional settings—research universities, comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges—and in a variety of disciplines, including the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences.Much of the existing literature on balancing work and family presents a pessimistic view and offers cautionary tales of what to avoid and how to avoid it. In contrast, the goal of Academic Motherhood is to help tenure track faculty and the institutions at which they are employed “make it work.” Writing for administrators, prospective and current faculty as well as scholars, Ward and Wolf-Wendel bring an element of hope and optimism to the topic of work and family in academe. They provide insight and policy recommendations that support faculty with children and offer mechanisms for problem-solving at personal, departmental, institutional, and national levels.

Documents a sexism so pervasive and so deeply embedded in the daily life of higher education that it is unnameable and invisible, even to some of its worse victims. Women's Review of Books Will be invaluable to anyone doing further research in the area of academic women. Library Journal Simeone has provided a clear and well-argued study of the situation of women in academia. . . . If academia takes creative steps in these directions, more talented women may pursue careers there. College Teaching

Product Description: In April 1941, a passenger ship was attacked and sunk by Nazi Germans. This is the story of seven Canadian women survivors detained in Germany. In April 1941, seven Canadian women became prisoners of war while on a voyage from New York City to Cape Town...read more

Product Description: Reveals how four very different women seek a sense of belonging, identity and home through the lifelong process of immigration

Product Description: Five brief essays on the positives and negatives of being a virgin at 26.

An award-winning exploration of the history and cultural practice of footbinding in China reveals the traditions that contributed to and surrounded its thousand-year enforcement, as well as its related literature, music, contests, and rewards. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Born in Soviet Moscow, Katerina Bodovski was twelve years old when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, coming of age as the «perestroika» and «glasnost» movement gained full speed. She would later arrive in Israel during the peak of the peace process during which time Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated...read more

Product Description: During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among undesirable populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin documenting the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women in Canada...read more

Product Description: Ein Thema des Jahrbuchs ist die Stellung der Frau zur Zeit des Wilhelminismus (Helene Böhlau), des Existentialismus (Marlen Haushofer) und in der DDR (Monika Maron). Ein Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Liebe, Verrat und Tod bei Brecht...read more

Product Description: During the twentieth century, opportunities for exercise and sports grew significantly for girls and women in the United States. Among the key figures who influenced this revolution were female physical educators. Drawing on extensive archival research, Active Bodies examines the ideas, experiences, and instructional programs of white and black female physical educators who taught in public schools and diverse colleges and universities, including coed and single-sex, public and private, and predominantly white and historically black institutions...read more