This book describes the history of women around the world, their interaction with men in gendered societies, and the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years. Including topics: Sexuality; Gender and Labor in World History; Structures and Meanings in a Gen…
This volume examines how Chinese women negotiate the internet as a research tool and a strategy for the acquisition of information, as well as for social networking purposes. Offering insight into the complicated creation of a female Chinese cybercommunity, this publication disc…
The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women…
Vandaag, aan het begin van de 21e eeuw, zijn meisjes goed vertegenwoordigd aan de universiteiten. Wel nog niet evenredig verdeeld over alle studierichtingen, maar ze zijn present. Het is ooit anders geweest, zoals we kunnen lezen in dit mooi uitgegeven boek met prachtige oude fo…
At once a manual, a memoir and a history of creative resistance and fun in a world run rotten with poverty and war. With these tales of squatting in the ruins of the dot.com era, playing hit-and-run punk shows in the streets, and organizing neighborhood anti-war parades, the edi…
Unfinished Agenda offers an inside look at the Black Power Movement that emerged during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. A political memoir that teaches grass-roots politics and inspires organizing for real change in the Age of Obama, this book will appeal to readers of…
