A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private ......
Power in general and women’s power in particular has been understood mostly in a hierarchical way in earlier research on Mesopotamian women. Hierarchical power structures were important in Mesopotamia, but other kinds of power structures existed as well. This study, which focuses on women in the palaces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. ......
This book is a cross-cultural study of gender roles and relationships that focuses on both economic and material conditions as well as the ideological valuations that affect and reflect cultural models of gender.
This book is a cross-cultural study of gender roles and relationships that focuses on both economic and material conditions as well as the ideological valuations that affect and reflect cultural models of gender.
This brightly illustrated childrens book provides a straightforward introduction to gender for anyone aged 4+. It presents clear and direct language for understanding and talking about how we experience gender: our bodies, our expression and our identity
Interviews with the Men and Women of Hong Kong's Sex Industry
Hong Kong has a bewildering range of sex businesses offering services to suit all imaginable tastes: from the glitzy nightclubs of Tsim Sha Tsui East, through the saunas, karaoke lounges and one-woman brothels of Mong Kok, to the streets and short-time hotels of Sham Shui Po. Chinese-language sex magazines print reviews of individual prostitutes, ......
Teasing out the entanglement of vulnerability and empowerment in girls' lives
A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower Kenya's Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campaigns often arise from presumptions that reduce the girls themselves to helpless victims of ......
Teasing out the entanglement of vulnerability and empowerment in girls' lives
A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower Kenya's Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campaigns often arise from presumptions that reduce the girls themselves to helpless victims of ......
