This book, written by African scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, explores contemporary debates, controversies, achievements, challenges, and future prospects of African development and democratization from diverse theoretical perspectives.
This book examines prominent women in the 2016 US presidential election-candidates, staffers, families, journalists, and organizers. The authors examine feminism, motherhood, voter expectations, the press, gender, race, class, and agency in this interdisciplinary work spanning political science, communication, and women's and gender studies.
Both Lord Byron's poetry and his fame as a seducer enchanted and scandalized his time. The Sour Fruit. Lord Byron, Love & Sex examines the poet's versatile sexuality, from his liaisons to his grand loves, female and above all male, in an era when homosexuality could lead to the gallows.
Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s1
This book examines the American Quaker educational enterprise in Palestine since its establishment in the late nineteenth century during the Ottoman rule and into the British Mandate period. Quaker education intersected with national and social forces and allowed for Palestinian girls' negotiation of discourses about nationalism.
This edited collection critiques postfeminist advertising through the lenses of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, age, class, and nationality. The authors represent a variety of feminisms, including Black, disabled, lesbian, transnational, and more.
This book examines the often-complex relationships between issues of gender and the environment in science fiction films and fiction. Its contributors discuss a range of texts: early apocalyptic science fiction, campy midcentury science fiction films, Silver Age superhero comics, and twenty-first-century science fiction films and literature.
Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland
Paranoia and the fight against women's equality
The mid-seventies represented a watershed era for feminism. A historic National Women's Conference convened in Houston in 1977. The Equal Rights Amendment inched toward passage. Conservative women in the Midwest, however, saw an event like the International Year of the ......
Eighteen unstoppable women and the quest to become a scholar
Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes literal--minefields. Their life stories offer inspiration but also describe heartrending struggles and ......
