This book argues that Indonesian female workers are actively confronting matters that are important to their interests as labor. In their writings and activism, they challenge the political order and demand gender justice.
Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, this book traces the evolution of the fantasy of identification - the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science.
Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, this book traces the evolution of the fantasy of identification - the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science.
A collection of essays that examine intimacy and power in early modern French households, and explore how families reinvented themselves in response to changes in law, gender ideology, political culture, or patterns of consumption.
A collection of essays that examine intimacy and power in early modern French households, and explore how families reinvented themselves in response to changes in law, gender ideology, political culture, or patterns of consumption.
The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical ......
The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical ......
Martin Heidegger's influence on the thought of Hannah Arendt has been frequently noted, but the precise nature of Arendt's critique of her mentor is less understood. Kim Maslin argues that Arendt's work attempted to transform fundamental ontology for responsible use in the public realm.
This book documents the experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers and argues that they value care work on their own terms and not on American perceptions. The challenges of work in a different sociocultural context elicited responses from the women that challenged some long-held assumptions about immigrant women's care work.
