Barton shows how France welcomed foreign-born men and women, mobilizing naturalization, family law, social policy, and welfare assistance to ensure they would procreate, bearing French-assimilated children...

Lessie Jo Frazier contends that desire played a central role in the political culture of the modern Chilean state.,,,

Conely examines the over 1400 trials of women accused of homicide in London from 1674-1913,..

Valdini outlines a clear calculus to evaluate the various dimensions of the costs and benefits in terms of integrating women...

This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...

Scott explores the lives of the devout laywomen who cared for and maintained churches and shrines in the Basque country...

Pető analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility.

Ruby follows the legal debates and public discussions that surrounded the proposed shari‘ah tribunals in Canada from 2003 to 2006...

In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every Wednesday is an iconic sight, testifying to the strength and resilience of the “comfort women” movement...

Phillips adeptly tells the story of Martha Graham's role as diplomat, arts innovator, and dancer...

Vanessa Díaz examines the raced and gendered hierarchies and inequalities that are imbricated within the work of producing celebrity in Los Angeles...

Strocchia continues the work of her career: recentering the discourse to include the formative contributions of women in the Italian Renaissance...

In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote....

The plays range from outlandish comedies like Bride of Lesbostein to the historical drama Hick: A Love Story...

For many of its participants, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) offered them an opportunity to change their lives, yet few were as transformed as that of Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez...

Stanley Tsuneno’s life, from growing up in a rural community through her escape to the city of Edo, where she lives in the final decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate....

People did suffer under the Eastern European socialist regimes, the author says, and not only in prison and labour camps, but also juggling careers and family responsibilities, witnessing the gulf between the state’s delusional propaganda and reality...

Ortiz offers an in-depth analysis of and perceive insight into what is means to be an athlete’s wife in a male-dominated institution of professional sports...

Based on detailed ethnographic research, this book explores the varied experiences of women who have converted to Buddhism in contemporary Britain....

Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century....

Rippon presents the latest evidence which finally proves that brains are like mosaics comprised of both male and female components, and that they remain plastic, adapting throughout the course of a person’s life...

When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between the famed author and her reading public...

Mukhopadhyay excavates numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially to the issues of mansplaining and womansplaining...

Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer...

Wayland-Smith follows the career of adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub who in the mid-twentieth century created the advertising campaigns selling consumer products to the average American housewife. More than products,,,