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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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,,,

Sobande explores the experiences of Black women as producers and as consumers of digital media...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, over three hundred young Jewish women from Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) fled their communities and sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism...

One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel"...