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Struggle to be Sun Again (Paperback, New): H.K. Chung Struggle to be Sun Again (Paperback, New)
H.K. Chung
R589 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Abundant Woman - Discover the Abundance Already in You (Hardcover): Ena Tychus The Abundant Woman - Discover the Abundance Already in You (Hardcover)
Ena Tychus
R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dear Wow - Devotional Journal for Christian Women (Hardcover): Lisa Jacobs-Watson Dear Wow - Devotional Journal for Christian Women (Hardcover)
Lisa Jacobs-Watson
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Pick Your Bride and How to Keep Her for Life - The Best News for Adult Christian Males (Hardcover): Michael Baez How to Pick Your Bride and How to Keep Her for Life - The Best News for Adult Christian Males (Hardcover)
Michael Baez
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Knowing Her Place - Positioning Women in Science (Paperback): Valerie Bevan, Caroline Gatrell Knowing Her Place - Positioning Women in Science (Paperback)
Valerie Bevan, Caroline Gatrell
R1,010 Discovery Miles 10 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

More women are studying science at university and they consistently outperform men. Yet, still, significantly fewer women than men hold prestigious jobs in science. Why should this occur? What prevents women from achieving as highly as men in science? And why are so few women positioned as 'creative genius' research scientists? Drawing upon the views of 47 (female and male) scientists, Bevan and Gatrell explore why women are less likely than men to become eminent in their profession. They observe three mechanisms which perpetuate women s lowered 'place' in science: subtle masculinities (whereby certain forms of masculinity are valued over womanhood); (m)otherhood (in which women's potential for maternity positions them as 'other'), and the image of creative genius which is associated with male bodies, excluding women from research roles.

Super Visible - The Story of the Women of Marvel (Hardcover): Margaret Stohl Super Visible - The Story of the Women of Marvel (Hardcover)
Margaret Stohl
R824 R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Save R156 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Game of Birds and Wolves - The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II (Paperback): Simon Parkin A Game of Birds and Wolves - The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II (Paperback)
Simon Parkin
R473 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Josie - A Memoir (Hardcover): Joe Edd Morris Josie - A Memoir (Hardcover)
Joe Edd Morris
R960 Discovery Miles 9 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Hardcover): Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Hardcover)
Harriet Jacobs; Edited by Marie Child; Contributions by Gary Ludwig
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Just Four Words - Based on a True Story (Hardcover): Dee Chrismer Just Four Words - Based on a True Story (Hardcover)
Dee Chrismer
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Life She Once Knew - The Incredible True Story of Queena, The Bloomingdale Library Attack Survivor (Hardcover): Vanna Nguyen The Life She Once Knew - The Incredible True Story of Queena, The Bloomingdale Library Attack Survivor (Hardcover)
Vanna Nguyen
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Policing Sex in the Sunflower State - The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women (Hardcover): Nicole Perry Policing Sex in the Sunflower State - The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women (Hardcover)
Nicole Perry
R1,051 Discovery Miles 10 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease. In 1917, the Kansas legislature passed Chapter 205, a law that gave the state Board of Health broad powers to quarantine people for disease. State authorities quickly began enforcing Chapter 205 to control the spread of venereal disease among soldiers preparing to fight in World War I. Though Chapter 205 was officially gender-neutral, it was primarily enforced against women; this gendered enforcement became even more dramatic as Chapter 205 transitioned from a wartime emergency measure to a peacetime public health strategy. Women were quarantined alongside regular female prisoners at the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women (the Farm). Women detained under Chapter 205 constituted 71 percent of the total inmate population between 1918 and 1942. Their confinement at the Farm was indefinite, with doctors and superintendents deciding when they were physically and morally cured enough to reenter society; in practice, women detained under Chapter 205 spent an average of four months at the Farm. While at the Farm, inmates received treatment for their diseases and were subjected to a plan of moral reform that focused on the value of hard work and the inculcation of middle-class norms for proper feminine behavior. Nicole Perry's research reveals fresh insights into histories of women, sexuality, and programs of public health and social control. Underlying each of these are the prevailing ideas and practices of respectability, in some cases culturally encoded, in others legislated, enforced, and institutionalized. Perry recovers the voices of the different groups of women involved with the Farm: the activist women who lobbied to create the Farm, the professional women who worked there, and the incarcerated women whose bodies came under the control of the state. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State offers an incisive and timely critique of a failed public health policy that was based on perceptions of gender, race, class, and respectability rather than a reasoned response to the social problem at hand.

Busting The Myths Of Mars And Venus (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Veronica Schwarz Busting The Myths Of Mars And Venus (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Veronica Schwarz
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ecofeminism, Second Edition - Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Carol J Adams,... Ecofeminism, Second Edition - Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Carol J Adams, Lori Gruen
R3,402 Discovery Miles 34 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This new edition of Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth begins with an historical, grounding overview that situates ecofeminist theory and activism within the larger field of ecocriticism and provides a timeline for important publications and events. Throughout the book, authors engage with intersections of gender, sexuality, gender expression, race, disability, and species to address the various ways that sexism, heteronormativity, racism, colonialism, and ableism are informed by and support animal oppression. This collection is broken down into three separate sections: -Affect includes contributions from leading theorists and activists on how our emotions and embodiment can and must inform our relationships with the more-than-human world -Context explores the complexities of appreciating difference and the possibilities of living less violently -Climate, new to the second edition, provides an overview of our climate crisis as well as the climate for critical discussion and debate about ecofeminist ideas and actions Drawing on animal studies, environmental studies, feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics, the ecofeminist contributors to this volume stress the need to move beyond binaries and attend to context over universal judgments; spotlight the importance of care as well as justice, emotion as well as reason; and work to undo the logic of domination and its material implications.

Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts (Hardcover): Amy Kalmanofsky Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts (Hardcover)
Amy Kalmanofsky
R971 R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Save R144 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What Scissors Taught Me (Hardcover): Denise Letienne What Scissors Taught Me (Hardcover)
Denise Letienne
R768 R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Surgery Issue (Paperback): Eric Plemons, Chris Straayer The Surgery Issue (Paperback)
Eric Plemons, Chris Straayer
R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Trans* surgery has been an object of fantasy, derision, refusal, and triumph. Contributors to this issue explore the vital and contested place of surgical intervention in the making of trans* bodies, theories, and practices. For decades, clinicians considered a desire for reconstructive genital surgery to be the linchpin of the transsexual diagnosis. In the 1990s, new histories of trans* clinical practice challenged the institutional claim that transsexuals all wanted genital surgery, and trans* authors began to argue for their surgically altered bodies as sites of power rather than capitulation. Subsequent contestations of the medico-surgical framework helped mark the emergence of "transgender" as an alternative, more inclusive term for gender nonconforming subjects who were sometimes less concerned with surgical intervention. Contributors move beyond medical issue to engage "the surgical" in its many forms, exploring how trans* surgery has been construed and presented across different discursive forms and how these representations of trans* surgeries have helped and/or limited understanding of trans* identities and bodies and shaped the evolution of trans* politics. Contributors. Paisley Currah, Joshua Franklin, Cressida J. Heyes, Julia Horncastle, Riki Lane, J.R. Latham, Sandra Mesics, Eric Plemons, Katherine Rachlin, Chris Straayer, Susan Stryker

Letting Go - Creating an Exceptional Life After Leaving Jehovah's Witnesses (Hardcover): Brenda Peterson Letting Go - Creating an Exceptional Life After Leaving Jehovah's Witnesses (Hardcover)
Brenda Peterson; Photographs by Tj Aneca Aneca Photography
R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tudor History - A Captivating Guide to the Tudors, the Wars of the Roses, the Six Wives of Henry VIII and the Life of Elizabeth... Tudor History - A Captivating Guide to the Tudors, the Wars of the Roses, the Six Wives of Henry VIII and the Life of Elizabeth I (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R780 R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Varieties of Crime Fiction (Hardcover): S.T. Joshi Varieties of Crime Fiction (Hardcover)
S.T. Joshi
R804 Discovery Miles 8 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Aftershocks - A Memoir (Paperback): Nadia Owusu Aftershocks - A Memoir (Paperback)
Nadia Owusu
R445 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Seventy Times Seven the Transforming Power of Forgiveness (Hardcover): Robin E Clifton Seventy Times Seven the Transforming Power of Forgiveness (Hardcover)
Robin E Clifton
R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Rising to the Top - Volume IV: African women engineering leaders share their journeys to professional success (Hardcover):... Rising to the Top - Volume IV: African women engineering leaders share their journeys to professional success (Hardcover)
International Federation of Engineering, Global Engineering Deans Council
R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Women of Scotland (Hardcover): Helen Susan Swift Women of Scotland (Hardcover)
Helen Susan Swift
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Tails of A Lady Dog Catcher (Hardcover): Nancy Lebaron-Kiley Tails of A Lady Dog Catcher (Hardcover)
Nancy Lebaron-Kiley
R550 R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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