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This Is My Life - A South African Journey (Hardcover): Pamela Tumeka Koyana-Letlaka This Is My Life - A South African Journey (Hardcover)
Pamela Tumeka Koyana-Letlaka
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Predicting Gender Violence in India - A Counterintuitive Theoretical Approach (Hardcover): Shritha K. Vasudevan Predicting Gender Violence in India - A Counterintuitive Theoretical Approach (Hardcover)
Shritha K. Vasudevan
R4,011 Discovery Miles 40 110 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In this provocative new book, Shritha Vasudevan argues that feminist international relations (IR) theory has inadvertently resulted in a biased worldview, the very opposite of what feminist IR set out to try to rectify. This book contests theoretical presumptions of Western feminist IR and attempts to reformulate it in contexts of non-Western cultures. Vasudevan deftly utilizes the theoretical constructs of IR to explore the ramifications for India. This hypothesis argues that the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has predictive validity and is not a top-down norm but derived from the material and contingent experiences of nation states. This book enters the debate between feminist qualitative and quantitative IR through the lens of gender-based violence (GBV) under the CEDAW.

Mindset Unlocked - Do What Others Can't, Won't, or Don't Do for a Successful and Balanced Career, and Life... Mindset Unlocked - Do What Others Can't, Won't, or Don't Do for a Successful and Balanced Career, and Life (Hardcover)
CICI Castelli
R552 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 1 (Hardcover): Jane Chance Women Medievalists and the Academy, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Jane Chance
R2,117 R1,724 Discovery Miles 17 240 Save R393 (19%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Silently Said - A Journey Through Illness and Addiction (Hardcover): Diana Lee Silently Said - A Journey Through Illness and Addiction (Hardcover)
Diana Lee
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Girl On The Train (Paperback): Rachel Wagstaff, Duncan Abel The Girl On The Train (Paperback)
Rachel Wagstaff, Duncan Abel; Paula Hawkins
R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she's been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Hardcover): Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Hardcover)
Mary Wollstonecraft
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

The Mhtra Mandate - What the World Needs Now Is a Womb-An!: Women's Last Call to Save the World (Hardcover): Demetra S... The Mhtra Mandate - What the World Needs Now Is a Womb-An!: Women's Last Call to Save the World (Hardcover)
Demetra S Arvanitidis
R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
From a Nobody to a Somebody (Hardcover): Evangelist Angela Lay From a Nobody to a Somebody (Hardcover)
Evangelist Angela Lay
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Magazine Movements - Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form (Hardcover): Laurel Forster Magazine Movements - Women's Culture, Feminisms and Media Form (Hardcover)
Laurel Forster
R4,316 Discovery Miles 43 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

All women's magazines are not the same: content, outlook, and format combine to shape publications quite distinctively. While magazines in general have long been understood as a significant force in women's lives, many critiques have limited themselves to discussions of mainstream printed publications that engage with narrowly stereotypical representations of femininity. Looking at a range of women's magazines ("Cooperative Correspondence Club "and "Housewife) "and magazine programmes ("Woman's Hour" and "Houseparty"), "Magazine Movements" not only extends our definition of a magazine, but most importantly, unearths the connections between women's cultures, specific magazines and the implied reader. The author first outlines the existing field of magazine studies, and analyzes the methodologies employed in accessing and assessing the cultural competence of magazines. Each chapter then provides a case study of a different kind of magazine: different in media form or style of presentation or audience connection, or all three. Forster not only extends our definition of a magazine, but most importantly, unearths the connections between women's cultures, specific magazines and the implied reader. In this way, fresh insights are provided into the long-standing importance of the magazine to the variety of feminisms on offer in Britain, from the mid twentieth century to the present day.

My Roots, My Love, My Destiny (Hardcover): Beatrice Akpu Inyang Eleje My Roots, My Love, My Destiny (Hardcover)
Beatrice Akpu Inyang Eleje
R697 R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"My Roots, My Love, My Destiny"is the story of two strong women, told across an epic and rich canvas painted by two wars and two unique destinies. In her ninety-six years, Ogeri, author Beatrice Akpu Inyang Eleje's mother, experienced danger, heartbreak, and great love. Her journey spanned most of the twentieth century and was dictated by the societal norms, values, and traditions of the Nigeria of her time. Lovingly reconstructed, these are a few of Eleje's most beloved and revered memories of her mother. For the daughter, her journey was spent attempting to navigate rapidly changing waters. Caught between two colliding civilizations-the Western civilization and African culture and Nigeria-two cultures, and two world views, her path was less certain. While one world encouraged independence, the other demanded absolute filial obedience.

Rebellion was inevitable.

As Eleje listened to her mother speak of her life, the similarities emerged. Both women survived their husbands, and both knew the heartache of illness, loss, and uncertainty-as well as the joys of love in the most unexpected places. But through it all rings a life-sustaining truth worth celebrating: no matter how dark the tunnel, there is always light just around the corner ... if you can just lift your head to look.

Designed to inspire younger women to persevere in the face of seemingly in-surmountable odds, the story of these two women proves that no matter what, you just need to take the next step-to-ward hope.

Beyond Burning Bras - Feminist Activism for Everyone (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Laura L. Finley, Emily Reynolds Stringer Beyond Burning Bras - Feminist Activism for Everyone (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Laura L. Finley, Emily Reynolds Stringer
R1,475 Discovery Miles 14 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a practical guide to the everyday actions and decisions that anyone can take to promote gender equality and social justice in their own life and the world around them. Beyond Burning Bras: Feminist Activism for Everyone is an antidote to the poison of shock jocks who caricature the women's movement as a radical fringe of man-haters and paint activists as spoiled hooligans. Two real-life feminist activists, Laura Finley and Emily Stringer focus on the mainstream of everyday feminism, explaining what feminism is really all about and fanning out a spectrum of simple, imaginative, user-friendly ways in which ordinary readers can promote gender equality and social equity in their own lives and in the world around them. Beyond Burning Bras taps the life stories and first-person accounts of 50 ordinary individuals of every age, sex, sexuality, class, nationality, race, ethnicity, and learning style. All of them tell how they found within themselves the courage to take a stand on the front lines of feminist activism, whether in subtle private ways or in life-changing public ways. After a survey of the history of feminism in the United States, the authors and contributors show in successive chapters how feminism today meshes with other forms of activism relating to the workplace, sexual violence, the environment, politics, human bodies, the arts, youth, empowerment, and mothering. Comprises over 50 entries arranged topically to show the broad reach of contemporary feminism Presents more than 40 contributors, including scholars, activists, professionals, students, and more Offers a timeline of key events in feminist activism provided at beginning of volume Includes an annotated appendix of recommended resources for feminist activists, including books, websites, and periodicals

Survival - The Will and the Way (Hardcover): Miss Young Survival - The Will and the Way (Hardcover)
Miss Young
R584 Discovery Miles 5 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Herself an Author - Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (Hardcover): Grace S. Fong Herself an Author - Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (Hardcover)
Grace S. Fong
R1,539 Discovery Miles 15 390 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Herself an Author addresses the critical question of how to approach the study of women's writing. It explores various methods of engaging in a meaningful way with a rich corpus of poetry and prose written by women of the late Ming and Qing periods, much of it rediscovered by the author in rare book collections in China and the United States. The volume treats different genres of writing and includes translations of texts that are made available for the first time in English. Among the works considered are the life-long poetic record of Gan Lirou, the lyrical travel journal kept by Wang Fengxian, and the erotic poetry of the concubine Shen Cai.Taking the view that gentry women's varied textual production was a form of cultural practice, Grace Fong examines women's autobiographical poetry collections, travel writings, and critical discourse on the subject of women's poetry, offering fresh insights on women's intervention into the dominant male literary tradition. The wealth of texts translated and discussed here include fascinating documents written by concubines - women who occupied a subordinate position in the family and social system.Fong adopts the notion of agency as a theoretical focus to investigate forms of subjectivity and enactments of subject positions in the intersection between textual practice and social inscription. Her reading of the life and work of women writers reveals surprising instances and modes of self-empowerment within the gender constraints of Confucian orthodoxy. Fong argues that literate women in late imperial China used writing and reading to create literary and social communities, transcend temporal-spatial and social limitations, and represent themselves as the authors of their own life histories.

Women Empowerment and Well-Being for Inclusive Economic Growth (Hardcover): Shailja Dixit, Sana Moid Women Empowerment and Well-Being for Inclusive Economic Growth (Hardcover)
Shailja Dixit, Sana Moid
R5,392 Discovery Miles 53 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

As women become more outspoken regarding their right to equal pay, it has been noted that gender equality, with women earning as much as men, would enrich the global economy. These studies have shown that equal pay, equal hours, and equal participation for women in the workforce could lead to a global wealth jump and potentially create knock-on benefits such as lower malnutrition and child mortality rates. Women Empowerment and Well-Being for Inclusive Economic Growth is a collection of innovative research that makes the case for understanding development in economic terms as well as in terms of well-being, empowerment, and participation and uncovers the role of empowering women and achieving gender equality in sustainable development. Research work and cases related to participation of a women's labor force in the economic development of the country, the place of women in society, their contribution to the social development of their country, and the problems faced by them are key features in the book. While highlighting topics including gender inequality, self-worth, and industrial policy, this book is ideally designed for economic analysts, managers, policymakers, business professionals, government officials, entrepreneurs, and business students.

Memoirs of an Old Dyke (Hardcover): Jinx Beers Memoirs of an Old Dyke (Hardcover)
Jinx Beers
R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born in a dysfunctional lower middle class family in the middle of the "big" depression, no one could have predicted that Jinx Beers would be a pioneer for the lesbian/gay rights movement in Southern California and the founder of the world's longest running lesbian nespaper. Jinx, who acquired the first name from an older sister and eventually made it legal, joined the U.S. Air Force when she was eighteen to get away from her home life-and never looked back. She used her G.I. Bill to get a college degree and spent the next eighteen years on the UCLA campus in research in traffic safety. Meanwhile, the action on Christopher Street raised the conscience of many lesbians and gays who began to join the agitation for lesbian/gay rights. Ferment in the Losa Angeles community lead to Jinx's founding of The Lesbian News in 1976. Although she is no longer associated with the newspaper, it has been published continuously for more than thirty years. Now seventy-five years old, Jinx has written her autobiography. This is the inside informtion on what makes this "Feminist Who Changed America" tick. For those who are interested in understanding one lesbian activist's life, read on.

American Hybrid Poetics - Gender, Mass Culture, and Form (Hardcover): Amy Moorman Robbins American Hybrid Poetics - Gender, Mass Culture, and Form (Hardcover)
Amy Moorman Robbins
R2,977 Discovery Miles 29 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics-a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies-have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant cultural order. Amy Moorman Robbins examines the ways in which five poets-Gertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, and Claudia Rankine-use hybridity as an implicitly political strategy to interrupt mainstream American language, literary genres, and visual culture, and expose the ways in which mass culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had a powerfully standardizing impact on the collective American imagination. By forcing encounters between incompatible traditions-consumer culture with the avant-garde, low culture forms with experimental poetics, prose poetry with linguistic subversiveness-these poets bring together radically competing ideologies and highlight their implications for lived experience. Robbins argues that it is precisely because these poets have mixed forms that their work has gone largely unnoticed by leading members and critics in experimental poetry circles. Robbins shows that while these poets employ widely varying linguistic strategies and topical range, they share a common and deeply critical vision of American popular culture as it promulgates bourgeois capitalist and imperialist values and forecloses possibilities for independent thought and creative resistance. They also share the view that contemporary history can be reimagined in intellectually liberating ways through hybrid poetics.

Women in Power - World Leaders since 1960 (Hardcover): Gunhild Hoogensen, Bruce O. Solheim Women in Power - World Leaders since 1960 (Hardcover)
Gunhild Hoogensen, Bruce O. Solheim
R2,050 Discovery Miles 20 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Women in Power profiles 22 world leaders who have held the top positions of political power since 1960. Each chapter is devoted to a region of the world. In addition to providing an overview of the political careers of the women who emerged as leaders in these regions, the authors examine the political systems of each region in terms of the involvement of women in politics. Biographies of these political leaders are embedded within regional analyses that reveal not only the personal circumstances that each woman faced in her quest for power but also the political milieu from which she emerged. We learn about the obstacles as well as the advantages these women faced, and we derive insights into the structures that exist in our own societies regarding the power relations between men and women. Women in Power also devotes a chapter to differing theories of women's leadership and various theories of feminism around the world. Finally, in an effort to understand how the United States can appear to be the bastion of women's liberation around the world and yet have only 15 percent representation of women in power and no female president to date, the authors explore prospects for the upcoming 2008 U.S. presidential election and discuss potential candidates.

Financial Services - Women at the Top: A WIFS Research Study (Hardcover): Arthea Reed, Diane Dixon Financial Services - Women at the Top: A WIFS Research Study (Hardcover)
Arthea Reed, Diane Dixon
R771 R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Save R86 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women - Kallah's Choice (Hardcover): Amy K., Milligan Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women - Kallah's Choice (Hardcover)
Amy K., Milligan
R3,173 Discovery Miles 31 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women comments on hair covering based on an ethnographic study of the lives of Orthodox Jewish women in a small non-metropolitan synagogue. It brings the often overlooked stories of these women to the forefront and probes questions as to how their location in a small community affects their behavioral choices, particularly regarding the folk practice of hair covering. A kallah, or bride, makes the decision as to whether or not she will cover her hair after marriage. In doing so, she externally announces her religious affiliation, in particular her commitment to maintaining an Orthodox Jewish home. Hair covering practices are also unique to women's traditions and point out the importance of examining the women, especially because their cultural roles may be marginalized in studies as a result of their lack of a central role in worship. This study questions their contribution to Orthodoxy as well as their concept of Jewish identity and the ways in which they negotiate this identity with ritualized and traditional behavior, ultimately bringing into question the meaning of tradition in a modern world.

Centaurs and Amazons - Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being (Paperback, Uk Ed.): Page DuBois Centaurs and Amazons - Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
Page DuBois
R616 R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Save R35 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Centaurs and Amazons, Page duBois offers a prehistory of hierarchy. Using structural anthropology, symbolic analysis, and recent literary theory, she demonstrates a shift in Greek thought from the fifth to the fourth century B.C. that had a profound influence upon subsequent Western culture and politics. Through an analysis of mythology, drama, sculpture, architecture, and Greek vase painting, duBois documents the transition from a system of thought that organized the experience of difference in terms of polarity and analogy to one based upon a relatively rigid hierarchical scheme. This was the beginning of "the great chain of being," the philosophical construct that all life was organized in minute gradations of superiority and inferiority. This scheme, in various guises, has continued to influence philosophical and political thought. The author's intelligent and discriminating use of scholarship from various fields makes Centaurs and Amazons an impressive interdisciplinary study of interest to classicists, feminist scholars, historians, art historians, anthropologists, and political scientists.

Surviving the Dips of My Unexpected Journey - My Unexpected Journey (Hardcover): Sunshine Maree Surviving the Dips of My Unexpected Journey - My Unexpected Journey (Hardcover)
Sunshine Maree
R641 R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
How Does God Really Feel About Females? - A Biblical Study in Gender Equality (Hardcover): Joanne White Ferdinando How Does God Really Feel About Females? - A Biblical Study in Gender Equality (Hardcover)
Joanne White Ferdinando
R984 Discovery Miles 9 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Wartime Rape and Sexual Violence - An Examination of the Perpetrators, Motivations, and Functions of Sexual Violence Against... Wartime Rape and Sexual Violence - An Examination of the Perpetrators, Motivations, and Functions of Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Alana Fangrad
R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Given the extensive body of Holocaust literature, it may be surprising to note that there is a distinct gap of reflection, analysis, and qualification in the area of sexual violence. The subject of sexual violence during the Holocaust, in particular, the sexual violation of Jewish women, is a subject that has been largely repressed and silenced. Thus, this thesis is an attempt to not only rectify the omission of sexual violence from Holocaust history, but to bring a level of analysis to this under-examined aspect of National Socialism to a point commensurate with that devoted to other aspects of Holocaust studies. During the Holocaust, sexual violence against Jewish women was both unique and typical. It was typical in the forms that sexual violence manifested-sexual humiliation, rape, gang rape, sexual slavery-but unique in the patterns it followed and the functions it served for the Nazi regime. Unlike other genocides, sexual violence was not a state sanctioned policy of the "Final Solution;" it was employed in a haphazardly manner, that was horrific, multi-faceted, and deadly. Perpetrators were motivated by a diversity of factors, including, a desire for power, camaraderie, sexual pleasure and masculine ego-gratification. Moreover, sexual violence was multi-functional for the Nazi regime, operating as a powerful tool of humiliation and dehumanization. As the Nazi regime moved into full-scale genocide, sexual violence became an increasingly integral component to the process of annihilation. By dehumanizing Jewish women through varied forms of sexual violence, German perpetrators increasingly saw their victims as less than human, thereby further removing them from the realm of moral and ethical obligation. Sexual violence was clearly an essential component to the continued functioning of genocide, because through the process of Jewish women's dehumanization, perpetrators were able to more easily continue fulfilling their murderous tasks

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Hardcover): Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Hardcover)
Mary Wollstonecraft
R775 Discovery Miles 7 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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