Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law
Demonstrates how parental and sexual identities are formed and interpreted in law, and how gay and lesbian parents can harness indeterminacy to transform family law
Spanning geographical, cultural, and methodological boundaries, the essays in Being and Becoming Visible examine female representation in a variety of performative and visual media. Olga M. Mesropova and Stacey WeberFève situate the disciplines of visual culture and performance studies within two conceptual frameworks -- multicultural and ......
Investigates the efforts of feminists in Chile to win policy reforms on a broad range of gender equity issues, from labor and marriage laws to educational opportunities to health and reproductive rights.
Demonstrates how men's treatment by the law and society in general varies by race, economic position, sexuality, and other factors. In this book, the author examines men's experience of fatherhood and sexual abuse, and boys' experience in the contexts of education and juvenile justice.
Is there such a thing as a ''feminist technology''? If so, what makes a technology feminist? Is it in the design process, in the thing itself, in the way it is marketed, or in the way it is used by women (or by men)? In this collection, feminist scholars trained in diverse fields consider these questions by examining a range of products, tools, ......
Keen impressions of fin de siècle Chicago from a French female perspectiveThis fascinating account of a French woman's impressions of America in the late nineteenth century reveals an unusual cross-cultural journey through fin de siècle Paris, Chicago, and New York. Madame Léon Grandin's travels and extended stay in Chicago in 1893 were the result ......
Based almost entirely on original source documents from the United States, France, and Spain, Carl J. Ekberg's Stealing Indian Women provides a novel overview of Indian slavery in the Mississippi Valley. His detailed study of a fascinating and convoluted criminal case involving various slave women and a métis (mixed-blood) woodsman named Céladon ......
Chronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating symptoms that plague some breast-cancer survivors long after their treatments have officially ended. This book is filled with portraits of more than seventy women who are living with the aftermath of breast cancer.
