The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer
This book is about Zelda Popkin who lived and wrote through all the great changes of American Jewish women's lives in the 20th century: the reaction against religious tradition, women's emancipation, struggles against antisemitism, the impact of the Holocaust and the creation of Israel, and the upsurge of Jewish identity in the 1960s.
A Resource for Girls in Science, Math, and Technology
Divided into 3 parts, this volume aims to guide young women who want to explore and plan a career in science, math, or technology. It introduces readers to the career opportunities available in the sciences. It recounts stories of girls and young women in the sciences, detailing how they got involved and what they have accomplished.
Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which ......
Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96
The journal of Frances E. Willardnineteenth-century America's most renowned and influential womanhad been hidden away in a cupboard at the National WCTU headquarters, and its importance eluded Willard's biographers. Writing Out My Heart publishes for the first time substantial portions of the forty-nine volumes rediscovered in 1982. They open a ......
This field of Black girls' and women's health (BGWH) science is both transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. As such, the contributors to this edited collection offer a unique lens to BGWH science, expanding our collective scientific worldviews. The contributing authors draw upon their ontological and epistemological knowledge to formulate ......
Focusing on the psychological aspects of the literary engagements between women in France, Katharine Ann Jensen combines close readings of their works with attention to historical and biographical contexts to consider how and why one or both women in the pair express contradictions or anxiety about writing ambition.
Using first-person accounts, this book describes a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. The author places spiritual matters within a discussion of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault.
Why have some working women succeeded at organizing in spite of obstacles to labor activity? Under what circumstances were they able to form alliances with male workers? Carole Turbin explores these and other questions by examining the case of Troy, New York, which in the 1860s produced nearly all the nation's detachable shirt collars and cuffs. ......
This book looks at Wonder Woman's creation, mysterious identity, and deep roots in the feminist movement, as well as the cultural and psychological impact she has had on five generations of fans from the Baby Boomers through to today.