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Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives

Edited By: Kenneth Reeds, Anna Rocca

£44.99

This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women's autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.

This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women’s autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.

Women Who Belong

Claiming a Female’s Right-Filled Place

Edited By: Marsha R. Robinson

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To fight the fallacious assumption that patriarchy is eternal, this book inverts history. By centering the ordinary woman, we find women, rich and poor, who used patriarchal laws to protect their rights and demand the powers due them.

Women Willing to Fight

The Fighting Woman in Film

Edited By: Silke Andris, Ursula K. Frederick

£34.99

This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.

Women Writing Trauma in Literature

Edited By: Laura Alexander

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This collection studies trauma and psychoanalysis in women’s writing. It examines how literature helps to heal the wounded self, concentrating on how women explain the traumatic experiences of war, violence, or displacement and recover the voices buried by intense suffering.

Women, Creativity and Nonviolence

Edited By: Anna Hamling

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This innovative collection emphasises the contribution of women to resolving conflicts through creative, nonviolent tools. Drawing on the work of women from diverse countries, it discusses their achievements and provides a study of how, and why, gender matters in building peace.

Women, Gender and Disease in Eighteenth-Century England and France

Edited By: Ann Kathleen Doig, Felicia B. Sturzer

£44.99

These essays explore women, gender, and disease in 18th-century England and France. Excluded from universities, women nonetheless contributed to anatomy, botany, and medicine, informing literary texts and raising questions about their role in the Enlightenment.

Women, Islam and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Nilgun Anadolu-Okur

£39.99

This pioneering study explores the new female Muslim identity. Through interdisciplinary essays, it examines the daily struggles, challenges, choices, and rights of Muslim women globally, both within and outside the Muslim world, in the twenty-first century.

Women, Pain and Death

Rituals and Everyday Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond

Edited By: Evy Johanne Håland

£34.99

This cross-cultural collection explores women and death from the margins of Europe and beyond. Presenting original material from little-known areas, these studies offer new perspectives on cultural change and reveal surprising parallels between diverse societies.

Women, Pilgrimage, and Rituals of Healing in Modern and Ancient Greece

A Comparison

By: Evy Johanne Håland

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How can we understand ancient Greek healing rituals when the men who recorded them could not know what occurred? This book compares ancient sources with modern rituals still performed by women, bringing both worlds into mutual illumination and offering new interpretations.

Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland

Dissenting Voices?

Edited By: Sarah O’Connor, Christopher C. Shepard

£29.99

This book explores women, social and cultural change in twentieth-century Ireland. The interdisciplinary work gathered here challenges monolithic representations of Irish female identity, exposing women’s disparate backgrounds and varied experiences.

Women, Wellness, and the Media

Edited By: Margaret C. Wiley, Barbara Barnett

£34.99

Thirteen scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the relationship between media stereotypes and women’s health. They show how these images harm women’s health while turning millions in corporate profits.

Women’s Empowerment for Sustainability in Africa

Edited By: Robert Dibie

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Written by experts with lived experience in Africa, this book explores gender empowerment and its impact on economic development. It argues that without women's full input, sustainable development is unachievable, and illustrates how female capacity building leads to growth.

Written by experts with lived experience in Africa, this book explores gender empowerment and its impact on economic development. It argues that without women’s full input, sustainable development is unachievable, and illustrates how female capacity building leads to growth.

Women’s Imaginary Cooking and Appetites Across Cultures

Studies in Literature, Media and Film

Edited By: Dana Bădulescu, Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Florina Năstase

£77.99

This book explores the cultural implications of women’s engagement with food, tackling the female body, appetites, culinary witchcraft, magic, and cannibalism. It traces how food disorders are alchemically transformed into aesthetics, with a pivotal focus on the Balkans.

Women’s Movements and Countermovements

The Quest for Gender Equality in Southeast Asia and the Middle East

Edited By: Claudia Derichs, Dana Fennert

£39.99

This volume explores women’s movements and their countermovements in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Covering case studies from Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco and Tunisia, it reveals the dominant pattern of Islamist movements countering the goals of women’s movements.

Women’s Political Visibility and Media Access

The Case of Nigeria

Edited By: Oladokun Omojola

£39.99

Despite laws against gender discrimination, women remain invisible in the media. This book explores women's political visibility in Nigeria, assessing aggressive tactics, “conscious reporting,” and the use of ICTs as practical ways of bridging this wide gap.

Despite laws against gender discrimination, women remain invisible in the media. This book explores women’s political visibility in Nigeria, assessing aggressive tactics, “conscious reporting,” and the use of ICTs as practical ways of bridging this wide gap.

Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction

Edited By: Sharon R. Wilson

£44.99

This exploration of women’s utopian and dystopian fiction reveals how imagined worlds critique gender roles and values. With a global perspective, essays focus on Doris Lessing and offer new perspectives on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

Women’s Writing in Western Europe

Gender, Generation and Legacy

Edited By: Adalgisa Giorgio, Julia Waters

£44.99

The first study to investigate the legacy of a pioneering generation of women writers for contemporary authors across Western Europe. These studies uncover a complex web of intertextual links, offering new paradigms to think and read with.

Women’s History in Russia

(Re)Establishing the Field

Edited By: Marianna Muravyeva, Natalia Novikova

£44.99

This collection of essays by Russian scholars presents the theories of Russian gender and women’s history. Amidst an intense backlash against feminism and calls for "traditional values," these scholars explore the roots of such hostility and answer vital questions.

This collection of essays by Russian scholars presents the theories of Russian gender and women’s history. Amidst an intense backlash against feminism and calls for “traditional values,” these scholars explore the roots of such hostility and answer vital questions.

Women’s Identities and Bodies in Colonial and Postcolonial History and Literature

Edited By: Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

£34.99

This collection examines women’s identities and bodies through literary and historical accounts. Using the colonial past to analyze contemporary issues, it explores the female body as a site of abuse and discrimination, but also of knowledge and cultural production.

Women’s Memory

The Problem of Sources

Edited By: D. Fatma Türe, Fatma Türe

£39.99

This book brings together researchers to address the problems of sources and archives in women's studies. The articles examine perceptions of women in collective memory through oral, written, and visual culture, aiming to form accessible international archives.

This book brings together researchers to address the problems of sources and archives in women’s studies. The articles examine perceptions of women in collective memory through oral, written, and visual culture, aiming to form accessible international archives.