formerly eScholarship Editions
|
|
|
|
Your request for similar items found 20 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 1 - 20 of 20 book(s) | |
| 1. |  | Title: Economics and the historian Author: Rawski, Thomas G 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: These essays provide a thorough introduction to economics for historians. The authors, all eminent scholars, show how to use economic thinking, economic models, and economic methods to enrich historical research. They examine such vital issues as long-term trends, institutions, labor - including an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Historical economics: art or science?  Author: Kindleberger, Charles Poor 1910- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Economics and Business | European History | United States History Publisher's Description: Charles P. Kindleberger's writing has ranged widely in the past, from international economics to such specialized topics as the Marshall Plan. In recent years, however, his perspective has shifted to one that tempers the rigidity of technical economics with the flexibility of the liberal arts. Histo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Men, women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab feminist poetics Author: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Middle Eastern Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point Zero and The Innocence of the Devil , El Saadawi has become well known in the West as well as in the Ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Women writing culture Author: Behar, Ruth 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In this collection of new reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology, feminist scholars explore a wide range of visions of identity and difference. How are feminists redefining the poetics and politics of ethnography? What are the contradictions of wom . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Material girls: making sense of feminist cultural theory Author: Walters, Suzanna Danuta Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | American Studies | Politics | Media Studies Publisher's Description: Madonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: These much-discussed media icons are the starting points of Suzanna Walter's brilliant, much-needed introduction to feminist cultural theory. Accessible yet theoretically sophisticated, up-to-date and entertaining, Material Girls acquaints readers with the m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: On account of sex: the politics of women's issues, 1945-1968 Author: Harrison, Cynthia Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | United States History Publisher's Description: Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history. Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The family silver: essays on relationships among women Author: Krieger, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Sociology | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In an inventive and controversial collection of essays, sociologist Susan Krieger considers the many forms of wealth, both material and emotional, that women pass on to each other. This domestic heritage - the "family silver" - is the keystone for a discussion of mother-daughter relationships, intim . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Re-imaging Japanese women Author: Imamura, Anne E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Politics | Japan Publisher's Description: Re-Imaging Japanese Women takes a revealing look at women whose voices have only recently begun to be heard in Japanese society: politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers. This unique collection of essay . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Singular women: writing the artist Author: Frederickson, Kristen 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Art Theory | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular Women proposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and Islam Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Religion | African American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Fighting women: anger and aggression in Aboriginal Australia Author: Burbank, Victoria Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | Psychology Publisher's Description: Fighting is common among contemporary Aboriginal women in Mangrove, Australia - women fight with men and with other women. Victoria Burbank's depiction of these women offers a powerful new perspective that can be applied to domestic violence in Western settings.Noting that Aboriginal women not only . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Russia's women: accommodation, resistance, transformation Author: Clements, Barbara Evans 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women - and women's reactions to these efforts - have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: God's daughters: evangelical women and the power of submission Author: Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie) 1967- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | Gender Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In recent decades, religious conservatives and secular liberals have battled over the "appropriate" role of women in society. In this absorbing exploration of Women's Aglow Fellowship, the largest women's evangelical organization in the world, R. Marie Griffith challenges the simple generalizations . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and Japan Author: Ko, Dorothy 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | East Asia Other | Japan | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canoni . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Three mothers, three daughters: Palestinian women's stories Author: Gorkin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three of their daughters, affords an unparalleled view into the daily lives of women who have lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent and rapidly changing era. In recording these stories, Michael Gork . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: How fascism ruled women: Italy, 1922-1945 Author: De Grazia, Victoria Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce 's rule are the subjects of Victo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity Author: Kienzle, Beverly Mayne Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Women's Studies | Christianity | Classical Religions | History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: For nearly two millennia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing, and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945 Author: Bernstein, Gail Lee Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Unbound voices: a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco Author: Yung, Judy Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian American Studies | Women's Studies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Social Science Publisher's Description: Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents - letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories - detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captiva . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more] Similar Items |