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1. | | Title: Lives together/worlds apart: mothers and daughters in popular culture Author: Walters, Suzanna Danuta Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Gender Studies | Popular Culture | American Studies | Gender Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge , Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played b . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Women and economics: a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | History | American Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics , was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, a . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: The philosopher's gaze: modernity in the shadows of enlightenment Author: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Gender Studies | Art History | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze . Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Lévinas, using our culturally dominant . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Our mother-tempers Author: Levy, Marion J. (Marion Joseph) 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in making us the kind of people we are. By the age of three, four, or five, virtually all children have learned to walk, talk, eat, sleep, control bodily functions, interact with othe . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Citizenship, gender, and work: the social organization of industrial agriculture Author: Thomas, Robert J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Labor Studies | Anthropology | Gender Studies | AgriculturePublisher's Description: Why do farm workers earn less and have a lower status than blue-collar employees in comparable jobs? Robert J. Thomas answers this question through a multi-method study of agricultural work and labor markets. Fieldwork as a lettuce harvester provides valuable insights from the perspective of undocum . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Beyond second opinions: making choices about fertility treatment Author: Turiel, Judith Steinberg 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Sociology | Gender Studies | MedicinePublisher's Description: Beyond Second Opinions is both an exposé of the risks, errors, and distortions surrounding fertility medicine and an authoritative guide for people seeking treatment. Accessible, comprehensive, and extremely well-informed, this book takes the reader beyond hype to the hard data on diagnoses and trea . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Erotic faculties Author: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh. Addressing sexuality in ways that are usually hidden or left unsaid, Frueh - a noted performance artist and art historian - explores subjects such as aging, beauty, love, sex, . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | South Asia | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Between feminism and labor: the significance of the comparable worth movement Author: Blum, Linda M Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: "Equal pay for equal work" has long been a forceful slogan of the feminist and labor movements. Now, however, as the American economy depends more and more on "women's work," it has become clear that this objective does not benefit the majority of women, who are employed in sex-segregated jobs. In B . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: The color of gender: reimaging democracy Author: Eisenstein, Zillah R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Gender Studies | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this provocative volume, Zillah Eisenstein uncovers the hidden sexual and racial politics of the past decade. Beginning where she left off in her award-winning book The Female Body and the Law , Eisenstein takes the reader on a feminist-inspired road trip, traveling from the thicket of recent abo . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Aristocratic experience and the origins of modern culture: France, 1570-1715 Author: Dewald, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture explores a crucial moment in the history of European selfhood. During the seventeenth century, French nobles began to understand their lives in terms of personal histories and inner qualities, rather than as the products of tradition and inhe . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: The velvet glove: paternalism and conflict in gender, class, and race relations Author: Jackman, Mary R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This landmark study analyzes and compares the ideologies that develop among unequal social groups. Mary Jackman employs a unique national survey to investigate all three of the most prominent relations of inequality in the United States: gender, class, and race. Where other scholars have emphasized . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Re-drawing boundaries: work, households, and gender in China Author: Entwisle, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | China | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender roles during an era of economic reform. The contributors are respected sch . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: The vestal and the fasces: Hegel, Lacan, property, and the feminine Author: Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In this feminist exploration of the erotics of the marketplace, Hegel's notion of property and Lacan's idea of the phallus serve parallel functions in creating the subjectivity necessary for self-actualization. Subjectivity requires intersubjective relationships mediated through a regime of possessi . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: Solidarity of strangers: feminism after identity politics Author: Dean, Jodi 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: Solidarity of Strangers is a crucial intervention in feminist, multicultural, and legal debates that will ignite a rethinking of the meaning of difference, community, and participatory democracy. Arguing for a solidarity rooted in a respect for difference, Dean offers a broad vision of the shape of . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Feminism and politics: a comparative perspective Author: Gelb, Joyce 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | Gender Studies | European Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: This incisive work provides a comparative political analysis of the women's movement in England, the United States, and Sweden from the 1960s to the present. Based on extensive interviews in each of the three countries, Feminism and Politics focuses not only on the internal dynamics of the movements . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Reconcilable differences: confronting beauty, pornography, and the future of feminism Author: Chancer, Lynn S 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: This volume examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism - pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape - from an original and provocative perspective. Lynn Chancer focuses on how, among many feminists, the concepts of sex and sexism became fragmente . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Best friends and marriage: exchange among women Author: Oliker, Stacey J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friends . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Legitimate differences: interpretation in the abortion controversy and other public debates Author: Warnke, Georgia Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Legitimate Differences challenges the usual portrayal of current debates over thorny social issues including abortion, pornography, affirmative action, and surrogate mothering as moral debates. How can it be said that our debates oppose principles of life to those of liberty, principles of liberty t . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: A very social time: crafting community in antebellum New England Author: Hansen, Karen V Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | Gender Studies | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and men - both white and black - n the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries, letters, and autobiographies brings their voices to life, making this study an extraordinary co . . . [more]Similar Items |
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