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21. | | Title: White saris and sweet mangoes: aging, gender, and body in North India Author: Lamb, Sarah 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | Aging | Cultural Anthropology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open u . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945Author: Bernstein, Gail Lee Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Women's StudiesPublisher'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 | 23. | | Title: Their sisters' keepers: prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 Author: Hill, Marilynn Wood Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | United States History | Women's Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: This intimate study of prostitutes in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century reveals these women in an entirely new light. Unlike traditional studies, Marilynn Wood Hill's account of prostitution's positive attractions, as well as its negative aspects, gives a fresh perspective to this much . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Women writing cultureAuthor: Behar, Ruth 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | SociologyPublisher'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 | 25. | | Title: Marketing the menacing fetus in JapanAuthor: Hardacre, Helen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Women's Studies | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo - a Japanese religious ritual for aborted fetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: The family on trial in revolutionary FranceAuthor: Desan, Suzanne 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European Studies | French Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: A critical cinema 2: interviews with independent filmmakersAuthor: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues.The interviews explore th . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Women, culture, and politics in Latin America Author: Bergmann, Emilie L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Women's Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century. Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Encounters with aging: mythologies of menopause in Japan and North AmericaAuthor: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Women's Studies | JapanPublisher's Description: Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly det . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Voice of the living light: Hildegard of Bingen and her worldAuthor: Newman, Barbara 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Women's Studies | Medieval Studies | Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) would have been an extraordinary person in any age. But for a woman of the twelfth century her achievements were so exceptional that posterity has found it hard to take her measure. Barbara Newman, a premier Hildegard authority, brings major scholars together to prese . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Made in God's image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice Author: Jolly, Penny Howell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies | Women's Studies | ReligionPublisher's Description: The stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice are the focus of Penny Howell Jolly's compelling and provocative book. Scholars of medieval art have long been interested in the Genesis mosaics because they copy a nearly destroyed fifth-century illumina . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: Gender trials: emotional lives in contemporary law firmsAuthor: Pierce, Jennifer L 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Law | Sociology | Social Problems | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This engaging ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: Reflections on the way to the gallows: rebel women in prewar JapanAuthor: Hane, Mikiso Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Women's Studies | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: The most beautiful girl in the world: beauty pageants and national identityAuthor: Banet-Weiser, Sarah 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contempo . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: Cecil B. DeMille and American culture: the silent era Author: Higashi, Sumiko Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | History | Film | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMil . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: Politics of the womb: women, reproduction, and the state in KenyaAuthor: Thomas, Lynn M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | African Studies | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance - and complex ramifications - of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female i . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: Hysteria beyond Freud Author: Gilman, Sander L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Literature | Women's Studies | Psychiatry | MedicinePublisher's Description: "She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others - especially women. How has this medical concept assumed its power? What cultural purposes . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | Title: Pulling the devil's kingdom down: the Salvation Army in Victorian BritainAuthor: Walker, Pamela J 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Christianity | Victorian History | Religion | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Those people in uniforms who ring bells and raise money for the poor during the holiday season belong to a religious movement that in 1865 combined early feminism, street preaching, holiness theology, and intentionally outrageous singing into what soon became the Salvation Army. In Pulling the Devil . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: Theocritus's urban mimes: mobility, gender, and patronage Author: Burton, Joan B 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Drawing on current literary, cultural, and historical approaches, Joan Burton presents sophisticated new readings of Theocritus's urban mimes, which are among the most frequently cited evidence of Hellenistic cultural life, religion, magic, and aesthetics. Unlike Theocritus's bucolic poems, which fo . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | Title: Protecting motherhood: Women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany Author: Moeller, Robert G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | German StudiesPublisher's Description: Robert G. Moeller is the first historian of modern German women to use social policy as a lens to focus on society's conceptions of gender difference and "woman's place." He investigates the social, economic, and political status of women in West Germany after World War II to reveal how the West Ger . . . [more]Similar Items |
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