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1. |  | Title: Inside the American couple: new thinking/new challenges Author: Yalom, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Women's Studies | Women's Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair. Despite many tendencies that threaten traditional marriage and even make committed cohabitation problematic, very few people live through adulthood without at least one lengthy relationship, and up to ninety percent of Americans marry at lea . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. |  | Title: Passing by: gender and public harassmentAuthor: Gardner, Carol Brooks Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Sociology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Catcalls, wolf whistles, verbal slurs, pinches, stalking - virtually every woman has experienced some form of unwanted public attention by men. Off the street, in semi-public places such as restaurants and department stores, women often suffer the insult of being passed over by employees eager to se . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. |  | Title: Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial ChinaAuthor: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | History | China | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. |  | Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. |  | Title: Women in the Chinese enlightenment: oral and textual historiesAuthor: Wang, Zheng Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | China | Women's Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a ge . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. |  | Title: Childbirth and authoritative knowledge: cross-cultural perspectivesAuthor: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | MedicinePublisher's Description: This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledge - the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | Title: Strong mothers, weak wives: the search for gender equality Author: Johnson, Miriam M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In Strong Mothers, Weak Wives she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into g . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. |  | Title: Cultivating music in America: women patrons and activists since 1860 Author: Locke, Ralph P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Women's Studies | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: This wide-ranging collection brings together leading authorities on the social history of American art music to reveal the indispensable contribution that women have made to American musical life. Some chapters discuss collective endeavors, such as music clubs, Wagnerites, supporters of "modern musi . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. |  | Title: How fascism ruled women: Italy, 1922-1945Author: De Grazia, Victoria Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's StudiesPublisher'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 | 10. |  | Title: Bicycle citizens: the political world of the Japanese housewifeAuthor: LeBlanc, Robin M 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Japan | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi- . . . [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 | PsychologyPublisher'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: Three artists (three women): modernism and the art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'KeeffeAuthor: Wagner, Anne Middleton 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This original and sharply obser-vant book gives new significance to three important figures in the history of twentieth-century art: Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Anne Wagner looks at their imagery and careers, relating their work to three decisive moments in the history of American . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. |  | 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 | 14. |  | Title: On her their lives depend: munitions workers in the Great WarAuthor: Woollacott, Angela 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | European History | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this evocative book, Angela Woollacott analyzes oral histories, workers' writings, newspapers, official reports, and factory song lyrics to present an intimate view of women munitions workers in Britain during World War I.Munitions work offered working-class women - for the first time - independe . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. |  | Title: Dangerous pleasures: prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century ShanghaiAuthor: Hershatter, Gail Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | ChinaPublisher's Description: This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declassè elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Sh . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. |  | Title: To the storm: the odyssey of a revolutionary Chinese womanAuthor: Yue, Daiyun Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | Women's StudiesSimilar Items | 17. |  | Title: The other modernism: F.T. Marinetti's futurist fiction of powerAuthor: Blum, Cinzia Sartini Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the relations between the seemingly unrelated goals of It . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. |  | Title: France at the Crystal Palace: bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth centuryAuthor: Walton, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective - that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced France's distinctive pattern of industrial develo . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. |  | Title: Bewitching women, pious men: gender and body politics in Southeast AsiaAuthor: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Southeast Asia | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersect . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. |  | Title: Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800Author: Bloch, Ruth H 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Christianity | Women's Studies | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of h . . . [more]Similar Items |
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