Author: Lillian SchlisselPublisher:
ISBN: 9780826310903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.
Western Women's Lives
Author: Sandra SchackelPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826322456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An anthology of essays about 20th-century women living in the western U.S., showing that the image of the pioneer woman has been replaced not with another dominant one, but with many.
Western Women
Author: Lillian SchlisselPublisher:
ISBN: 9780826310903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.
Women’s Working Lives in East Asia
Author: Mary C. BrintonPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804743549
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This volume examines the nature of married women's participation in the economies of three East Asian countries—Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. In addition to asking what is similar or different about women's economic participation in this region of the world compared to Western societies, the book also asks how women's work patterns vary across the three countries.
The Private Life of Old Hong Kong
Author: Susanna HoePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book presents a history of western women in Hong Kong and the Canton delta from the earliest years of the colony.
Women on the Verge
Author: Karen KelskyPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822328162
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
DIVExplores issues of gender, race and national identity in Japan, by taking up for critical analysis an emergent national trend, in which some urban Japanese women turn to the West--through study abroad, work abroad, and romance with Westerners-- in order/div
Women's Lives in Medieval Europe
Author: Emilie AmtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134720602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Praise for the first edition: 'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a curriculum that takes class, gender, and ethnicity as central to an understanding of world cultural history.' - The Medieval Review Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material. This new edition includes expanded sections on marriage and sexuality, and on peasant women and townswomen, as well as a new section on women and the law. There are brief introductions both to the period and to the individual documents, study questions to accompany each reading, a glossary of terms and a fully updated bibliography. Working within a multi-cultural framework, the book focuses not just on the Christian majority, but also present material about women in minority groups in Europe, such as Jews, Muslims, and those considered to be heretics. Incorporating both the laws, regulations and religious texts that shaped the way women lived their lives, and personal narratives by and about medieval women, the book is unique in examining women’s lives through the lens of daily activities, and in doing so as far as possible through the voices of women themselves.
Women's Voices from the Western Frontier
Author: Susan G. ButruillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Women's Voices from the Western Frontier continues the evocative tone of the author's previous book, Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail. Sweeping yet intimate, Susan G. Butruille's book gives voice to the women of the many western frontiers through their journals, stories, songs & recipes. Here are strung-together moments of everydayness, punctuated by a Pueblo woman's corn grinding song, a Hispanic wedding feast & horseback rides across the prairie, hair flying free.
Women in the Western
Author: Matheson Sue MathesonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474444164
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Feminine charts these significant shifts in the Western's transmission of gender values and expectations and aims to expand the critical arena in which Western film is situated by acknowledging the importance of women in this genre.
Contingent Lives
Author: Caroline H. BledsoePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226058522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Most women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it to have more children. This study of aging & reproduction makes use of ethnographic & demographic data.
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Author: Lila Abu-LughodPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726332
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live.