Women's Studies
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Shirley Hazzard

WILLIAM MAXWELL In his eighties, William Maxwell told me, “I love being old.” By then, Bill Maxwell had recurrent and sometimes serious bodily infirmities. His mind and spirit were perhaps ...
( Category: Essays November 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-21 | Author:Kat Kinsman

IRRATIONAL FEAR #5 GETTING MY HAIR CUT My hair goes down to my waist and I trim my bangs myself. Very few people know how long it is because it’s ...
( Category: Anxieties & Phobias November 27,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-22 | Author:Azar Nafisi [Nafisi, Azar]

Forough Farrokhzad. “Only the Voice Endures.” This was the title of a poem by Forough Farrokhzad that I jotted down on the top of a page in my diary and ...
( Category: Women November 23,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Jason Porath [Porath, Jason]

• ART NOTES • Dhat al-Himma is here pictured swinging into battle. This was one of her trademarks—unlike her straightforward son, Abd al-Wahhab, she would sneak up on her enemies. ...
( Category: Women in History November 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-30 | Author:Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblik & Hannah Wheelwright

After the prayer, Abbot returns to the pulpit. ABBOT: I am happy to report that our numbers are growing: we have had six babies born this last month alone! I’ll ...
( Category: Feminist Theory November 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Abby Wambach [Wambach, Abby]

Our next training camp is in Princeton, New Jersey. The same routine, but with one key difference: Kara is back with the team, working as our sports therapist. Our relationship ...
( Category: Biographies September 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Holly Lewis

CHAPTER 3 From queer nationalism to queer Marxism I. The vector model of oppression Towards the early middle of the twentieth century, new European political theories emerged after the failures ...
( Category: LGBT September 17,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kumari Jayawardena

Women in the Left Movement In the early 1930s, a Youth League of radical nationalists and socialists was formed with branches all over Sri Lanka to agitate for national independence. ...
( Category: Nationalism September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-03 | Author:Neal Gabler

7 Shaygetz IT WAS about wish fulfillment—not only Barbra Streisand’s, but her fans’. That had always been the transaction between stars on the screen and the audience in their seats. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Kristin J. Anderson [Anderson, Kristin J.]

Entitlement and the Privilege to Underperform We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very ...
( Category: Feminist Theory August 19,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Jessica Amanda Salmonson

L Labé, Louise: (A.D. 1526–1566) In her youth, this daughter of a Lyons ropemaker was fond of music, hunting, and military exercise, and regularly participated in tourneys. Before she was ...
( Category: History August 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Moor

* * * I. “Champion,” also called “champaign,” is an antiquated term for open, level country. It has the same root as “campus.” II. When the Cherokees were forced to ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays July 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Katrine Marcal

CHAPTER TEN In which we see that you aren’t selfish just because you want more money Nancy Folbre, a feminist professor of economics, often tells this tale: Once there were ...
( Category: Theory July 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-23 | Author:Dana Frank

WRITING THEIR OWN STORY In addition to this rich world of leadership development, networking, and support for national-level women’s work, COLSIBA women, beginning in 2000, took on two larger projects ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 18,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Cathia Jenainati

Motherhood Before Career? Friedan began her working career as a journalist. She was dismissed when she became pregnant, and it was this incident which made her aware of social discrimination ...
( Category: Feminist Theory July 18,2016 )