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Xlibris Corporation Life is a Circus
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Xlibris Corporation The Heel of the Loaf
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Xlibris Can You Enjoy Being a Woman
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Xlibris Corporation If Cubicles Could Talk Conversation for the Female New Hire in Corporate America
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Xlibris Mother Jones Revolutionary Leader of Labor and Social Reform
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Rlpg/Galleys Gender Work and Harness Racing
Book SynopsisWhile gender equality has progressed in many sports since the second wave of the feminist movement in terms of women's inclusion, participation, and success, harness horse racing has been recalcitrant to change. Gender, Work, and Harness Racing: Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania investigates the stories of women involved in harness racing to expose how they use the uniqueness of their situation to work for positive change. With stirring accounts of the strong women who are surviving, and sometimes succeeding, in harness horse racing, Elizabeth Anne Larsen's analysis provides insight for studies of gender and work, occupational sex segregation, and women's studies.Trade ReviewElizabeth Anne Larsen takes us inside the fascinating—and often brutal—gendered world of harness racing. This engrossing study shows how women carve out a place in a male-dominated business of sports. -- Kathleen M. Blee, University of Pittsburgh; author of Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate MovementWomen's gains in professional sports in the post-Title IX era are notably absent in the world of harness racing. Elizabeth Anne Larsen explains how patriarchal relations in the family businesses of owners and trainers sustain and reinforce the marginalization of women in the sport, and shows readers how a growing connection between the sport and the casino/gaming industry is changing the underlying business model, potentially providing an opening for reorganizing gender relations in a way that builds on concepts and strategies from third wave feminism. This book will appeal to anyone interested in gender inequality in sport and in culture industries more broadly. -- William T. Bielby, University of Illinois at ChicagoThis very provocative book explores issues that are normally ignored in harness racing. While far more women hold prominent positions in harness racing today, success for women in the sulky has remained out of reach. It is ironic and unfortunate that in the years of harness racing’s greatest popularity, women were still confined to mostly domestic responsibilities. -- Dean A. Hoffman, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsPrologue: A Gendered Race Chapter 1. The Harness Racing World Chapter 2. Risks and Gratifications Chapter 3. From a Family Harness Racing Business, or Not? Chapter 4. Disrespect at the Track Chapter 5. Working with Family Chapter 6. Juggling Career and Domestic Demands Chapter 7. Resisting Sexism at Work Chapter 8. Women on Future Horse Racetracks Appendix. A United States Timeline of Women’s Experiences in Harness Racing and Other Sports
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Simon & Schuster Wacky Chicks
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Ebury Publishing A Dirty Filthy Book
Book SynopsisLondon, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishing and selling a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably forty-five years before the first woman will be admitted to the English bar Annie is defending herself. Before Britain's highest judge she declares it is a woman's right to choose when, and if, to have children. At a time when women were legally and socially subservient to men, Annie's defiant voice was a sensation. The riveting trial scandalised newspapers, captivated the British public and sparked a debate over morals, censorship and sex.Drawing on unpublished archives, private papers and courtroom transcripts and featuring an incredible cast including Queen Victoria, George Bernard Shaw and London itself A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a forgotten pioneeTrade ReviewMakes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian, as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful . . . [A] witty and entertaining account * The Times, Book of the Week *Drawn from newspaper accounts, court records, and Besant's own memoir, Meyer's depiction of Besant fighting for reproductive rights, almost 150 years ago, is truly marvellous . . . Meyer succeeds admirably in his efforts to bring to light the story of a truly remarkable and courageous woman -- Kate Lister * Daily Telegraph *Michael Meyer has mined the rich seams of history and woven together a fascinating and gripping narrative. Beautifully told, it has echoes for today. I don’t know how he does it -- Adam Hochschild, author of KING LEOPOLD'S GHOSTAnnie Besant was a freethinker and a half – an indomitable woman who challenged many of the discriminatory views of her day and put all her energies into social change. A great read -- Prof. Helen Pankhurst CBE, Women’s Rights CampaignerHugely entertaining, told with verve and humour, with a riveting court trial at its heart. A terrific study of the Victorian controversy and criminalisation of contraception and the dire consequences for women of confusing medicine with morals. At last, Annie Besant has found a champion equal to the task of doing justice to her crusading life and the significance of her achievements. Victorian patriarchy denied Besant her rightful place in political history: Michael Meyer has reinstated her, in all her glorious complexity, as the pioneering feminist changemaker in Britain's history of morals, censorship and sex -- Rachel Holmes, author of SYLVIA PANKHURST and ELEANOR MARXAt a time when reproductive rights are being rolled back globally, as well as worryingly close to home, [Besant's] story needs retelling until its message is set in stone * Guardian *Meyer interweaves Besant's multifaceted life into an engaging prose, full of intriguing details * BBC History Magazine *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Women and Industry in the Balkans The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector
Book SynopsisChiara Bonfiglioli is Lecturer in Gender & Women's Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. She has published and researched on gender history in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states, as well as on transnational women's and feminist movements during the Cold War. More details can be found at www.chiarabonfiglioli.net Trade ReviewIt is thanks to books like this that such examples of resistance and resilience are kept alive ... socially engaged and empathic, yet critical and academically sound, works of this kind are sorely needed. * European Journal of Women’s Studies *An engaging and complex read that allows us to enter the world of individual experiences entangled in political, economic and social processes. * Wagadu *[A]n engaging text ... Bonfiglioli’s book will be a mandatory reference for those interested not only in intersections of industrial labour, gender and class in socialism and post-socialism, but also in questions that shape current debates in the field of global labour history. * Social History *From here, exciting scholarly debate can proceed. ... Chiara Bonfiglioli’s book provides a valuable discussion of gendered work during socialist and especially, postsocialist deindustrialization and exploitative reindustrialization in Yugoslavia and its successor states. * Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1.Industrializing Yugoslavia: Market Socialism and Textile Workers’ Structure of Feeling 2.Being a Seamstress in Yugoslav Times: The ‘Working Mother’ Gender Contract 3.Labour After Yugoslavia: Post-socialism and Deindustrialization in the Textile Sector 4. Workers’ Structure of Feeling After Deindustrialisation: Loss, Nostalgia and Belonging 5. Beyond Nostalgia: Workers’ Struggles for Social Justice and Everyday Resilience Conclusion Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement
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I. B. Tauris & Company Art Gender and Migration in the Kurdish Diaspora
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Concordia Publishing House Ltd Katharina Von Bora A Reformation Life
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AltaMira Press One Night
Book SynopsisOne night, anthropologist Cathy Winkler awoke from a deep sleep to discover a rapist standing by her bed. For the rest of that night, she lived a woman''s worst nightmare as she was repeatedly raped and beaten by the stranger. The event changed her life into something resembling a Kafka novel: a justice system that bungled the case then blamed the victim, a social service system that provided no services or comfort, uneasy and awkward friends, exploitative media, and insensitive university administrators and colleagues. The pain of those four hours was dwarfed by the frustration of her decade-long fight to find the rapist and bring him to justice, ultimately through one of the first successful uses of DNA evidence in a rape case. Winkler, a brilliant observer and ethnographer, chronicles this struggle hereincluding her own growing awareness of her power to stare down district attorneys, to use the media to her own ends (including segments on 48 Hours and Court TV), and, ultimately throTrade ReviewIn this startling and brave personal examination of rape and its aftermath, Cathy Winkler asserts her own truth of sexual victimization and analyzes the ways in which a range of others make sense of the rape event and of her efforts to pursue justice...One Night makes important substantive contributions to the social science literature on rape and rape processing...Winkler's phenomenological account of her rape trauma will be useful to counselors and legal personnel...its value as an empirical contribution to the fields of sociology and anthropology cannot be overestimated. It would be a good addition to courses on the criminal justice processes, women's studies, criminology, and the sociology of emotion. -- Amanda Konradi, Ohio University * Contemporary Sociology *One night in September 1987, a rapist broke into the home of anthropologist Cathy Winkler and kicked her awake. Her narration of the seven year saga that began that night and ended in a courtroom constitutes a unique social and personal chronicle of the subtle and not so subtle ways in which women raped are debased in their pursuit of justice. It is a riveting tale, told in the true crime mode with the kind of attention to social detail only a professional anthropologist could supply. Cathy emerges as a modern American heroine, and her story will surely become an anthropological classic. -- Peggy Reeves Sanday, (University of Pennsylvania, author of Fraternity Gang Rape)...horrific, farcical, tragic, incisive and inspiring...Winkler's innovative style is highly effective...[she] makes important contributions to social theorizing about culture even as she adds significantly to a much-needed substantive literature on the lived experiences of VISAs (Victim as Survivor and Activist)...[The] elements combine to create a compelling saga and analysis that has the potential to inform, educate, and moblize diverse audiences...Winkler documents [her experience] brilliantly and in doing so adds tremendously to scholarship in this area. -- Jennifer Dunn, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale * American Ethnologist, Vol. 30, No. 4, August 2003 *Cathy Winkler should be commended for her sustained courage and determination to seek justice and raise awareness of the multiple facets and phases of rape. Her ethnographically-rich criminological insights are powerful. She tells a compelling story and offers a penetrating cultural critique of our society and its criminal (in)justice system. Her expose of the discrimination she faced is simply poignant. -- Faye V. Harrison, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTable of ContentsPart 1 Raped Once, Physical Rape Chapter 1 Another Rape Saga Part 2 Raped Twice, Social Rape Chapter 2 Rape as Social Murder Chapter 3 Traumatized Evidence Part 3 Raped a Third Time, Legal Rape Chapter 4 Chasing the Rapist Chapter 5 It Was Just One Night Chapter 9 Treating Trauma Chapter 10 Confronting Institutional Barriers Chapter 11 Judging Civil Justice Chapter 13 Looking for Justice Chapter 14 Confronting Status, not Justice Chapter 15 Publicizing the Pain Chapter 16 Judging Criminal Justice 17 Epilogue: Raped Three Times
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