This work aims to show how women around the world since 600 B.C. have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes which should be of interest to contemporary readers, this genuinely global, multicultural anthology presents women from some 30 countries, speaking from their vivid, diverse life experiences ...
A survey of recent major developments within feminist theory and analysis, this collection captures a period of transition in women's scholarship, from the examination of confining categories and constructs to the self-reflective development of feminist theory. The fourteen essays in this volume provide critical application of the practices of ...
These essays provide a greater understanding of the ways on which gender has played a part in determining relations of power in Western cultures. This volume makes a vital contribution to the current scholarship about women in the Middle Ages.
Examining the multiple relationships of women to education, this volume documents the history of women's attempts to gain access to education, as well as what and how they have learned. Individual essays explore the development and impact of women's studies, the significance of women's colleges, and the future of curriculum transformation, among ...
During recent years the field of women's studies has emphasized the growth of new scholarship on women as scholars began to recover women's history, women's literature, and both qualitative and quantitative data about women's lives in disciplines as diverse as classics and psychology, religion and medicine, philosophy and sociology. As a result, ...
This study draws on over 150 hours of courtroom speech recorded in a North Carolina court. It looks at the ethnography of courtroom speech, and contains social psychological experiments focused on the effects of different modes of presenting information in courts of law. The research involves four major sets of linguistic variables: "powerful" ...
African Studies, contrary to some accounts, is not a separate continent in the world of American higher education. Its intellectual borders touch those of economics, literature, history, philosophy and art; its history is the story of the world, both ancient and modern. This is the clear conclusion of "Africa and the Disciplines", a book that ...
By taking Women's Studies curricula and classrooms as models, Jean O'Barr eloquently documents the ways that inclusivity and student-centered learning are necessarily linked. Anyone in higher education who is concerned with answering critics' charges that faculty do not care about educating students will have much to learn from this splendid ...
During recent years the field of women's studies has emphasized the growth of new scholarship on women as scholars began to recover women's history, women's literature, and both qualitative and quantitative data about women's lives in disciplines as diverse as classics and psychology, religion and medicine, philosophy and sociology. As a result, ...
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