Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice (Steflja Izabela)(Paperback)

Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice (Steflja Izabela)(Paperback)

Women war criminals are far more common than we think. From the Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans to the Rwandan genocide, women have perpetrated heinous crimes. Few have been punished. These women go unnoticed because their very existence challenges our assumptions about war and about

Preaching Women: Gender, Power and the Pulpit (Shercliff Liz)(Paperback)

Should women who preach, preach as women? Preaching Women argues that far from being a gender-neutral space, the pulpit is a critical place in which a gender imbalance can begin to be redressed. There is a vital need for women preachers to speak out of their experience of living as women in

Homeworking Women: A Gender Justice Perspective (Delaney Annie)(Paperback)

Homework; work that is categorised as informal employment, performed in the home, mainly for subcontractors and mostly undertaken by women. The inequities and injustices inherent in homework conditions maintain women's weak bargaining position, preventing them from making any improvements to their

Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power (Grahn Judy)(Paperback)

WINNER of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology's Sarasvati Nonfiction Book Award! WINNER of PEN Oakland's Reginald C. Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism​!​Path-breaking lesbian poet & scholar Judy Grahn returns to the stories of Inanna the Mesopotamian goddess of erotic

Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice (Luna Zakiya)(Paperback)

Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War (Farzaneh Mateo Mohammad)(Paperback)

Eighteen months after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country's women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) in a variety of capacities. Iran was divided into women of conservative religious backgrounds who supported the revolution and accepted some of the

Critical Reflections on Women, Family, Crime and Justice (Earle Jenny)(Paperback)

Drawing on original research from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice research network, this edited collection sheds new light on the challenges and experiences of women and families who encounter the criminal justice system in the UK. Each contribution demonstrates how these groups are often

Women and God: Hard Questions, Beautiful Truth (Nielson Kathleen)(Paperback)

There is much discussion and confusion around the issues of gender equality and gender roles, and the church is not exempt. Some even believe that the Bible contributes to sexism against women and that God is, in some way, sexist.In this warm, conversational and sympathetic book, Kathleen Nielson

Justice League Unlimited: Girl Power (Various)(Paperback)

Girls run the world Follow Mary Marvel, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, and all the amazing women of DC as they go on adventures and show off that girls really do run the world And why do Wonder Woman's Amazon sister have turned against the world...starting with the men. Can the Justice League stop the

Women and ETA: The Gender Politics of Radical Basque Nationalism (Hamilton Carrie)(Paperback)

At a time when conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere are highlighting women's roles as armed activists and combatants, Women and ETA offers the first book-length study of women's participation in Spain's oldest armed movement. Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews,

Women and the Cuban Insurrection (Bayard de Volo Lorraine)(Paperback)

Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War Story's mythology of an insurrection single-handedly won by bearded

Surviving Becky(s): Pedagogies for Deconstructing Whiteness and Gender (Matias Cheryl E.)(Paperback)

The infamous rise in characterizations of white women as Becky(s) is a modern phenomenon, different from past characterizations like the Miss Anne types. But just who embodies the Becky? Why is it important to understand, especially with regards to anti-racism and racial justice? Understanding that

Communicate for Change: Creating Justice in a World of Bias (Aldred Genelle)(Paperback)

How do we advocate for justice effectively in a world deeply divided by racial, gender and class inequalities? If we want to make a positive difference, we have to know how to recognise our own biases and blind spots - only then can we understand how to be part of the solution and start having

A Documentary Herstory of Women Artists in Revolution (Lippard Lucy R.)(Paperback)

A rare, ever-relevant compendium of texts and manifestos from women artists on gender and race issues in cultural institutionsOriginally published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution documents the efforts of W.A.R., a loose group of women artists, filmmakers, writers and

Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide (Babcock Linda)(Paperback)

The groundbreaking classic that explores how women can and should negotiate for parity in their workplaces, homes, and beyond When Linda Babcock wanted to know why male graduate students were teaching their own courses while female students were always assigned as assistants, her dean said: 'More

#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (Jackson Sarah J.)(Paperback)

How marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent.The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global

Women and Gender in Iraq (Ali Zahra)(Paperback)

In this book, Zahra Ali foregrounds a wide range of interviews with a variety of women involved in women's rights activism. Using these life stories, Ali provides a nuanced understanding of the everyday lives of women, the production and reproduction of gender norms and relations, and the

Flight Of The Maidens (Gardam Jane)(Paperback / softback)

A delightful and touching novel set in post-war summer of 1946 as three young women embark on the adult

The Symposium (Plato)(Paperback)

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and

Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld (Kalifa Dominique)(Paperback)

Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates--part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society,

Land Girls at Christmas (Holmes Jenny)(Paperback / softback)

'Calling All Women!'It's 1941 and as the Second World War rages on, girls from all over the country are signing up to the Women's Land

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (Ahmed Leila)(Paperback)

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates,

Radium Girls - They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice. (Moore Kate)(Paperback / softback)

As the First World War spread across the world, young American women flocked to work in factories, painting clocks, watches and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in

Loving Justice (Lifebuilder Study Guides) (Hunter Bob)(Paperback / softback)

Bob and Carol Hunter challenge you to love justice as God does. And they show you how to work for justice in your everyday