Womens Ebooks

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:49:01 -0500

Womens Ebooks - Roman Shakespeare Other: Coppelia Kahn. In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Coppelia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind 'Roman virtue'. Plays featured include: * Titus Andronicus * Julius Caesar * Antony and Cleopatra * Coriolanus * Cymbeline Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historical feminist perspective. Purchase At: http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=72478

Womens Ebooks

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:47:56 -0500

Womens Ebooks - Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s by Angela Keane. Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation. As women were cast into the feminine, maternal role in Romantic national discourse, women like these who defined themselves in other terms found themselves exiled - sometimes literally - from the nation. These wandering women did not rest easily in the family-romance of Romantic nationalism nor could they be reconciled with the models of literary authorship that emerged in the 1790s. Purchase At: http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=127960

Womens Ebooks

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:48:06 -0500

Womens Ebooks - Women, Work and Computing by Ruth Woodfield. Although few dispute the computer's place as a pivotal twentieth century artefact, little agreement has emerged over whether the changes it has precipitated are generally positive or negative in nature, or whether we should be contemplating our future association with the computer more with enthusiasm or trepidation. Specifically with regard to the relationship between women and computers, a diverse body of commentary has embraced the views of those who have found grounds for expressing pessimism about this association and those who have favoured a more optimistic assessment of the current situation and its probable future development. This book undertakes a thorough evaluation of the legitimacy and predictive power of the optimistic commentary. Using a large body of original qualitative data, it interrogates the bases of what it identifies as three waves of optimism and in doing so provides answers to some of the key questions asked in this field today. Purchase At: http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=127999

Womens Ebooks

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:47:13 -0500

Womens Ebooks - The Rise of Professional Women in France by Linda L. Clark. This history of professional women in positions of administrative responsibility illuminates women's changing relationship to the public sphere in France since the Revolution of 1789. Linda L. Clark traces several generations of French women in public administration, examining public policy and politics, attitudes towards gender, and women's work and education. Women's own perceptions and assessments of their positions illustrate changes in gender roles and women's relationship to the state. With seniority-based promotion, maternity leaves and the absence of the marriage bar, the situation of French women administrators invites comparison with their counterparts in other countries. Why has the profile of women's employment in France differed from that in the USA and the UK? This study gives unique insights into French social, political, and cultural history, and the history of women during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will interest scholars of European history and also specialists in women's studies. Purchase At: http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=110535

Womens Ebooks

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:46:15 -0500

Womens Ebooks - Athena Unbound by Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor, Brian Uzzi. Why are there so few women scientists? Persisting differences between women's and men's experiences in science make this question as relevant today as it ever was. This book sets out to answer this question, and to propose solutions for the future. Based on extensive research, it emphasizes that science is an intensely social activity. Despite the scientific ethos of universalism and inclusion, scientists and their institutions are not immune to the prejudices of society as a whole. By presenting women's experiences at all key career stages - from childhood to retirement - the authors reveal the hidden barriers, subtle exclusions and unwritten rules of the scientific workplace, and the effects, both professional and personal, that these have on the female scientist. This important book should be read by all scientists - both male and female - and sociologists, as well as women thinking of embarking on a scientific career. Purchase At: http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=9156

Womens Ebooks

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:45:23 -0500

Womens Ebooks - Women of the European Union Editor: Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon. Purchase At: http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=127930

Womens Ebooks

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:16:38 -0500

Womens Ebooks - Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East by Nadje Al-Ali. A considerable literature has been devoted to the study of Islamic activism. By contrast, Nadje Al-Ali's book explores the anthropological and political significance of secular-oriented activism by focusing on the women's movement in Egypt. In so doing, it challenges stereotypical images of Arab women as passive victims and demonstrates how they fight for their rights and confront conservative forces. Al-Ali's book also takes issue with prevailing constructions of 'the West' and its perceived dichotomous relation to 'the East'. The argument is constructed around interviews which afford fascinating insights into the history of the women's movement in Egypt, notions about secularism and how Islamist constituencies have impacted on women's activism generally. The balance between the empirical and conceptual material is adeptly handled. The author frames her work in the context of current theoretical debates in Middle Eastern and post-colonial scholarship: while some of the ideas are complex, her lucid style means they are always comprehensible; the book will therefore appeal to students, as well as to scholars in the field. Purchase At: http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=74688

Womens Ebooks

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:15:56 -0500

Womens Ebooks - Biblical Goddesses by Diane Christian. Purchase At: http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=174505

Womens Ebooks

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:15:07 -0500

Womens Ebooks - Problems of Divine Analogy by Diane Christian. Purchase At: http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=175466

Womens Ebooks

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:19:05 -0500

Womens Ebooks - Suffering the Goddess by Diane Christian. Purchase At: http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=177963