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This is the first book to examine how pre-Islamic/Late Antique goddesses shaped the Qur?an, including its basic theology and cosmology. Exploring the traces found in the text of cultic veneration to...

Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status, economic opportunity, and gender roles in nineteenth-century society. Sources including trade directories, census returns,...

Examining the fascinating history of female genital cosmetic surgery, Camille Nurka traces the origins of contemporary ideas of genital normality. Over the past twenty years, Western women have...

This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside...

Female Leaders in New Religious MovementsAuthor: Inga B?rdsen T?llefsenPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Oct 18, 2017Number of Pages: 290 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This ethnographic study explores the lived experiences and challenges felt by Muslim female students in higher education in the greater District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) area. It...

Female Olympian and Paralympian Events is a groundbreaking book that examines women's sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which have long been underappreciated and under-analyzed. The book...

This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term 'femminicidio', or 'femicide', entered the mainstream media...

This book is the first to formulate an ideology of emancipation for women in Morocco. Beginning with constructs of the body, femininity and masculinity, it analyzes the central role played by the...

Feminism and Intersectionality in Academia: Women's Narratives and Experiences in Higher EducationAuthor: Stephanie Anne SheltonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jul 12, 2018Number of...

This book works to complicate and push against common arguments that the Western from its inception is an anti-feminist genre. By focusing on representations of women professionals in Westerns, it...

This book focuses on the discussion of the women's liberation movement and feminism in Finnish print media between 1968 and 1985. By analysing this topic, the book demonstrates that a relatively...

Feminism in Play focuses on women as they are depicted in video games, as participants in games culture, and as contributors to the games industry. This volume showcases women's resistance to the...

This edited collection examines the relationship between three central terms--capitalism, feminism, and critique--while critically celebrating the work and life of a thinker who has done the most to...

Draws from comprehensive archival material Contributes to scholarship on social reform movements in 1920s and 1930s China Establishes the connected impact of journalism, literature, and the law on...

This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist K?the Schirmacher (1865-1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious...

Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist TimesAuthor: Red ChidgeyPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 03, 2018Number of Pages: 215 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Feminist and Anti-Psychiatry Perspectives on 'Social Anxiety Disorder': The Socially Anxious WomanAuthor: Katie MastersPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jul 18, 2024Number of Pages: 256...

Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research tackles the breadth and depth of feminist perspectives in the field of media studies through essays and research that reflect on the present and...

This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship. It tracks the ongoing dialogue between women's issues and environmental change by republishing the work of pioneering scholars and...

This volume uncovers the ideas concerning everyday life circulating in the burgeoning feminist periodical culture of Britain in the early twentieth century. Barbara Green explores the ways in which...

Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology: Four ModesAuthor: Ritch CalvinPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 27, 2016Number of Pages: 304 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This edited collection draws from cultural studies and Feminist Science and Technology Studies to offer a timely and exciting intervention into the growing field of women?s digital health. It...

This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within the French Empire and brings together important currents in both imperial history and the history of medicine. The book covers a broad...

Feuds and State Formation, 1550-1700: The Backcountry of the Republic of GenoaAuthor: Osvaldo RaggioPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 27, 2018Number of Pages: 316 pagesBinding:...

This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football after the 1989/90 publication of the 'Taylor Report'. A direct response to the...

Fictions of Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century NovelAuthor: Bryan ManganoPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jul 31, 2017Number of Pages: 298 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Fictions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century FranceAuthor: Edmund BirchPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: May 24, 2018Number of Pages: 238 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This book provides successful models for field-based learning experiences in Family Life Education. Each chapter provides an overview of the implementation details, including key points that others...

This book presents post-peace agreement violence as a serious, yet predictable and manageable, political phenomenon. Negotiating an end to a civil war is extremely difficult, and many signed peace...