What is the impact of powerful female deities - their images, textuality and history - on the social standing and psychological health of women? Do they empower women, or serve the interests of the patriarchal culture? This work studies the goddesses of South Asia to address these questions.
What is the impact of powerful female deities - their images, textuality and history - on the social standing and psychological health of women? Do they empower women, or serve the interests of the patriarchal culture? This work studies the goddesses of South Asia to address these questions.
A book on the politics of black hair to be based on substantive, ethnographically informed research. Focusing on the everyday discussions that black women have among themselves and about themselves, it analyzes how talking about hair reveals black women's ideas about race, gender, sexuality, beauty, and power.
"Reading Kathy Greenwood's account of growing up on a small ranch in southeastern New Mexico, I kept wondering where she had heard the story of my life. From her ill-starred introduction into the fine art of milking a recalcitrant Jersey cow to her uneasy homecoming from graduate school, she kept reflecting incidents out of my own West Texas ......
Focusing on the military's masculine ideology, which views military service as the domain of men and as a mechanism for the achievement of manhood, Melissa S. Herbert reveals how servicewomen create and re-create what it means to be a woman, and particularly a woman soldier.
One of contemporary Italy's best-known writers, Dacia Maraini has often been a figure of controversy as author and as cultural critic. Though she is recipient of numerous literary awards, Maraini's work has not received the sustained critical attention commensurable with its stature. Working and creating "dalla parte delle donne" (on the side of ......
This major reference work provides short, alphabetically ordered articles on key people, events and ideas that have shaped the history of women in the United States.'
Beauty shops are places where women can enjoy the company of other women and exchange information or secrets. This work traces the development of the American beauty shop, from its largely separate racial origins, through white recognition of the ethnic market, to the end of the 20th century.
Beauty shops are places where women can enjoy the company of other women and exchange information or secrets. This work traces the development of the American beauty shop, from its largely separate racial origins, through white recognition of the ethnic market, to the end of the 20th century.
