Search Results: Feminism, Women's Studies, and Gender Issues from Books of the World

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, January 1990. Trade Paperback. First U.S. Edition. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiii + 244 pages.
This radical new analysis of international politics reveals the crucial role of women in implementing governmental foreign policies, be it Soviet Glasnost, Britain's dealings in the EEC, or the NATO alliance. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes-governments restricting imported goods, bankers negotiating foreign loans, soldiers serving overseas-and shows that the real landscape is less exclusively male. Bananas, Beaches and Bases shows how thousands of women tailor their marriages to fit the demands of state secrecy; how foreign policy would grind to a halt without secretaries to handle money transfers or arms shipments; and how women are working in hotels and factories around the world in order to service their governments' debts.… Read More

Philadelphia: Cleis Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Prior owner's name to first page, otherwise fine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. 223 pages. These stories dealing mostly with political and feminist issues are written by women authors from countries such as Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Peru, Mexico, and Argentina,

Beltsville, Maryland: Demerara Press, May 1997. Paperback. First Edition. Fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 223 pages. Black-Water Women explores the tensions between men and women in the Guyanese culture of the 40's, 50's and 60's as well as the tensions among immigrants transplanted to the United States. The stories are told from the point of view of Sara and her mother Cleo, Tina, and Sanka, who live beside the Demerara River whose waters, black and mysterious, threaten to engulf their bodies and souls. The reader can empathize with these women whose triumphs and tragedies mirror those of women the world over. This novel also gives the reader the opportunity to explore Guyana's unique culture of the period and laugh at the characters' idiosyncrasies while sympathizing with their predicaments.

Boston: Houghton Mufflin / Mariner Books, June 2004. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 261 pages.
A novel of Paris in the 1930s from the eyes of the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh observes their domestic entanglements while seeking his own place in the world. In a mesmerizing tale of yearning and betrayal, Monique Truong explores Paris from the salons of its artists to the dark nightlife of its outsiders and exiles. She takes us back to Binh's youthful servitude in Saigon under colonial rule, to his life as a galley hand at sea, to his brief, fateful encounters in Paris with Paul Robeson and the young Ho Chi Minh.

London: Doubleday, June 2003. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Pages lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 413 pages.
Set in the gritty Tower Hamlets area of East London, Brick Lane is the story of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi immigrant and how she deals with issues of love, cultural differences and the human spirit. Nazneen is forced into an arranged marriage with a much older man whose expectations of life are miserably low. When they flee the oppression of their Bangladeshi village for a high-rise block in the East End, she finds herself cloistered and dependent on her husband. It soon becomes apparent that of the two, she is the real survivor and more able to deal with the ways of the world and the vagaries of human behavior. Through her friendship with another Asian girl, she begins to understand the unsettling ways of her new homeland.

New York: Random House, September 2012. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 639 pages.
A masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development, and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands. She dealt with domestic rebellion, foreign wars, and the tidal wave of political change and violence churned up by the French Revolution. Catherine's family, friends, ministers, generals, lovers, and enemies--all are here, vividly brought to life.

Washington, D.C.: Women, Law & Development / OEF International, 1986. Trade Paperback. A Near Fine book. Light reading wear. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. viii + 163 pages. This book contains papers from a Workshop on Gender and Human Rights organized by the Institute for Women, Law, and Development as a part of NGO activities during the UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, June 1993.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, November 2010. First Edition, fourth printing. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Unmarked. Top front corner bumped. Two dog-eared pages. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 368 pages. The life of the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright, dog-ear to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxxii + 434 pages.
Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist, newspaper editor, and one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing family as well as her public activities as teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight against attitudes and laws oppressing blacks. It is an illuminating narrative of a zealous, race-conscious, civic- and church-minded black woman reformer, whose life story is a significant chapter in the history of Negro-White relations.

Washington, D.C.: OEF International, 1986. Trade Paperback. A Very Good book. Prior owner's name to two pages. Underlinging to one page noted. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. 454 pages.

London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean with light reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xii + 244 pages.

New York: Continuum, 1992. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiii + 237 pages.

Washington, D.C.: Women, Law & Development / OEF International, 1986. Trade Paperback. A Near Fine book. Light reading wear. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. xv + 354 pages.

New York: Scribner / Lisa Drew, May 1999. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Inscribed by the author to Eric, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Cover clean and bright. Slight reading and shelf wear. Not from a library. No remainer mark. Not clipped. 416 pages.
The Dean of the White House Press Corps describes her many years of reporting on the White House, offering a fascinating glimpse of the changing relationship between the presidency and the press as she discusses every administration, from Kennedy to Clinton, in a unique view of four decades of presidential history.

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, March 1995. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Very Good. Prior owner's name to first page, text block pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright, dogear to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiii + 199 pages.
Simona Sharoni's innovative approach to the conflict in the Middle East stresses the relationship between gender and politics by illuminating the daily experiences of women in Israel and in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Among the issues explored are the connections between the violence of the conflict and the escalation of violence against women; the link between militarism and sexism; and the role of nationalism in building individual and collective identities. Sharoni also shows the impact of Intifada (the Palestinian uprising in December, 1987) on the Palestinian and Israeli women's movements. While women's coalitions such as these are critical subjects in and of themselves, the… Read More

New Delhi: Penguin Books India, September 2002. Trade Paperback. First printing / full number line. As New. Inventory number and stamp from IBH Books & Magazines, Chennai on last page. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 184 pages. A quarter of a century before writing this book, the author looked out from her bedroom window and saw a young woman being burned to death for not bringing enough dowry. In this book, she writes of the ways in which society conspires to silence thousands of innocent young women each year, driving them to horrific deaths or lifelong servitude.

New York: Dover Publications, 1989. Trade Paperback. Unabridged and unaltered republication of the first American edition, published in 1904. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 315 pages. Laid-in book review from Washington Post Book World. The curious call of an unseen bird lures a young explorer deeper and deeper into the jungle, where he encounters the source of the siren song - a lovely, half-wild girl with mysterious powers. Thus begins the romance between Abel, a Venezuelan revolutionary hiding among an Indian tribe in the uncharted rain forest of British Guiana, and Rima, who speaks the languages of birds and longs to return to the land of her birth to be reunited with others of her kind. As Abel chases after his secret admirer, she leads him further and further into her invisible trap of love. Then the secret begins to unfold. William Henry Hudson was an English… Read More

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Prior owner's name to first page, otherwise Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark.
The contributors to this volume seek to analyze how international human rights law applies specifically to women in various cultures worldwide, and to develop strategies to promote equitable application of human rights law at the international, regional, and domestic levels. Their essays present a compelling mixture of reports and case studies from various regions in the world, combined with scholarly assessments of international law as these rights specifically apply to women.

Harare: Women in Law and Development in Africa, 1994. Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight reading/shelf wear. 104 pages. Illustrated.

San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation, 1990. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxxvi + 402 pages.
A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors explore a full spectrum of present concerns in over seventy pieces that vary from writing by new talents to published pieces by Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, Norma Alarcón and Trinh T. Minh-ha.