Gillian Brown explores the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in 19th-century America. Arguing that domesticity not only presumes but institutes distinctions of gender, class, and race, Brown reveals how these distinctions in turn inform identity. She offers a new reading of writings by Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Fern, and Gilman.

Over the past century, women artists and writers have expressed diverse creative responses to the landscape of the Southwest. The Desert Is No Lady provides a cross-cultureal perspective on women by examining Anglo, Hispanic, and Native American women's artistic expressions and the effect of their art in defining the southwestern landscape. The Desert Is No Lady has been made into a motion picture of the same title by Women Make movies, New York, NY "A beautifully crafted book. . . . Although it varies in intensity, the response of women to the environment is virtually always different from the male frontiersman's view of the land as inanimate, boundless, conquerable and controllable." ÑPolly Wells Kaufman in Women's Review of Books "A powerful masterpiece." ÑEve Gruntfest in The Professional Geographer

Historische beschouwingen over de Verenigde Staten, gekoppeld aan een biografische schets van Gerald Ford, van 1974 tot 1977 president van de Verenigde Staten.

Platenboek met z-w en kleurenill.

Met kleurenfoto's.

Twee verslagen in Engels met z-w foto's van tochten in 1923 naar stammengebied in Noord-Oost India.

Seduction is the first book to explore the sensual style of the seductress, from Marie Antoinette and Madame de Pompadour in pre-revolutionary France, through the screen queens of 1930s Hollywood, such as Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich, to the contemporary sex sirens of today, Madonna and Jennifer Lopez. In chronological, themed chapters, international fashion authority, Caroline Cox explores the art of seduction, examining the many ways in which women have used their environment, clothes, and behavior to create a seductive allure. The lively and authoritative text is accompanied by gorgeous new and vintage images.

Beschrijving van het leven van Nederlands eerste vrouwelijke minister (1912-1986) en de totstandkoming van de Algemene Bijstandswet van 1965.

The history of the militant suffragettes.

Traces Puerto Rican industrialization since the 1950s from the point of view of a young girl, covering incidents that are important to children but often dismissed as trivial by adults

A new edition of Mayo's controversial 1927 book, with commentary that sheds new light on Indian nationalism of this period

Sasha Davis recalls the experiences that followed her high school initiation into the rites of middle class society

Traces the lives of four generations of one family scattered over New York, England, and India, whose involvement with a mysterious spiritual leader tests their ties to each other

Shares the experiences of homeless women, looks at the problem of homelessness from historical, sociological, and psychological perspectives, and argues that the real problem is not mental incapacity, but a lack of affordable housing