World Full of Women, A (5th Edition) This revision of A World Full of Women will appeal to instructors and students in anthropology, or any discipline looking for an engaging, cross-cultural approach to the study of women. "Reading this book is like sitting down for an intellectually st ...

Women in the Church: An Analysis and Application of 1 Timothy 2:9-15 Women in the Church offers a definitive statement of the complementarian interpretation of this crucial New Testament passage on the role of women in the church. In this second edition, each chapter has been thoroughly updated and reworked, and a new ...

Voting For Women: How The Public Evaluates Women Candidates (Dilemmas in American Politics) This book explains how voters evaluate women candidates, who votes for them, and why. Women comprise an ever-increasing percentage of the candidate pool for elective office in the United States. Public opinion surveys profess strong support for fema ...

Empowering Women of Color This is the first textbook to address the specific but polymorphous needs of women of color. With the help of guest authors, Gutierrez and Lewis provide an excellent framework through which social workers can more effectively aid women of color in th ...

Women, Science and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies Feminist science studies is a relatively new and exciting field. Women, Science and Technology will fast become the definitive choice for readers seeking an introduction to the way feminism is changing science studies. These are republished essay ...

Women Who Dared, Vol. I: A Book of Postcards "Here is a collection of thirty-two extraordinary women of science, literature, aeronautics, politics, medicine, and education. Helen Keller, Mother Jones, Harriet Tubman, Julia Morgan, Ida Tarbell, Marie Curie, Dian Fossey, Ruth Elder, Sarah Winnemu ...

Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wid ...

The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your True Center for More Energy, Confidence, and Pleasure From "belly laughs" to "gut reactions," people acknowledge the power and wisdom within our body’s center every day, yet many women sabotage their bellies with tight clothes and shame. This book demonstrates that by celebrating their bellies instead ...

Women As Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem (American Folklore Society, New Series) This ethnography explores the religious beliefs and rituals of a group of elderly Jewish women, originally from Kurdistan and Yemen, who now live in Jerusalem. Sered visited the women in their homes and accompanied them on trips to holy tombs, local ...

Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture (Hbi Series on Jewish Women) This fascinating interdisciplinary collection of essays brings gender issues to the foreground in order to redress a profound imbalance in the historiography of the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, and in the early years of the State of Isr ...