Gender studies: women and girls
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She's at the Controls
eBook
She's at the Controls gives a socio-historical examination of the roles of women studio professionals in the UK music industry based on interviews conducted over six years with 30 female studio practitioners at different stages of their careers and working in different genres of popular music includ...
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Explorations in Women, Rights, and Religions
eBook
The application of women's rights to the religions of the world have prompted highly contentious debates. This volume explores the many intricate issues raised in such interactions. The chapters in this volume are authored by women scholars of religion from diverse regions of the world, representing...
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The Lost Women of Rock Music
eBook
In the late 1970s and early 1980s a new phenomenon emerged in UK popular music - female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers began playing in bands. Before this time, women's presence in rock bands, with a few notable exceptions, had always been as vocalists. This sudden influx of...
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The Wise Wound
eBook
This is a book of many questions and some answers. What is this menstruation that half the world undergoes? Has it any use, or any purpose? Which is it, blessing or curse? This groundbreaking study of the facts, fantasies, and taboos surrounding menstruation has helped bring about a profound shift...
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The Wise Wound
Paperback
Penelope Shuttle, Peter Redgrove
Foreword by Margaret Drabble
This groundbreaking study of the facts, fantasies, and taboos surrounding menstruation was published in 1978 and helped bring about a profound shift in attitudes toward a natural phenomenon that had been reviled and denigrated over the...
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About Chinese Women
Paperback
In About Chinese Women Julia Kristeva combines a study of Chinese history, literature, religion and politics with her own penetrating insights. Kristeva analyzes aspects of a country in which the role of women has evolved and been transformed with startling consequences. Surveying first...