Our spring sale is on! Use promo code SPRING24 at checkout to save 50% on any order!

Gender Studies

Showing 1 to 25 of 56 results.
Clear all Filters

Women at Michigan

The "Dangerous Experiment," 1870s to the Present

By Ruth Bordin
Subjects: Gender Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, History

Revisits the opportunities and obstacles that have faced women students, faculty, and administrators at the University of Michigan through the decades

Sex between Body and Mind

Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s

By Katie Sutton
Subjects: History, Gender Studies, German Studies, Psychology
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A groundbreaking cross-disciplinary account of how sex became an object of scientific study in modernity
 

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

By Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History
Series: African Perspectives

Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon

Gendered Power

Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court

By Mamiko Suzuki
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the contributions of three powerful Meiji women and how their own education and ideas about Japanese women’s potential shaped how females were to participate in modern society

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain

Reading, Ownership, Circulation

By Leah Knight, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History

Rediscovering and reframing the rich and multifaceted history of early modern British women’s book ownership and library compilation

Embodied Reckonings

“Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress

By Elizabeth Son
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, Korea, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

An illuminating study of how former Korean “comfort women” and their supporters have redressed history through protests, tribunals, theater, and memorial-building projects

Not Straight from Germany

Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld

Edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm, and Rainer Herrn
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, German Studies, Psychology, Art
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present

Memory, Meaning, and Resistance

Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, African American Studies, History, Labor History, Race and Ethnicity

A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
 

Virtuous Necessity

Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England

By Jessica Murphy
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History

A new way of looking at behavioral expectations for women in early modern England

Arguments with Silence

Writing the History of Roman Women

By Amy Richlin
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Gender Studies, History, Historical Methods and Theory

Examining the perishable nature of the history of women’s lives

The New Woman International

Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s

Edited by Elizabeth Otto & Vanessa Rocco
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Media Studies, New Media, German Studies

An international picture of New Woman in film and photography

Market Dreams

Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic

By Elaine Susan Weiner
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, History, Russian History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Public Policy, Class Studies

How have women experienced the transition from socialism to market economy in Eastern Europe?

Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany

By Dagmar Reese
Translated by William Templer
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first English-language account of the girls' division of the Hitler Youth

Gates of Freedom

Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind

By Eugenia C. DeLamotte
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, American Studies

Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists

Where Women Run

Gender and Party in the American States

By Kira Sanbonmatsu
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Sociology

Where are the women candidates?

Transcribing Class and Gender

Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices

By Carole Srole
Subjects: History, American History, Class Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status

Moisture of the Earth

Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist

Edited by Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, History, Labor History, African American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced

Other Germans

Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

By Tina Marie Campt
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, German Studies, History, Gender Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Tells the story, through analysis and oral history, of a nearly forgotten minority under Hitler's regime

Philadelphia Freedom

Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

By David Kairys
Subjects: History, American History, African American History, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Memoir, African American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Gender Studies

The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers

The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors

A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art

By Christine Mitchell Havelock
Subjects: Classical Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art, Architecture, History

A revealing survey of Aphrodite

State of Virginity

Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State

By Ulrike Strasser
Subjects: German Studies, History, Gender Studies, Religion
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An important contribution to the historical study of sexuality and the growing feminist literature on the state

Gender in Transition

Discourse and Practice in German-Speaking Europe 1750-1830

Edited by Marion Gray & Ulrike Gleixner
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History, Gender Studies, European Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The historical influence of gender on German society and change

The Afterlife of Pope Joan

Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England

By Craig Rustici
Subjects: Gender Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Investigates representations of the legend of Pope Joan in Early Modern England and their implications on social, political, and religious thought

An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College

Edited by Elisabeth Israels Perry & Jennifer Ann Price
By Olive San Louie Anderson
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, Education, American Studies

A historical novel about a young woman's challenges as a member of the first coeducational class at a major university

© 2024, Regents of the University of MichiganBuilt with the U-M Library Design SystemLibrary Privacy StatementThis site is ReaderBound