Women & Feminism from Ariel Books

London: Gay & Hancock , 1912. Not Dated [1912 BL] Author was a journalist and social-welfare advocate. CONDITION Brown bds with bright gilt titles, 81 pages printed on untrimmed rag paper, full colour frontis plate with undamaged tissue guard with 9 illus plates and a nice engraved tail piece. Copy is mostly very bright and crisp with insect speckling to… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Picador, 1998. "According to Norris, the history of sexism can be illuminated through the evolving interpretation of the biblical story of Adam and Eve. Beginning her study with ancient Greek myths, she equates Eve with Pandora, whose curiosity brought evil into the world. Classical writers considered women to be troublemakers, cites from Old and New Testament and apocryphal… Read more about this item

U S A: Westview Press, 1976. Classic title recognized as her most important work, it offers a comprehensive and fascinating inventory of women's contributions to history over time and presents many invaluable models which can assist in relating history from a much-needed women's perspective. From pre history and the earliest civilizing roles of women, the transition centuries and the 20th… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Polity Press , 1995. "Green, a lecturer in women's studies at the University of London, mounts a defense of feminist humanism. She examines the work of early theorists, male and female, including Thomas Hobbes, Jean- Jacques Rousseau, Christine de Pisan and Mary Wollstonecraft. From this historical perspective, Green argues that although female humanists wrote within a patriarchal framework,… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Penguin, 1990. "A groundbreaking book-the first to argue that feminism must draw on psychoanalysis to understand the ideological oppression of women.. In 1974, at the height of the women's movement, Juliet Mitchell shocked her fellow feminists by challenging the entrenched belief that Freud was the enemy. She argued that a rejection of psychoanalysis as bourgeois and patriarchal was… Read more about this item

U S A: University of Minnesota, 1989. "This study provides a survey and critique of the research material concerned with the sexual division of labour. The result is an account of how women's lives have changed over the last 250 years. Harriet Bradley draws on her own research, and addresses issues of gender, work and inequality. Her "case studies" are… Read more about this item

New York, U.S.A.: ILR Press, 1991. "How are men responding to feminism? In particular, at work dealing with the challenge to their power and privilege represented by positive action for sex equality? The 1980s saw many organizations, from major companies to left-wing local councils, take action to improve women's chances. The research on which this book is based evaluates the… Read more about this item

Australia: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1988. Papers from workshop addressing oppression of Asian women and strategies to initiate change. Covers the changing fortunes of Balinese market women, subcontracting in export industries and the impact on Filipino women, capitalism and segmentation in Malaysia, selling hair for wig making, sexual discrimination in the agrarian areas of Malaysia, and prostitution… Read more about this item

New York, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1987. "The author shows how the nineteenth century's "cult of domesticity" had invested the home with great importance - as the centre of republican virtue, as the source of religious values and as an area of heady female responsibilities. But this emphasis meant that women were relegated to the domestic sphere, especially when Darwin's… Read more about this item

New York, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1993. "In the 1970s Carole Gilligan undertook a study of moral decision-making in real-life situations. Her results contested a widely accepted model of moral development as the autonomous self speaking the voice of justice. Published in 1982, In A Different Voice proposed a new model of moral reasoning based on care, arguing that it better described… Read more about this item

U S A: Temple University Press , 1993. "Providing an original look at service occupations, Glazer offers an innovative interpretation of how managers reduce labor costs by shifting labor for paid women workers to women as family members. She critically examines the past and present practices of retailing and health service occupations as a way to better understand the de-skilling,… Read more about this item

U S A: University of Illinois Press , 1988. Examines service, technical and clerical workers in the hospital industry, in this case Duke Medical Centre. Studies their roles and why they fought so hard to unionise highlighting womens activism and in general and black womens leadership in particular. condition Spine slightly faded otherwise covers unworn, pp xi 239. Bright and… Read more about this item

New York, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. "Based on a two-year examination of three feminist organizations: a peace group, health collective, and business women's group. From these case studies, Iannello constructs a model of organizations that, while structured, is nevertheless non-hierarchical. She terms this organization from the "modified consensus model." Her case studies show that modified consensus does not give way to… Read more about this item

U S A: Cornell University , 1990. Young third world women work on assembly lines in factories, and it is not clear whether the work enhances or marginalizes their socio economic position. What strategies have these employers used to control these workers, and how have women resisted these tactics? How have governments promoted development while reinforcing social and legal idealologies… Read more about this item

USA: Times Books, 1972. The two Classic Studies are The Long Day, the Story of a New York Working Girl (1905)by Dorothy Richardson, describes her struggle to survive as a factory worker in New York. And Inside the New York Telephone Company (1970) by Elinor Langer. CONDITION Cover has mildest handling signs, pp xix 36. Internally bright and crisp as… Read more about this item

Thousand Oaks, California, U.S.A.: Sage Pubns, 1979. Vol 4 in Womens Policy Studies Series. Essays are Working Women, towards a new society by Alan Pifer;Women Working, historical trends by Sharlene Hesse; Occupational Values and family roles, women in blue collar occupations by Mary Lindenstein Walshok; Racial differences in female labour force by Frank L Mott; Women, work and welfare, feminization… Read more about this item

U S A: Addison-Wesley, 1996. "The mighty bond between parent and child is one of the enduring wonders of psychology. John Kennell and Marshall and Phyllis Klaus bring decades of research, insight, and clinical practice into one book that offers parents, and those who care for them during pregnancy, everything they need to know to enhance this essential relationship. This… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, USA: Alyson, 1981. As womens movements gain strength across all classes of society they too often flounder as fragmented groups of party liberals and leftists struggle against a growing right wing trend. Book shows what must be learnt if it is to become an effective force for grass roots change. CONDITION 253 pages, crisp and unread copy with… Read more about this item

Australia: Flamingo, 1999. "Written in journal form and drawing primarily on her journal from the time, it covers her period of pregnancy and also of travel in Portugal and Spain. Full of sensual delights, conflicting values and everyday realities of pregnancy." CONDITION 180 pages are unworn and unread.. Edition Unstated. Soft Cover. New/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.… Read more about this item

Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams, 1993. "The women who grew up earlier this century expected to be wives and mothers - gardeners, cooks, churchgoers, voluntary workers, housekeepers. They brought up a generation of women, now in their forties, who became lawyers, secretaries, teachers, businesswomen, factory workers - as well as mothers. Between these generations lies extraordinary social change. The women… Read more about this item