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A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms : Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries
150 expertly-researched biographical portraits (with pictures) of women and men who were active in, or part of, women's movements and feminisms in 22 countries in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Shapers of the Great Debate on Women's Rights: a Biographical Dictionary : A Biographical Dictionary
The three waves of feminism are explored through the lives of the women who made history in bringing women's issues to the forefront of American society.
Men and Masculinities : a Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia
Men & Masculinities, a pioneering two-volume work, corrects the oversight by summarizing the latest historical, biological, cross-cultural, psychological, and sociological research on the subject. It also looks at literature, art, and music from a gender perspective. The contributors are experts in their specialties and their work is directed, organized, and coedited by one of the premier scholars in the field, Michael Kimmel.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide
This groundbreaking reference set documents the achievements and current challenges for women in more than 130 countries in the world's most populated areas.
The Handbook of Women, Psychology and the Law
The Handbook of Women, Psychology, and the Law is a groundbreaking book that presents legal and psychological perspectives on how society has responded to the most vital (and often controversial) contemporary women's issues.
Encyclopedia of Gender in Media
The media strongly influences our everyday notions of gender roles and our concepts of gender identity. The Encyclopedia of Gender in Media critically examines the role of the media in enabling, facilitating, or challenging the social construction of gender in our society. The work addresses a variety of entertainment and news content in print and electronic media and explores the social construction of masculinity as well as femininity. In addition to representations of gender within the media, we also analyze gender issues related to media ownership and the media workforce.