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Hardback. This important book reveals a number of truths about women's rough sleeping across Europe and argues for the adoption of effective policy, strategies and services to meet the needs of homeless women and the specific problem of women rough sleepers who are the victims of domestic abuse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFB; JFFE3; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 163 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447317098
- ISBN
- 9781447317098
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.30
€ 97.30
Paperback. Features stories told by ordinary women. Num Pages: 319 pages, photographs, biographies. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842025638
- ISBN
- 9780842025638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812231984
- ISBN
- 9780812231984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.26
€ 57.26
Women Politics And Empowerment (Women in the Political Economy)
. Ed(S): Morgen, Sandra; Bookman, Ann; Morgan...
perfect. Focuses on working-class women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds employed in a variety of jobs. This work documents the story of women learning about the sources of their powerlessness and mobilizing to increase their power. Editor(s): Morgen, Sandra; Bookman, Ann; Morgan, Sandra Knudsen. Series: Women in the Political Economy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780877225256
- ISBN
- 9780877225256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.36
€ 38.99
€ 35.36
Paperback. The book is an exploration of the complexities of women's leadership in post-conflict Rwanda and South Africa. Through interviews with women who held political leadership positions in these countries, the book examines their educational, professional, activist, and personal backgrounds. It weaves a link between the complicated relationship Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 1HFMS; JFSJ1; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Verlag Barbara Budrich
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783847407454
- ISBN
- 9783847407454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.51
€ 26.99
€ 23.51
Hardback. This book analyzes how the media covers women leaders and reinforces gendered evaluations of their candidacies and performance. It deals with current transformations in political communication that may change the nature and scope of leadership in contemporary democracies with implications for relations between female leaders, media and citizens. Series: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSJ1; JP; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 226 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230285286
- ISBN
- 9780230285286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988443
- ISBN
- 9780295988443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Illuminating the ethnic, political, and personal diversity of women physicians, the book reveals them as dedicated professionals who grapple with obstacles and embrace challenges, even as they negotiate their own health, sexuality, and body images, the needs of their patients, and the rise of the women's health movement. Editor(s): More, Ellen S.; Fee, Elizabeth; Parry, Manon. Num Pages: 376 pages, 28, 9 black & white line drawings, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; MBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801890376
- ISBN
- 9780801890376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.91
€ 76.91
Paperback. Illuminating the ethnic, political, and personal diversity of women physicians, the book reveals them as dedicated professionals who grapple with obstacles and embrace challenges, even as they negotiate their own health, sexuality, and body images, the needs of their patients, and the rise of the women's health movement. Editor(s): More, Ellen S.; Fee, Elizabeth; Parry, Manon. Num Pages: 376 pages, 28, 9 black & white line drawings, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; MBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801890383
- ISBN
- 9780801890383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.19
€ 34.99
€ 30.19
Paperback. Editor(s): Atherton, Margaret. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872202597
- ISBN
- 9780872202597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.25
€ 19.99
€ 16.25
paperback. Shows how female cosmopolitanism re-contextualises the well-known Western male romance with the Orient: Japanese women are now the agents, narrating their own desires for the "modern" West in ways that seem to defy Japanese nationalism as well as long-standing relations of power not only between men and women but between Japan and the West. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 312 pages, 23 b&w photos, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5588 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822328162
- ISBN
- 9780822328162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.84
€ 35.84
Paperback. The subject of this book is the lives of three very different 17th-century women. They were not queens or noblewomen, one was a Jewish merchant, one a Catholic mystic visionary, and one a Protestant painter. From their writings and memoirs the author has retrieved their lives from obscurity. Num Pages: 372 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; BG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674955219
- ISBN
- 9780674955219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.66
€ 37.99
€ 32.66
Paperback. his book investigates the feminine traditions of the Hebrew Bible in a readable manner, pertinent to contemporary times. It is unique in its focus on the experiences of biblical women and not how they were perceived within a patriarchal context. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG; HRJ; HRLC1; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 267.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761802808
- ISBN
- 9780761802808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.50
€ 73.50
Hardback. This volume focuses on women serving on corporate boards of directors. It includes censuses of women directors in a number of countries, identifies reasons for their limited numbers and indicates why appointing qualified women to boards offers competitive advantages. Editor(s): Burke, Professor Ronald J.; Mattis, Mary C. Series: Issues in Business Ethics. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJG; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361626
- ISBN
- 9780792361626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.79
€ 128.79
Paperback. A novel by a Kurdish-Iraqi writer that gives voice to contemporary Iraqi women's experiences of political repression, violence, exile, and the yearning for peace. It represents a critique of the violence done to ordinary people by those who hold power both in Iraq and in the West. Translator(s): Cumberbatch, Judy. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; APFA; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292714847
- ISBN
- 9780292714847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.90
€ 23.99
€ 21.90
Paperback / so. Series: Focus on the Family: Women. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCG7; HRCV4; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764216923
- ISBN
- 9780764216923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.32
€ 13.32
Hardcover. German-American women played many roles in the US women's rights movement from 1848 to 1890. This book focuses on three figures, Mathilde Wendt, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, and Clara Neymann, who were simultaneously included and excluded from the nativist women's rights movement. Series: Transatlantic Perspectives. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404. German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativisim, 1848-1890. Series: Transatlantic Perspectives. 216 pages, illustrations. German-American women played many roles in the US women's rights movement from 1848 to 1890. This book focuses on three figures, Mathilde Wendt, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, and Clara Neymann, who were simultaneously included and excluded from the nativist women's rights movement. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 16. Weight: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857455123
- ISBN
- 9780857455123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.54
€ 154.54
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408837801
- ISBN
- 9781408837801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.81
€ 21.99
€ 16.81
Paperback. Starting with Sacajawea, the Shoshone guide for Lewis and Clark, this title gives an overview of pioneers: Narcissa Whitman, trailblazer to Oregon and missionary to the Indians; Esther Morris and Carrie Chapman Catt, leaders for women's suffrage; and Willa Cather, the writer to transmute the experience of western women into serious literature. Num Pages: 179 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780803270732
- ISBN
- 9780803270732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.87
€ 23.99
€ 21.87
Paperback. In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating enquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account here on a twelfth-century genre which commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died, and the roles they had played in the history of their lineage. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Volume 2
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745619484
- ISBN
- 9780745619484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.98
€ 21.98
Hardback. In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating enquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account here on a twelfth-century genre which commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died, and the roles they had played in the history of their lineage. Num Pages: 160 pages, geneal tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Volume 2
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745617893
- ISBN
- 9780745617893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.52
€ 53.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMX; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479841943
- ISBN
- 9781479841943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMX; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479854493
- ISBN
- 9781479854493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.43
€ 96.43
Paperback. CNBC Business News anchor introduces us to the female "Market Wizards" who have successfully challenged the last male bastion. Wall Street has long been perceived as a man's domain, but a generation of shrewd and successful women have proved just as good, if not better than their male peers in high finance. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471248408
- ISBN
- 9780471248408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 23.86
€ 30.99
€ 23.86