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more than a prayer
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hammer, Juliane
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- islam, moslima's, politiek, feminisme, geschiedenis, Verenigde Staten, 21e eeuw
- Description
- The author describes the 2005 woman-led prayer in New York. Juliane Hammer uses this woman-led prayer as the historical focus for an analysis of gender discourses in American Muslim communities as reflected in the scholarly and nonfiction writings of American Muslim women authors.
the debate over working mothers and work-family balance
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jones, Bernie D. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Stone, Pamela
- Creator
- Hernandez, Lisa Ackerly
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Dolkas, Jamie
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 5 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeidsparticipatie, moeders, seksisme, feminisme, geschiedenis, Verenigde Staten, 21e eeuw
- Description
- In this book the authors ask whether the opting out assessment is an adequate explanation for women's decisions to leave the workforce. They also make an assessment of the race, class and gender axes to determine women's workplace participation, and the women who cannot afford to opt out or find it difficult to opt in. In the last part of this book the authors draw their conclusions and highlight an unexplored territory and point out topics for future research and policy.
war widows, fallen soldiers, and the remaking of the nation after the great war
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kuhlman, Erika
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- eerste wereldoorlog, weduwen, politiek, geschiedenis, nationalisme, Verenigde Staten, Duitsland, 20e eeuw, 1910-1919
- Description
- Erika Kuhlman focusses on the war and postwar experiences of people, based on letters, diaries, magazine articles, and correspondences between widows and their governments. The author offers a comparison between a victorious and a defeated nation: the United States and Germany.
the global phenomenon of women's soccer
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Grainey, Timothy F.
- Creator
- Timko, Brittany > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 4 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- voetbal, cultuur, geschiedenis, sporten, Verenigde Staten, Midden-Oosten, Afrika, Latijns-Amerika, 21e eeuw
- Description
- This book examines why soccer has become the most popular team sport for women and girls in the world. The author describes the history of sports in the United States, sports internationally (with the focus on the Middle East, Africa and Latin America) and covers different ways in which the national and international teams have expanded throughout the world.
women of world war II in American popular graphic art
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Knaff, Donna B.
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, kunsten, populaire cultuur, geschiedenis, Verenigde Staten, tweede wereldoorlog, 20e eeuw
- Description
- During the second World War, female masculinity provided an expansion of people's ideas of what women should be and how they should behave. The most popular image for working women during that era was that of Rosie the Riveter. The author shows that Rosie the Riveter's popular image was not the only representation of wartime women in cartoons, comics and advertisements.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Walsh, John Evangelist
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 DIC 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- geschiedenis, relaties, familierelaties, liefde, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- John Evangelist Walsh proves that the mysterious man Emily Dickinson called 'Master' is Otis Lord. The author describes Emily Dickinson's love for him and their thirty-year romance. Walsh also fits this information into known events of Dickinson's life.
German gender politics in global perspective
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ferree, Myra Marx
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, politiek, sociologie, geschiedenis, Europa, Duitsland, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- The author explains why and how understanding Europe and Germany would contribute to understanding conflicts and dilemmas feminists face around the world. Ferree describes the development of German feminism in contrast with women's movements that arise in other countries, like the United States.
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