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The story of Anna Dengel, founder of the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries, known worldwide as the Medical Mission Sisters, reads like a novel as this twentieth century pioneer time and again …

Florence Hartley’s Ladies’ Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness was first published in the nineteenth century and is a timeless reference to the art of gracious living today. This comprehensive …

Beginning with the broad theme of the Hindu widow and narrowing it down to Gujarati widows, Vatsala Mehta has made a time-sweep through three millennia of Indian social history starting with the Veda …

This ethnography unravels the continuing political tensions surrounding Senegal’s 1999 national ban on “female genital mutilation” The Senegalese parliament authorized a national ban on “Female Genit …

The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, social, and economic. This book examines the extent …

What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, and sexual orientation? How can i …

Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women–but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fat …

Youve been told that your husband is coming around the corner, but you cant figure out which corner that is. It seems your man is nowhere to be found, and you are still single. It is God who said bei …

Long live female empire , Theres hope , The rise and rise of the female empire Inequality is the question Are you the answer? Equality: ? = ?, 3+1 wise women and the feminist dream, Woman Power, femi …

Art Versus Therapy We live in an uncertain world. Global catastrophes, infrastructures crumbling, inequalities within social systems, terrorism and the oxymoron of Holy War does not rest peacefully i …