Cacciato gathers compass, fresh water, and maps and walks out of the mire and fury of Vietnam, bound for the gaiety and life of Paris

Product Description: Rachelle Bergstein brings readers along on a unique and delightful romp through the history of shoes, the women who wear them, and the profound impact they have on our lives.Women from the Ankle Down includes interviews and cameos with influential figures ranging from Lisa Mayock of Vena Cava to Oscar Award–winning costume designer Patrizia van Brandenstein, from Doc Martens historian Martin Roach to Fashion Institute of Technology museum director Valerie Steele; from Marilyn Monroe and Jane Fonda to Salvador Ferragamo and Christian Dior; from Judy Garland to Wonder Woman...read more

Product Description: How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women looks at the remarkable impact of war on women in Britain. It shows how conflict has changed women’s lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning.Lindsey German, one of the UK's leading anti-war activists and commentators, shows how women have played a central role in anti-war and peace movements, including the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...read more

Cacciato gathers compass, fresh water, and maps and walks out of the mire and fury of Vietnam, bound for the gaiety and life of Paris.

Product Description: Interviews from Gloria Steinem to Oprah Winfrey to Nawal El Saadawi, and pieces by authors from Erica Jong to bell hooks to Beth Ditto—the very best of the Guardian's feminist writing The feminist movement of the last 40 years has won triumphs and endured trials, but it has never weakened its resolve, nor for a moment been dull...read more

Product Description: How has feminist scholarship changed history? Writing Gender History explores the evolution of historical writing about women and gender from the 1930s until the early twenty-first century. With chapters on the history of Europe, the USA, colonial India and Africa, the discussion moves from women's history to gender history, and then to poststructuralist challenges to that history...read more

Decade-by-decade survey of the twentieth century's major social revolution: a review of how real women's lives changed.

Product Description: Forty-one women and the author/photographer share the year of their birth: 1931. In their individual life stories, they look back on family, school, and work, and tell us how they see the world as women of seventy. There are 85 photographs to show how they look now and how they looked as young women...read more

Product Description: There is an enormous social science and wider literature on women, and a rapidly growing one on men and masculinity. The cliche that women have changed and men have not is well worn, yet no single text has established the truth behind this claim...read more

Examines the changes women experience during the first half of the twentieth century. (view table of contents)

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Discusses the role of women during World War II and in the postwar years of both expanding and contracting opportunities for them, as many sought their rightful place as full American citizens. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Second World War was the first war to affect civilians as much as the troops at the Front: by 1942, more men, women, and children had been killed in Britain than soldiers in action.

Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war