Book Description: This collection of essays focuses on what Cheryl Claassen terms the “multi-vocal” landscape—the idea that different groups and genders look upon the same natural features but perceive different meanings and potential in what they are seeing...read more

Product Description: Some remarkable Canadian women, past and present, have helped formulate and implement Canada's foreign policy. Against the Odds is a book about these intelligent, interesting, and adventurous women. It is the story of 23 women who, against the odds, carved out careers as officers in the Canadian Foreign Service...read more

Product Description: Gain first-hand knowledge of how today's lesbians aged 60 and over survived the 20th century! “I didn’t know we were lesbians. We lived together 13 years!” Whistling Women is a unique, candid collection of the life experiences of 44 lesbians between 62 and 82 years of age...read more

Product Description: This book is an encyclopedic treatment of shell analysis with material suitable for students and professional archaeologists and paleontologists. It covers the history of archaeological interest in shells, the biology of freshwater and marine mollusks, and critically discusses current techniques, methods, and research problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: During the 1960s, in such works as Man the Hunter, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution in which men were characterized as "cooperative hunters of big game." Women fit neatly into this model, such books as Woman the Gatherer explained, as gatherers of plant food...read more

'Pt. 1 of this collection presents a history of women in Americanist archaeology, including a biography of Dorothy Hughes Popenoe who conducted early stratigraphic excavations in Honduras. Pt. 2 focuses on the current status of North American women in Mesoamerican archaeology and problems of gender bias. Valuable discussion of issues, but non-US archaeologists are not covered'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/