Women's Studies in Credo: Books

Provides a vibrant collection of entries dealing with contemporary women's issues around the world.

Provides a rich overview of the most important theoretical and empirical work in the field, organized by relationship type.

Provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and global look at the diverse issues surrounding human trafficking and slavery in the post-1945 environment.

Emphasizes practical and concrete solutions to address the challenges, such as lack of access to resources and infrastructure, lack of household decision-making power, and gender biases in policymaking and leadership, still faced by women in agriculture around the world.

Building on new analyses and new sex-disaggregated data, this text aims to advance the understanding of the relationship between trade and gender equality and to identify a series of opportunities through which trade can improve the lives of women.

Presents a realistic perspective on the paradoxes employees face when navigating work and personal responsibilities for career success.

Resource guide that provides historical context and helps people and organizations better understand the challenges women have faced and continue to face in the American workplace, along with opportunities and recently discovered and developing success stories.

3rd Edition, profiles American Indian women who have had an impact on American Indian society and the world at large. Dispels popular myths and introduces the reader to numerous women whose stories have often remained untold until now.

Profiles some of the most influential and innovative women in the history of American business.

This A-to-Z format biographical dictionary covers notable American women in sports - both athletes and coaches - and is inclusive regionally, chronologically, and multiculturally.

This 2nd Edition is an engaging resource that provides readers with insightful, up-to-date biographies of select women in the performing arts from the 19th century to the present.

This 2nd Edition is an informative reference work that covers American women in the world of the visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present day.

This 2nd Edition offers fascinating coverage of notable American women who have been proven leaders and activists in both the political and social realms.

This engaging resource examines the stories of women from a wide array of cultures and generations who share a love of writing. These women are also united by the unique challenges facing women writers - some having to opt for masculine pen names in order to be published.

3rd Edition; profiles women who fought against stereotypes throughout history and all over the world to forge new discoveries and theories that would eventually change the way we view science.

Features more than 250 A-to-Z entries on important American activists and social leaders from colonial times to the present.

Get to know the foremost minds within technology, medicine, military, religion, and entertainment. Each figure's life and accomplishments are put into context, showing how their contributions changed the world we live in.

Engaging biographies for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people.

Provides an authoritative and accessible look at the lives of the men and women who have shaped science.

Revised and extended 2nd edition of a highly regarded reference work that illuminates the lives of Scottish women in history. With fascinating lives on every page, the Dictionary offers concise entries that illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to the early twenty-first century, as well as the worldwide Scottish diaspora.

Supplies a rich record of progress in America from the humble accomplishment in a workplace or the incremental change in small town government to the historic civil rights movers and a renowned elected politician.

Biographical information about women: historical, current, and worldwide.

Introduces readers to some of the most remarkable scientists, mathematicians, authors, and world leaders of all time - individuals who are well worth knowing on a personal and professional level.

Shines a welcome light on some of America's most remarkable women and their enduring stories and amazing accomplishments.

Tells the lives of twenty-five female scientists, with specific attention to astronomers and mathematicians. The book will be of interest to all who wish to learn more about the women from antiquity to the nineteenth century who played such key roles in the history of astronomy and science despite living and working in largely male-dominated worlds.

Offers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feminist literary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues and authors in the field.

A concise alphabetical guide to the key terms, issues, theoretical approaches, projects and thinkers in feminist philosophy.

This essential book illustrates the important events and figures surrounding the suffrage movement; literature, art, and music; business leaders and breakthroughs; political history and office holders; advances in science and medicine; and other vital topics.

Contains all the material a reader needs to understand the role of women throughout America's political history.

4th edition; comprehensive and valuable compendium of biographies of leading women in U.S. politics, past and present, and an examination of the wide range of women's movements.

Contains concise, straightforward summaries, analyzing and explaining groundbreaking court cases on the issue of abortion.

Looks at the history of gender roles and rights in the United States and how public opinion about them have developed and changed over time. This is accomplished through a series of events represented by primary or secondary source documents, including speeches, letters, articles, book excerpts, texts of law, and opinions of Supreme Court justices. Each carefully chosen document demonstrates an essential aspect of that moment in American history and culture.

Examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military.

For a woman faced with a diagnosis of breast cancer, the information available today is vast, uneven, and confusing. For more than two decades, readers have relied on Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book to guide them through this frightening thicket of research and opinion to find the best possible options for their particular situations. This sixth edition explains exciting advances in targeted treatments, hormonal therapies, safer chemotherapy, and immunologic approaches as well as new forms of surgery and radiation. There is extensive guidance for the increasing number of women living for years with metastatic breast cancer. With Dr. Love's warm support, readers can sort the facts from the fads, ask the right questions, and recognize when a second opinion might be wise.

Informed by current health issues and health-care realities, offers readers practical information, historical aspects, and future directions, all meticulously researched and conveniently presented.

This A to Z reference is a definitive resource, praised especially for its coverage of topics not previously considered under the umbrella of women's health.

Covers gender differences, the "Psychology of Women" and the "Psychology of Men", discussing psychological differences in personality, cognition, and behavior, as well as biologically based differences and how those differences impact behavior.

The central aim of this encyclopedia is to give the reader a comparative perspective on issues involving conceptions of gender, gender differences, gender roles, relationships between the genders, and sexuality.

This timely book addresses the implications of this trend, revealing human rights inequities from nation to nation and the consequences of these inequities worldwide. Inspired by the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Andrew Fagan considers the nature of the state, national identity, and citizenship.

Provides a global view of the history of LGBTQ, covering significant figures and events worldwide. Wide-ranging in scope, this encyclopedia complements courses in a variety of disciplines, including history, American studies, literature, psychology, sociology and others.

Covers the history of this movement through a cross-referenced dictionary with entries on specific countries and regions, influential historical figures, laws that criminalized same-sex sexuality, various historical terms that have been used to refer to aspects of same-sex love, and contemporary events and legal decisions.

A comprehensive A-Z reference that defines sexuality from a broad biocultural perspective and shows the diversity of human sexual behavior and belief systems.

Explores this dilemma in both contemporary and historical contexts, describing the sources of these conflicts, to what extent the conflicts have been resolved, and how they might be resolved in future.

Takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to trans studies. Entries address a wide range of topics, from broad concepts, to specific subjects, to key historical figures, events, and organizations. Entries focus on diverse lives, identities, and contexts, including the experiences of trans people in different racial, religious, and sexual communities in the United States and the variety of ways that gender is expressed in other countries.

Provides a major thematic overview of global sexualities, spanning each of the continents, and its study, which is both reflective and prospective, and includes traditional approaches and emerging themes.