The link among health, well-being and social support is well-known. Social support represents an important protective factor against stress both di...

This book explores the historical roots of the current status of women in Malta, and through extensive examination of the intricate interconnectedn...

Standing Together is a powerful expression of women's collective and individual strength. It is a collection of personal stories from women who hav...

Alberta's Conservative governments have employed several strategies to resist feminist claims for women's equality, from stonewalling during the 19...

"Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human." --Amy Lebovitch S...

This book traces suicide in creative women. Stress, alcohol, and life's traps ensnared these women. But why especially the creative ones? The Direc...

Surrogacy is heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry which seeks new markets for women over 40, and gay men who believe they have a 'right'...

What drives young women and what drives them mad? Twentysomething women talk about their feminism. What they do, how they do it and why they choose...

The Information Society is an evolving project, with new 'ensembles' of social practices and of information and communication technologies (ICTs) e...

Christened Claudia Alta Taylor when she was born in a country mansion near Karnack, Texas, she received her nickname 'Lady Bird' as a small child; ...

Christened Claudia Alta Taylor when she was born in a country mansion near Karnack, Texas, she received her nickname "Lady Bird" as a small child; ...

No one after reading this thought-provoking book will blithely assert that we are living in an age of equality between the sexes. Taking the 1930s ...

No one after reading this thought-provoking book will blithely assert that we are living in an age of equality between the sexes. Taking the 1930s ...

Dance has become increasingly visible within contemporary culture: just think of reality TV shows featuring this art form. This shift brings the ba...

Over the past several hundred years, many women have made major, significant contributions to society, to their countries and to their field of end...

It's 1981, and Sylvia Taylor has signed on as rookie deckhand on a wallowy 40-foot salmon troller. Looking forward to making money for university, ...

This is a memoir of the writer Beryl Fletcher's life between the year of her birth in 1938 and 1972. It is the story of one woman's life -- but it ...

There are (at least) two competing views on prostitution: Prostitution as a legitimate and acceptable form of employment, freely chosen by women an...

This novel follows the narrator, a film-maker, through the process of writing a script. With a central motif being the story of Helen of Troy and t...

Dr. Margaret Phillips was a pioneering missionary who served in China at a time when women were usually dutiful wives, and certainly not unmarried ...