Contains extensive documentation on the sex trade and trafficking in women, especially in Asia, and calls for a new bill of rights for women throughout the world.

Anthology which analyzes the many forms of violence against women in the home, workplace, and streets. Discusses the responses of different institutions to violence as well as the cultural dimensions.

This updated edition of the best-selling recovery guide offers inspiration and encouragement to women who have been sexually abused as children and provides self-help guidelines. A classic book.

A book specifically focusing on the experiences of post communist countries which addresses at child sexual abuse, domestic violence and pornography.

In this thorough study of rape across history, country and culture, Brownmiller concludes that, “the threat, use and cultural acceptance of sexual force is a pervasive process of intimidation that affects all women” whether or not they have been actual victims of violence.

collection of essays from around the world from such diverse countries as Northern Ireland, Brazil, Kuwait and Tanzania that looks at domestic violence, sexual assault, rape and torture in war, and government measures to confront the problem

A collection of Andrea Dworkin’s best essays on violence against women in all its forms: rape, harassment, battery, pornography, and prostitution.

The contributions reveal the innovative character of the battered women's movement that is evident throughout the world and is a tribute to the results of often difficult and life-threatening work. They address the diversity of efforts, challenge readers to reflect, assimilate and take action, and envision a future in terms of: the way in which societies define the problem; global organizing; informal social networks; new interventions to assist victims/survivors, perpetrators and their children; and practice research that informs intervention.

Although the European Union has been attempting to address economic discrimination, more general issues of women's rights and inequality are increasingly difficult to ignore. Sexual Politics and the European Union transcends the emphasis on economics, which is the conventional basis for EU public policy discussions, and focuses on issues such as abortion, reproductive technologies, woman battery, rape, prostitution, pornography and sexual harassment.

Betrayal Trauma explains the forgetting of child abuse and other trauma as a survival mechanism for sexual abuse survivors. Herself a survivor of child sexual abuse, Freyd addresses the issue of repressed memories with careful science and compassion. “A crucial reminder that society must admit the widespread abuse of children before it can be stopped.” Gloria Steinem

Presents a new approach for psychotherapists to work with victims of domestic violence

Trauma and Recovery explores the psychological consequences of domestic violence, rape, and terrorism, placing individual experience on a broader political frame and arguing that psychological trauma can only be understood in a social context.

This book clearly defines physical and emotional abuse and chronicles the cycle of abuse, the progression of violence and illustrates how violence is a learned behavior.

Exposes the ways that society encourages violence against women and the legal system and law enforcement contribute to the problem. Full of first person examples, the book is both accessible and practical.

Based on in depth interviews with 60 women, Kelley argues that sexual violence must be seen on a continuum and that it is necessary to focus on how women define their experiences and how they develop strategies to resist, cope, and survive sexual violence.

A collection of essays by renowned legal feminist, Catharine A. MacKinnon exploring issues such as rape and racism, domestic abuse, sexual harassment, and pornography.

Develops the legal framework for sexual harassment Law and examines sexual harassment in the context of women’s inequality. Will appeal to non-lawyers as well as lawyers.

Written in simple language, the book focuses on practical skills to empower women. It provides information on self defense techniques, as well as assertiveness training, and encourages women to trust their intuition about potentially dangerous situations.

The book examines whether Islam is opposed to women's rights by focusing on the early years of Islam and Mohammed's intention to create an egalitarian society without slaves or sexual discrimination. She asserts that it is the political and economic interests of a male elite--not the dictates of the religion--that are responsible for the denial of rights to women.

The Demon Lover, the first feminist treatise on terrorism, “ brings a startling perspective to terrorism, which she (Morgan) sees as arising out of patriarchal societies’ emphasis on power, control, domination and violence” Publishers Weekly.

Michael Paymar has worked with hundreds of men at the Duluth Abuse Intervention Project, and shows how men can move beyond their abusive behavior to lead healthy, loving, nonviolent lives. He helps men to understand the roots of their violence, take responsibility for their actions, and build relationships based on mutual respect.

Femicide, described as the misogynous killing of women by men, is a compilation of 40 articles and essays that document and describe the link between hatred for women and male violence against women.

Landmark study and analysis of the prevalence of marital rape in the United States.

Offers a psychosocial analysis of battered women and abuses. Includes information on alcohol and drug abuse and violence , legal responses to violence, and the impact of violence on children

The author of this challenging volume seeks to bridge this gap by incorporating feminist theory with counselling practice. Whalen argues that a counsellor working with an abused woman should not aim merely to empower the client to change a situation that is intolerable for that particular woman: the counsellor should also aim to change the social conditions that foster abuse.

By one of the authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves, this book specifically for teenagers, answers questions about teen health and sexuality with sensitivity and humor.

The recently updated version of the classic text of the women’s health movement continues to tackle such topics as body image, sexuality, contraception, childbearing, breast cancer, and the politics of women's health. Our Bodies, Ourselves keeps giving women the power and the knowledge to take charge of their own health. It remains a valuable resource for women of all ages and backgrounds. Ester Shapiro of the team, which authored this title has offered to help develop local versions of this book.

Following in the ground breaking tradition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Ourselves Growing Older addresses the health questions and needs of women over 40.

A deeply committed, eloquent analysis of the increasing demand that women be thin. "Kim Chernin quietly and thoroughly undermines--one hopes forever--the popular, widely endured tyranny of 'thinness' over women's bodies and souls."--Alice Walker

An anthology of the noted Egyptian feminist activist and scholar, the book addresses issues such as women and health in the Arab world, women and fundamentalism and women and poverty.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the status of women in the global AIDS pandemic and analyzes the social, political and economic forces which continue to place women at risk for HIV infection.

This anthology argues for an expansion of the single-issue abortion-rights movement into multi-cultural feminist movement. Filled with a diverse collection of essays and poetry, this anthology is highly readable and accessible.

The most complete book on menopause on the market, this "compassionate and empowering resource" (Dr. Karen Johnson, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco) offers clear, detailed information on both physical and emotional issues.

Christiane Northrup's vision of mind-body wellness has received an extraordinary response from women all over the world. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom powerfully demonstrates that when women change the basic conditions of their lives that lead to health problems, they heal faster, more completely, and with far fewer medical interventions.

Based on in-depth group and individual interviews with hundreds of women in diverse settings, the book asks when, whether and how grassroots women express a sense of entitlement or self-determination in everyday decisions about childbearing, work, marriage, fertility control and sexual relations. What strategies do women employ in their negotiations with parents, husbands or partners, health providers, and the larger community over reproductive and sexual matters? What role do economic constraints, religion, tradition, motherhood, and group participation play in shaping their decisions?

This volume, the result of 15 years of research conducted by the authors - a social worker and physician respectively - explores the theoretical perspectives of this dramatic expression of male domination, together with health consequences for women and clinical interventions.

The well-know women's rights activist and feminist organizer connects the external revolution to an internal revolution of spirit and consciousness, offering readers parables from the lives of figures as diverse as Mahatma Gandhi and Julie Andrews.

A practical book which examines why many women and girls risk their health and well being in order to please others. Includes personal narratives and useful exercises.

The book deals with the experience of different groups of women and female individuals, about whom we talk in a withhold manner even when we have in mind the female individuals who seek professional help. They are the women who experience violence, those who were raped or sexually abused, the prostitutes, those who are dependent on legal and illegal drugs or those who have the stigma of the psychiatric institution.

The author describes and analyses lessons drawn from 13 year- jurisdiction in the field of medical liability in Hungary. The book is based on a nation-wide survey of medical litigation, and contains both descriptive, as well as, analytical and critical chapters on health care law. Special chapters deal with patients’ rights and thoughts about fault and no-fault compensation system. In Hungary this book is used as a manual both by civil courts, insurance companies, patients’ organizations, health care policy makers and by academic scholars. In order to use the book for general purposes it needs some revision and inclusion of some legal changes since 1996.

The author bears witness to ordinary people who routinely advocate for peace and deepens our understanding of the processes sustaining conflict in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and Bosnia/Herzegovina through a lens of close personal involvement with remarkable women's projects on reconciliation and cooperation and the search for a safe place to disentangle collective identities and nationalist thoughts and practices.

This volume brings together a group of international scholars from moral philosophy, law, political science and sociology to offer a reconceptualization of the idea of citizenship and presents a more holistic vision of collective, historically determined identities.

The author places women at the center of international politics and using the lens of the Cold War--in the United States, Russia, Bosnia, El Salvador and Vietnam, among others-- illuminates connections between demilitarization and ideologies about motherhood and family, considers patriarchy and post cold war systems, and feminism and nationalism. Enloe's critical framework examines how to break out of cycles of militarism and war and contribute to a more humane world order.

Contributors to this anthology incorporate a mix of ethnographic narrative from recent crises and pay specific attention to asylum practices that are unreceptive to women who are Muslim. Writers look at field experiences of international organizations, particularly those dedicated to health care and food to expose their unequal care and resource allocation and advance an argument for gender-sensitizing relief agencies.

This collection represents proceedings of the International Women's Forum: Women and the Politics of Peace held in Zagreb, Croatia in 1996. Using case studies from Central and Eastern Europe, contributors put forth a diversity of voices on women and peace, pacifism, violence, international security and ideological and academic conceptions of women's identities and realities shaped by and shaping the circumstances of war.

Contributors to this anthology include a wide variety of feminist academics and activists who explore ways in which women are targeted as ethnic subjects in extreme situations such as wars, genocide, famines, slavery, the Holocaust, mass rape and ethnic cleansing and suggest alternative frameworks within which to view events including the Rwandan massacre, comfort women during World War II, nuclear testing and reproductive policies in Tibet.

This reader brings together the work of foremost scholars on women and war to address questions of citizenship, ethnicity, women's agency, policy-making, women and the war complex, peacemaking and aspects of motherhood, while moving beyond simplistic gender dichotomies to unearth compelling tenets of the central problem of violence in society.

This book is considered a canon text on women in conflict and feminist perspectives on peace and transformation. The author challenge core concepts, basics assumptions and fundamental values which are intrinsic to war, analyzes enemies and victims and the militarist-sexist symbiosis and, finally considers peace movements and the road to convergence.

This book outlines the interrelationship between the condition of women and the occurrence of all forms of human aggression and presents a body of evidence that war remains the perennial problem of global society. It highlights practical campaigns and education and advocacy strategies for exposing the unequal oppression of women in war and its connection to international security, human rights issues, development, education and media.

In this set of essays, the author address the question: what can women to prevent war?" and her answer presages many of the insights of 20th century feminist theory, linking violence and domination and violence in the home to the nature and evolution of fascism. Further essays address critical women's issues such as access to education, and the professions, poverty, patriarchy, compulsory marriage and the nature of disinterested, free thought.

In this collection of essays, the author discusses "Jewish identity, anti-Arab racism, the Gulf War, black-Jewish relations, therapy in the U.S., women owning guns, art and resistance." (Booklist)

Lorde explores ways of increasing empowerment among minority women and the need for women to candidly deal with racism, sexism, and classism. It also promotes the unity of difference. Lorde explores the fear and hatred that exists between black men and women, lesbians and heterosexuals, and black women and white women, insisting that we all must find common ground.

This anthology provides a socioeconomic-historical framework for understanding the marginalization, stigmatization, and persecution of Roma in modern society and in the history of Europe. In bringing these contexts to light, broader links to nationalism, state-formation, ethnicity and migration are made.

Amazon to Zami explores the existence of a global network of lesbian feminist activists in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, challenging the assumption that lesbianism is a western phenomena.

A 30 country report documents human rights violations based on sexual orientation, touching on legal, cultural, social and economic issues. This book demonstrates how women’s rights and lesbian rights are linked in substantive ways.

Patricia Williams presents an eloquent argument for keeping rights and affirmative action in the legal vocabulary. She also provides a powerful description of the seemingly ineluctable status of black people in the United States today.

This groundbreaking work explores issues such as the nature of feminism, minority women within a majority culture, violence against women, culture, custom and tradition. Contributors are from around the world.

This book, written primarily by women who live in the Muslim world is the first detailed study to emphasize Muslim women’s rights as human rights. The contributors focus on ways and means of empowering Muslim women to participate in the general socialization process as well as in implementing and evaluating public policy.

This book offers a history of the Islamic discourse on women and gender, locating the current debate within its historical framework. It is comprehensive, ranging from the ancient world to the present day, and considering the relationship of Middle Eastern women to education, culture, imperialism, social change, modernization, and feminism.

The book deals with the question of the presence of women in representative democracies, and is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the theoretical dilemmas emerging in connection with the issues of democracy, representation and women. The second part deals with three systemic factors, which influence the representation of women in parliament. The third part examines the factors affecting the representation of women in the Sloven Parliament.

A feminist reading of Cartesian thought.

The book aims to provide an overview of this diverse and fast developing academic discipline. It contains the description of the evolution and scope of feminist jurisprudence, gender inequalities, feminist critique of the conventional jurisprudence as well as differing approaches within feminist jurisprudence.

Baer describes the legal system as having a strong male bias. She argues that feminist scholarship over-corrected this bias. She constructs a new feminist interpretation of the conventional legal theory of equality, rights and responsibility through an analysis of contemporary legal issues.

This anthology of texts by various authors (who themselves took part in the movement) on the Women’s movement and organization in Belgrade is structured in the following segments: the roots, political and pacifist groups, groups against violence, groups for feminist education, groups for helping marginal women, law groups, new directions, feminist creative works, feminist research.

The book is a study of the androgyne in the context of different cultures.

A study of Polish fiction by women, including those authors who became very popular and those who have been excluded from the cannon. Borkowska analyses not only the most interesting novels by women but also describes how women writers dealt with their position as women in a dependent country.

The book is one of the first Slovenian books thoroughly discussing women’s literature, it is about Slovenian women as writers and as characters in fiction. Borovnik starts with thinking about what is women’s literature and how it is treated and understood in Slovenia.

The book treats issues of sexual difference; the body, feminist philosophy; postmodernism; female subjectivity.

This volume considers the position of women in the post-Soviet states of the former USSR. It is divided into two main parts: the first focuses on the economy, society and polity of the Russian Federation; the second gives insights into social, political, economic and military developments in the other republics of the former Soviet Union. The book pays special attention to womens' own perceptions of their lives.

An influential collection of essays edited by two leading scholars.

Copjec conjures a dialogue between Jacques Lacan, champion for psychoanalysis and Michael Foucault, champion for historicism, with the object of Lacan winning this time; usually the historicists smite the psychoanalysts with the charge of historical indifference and walk away unanswered. She makes a case for the superiority of Lacan's explanation of historical process, its generative principles, and its complex functionings.

The book is a discussion of feminist literary criticism, esp. gynocriticism.

The book introduces its readers to the very different lived experience of women in former state socialist countries. It also explores the difficulties in communication which still exist between East and West, even after the end of the Cold War.

The book is a kind of ‘summary’ of feminst thought, an attempt to systematise different types of feminism, different claims of feminism etc. It refers to the most famous feminist texts in Poland and abroad.

Fabri investigates women’s relation to reading practices, periodicals, criticism, editing, education and women’s movements of the 19^th century. She also reviews contemporary debates about women. The volume is complete with an appendix including literary women’s social status, origin, religion, marital status, and family connections to men of letters, and also a chronology of their activity.

A collection including chapters written by Csilla Kollonay and Judit Sandor on the issues of discrimination based on sex and gender.

Through a study of different philosophical conceptualizations of the body, Grosz tries to introduce a notion of corporeality which avoids “not only dualism but also the very problematic of dualism that makes alternatives to it and criticisms of it possible.”

Essays on feminist theory and feminist criticism

What happens to a revolution if women "meddle" in it? is the main question posed by the author. Is "feminist politics" possible and what are "women's” politics, as an institution already existing in modern countries?

A collection of essays on feminist theory and rationalism.

A fascinating study of desire in literature.

The book focuses on the issues facing women entrepreneurs and psychological barriers to women's entrepreneurship

The book argues for a cultural re-evaluation of women’s experiences which could widen the area comprising moral subjects and facilitate a transition to ecoethics.

A major critique of Islamic fundamentalism, Moghissi claims that, regardless of the sophisticated argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of power, postmodernism, as an intellectual and political movement, has put itself in the service of the power and the status quo.

Kristeva’s conceptualization of “matricide” as a phantasmatic moment in the subject’s becoming is introduced as the dark lining to the “anxiety of authorship” which Gilbert and Gubar’s monumental gynocritical work set against Harold Bloom’s “anxiety of influence.”

An useful anthology of original essays on feminism in the 1990s, edited by two leading feminist scholars. It offers a mix of academic research, political advocacy, and personal essays and touches on subjects as varied as homophobia, fashion, pro-natalist policy, the intellectual canon, the media, and sexism in the academy.

The book provides an excellent overview of the topic, featuring twenty-one chapters by different contributors, many of whom summarize findings from their own monographs and research projects. It includes the testimony of survivors alongside scholarly analyses.

The book has six main parts: Anthropology of gender, Nature/Culture, Opposition of Nature/Culture, Opposition of the Two Cultural Conventions, Sex/Gender Difference and Models of Knowledge, and Practice of Sex/Gender, as well as an extensive bibliography.

The book covers the dissolution of the Hungarian women’s associations after 1945. It explores the gender politics of the different political parties and the foundation of the mass communist women’s organization. It also analyses the constructions of emotions in this period.

A highly readable textbook that describes both women's roles in world politics and the impact of world politics on women's roles.

The book deals with psychological aspects of international relations; social aspects of international relations; women and peace; sex roles.

Twelve essays on topics ranging from the concept of “ecriture”, French feminist theory, witches, to the readings of poetry. The titles of some essays are: “Search for Identity”; “Body or the Politics of Gaze”; “Writing - Becoming Other”, etc.

The first three essays focus primarily on conceptual and theoretical issues. The remaining six provide analyses of more concrete issues of state policy and participation in differing national political contexts: abortion politics in Ireland; the local politics of prostitution in Britain; the impact on women's political participation of economic change in China, Latin America and political change in Russia

How can researchers produce work relevant to the traditions and requirements of public academic knowledge while still remaining faithful to the experiences and accounts of research participants based in private settings? This edited collection explores this key dilemma from a feminist perspective, and examines the interplay between theory, epistemology and the detailed practice of research. It does this across the whole research process: access, data collection and analysis, and writing up research, and considers ways of achieving high standards of reflexivity and openness in the strategic choices made during research.

Essays on feminist theory of sex differences.

The need both to accept and to refuse sexual difference in politics was the constitutive condition of the long struggle by women to gain the right of citizenship. In this book, remarkable in both its findings and its methodology, the award-winning historian Joan Wallach Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox of sexual difference.

Explores the varied meanings of feminism in different political, cultural and historical contexts. Scholars from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, South Africa, China, Iran, India, Indonesia, Ethiopia and the US provide documentation of different political and cultural initiatives, and they explore the terms by which successful collaborations might be made.

The collection treat issues of objectivity; feminist theory; theory of knowledge

A collection of essays on women's history in Russia.

The book offers a comprehensive treatment of key issues, which relate to gender, nation, and nationalism. It is an insightful and highly readable theoretical work, which incorporates the most recent literature on these issues.

Is transgression of the patriarchial discourse possible by means of women's writting? On the basis of Russian women's writing (Nina Berberova, Lubov Blok, Lila Brik, Lidia Ginsburg, Nadezhda Mandelshtam, Elsa Triole, Marina Tsvetaeva, etc.) the book explores the politics of women's identity as politics of desire in Russia from the end of 19th century to the 1980s.