The Book Company: New Products - Women's Studies

Líderes y aliadas (Spanish Edition)

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:41:38 +0000

Estas diez mujeres son líderes extraordinarias a las que Paola Rojas admira, respeta y aprecia profundamente. En breves entrevistas con ella, comparten tanto su experiencia, como su visión para una sociedad que incluya a todas y todos. Cada una, a su modo y desde su contexto, ha luchado por una re..

Price: $18.99

Social and Psychological Problems of Women (Prevention and Crisis Intervention)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:46:45 +0000

Originally published in 1984, this text combines research, theory, and expert clinical experience to analyse the psychology of women in the professional and personal aspects of their lives. Examining historical, theoretical, social and psychological issues concerning women’s roles, this referen..

Price: $233.99

Breastfeeding, Child Health & Child Spacing (Cross-Cultural Perspectives)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:18:13 +0000

This book (1985) investigates the relationships between breastfeeding, child health and child spacing from an anthropological perspective. While certain other books have examined the varying significance of breastfeeding in different cultures, this is perhaps the first to consider also t..

Price: $140.99

Supporting Women with Learning Disabilities Through the Menopause (A manual and training resource for health and social care workers)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:55:19 +0000

This flexible new edition of our best-selling training pack provides a valuable resource for working with individuals and groups, as well as for staff training, on the vital topic of menopause. It provides thoroughly piloted and comprehensive information about the menopause, in addition to how wom..

Price: $128.95

Feminist Theory Reader (Local and Global Perspectives)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:08:40 +0000

The sixth edition of the Feminist Theory Reader provides a general introduction to feminist theory, both in the United States and globally.

Price: $233.99

Inequality and the Work-Family Dilemma in Japan (Stratified Mothering)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:28:43 +0000

How do working mothers in Japan experience the tension between employment and child-rearing? Drawing on in-depth interviews with 55 working mothers, this book offers a compelling account of women’s struggles under “neoliberal motherhood” in contemporary Japan.

Price: $233.99

Sick Work (Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:04:06 +0000

In Sick Work, Emily Lim Rogers shows the unpaid labor it takes to be recognized as sick in the United States. Through a historical and ethnographic account of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)—a disease defined by disproportionate exhaustion after any form of exe..

Price: $119.95

Midstream (A Life Remade in 50 Swims)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:55:12 +0000

"A winning narrative...guided by a road map for joy. A poignant portrait of a woman stepping into her power in middle age.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

A memoir of jumping feet first into a new life, reclaiming long-forgotten joys, and discovering a renewed sense of self after ..
Price: $18.00

Violence and the Feminine (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:34:07 +0000

In this volume, psychoanalysts, academics and activists explore how psychoanalytic theory illuminates the relationship between violence and the feminine, bringing together international perspectives to examine social structures of oppression, violence and hatred towards women, and the ever-chan..
Price: $49.99

If Women Ruled the World (How to Create the World We Want to Live In)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:08:43 +0000

Women are simply not represented in leadership positions in government or corporate America. Nor are we adequately represented on the airwaves or the Op-Ed pages of our top newspapers. If Women Ruled the World aspires to right the imbalance by giving women a platform to voice their opinions, prior..
Price: $18.95