Women and Economics
10 best books like Women and Economics (Charlotte Perkins Gilman): Work: A Story of Experience, Femininity, Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth, Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition, Journey Home, Sexy Origins and Intimate Things: The Rites and Rituals of Straights, Gays, Bis, Drags, Trans, Virgins, and Others, Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, On Lynchings, Psychoanalysis And Feminism: A Radical Reassessment Of Freudian Psychoanalysis
Alcott's concerns about social justice, women's work, domesticity, and community lie at the heart of this provocative novel.
In this story of a woman's search for a meaningful life, Alcott moves outside the family setting of her best known works. Originally published in 1872, Work is both an exploration...
| Author | Susan Brownmiller |
| ISBN | 0449901424 |
With intelligence and humor, Susan Brownmiller explores the history and unspoken rules of the burden of "feminine perfection"
What is femininity? How is it measured? What are its demands? How are women meant to dress, look, think, act, feel, and be, according to the mores of society?
Susan...
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth
| Author | Marilyn Waring |
| ISBN | 0802082602 |
Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts. Author Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor, development...
Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition
| Author | Kamala Kempadoo |
| ISBN | 0415918294 |
Trafficked women are first and foremost migrants-- persons seeking economic, social, and political opportunities away from home--yet, due to restrictive laws and policies and limited opportunities for women, are relegated to informal sector work. ... Migrant women find themselves in trafficked...
| Author | Yoshiko Uchida |
| ISBN | 0689716419 |
A Japanese-American family return to their ordinary life after being relocated during World War II. After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust,...
Sexy Origins and Intimate Things: The Rites and Rituals of Straights, Gays, Bis, Drags, Trans, Virgins, and Others
| Author | Charles Panati |
| ISBN | 0140271449 |
Has there ever been a gay pope? What is history's first love poem? Why do men have nipples? How did "drag" come to mean cross-dressing? Who was the first prostitute? At what age does a man's penis stop growing? Do female animals have orgasms? How long have people been giving the finger? Charles Panati explores...
| Author | Mikiso Hane |
| ISBN | 0520084217 |
In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current...
| Author | Margaret Fuller |
| ISBN | 0486406628 |
A woman of many gifts, Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) is most aptly remembered as America's first true feminist. In her brief yet fruitful life, she was variously author, editor, literary and social critic, journalist, poet, and revolutionary. She was also one of the few female members of the prestigious...
| Author | Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
| ISBN | 1591020085 |
Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to blacks, it is a fact of history that their social oppression continued long after. The most virulent form of this ongoing persecution was the practice of lynching carried out by mob rule, often as local law enforcement officials looked the...
| Author | Juliet Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0465046088 |
In 1974, at the height of the women's movement, Juliet Mitchell shocked her fellow feminists by challenging the entrenched belief that Freud was the enemy. She argued that a rejection of psychoanalysis as bourgeois and patriarchal was fatal for feminism. However it may have been used, she pointed...
| Author | Mary Eagleton |
| ISBN | 0631197346 |
A. Introduction
1. This book attempts to understand feminist literary theory since 1970 (The year when Millet’s Sexual Politics was published). FLC is pluralistic, there is no one defining method or belief. But, this is a good thing because FLC draws on many theoretical positions (Marx,...
| Author | Deborah Tannen |
| ISBN | 0195101243 |
Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand spent nearly four years (in cloth and paper) on The New York Times Best Seller list and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often misunderstand each other when they talk has touched a nerve. For...
| Author | Lawrence Stone |
| ISBN | 0061319791 |
This densely written and lengthy book is sometimes difficult reading, but more than worth the effort! It is an excellent source of information for genealogists trying to understand the motivation of ancestors whose actions seem incomprehensible today. By providing detailed analysis of family...
The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
| Author | Daniel J. Solove |
| ISBN | 0300124988 |
Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there’s a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available...
Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today's Youth
| Author | Fredric Wertham |
| ISBN | 0848816579 |
I've heard about this book and its impact on the comics industry for more than twenty years, but this is the first time I've gotten my hands on a copy instead of relying on someone else's summary and quotes--the book has been out of print for sixty years, and not even libraries seem to have wanted to hold on...
| Author | Annie Oakley |
| ISBN | 1580052258 |
Being a sex worker isn’t something to write home about for most women (and men) in the $12 billion-a-year sex industry.
Prostitutes, strippers, and adult film stars put themselves, and what they do for a living, out on the street, stage, and TV screen every day, but they often keep their working...
| Author | Ellen Chesler |
| ISBN | 1416540768 |
Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.
Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of...
Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother
| Author | Sherry Thurer |
| ISBN | 0140246835 |
This groundbreaking and irreverent history of motherhood is worth a hundred advice books for any mother who’s ever been made to feel guilty or frazzled by society’s impossible expectations. Analyzing data from the psychoanalyst’s couch to the hidden history of wet nursing, psychologist...
| Author | Andy Rathbone |
| ISBN | 1118371666 |
Since our computer that ran my beloved Windows 7 died on Sunday, we had to go out on Monday and make an emergency purchase of a new computer because I work online and I am taking grad school classes while my daughter takes classes online too. The new computer has Windows 8 and I am still reeling from the shock...
| Author | Nadine Strossen |
| ISBN | 0814781497 |
Starting this book I came in with no specific viewpoint on pornography and how that fit into the feminist agenda. With that said, my mind was quickly awakened to the rhetoric on both sides on how pornography relates to women's rights, violence, and views on women. I think Nadine Strossen does a great job...
The Sex Myth: Why Everything We're Told Is Wrong
Is there any truth to the epidemic of sex addiction? Are our children really getting sexualised younger? Are men the only ones who like porn? Brooke Magnanti looks at all these questions and more - and proves that perhaps we've all been taking the answers for granted.
Brooke Magnanti is no stranger...
The incredible thing about this book, is it showed so much the movie titanic got wrong. I have this obsession with the titanic that even I can't explain, and as a 15 time veteran of watching the movie and watching Molly Brown go back for those people....to learn she never did, made me want to watch it again;...
| Author | Luce Irigaray |
| ISBN | 0801493307 |
Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a "dark continent," unfathomable and unapproachable;...
Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 1587420023 |
In the second decade of the twentieth century, an idea became all too fashionable among those who feel it is their right to set social trends. Wealthy families took it on as a pet cause, generously bankrolling its research. The New York Times praised it as a wonderful "new science." Scientists, such as...
| Author | Belle de Jour |
| ISBN | 1409113841 |
Adorei ler este livro. Para além do assunto engraçado, o humor da autora cativou-me de uma forma genial. Achei imensa piada à forma como Belle cataloga os homens e até mesmo as mulheres. Ela apresenta até um pequeno teste para descobrir mos qual o tipo de mulher que somos. Na mente dela existem três...
