My Mother, My Self

Talks about love, about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. This work features women who are strong, strikingly resourceful characters and who offer unforgettable insights into Chinese women's lives.

Many Christian women are tired, struggling under the weight of the pressure to be a good servant, a nurturing caregiver, or a capable home manager. This book shows the design of women before the fall, describes how the feminine heart can be restored, and casts a vision for the freedom and beauty of a woman released to be all she was meant to be.

Examines the wide-ranging careers and diverse lives of American women physicians, shedding light on their struggles for equality, professional accomplishment, and personal happiness. This volume is suitable for students and scholars in history, women's studies, and the history of medicine.

Features the author's travels to Afghanistan over three trips and fourteen years. This book includes the rise of the Taliban and the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud.

The concept of a Dowry, whilst known throughout the world, is one which is much misunderstood and often regarded as synonymous with acts of violence against women. Bringing a diversity of perspectives from leading academics and activists, this book opens up the term 'Dowry' to undertake a study of its role in various communities across the world.

In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America's interest was in liberation - especially for women. This book examines how Iraqi women have fared since the invasion. It exposes the gap between rhetoric that placed women center stage and the reality of their diminishing roles in the 'new Iraq'.

Is the position of women in the workplace changing? In addressing the broad range of issues raised by this question, this study engages in diverse contemporary debates about economic and organizational restructuring, human agency and strategy, embodiment and sexuality.

This text presents and disentangles the various positions put forward on environmental dimensions of the development process as they relate to women. The authors clarify the political and theoretical issues at stake and put forward their own ideas on the basic elements needed for a new paradigm.

Brings together a collection of interdisciplinary research papers on the changing identity of women in Wales. Research findings are complemented by cameo voices - personal accounts by a variety of individual women living and working in Wales.