Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn't deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats".Wildcat Women" is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska's Nor...

Have you dreamed of crossing a finish line but felt like you had no idea how to get from where you are now to the starting line? Whether it's a 5K, triathlon, or some other starting line, this book is here to give you all the insights you need to mak...

Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homogenized into a problematic category called "the northeast". Many stereotype it as a region of conflict...

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this...

Gloria Steinem started a movement that changed our world. This picture-book biography of the pioneering feminist brings the message of equality to a new generation. Using gorgeous watercolor illustrations, this biography of Gloria Steinem introduce...

You would as well look for blood in a corpse as for the least shred of decency in a man... Without help from their wives, men are just like unlit lamps... Just think of them as an unreliable clock that tells you it's ten o'clock when it's in fact b...

On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamarud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail. Her crime? Being in the wrong plac...

In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by schola...

As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers – both symbolic and corporeal. Motherhood – and non-motherhood – is not just physiological. As the piv...

On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Found in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metal...