Dangerous Ideas explores sex and love, politics and performance, joy and anguish in a collection of essays focussed on the history and politics of the Women’s Liberation Movement and one of its offshoots, Women’s Studies, in Australia and around the world. These are serious matters: they are about tectonic changes in people’s lives and ideas in the late twentieth century, too little remem…
Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women’s activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an …
In 1901, R. W. Paul, one of Britain’s first filmmakers, released The Country man and the Cinematograph, a film that reflexively “explains” cinema just five years into this new narrative form. It depicts a country-man at the movies, who mistakes cinematic illusion for real-world phenomena: he attempts to dance with a lovely on-screen dancing girl and fless a filmic train se…
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics acr…
When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon from the second half of the nineteenth …
Breastfeeding is the preferred method of feeding in early life. It is also one of the most cost-effective childhood survival interventions. Breastfeeding practices are important for preventing child mortality and morbidity, as well as ensuring the optimal growth, health, and development of infants. The public health benefits of breastfeeding have been well documented in the medical literature, …
In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary,…
This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic transition period. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the mechanism of female labor force participation, the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market, and the impact of policy transformation on women’s wages and employment …
Drawing in contributions from the United States, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and Aotearoa New Zealand, this book seeks to foreground shifting experiences of teenage pregnancy and parenting in time and space. In the process, the work cuts across enduring ‘stigma’ contests and dominant discourses which seek to capture, understand and render fixable the ‘problem’ of teenage …
In Polish and Czech pedagogy, there have not been many studies on the social, cultural and educational functioning of academic youth in a culturally diversified environment. The analysis of identity behaviours presented by university students from the Polish-Czech borderland and of their learning potentialities will provide a chance for mutual recognition, understanding and the enrichment of bo…
Bunga rampai Narasi Kebangsaan dalam Karya Budaya Indonesia hadir di tengah-tengah kegalauan dan hiruk-pikuk ancaman perpecahan yang kita hadapi. Lunturnya rasa kebangsaan, terutama pada generasi muda, menjadi tantangan tersendiri bagi bangsa. Bunga rampai ini hadir istimewa dengan menyajikan keberagaman objek kajian terkait konsep kebangsaan yang termaktub dalam berbagai karya sastra, baik dal…
Maraknya ketidakadilan yang dialami kaum perempuan berdasarkan kacamata keilmuan gender dan feminisme, khususnya mereka yang berkecimpung dalam bidang iptek, bukanlah sesuatu yang baru. Menjadi menarik manakala di hadapan kita tersaji wacana empiris mengenai pola dan struktur sosial masyarakat yang berkontribusi mengonstruksi suatu pandangan sehingga mengondisikan terciptanya tatanan masyarakat…
Naskah Serat Sandi Wanita (selanjutnya disingkat SW) merupakan naskah koleksi perpustakaan pribadi Hartini. Naskah SW ditulis menggunakan aksara Jawa dan menggunakan Bahasa Jawa. Naskah tersebut memiliki ukuran 19,5 x 15 cm. Teksnya berukuran 14,5 x 11,5 cm dengan jumlah 13 baris setiap halaman dan memiliki ketebalan 254 halaman. Jumlah halaman yang ditulisi sebanyak 251 halaman dan yang kosong…
Babad Tawangalun merupakan naskah yang menceritakan nenek moyang keluarga Raja-Raja Blambangan yang bermula dari para Pangeran Kedhawung di abad ke-17. Silsilah Raja Blambangan dalam Babad Tawangalun ini mencakup rentang waktu lebih dari dua abad. Sebagai karya anonim, Babad Tawangalun memiliki beragam versi salinannya, baik dalam bentuk tembang (puisi) maupun gancaran (prosa). Babad Tawangal…
Buku ini mengulas mengenai kemunculan dua perempuan kepala daerah yang terpilih pada pilkada langsung periode 2016–2021. Terpilihnya Asmin Laura Hafid sebagai Bupati Nunukan dan Indah Damayanti Putri sebagai Bupati Bima diharapkan menjadi perbaikan bagi kondisi kemiskinan dan persoalan perempuan, lebih peka serta lebih memprioritaskan kebijakan-kebijakan penanggulangan pada persoalan kemiskin…
Hipertensi sebagai salah satu penyakit tidak menular dewasa ini menjadi permasalahan kesehatan masyarakat yang terus berkembang. Penyebab hipertensi juga cukup kompleks dan dinamis sehingga akan terus menjadi tantangan, baik dalam pencegahan maupun penanggulangannya. Untuk itu, buku ini hadir dengan membahas secara komprehensif berbagai persoalan terkait hipertensi, khususnya pada wanita menop…
Babad ini merupakan koleksi Museum Sonobudoyo yang belum terkatalogisasi oleh Tim Behrend pada tahun 1990. Berdasarkan penelusuran katalog, kisah pengasingan Sultan Hamengku Buwono II di Ambon tidak banyak diceritakan. Fakta-fakta yang ada di selingkung babad ini sangat menarik untuk diungkapkan sebagai wujud memori kolektif dari perjalanan Yogyakarta menjadi Daerah Istimewa. Melalui upaya alih…
The open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers engage with parenthood and also function in the labour market. Parenting in contemporary Poland is not only affected by individual preferences and choices, but significantly by the institutional context, in particular the family policy system, as we…
From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the diverse ways in which mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television.
The options women have to shape their lives have dramatically increased in the last decades, and this is true for all European countries. Changes in their societies with respect to women’s rights have been fundamental, amongst other things as a result of the women’s movement, which caused one of the greatest social revolutions of the 20th century. But considering the different starting poin…