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Tag Archives: feminism

Readings on Abortion

In an effort to further public understanding of abortion and Roe v. Wade, we are offering free access to these relevant journal articles and book chapters.

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Why do so many American Parents Struggle with Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep?

by Cecília Tomori For World Breastfeeding Week, we’re delighted to offer FREE access to a chapter from Nighttime Breastfeeding for a limited time. Click here to access this chapter, titled Embodied Cultural Dilemmas: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep. Nighttime Breastfeeding addresses the central question: why do so many American parents struggle […]

Posted 01 August 2017 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off on Why do so many American Parents Struggle with Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep? ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Celebrating 10 Years of Girlhood Studies

  We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Girlhood Studies has just been published. With this issue, Girlhood Studies begins its tenth year. To celebrate this anniversary, we’re offering a 20% discount on all subscriptions to the journal.

Posted 19 April 2017 † Berghahn Journals § Blog § From Idea to Book § Journals ‡ Comments Off on Celebrating 10 Years of Girlhood Studies ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

60% off Gender Studies Titles

  As we enter a New Year full of political and economic uncertainty, opportunities in education, and the integrity of evidence-based opinion and decision-making are under attack globally from a populist but neo-liberal philosophy seeking to advance, with depressing success to date, the cause of individualism over the social fabric. While there will continue to […]

Posted 19 January 2017 † Berghahn Journals § Blog § Journals ‡ Comments Off on 60% off Gender Studies Titles ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Unmasking the Visages of Ukrainian Women

A look into the life of post-Soviet Ukrainian women, Mapping Difference: The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine is now available in paperback. This book uncovers the virtues of women that sometimes lie just beneath negative gender stereotypes. Following, editor of the collection, Marian Rubchak, gives readers a deeper look into the volume via […]

Posted 18 August 2014 † Berghahn Author § Blog § In Their Own Words § Judging a Cover by its Book § Meet the Editors § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off on Unmasking the Visages of Ukrainian Women ° Also tagged: , , ,

Berghahn Author Asks: ‘Quo Vadis FEMEN?’

FEMEN is a Ukrainian feminist protest group that has become infamous for its topless protests against patriarchy. The group, founded in 2008, has since grown to be a worldwide phenomenon, and not simply because its protests are often seen as “sextreme.” Marian Rubchak, editor of Mapping Difference: The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine, […]

Posted 18 October 2013 † Berghahn Author § Blog § Field Encounters § In the News § In Their Own Words § Meet the Editors ‡ Comments Off on Berghahn Author Asks: ‘Quo Vadis FEMEN?’ ° Also tagged: , ,

‘Wrapped in the Flag of Israel’ Author Earns Heart at East Award

On May 21, 2013, in Tel Aviv, the Heart at East Lifetime Achievement Plaque was bestowed upon Prof. Smadar Lavie. Her scholarly and activist voice for the rights of Mizrahi Jewish women living in Israel received formal recognition. Lavie’s two decades of ethnographic research and community leadership to better the lives of those within these […]

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Interview with the editors of Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Beauvoirian Perspective

What inspired the project? Ursula Tidd: As far as I was concerned, I was keen to show the immense relevance of Beauvoir’s thought to film studies and hence, to take her work more deeply into the area of film studies. I have noticed that Beauvoir’s work is often implied in discussions in film studies about […]

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Hot Off the Presses- New Book Releases

European Foundations of the Welfare State, by Franz-Xavier Kaufmann, translated by John Veit-Wilson, foreword by Anthony B. Atkinson Fortune and the Cursed, the Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination, by Katherine Swancutt Investigating Srebrenica: Institutions, Facts, Responsibilities, edited by Isabelle Delpla, Xavier Bougarel, and Jean-Louis Fourn Journeys into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian […]

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Susan Hogan on Revisiting Her Groundbreaking Work on Feminist Art Therapy

Berghahn recently published Revisiting Feminists Approaches to Art Therapy, edited by Susan Hogan. It is both an update and an expansion of the earlier work Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy, first published in 1994. Here, Hogan addresses her reasons for revisiting her seminal work and explains why the topic is just as relevant today. “Why do […]

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