| Description |
2 volumes ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
v. 1 A-L -- v. 2 M-Z. |
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Abortion -- Affirmative -- Action -- Aging -- Barbie and the Feminine Ideal of Beauty -- Beauty Industry -- Beauty Pageants -- Birth Control -- Birthing Practices -- Bisexuality -- Breast Cancer -- Breastfeeding -- Child Custody and Parental Rights -- Child Sexual Abuse -- Childcare -- Colonialism and Imperialism -- Comparable Worth -- Crime and Criminalization -- Depression -- Digital Technologies -- Disability and Gender Disability and Sexuality -- Eating Disorders -- Education -- Environmental Justice -- Equal Rights Amendment -- Family Values -- Fatherhood Initiatives -- Female Sexuality and Dysfunction -- Femininities and Masculinities -- Feminist Art Practices -- Feminization of Poverty -- Fetal Rights -- Fibromyalgia -- Gender and Globalization-Free Trade Zones -- Gender and Globalization-Trends and Debates -- Gender and International Development -- Gender Identity Disorder -- Gender Socialization -- Glass Ceiling -- Heterosexism and Homophobia -- HIV/AIDS -- Homosexual Reparative Therapy -- Human Rights-International Laws and Policies -- Immigration-Laws and Policies Concerning Entry into the United States -- Intersexuality -- Intimate Partner Violence -- Kinsey Scale of Sexual Behavior -- Leftist Armed Struggle -- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Movements -- Lesbians and Gays in the Military -- Mail-Order Brides -- Media Images of Women-Advertising -- Media Images of Women-Music -- Media Images of Women-Television and Film -- Medicine and Medicalization-Views on Women's Bodies -- Menstruation and Menopause -- Mental Health-Gender Biases in Diagnoses of Women -- Mexican Female Migrants -- Militarized Prostitution -- Military History -- Nationalism -- Nature versus Nurture -- Plastic Surgery, Tattooing, and Piercing -- Political Parties -- Politics and Political Ideologies-Leftist Women -- Politics and Political Ideologies-Right-Wing Women -- Polygamy -- Population Policy -- Pornography -- Post-feminism -- Postmodernist and Poststructuralist Feminisms -- Queer -- Race and Racism-Social Stratification in the United States -- Race and Racism-Whiteness and White Supremacy -- Religion -- Religious Fundamentalism -- Right-Wing Women's Movements -- Sadomasochism, Domination and Submission -- Same-Sex Marriage -- Second and Third Wave Feminisms -- Self-Injury and Body Image -- Sex Reassignment Surgery -- Sex Trafficking -- Sex versus Gender -- Sex Work -- Sexism and Language -- Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment -- Sexual Identity and Orientation -- Sexual Orientation and the Law -- Sports, Professional -- Terrorism and National Security -- Third Genders -- Third World and Women of Color Feminisms -- Title IX and Women's Sports -- Transgender and Transsexual Identities -- Welfare Reform -- Work, Paid versus Unpaid. |
| Summary |
Contains ninety-seven alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about women's studies topics, such as abortion, bisexuality, childcare, glass ceiling, nationalism, religion, sex work, and welfare reform. |
| Subject |
Women -- Social conditions -- Encyclopedias.
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Women -- Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Subject |
Feminism -- Encyclopedias.
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Feminism. |
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Women's studies -- Encyclopedias.
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Women's studies. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Lind, Amy.
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Brzuzy, Stephanie.
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| Added Title |
Women and gender |
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Women, gender, and sexuality |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Battleground. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008 (OCoLC)607635666 |
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Online version: Battleground. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008 (OCoLC)609156990 |
| ISBN |
9780313340376 set alkaline paper |
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0313340374 set alkaline paper |
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9780313340383 v. 1 alkaline paper |
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0313340382 v. 1 alkaline paper |
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9780313340390 v. 2 alkaline paper |
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0313340390 v. 2 alkaline paper |
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