New Books, Journals, Databases, Videos, & Microforms at the

UNLV Libraries

in Women's Studies

for October, 2009


French, Marilyn, 1929-2009
From eve to dawn [electronic resource] : a history of women. Volume 1, Origins / Marilyn French ; foreword by Margaret Atwood
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, c2008
xiv, 352 p. : maps
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1121 .F741 2008eb More info

French, Marilyn, 1929-2009
From eve to dawn [electronic resource] : a history of women. Volume 2, The masculine mystique / Marilyn French ; foreword by Margaret Atwood
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, c2008
xiv, 477 p. : maps
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1121 .F742 2008eb More info

French, Marilyn, 1929-2009
From eve to dawn [electronic resource] : a history of women. Volume 3, Infernos and paradises, the triumph of capitalism in the 19th century / Marilyn French ; foreword by Margaret Atwood
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, c2008
xiv, 385 p. : maps
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1121 .F743 2008eb More info

French, Marilyn, 1929-2009
From eve to dawn [electronic resource] : a history of women. Volume 4, Revolutions and the struggles for justice in the 20th century / Marilyn French ; foreword by Margaret Atwood
New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2008
xiv, 608 p. : maps
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1121 .F744 2008eb More info

Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara
Behind the mask of the strong black woman : voice and the embodiment of a costly performance / Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009
viii, 183 p. ; 22 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1161 .B43 2009 More info

Dossa, Parin Aziz, 1945-
Racialized bodies, disabling worlds : storied lives of immigrant Muslim women / Parin Dossa
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2009
x, 192 p. : port. ; 23 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1170 .D67 2009 More info

Lazreg, Marnia
Questioning the veil : open letters to Muslim women / Marnia Lazreg
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009
x, 156 p. ; 23 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1170 .L39 2009 More info

Shirazi, Faegheh, 1952-
Velvet jihad : Muslim women's quiet resistance to Islamic fundamentalism / Faegheh Shirazi
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009
xiv, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1170 .S48 2009 More info

Savacool, Julia
The world has curves : the global quest for the perfect body / Julia Savacool
[Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale ; [New York] : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2009
xviii, 206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1219 .S26 2009 More info

Journal of women, politics & policy [electronic resource]
[Journal of women, politics & policy (Online)]
Binghamton, NY : The Haworth Press Inc., c2005-
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1236 More info

Women & politics [electronic resource]
[Women & politics (Online)]
Binghamton, N.Y. : Haworth Press, -2004
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1236 More info

Horsbrugh Porter, Anna, 1965-
Created equal : voices on women's rights / Anna Horsbrugh-Porter
1st ed
New York : Palgrave Macmillian ; London : In association with Amnesty International, 2009
xv, 208 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1236 .H67 2009 More info

Abirafeh, Lina, 1974-
Gender and international aid in Afghanistan : the politics and effects of intervention / Lina Abirafeh
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009
viii, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1236.5.A3 A25 2009 More info

Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-
Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
1st ed
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
xxii, 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1236.5.D44 K75 2009 More info

Phillips, Sarah D
Women's social activism in the new Ukraine [electronic resource] : development and the politics of differentiation / Sarah D. Phillips
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008
xvi, 206 p. : ill., map
(New anthropologies of Europe)
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1236.5.U38 P45 2008eb More info

Equality for women [electronic resource] : where do we stand on Millennium Development Goal 3? / Mayra Buvinic ... [et al.], editors
Washington, DC : World Bank, c2008
xviii, 353 p. : ill
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1237 .E68 2008eb More info

Bedford, Kate
Developing partnerships : gender, sexuality, and the reformed World Bank / Kate Bedford
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009
xxxiv, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1240.5.L29 B43 2009 More info

The American new woman revisited [electronic resource] : a reader, 1894-1930 / edited by Martha H. Patterson
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008
xiv, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1410 .A44 2008eb More info

Ginzberg, Lori D
Elizabeth Cady Stanton : an American life / Lori D. Ginzberg
1st ed
New York : Hill and Wang, c2009
254 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1413.S67 G43 2009 More info

Hearts and hands [videorecording] / New Day Films ; Ferrero Films ; writer, Beth Ferris ; producer and director, Pat Ferrero
[San Francisco, Calif.] : Ferrero Films ; Harriman, N.Y. : [Distributed by] New Day Films, 2008
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
UNLV Media HQ1418 .H435 2008 More info

Maxwell, Sarah, Ph. D
Success and solitude : feminist organizations fifty years after The feminine mystique / Sarah Maxwell
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2009
xii, 144 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1421 .M39 2009 More info

Zeisler, Andi, 1972-
Feminism and pop culture [electronic resource] / Andi Zeisler
Berkeley, CA : Seal Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2008
ix, 183 p. : ill
(Seal studies)
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1421 .Z45 2008eb More info

Sam, Canyon
Sky train : Tibetan women on the edge of history / Canyon Sam ; foreword by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2009
xiii, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1769.T55 S35 2009 More info

Alidou, Ousseina
Engaging modernity [electronic resource] : Muslim women and the politics of agency in postcolonial Niger / Ousseina D. Alidou
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005
xxi, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
(Women in Africa and the diaspora)
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1812 .A45 2005eb More info

Carter, Katherine
Cape Verdean women and globalization : the politics of gender, culture, and resistance / Katherine Carter and Judy Aulette
1st ed
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
ix, 196 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
UNLV Book Stacks HQ1819.6 .C37 2009 More info

Women in Vanuatu [electronic resource] : analyzing challenges to economic participation / Chakriya Bowman ... [et al.]
Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2009
xiii, 103 p. : ill., map
(Directions in development)
UNLV Electronic Resource HQ1867.5 .W66 2009eb More info

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