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When Sex Became Gender: When Sex Became Gender:
by Shira Tarrant


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This book is a study of post World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that the social construction of gender has its origins in the feminist theorists of this period. This paradigm is a key foundational... (read more)

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Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics
by Maurice Hamington


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Until now, ethicists have said little about the body, limiting their comments on it to remarks made in passing or, at best, devoting a chapter to the subject. Embodied Care is the first work to argue for the body's centrality to care ethics, doing so by... (read more)

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Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist : a Critical Introduction (07 Edition) Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist : a Critical Introduction (07 Edition)
by Vivian M. May


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Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator, and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they have received. Drawing on Africana and feminist theory... (read more)

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Recasting Postcolonialism: Women Writing Between Worlds (Studies in African Literature,) Recasting Postcolonialism: Women Writing Between Worlds (Studies in African Literature,)
by Anne Donadey


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This in-depth study of the works of major Francophone writers Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar redefines postcolonial literature by focusing on three characteristics. Donadey understands postcolonial literature as being both oppositional to and complicit... (read more)

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The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment
by Carrie N. Baker


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The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment examines how a diverse grassroots social movement created public policy on sexual harassment in the 1970s and 1980s. The collaboration of women from varying racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds... (read more)

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Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power
by Shira (edt) Tarrant


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Men Speak Out is a collection of essays written by and about pro-feminist men. In the essays, which feature original, lively, and accessible prose, anti-sexist men make sense of their gendered experiences in today??'s culture. And since the... (read more)

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Socializing Care: Feminist Ethics and Public Issues (Feminist Constructions) Socializing Care: Feminist Ethics and Public Issues (Feminist Constructions)
by Maurice Hamington


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Contributors to this volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can indeed be useful in thinking about a number of different social problems. Divided into two sections, the first looks at... (read more)

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Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture
by Maria Elena Buszek


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Subverting stereotypical images of women, a new generation of feminist artists is remaking the pin-up, much as Annie Sprinkle, Cindy Sherman, and others did in the 1970s and 1980s. As shocking as contemporary feminist pin-ups are intended to be, perhaps... (read more)

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Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies
by H. Adlai Murdoch


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This collection brings together methods and insights taken from literary criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, theory, film studies, and linguistics to define new parameters of study for the emerging field of francophone postcolonial studies. While... (read more)

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Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (07 Edition) Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (07 Edition)
by C. J. Pascoe


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High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, "Dude, You're a Fag "sheds new... (read more)

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