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Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation
by Ellen Bravo


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"Please, please, please. All working women must read this book! Ellen Bravo not only vividly exposes workplace inequities, she gives real-life solutions, picking up where my film 9 to 5left off."-Jane Fonda Enough about "breaking the glass ceiling."Here... (read more)

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Writing Catholic Women: Contemporary International Catholic Girlhood Narratives Writing Catholic Women: Contemporary International Catholic Girlhood Narratives
by Jeana Delrosso


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This work examines the interplay of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality through the lens of Catholicism in a wide range of works by women writers, forging interdisciplinary connections among women's studies, religion, and late twentieth... (read more)

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Taking the Stand: Rape Survivors and the Prosecution of Rapists Taking the Stand: Rape Survivors and the Prosecution of Rapists
by Amanda Konradi


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Rape is one of the most under-reported crimes in the U.S., and yet it is one of the most vicious, devastating, and violent of all crimes. But getting justice for victims has not always been easy. Often the victim is criminalized, demonized, sexualized... (read more)

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The Golden Mountain: Beyond the American Dream The Golden Mountain: Beyond the American Dream
by Irene Kai


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In The Golden Mountain, Irene Kai tells a deeply personal story of how she overcame cultural bias and a difficult mother to move from China to America and become an independent woman. The child of a loveless arranged marriage, Kai was born into a culture... (read more)

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Between Image and Identity: Transnational Fantasy, Symbolic Violence, and Feminist Misrecognition Between Image and Identity: Transnational Fantasy, Symbolic Violence, and Feminist Misrecognition
by Karina Eileraas


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Eileraas (women's studies, U. of California-Los Angeles) examines the constitutive power of images, especially how post-colonial women forge relationships between image and identity. As a case study, she focuses on the autobiographical art and... (read more)

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Rape on the Public Agenda : Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault (00 Edition)
by Maria Bevacqua


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An examination of the history, development, and impact of the feminist anti-rape movement.... (read more)

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Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues
by Analouise Keating


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Drawing on indigenous belief systems and recent work in critical "race" studies and multicultural-feminist theory, Keating provides detailed step-by-step suggestions, based on her own teaching experiences, designed to anticipate students’... (read more)

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Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture
by Regina Buccola


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Fairies, unruly women, and vestigial Catholicism constituted a frequently invoked triad in late sixteenth-and early seventeenth-century drama which has seldom been critically examined and therefore constitutes a significant lacuna in scholarly treatments... (read more)

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What Do You See? What Do You See?
by Irene Kai


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"The mere suggestion of an image or idea can evoke heavy emotions." So begins Irene Kai’s What Do You See?, a book of photography that contains images to challenge the reader’s assumptions and judgments. It serves as a mirror for the readers... (read more)

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The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror
by Alyson M. Cole


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“Alyson M. Cole provides a remarkably original analysis of a profound transformation in the cultural values informing public discourse in the United States. By tracing the underlying logic of the ‘anti-victim campaign’ over several... (read more)

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