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Gender Studies


Gender Studies

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Womens Studies
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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.)
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.)
by Gail Collins
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America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and... (read more)

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Sex Industry
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Natashas : Inside the New Global Sex Trade (03 Edition)
Natashas : Inside the New Global Sex Trade (03 Edition)
by Victor Malarek
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A blistering, eye-opening look at the horrific global phenomenon of sexual trafficking... This is 21st century slavery.... (read more)

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General
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My Gender Workbook (98 Edition)
My Gender Workbook (98 Edition)
by Kate Bornstein
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Whether she's using the USFDA's food group triangle to explain gender, or quoting one-liners from real "gender transgressors", Bornstein's first and foremost concern is making information on gender bending truly accessible. With quizzes and exercises... (read more)

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Body Issues
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The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
by Katharine Phillips
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Jane is an attractive woman in her mid-thirties, tall, thin, and stately. She believes she is breathtakingly ugly. Tormented by what she sees as her huge nose, crooked lip, big jaw, fat buttocks, and tiny breasts, she has not left her house in six years.... (read more)

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Transgender
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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
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The exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny. She’s Not There is the story of a person changing genders, the story of a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret; above all, it is a love story. By turns funny... (read more)

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Mens Studies
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The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens
The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens
by Malina Saval
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Teenage boys have come a long way since the staid 1980s when they were all lumped into the Breakfast Club categories of Brains, Druggies, and Jocks. Crisscrossing the country--meeting with boys from different cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds... (read more)

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Gay Studies
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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
by Alison Bechdel
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From the author of Fun Home — the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others. For twenty-five years, Alison Bechdel's path-breaking "Dykes to Watch Out For" strip has been... (read more)

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Violence
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Lucky
Lucky
by Alice Sebold
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Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of 18 is a story that takes hold and won't let go.... (read more)

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Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
by Diane Mapes
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Are single women happy individualists? Neurotic man-hunters? Crazed cat ladies? Are they confused, or content? Bitter, or better off? No one seems to know. The popular media gives us shoe shopaholics, ditzy desperados, wannabe brides forever making... (read more)

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Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories From the Women Who Lived Them (People Who Dare)
Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories From the Women Who Lived Them (People Who Dare)
by Katherine Martin
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In Women of Courage more than 40 women tell intimate tales of bravery that expand the definition of courage. By writing about the times in their lives when they have been most in despair, and revealing the inner resources that helped them survive, these... (read more)

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Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby: IMG The What-O-Sphere?



In an interview that made me want to be her best friend, actress and writer Nia Vardalos recently told US Weekly (as a response to being called... Continue »
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Moral Hazard



The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti Reviewed by Laura M. Carpenter Ms. Magazine For... Continue »
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