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Gender Studies



Gender Studies

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Womens Studies
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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In this thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book, Kristof and WuDunn reveal the cruel and maddening reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression. Half the Sky will stir feelings of admiration and discomfort, and hopefully sow the... (read more)

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Gay Studies
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Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders
Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders
by Keith Stern
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Queers in History is the first comprehensive biographical compendium of important historical and contemporary figures who were/are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. From Egyptian pharaohs, Catholic popes, and Abraham Lincoln to Bishop Gene Robinson,... (read more)

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Pornography
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Magic Gardens: The Memoirs of Viva Las Vegas
Magic Gardens: The Memoirs of Viva Las Vegas
by Viva Las Vegas
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A Midwest preacher's daughter with a fabulous academic pedigree, Viva could have chosen any career, but chose to become a naked girl. This personalized tour of her milieu offers a unique perspective on a thriving industry that is largely condemned or... (read more)

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General
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
by Jane Latour
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against... (read more)

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Mens Studies
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Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America
by John F. Kasson
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An important new work from one of our premier cultural historians. Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man considers the surprisingly complex evolution in representations of the white male body in late-nineteenth-century America, during years of rapid... (read more)

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Violence
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Lucky
Lucky
by Alice Sebold
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In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her... (read more)

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Sex Industry
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We Did Porn: Memoir and Drawings
We Did Porn: Memoir and Drawings
by Zak Smith
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Zak Smith is equally comfortable in the fine art scene, the literary scene — and filming a scene. A porn scene, that is: Smith’s alter ego Zak Sabbath is a renowned alternative porn actor. In this illustrated memoir (graphic in more ways than... (read more)

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Body Issues
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Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size
Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size
by Marilyn Wann
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Fat? Chunky? Less than svelte? So what In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on Americas' biggest fear--worse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weapons--our fear of fat.Statistics tell us... (read more)

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Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
by bell hooks
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Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female... (read more)

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Alone! Alone!
Alone! Alone!
by Rosemary Dinnage
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In the 30 years she has spent writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has examined a variety of odd and accomplished women, all of whom in one way or another lived their lives apart from their contemporaries.... (read more)

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