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The Transgender Child Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals a Handbook for Families and Professionals
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The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change
by Shari MacDonald Strong Publisher Comments Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political features more than 40 powerful, hard-hitting literary essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and families — both...
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Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care
by Kathleen Parker Publisher Comments Tell a woman we need to save the males and she'll give you the name of her shrink. But cultural provocateur Kathleen Parker, who was raised by her father and who mothered a pack of boys, makes a humorous case for rescuing the allegedly stronger sex from...
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Gender, Violence and Security: Discourse as Practice
by Laura J. Sheperd Publisher Comments In this highly original poststructural feminist critique, the author maps the discursive terrains of institutions, both NGOs and the UN, which formulate and implement resolutions and guides of practice that affect gender issues in the context of...
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Development with a Body: Sexuality, Human Rights and Development
by Andrea (edt) Cornwall Publisher Comments This book offers compelling insights into contemporary challenges and transformative possibilities of the struggle for sexual rights. It combines the conceptual with the political, and offers inspiring examples of practical interventions and campaigns...
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Greetings from the Gayborhood: A Nostalgic Look at Gay Neighborhoods
by Donald F. Reuter Publisher Comments From the Castro to Chelsea, Greetings From the Gayborhood, celebrates twelve traditionally gay neighborhoods in America, past and present. Featuring archival images along with nostalgic and sometimes kitschy ephemera (bar ads, event programs, matchbooks,...
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Development with a Body: Sexuality, Human Rights and Development
by Andrea (edt) Cornwall Publisher Comments This book offers compelling insights into contemporary challenges and transformative possibilities of the struggle for sexual rights. It combines the conceptual with the political, and offers inspiring examples of practical interventions and campaigns...
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Emma Goldman, Vol. 2: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 2: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909
by Emma Goldman Publisher Comments Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These volumes collect personal letters, lecture notes, newspaper articles, court transcripts, government...
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Gender, Violence and Security: Discourse as Practice
by Laura J. Sheperd Publisher Comments In this highly original poststructural feminist critique, the author maps the discursive terrains of institutions, both NGOs and the UN, which formulate and implement resolutions and guides of practice that affect gender issues in the context of...
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Sex Markets
by Marina Della Giusta Publisher Comments Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides a study of the economics of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cultural themes. Using economic tools of analysis, internationally based editors have put together a...
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Women's Roles in Seventeenth-Century America (Women's Roles in American History)
by Merril D. Smith Publisher Comments In Colonial America, the lives of white immigrant, black slave, and American Indian women intersected. Economic, religious, social, and political forces all combined to induce and promote European colonization and the growth of slavery and the slave...
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Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader
by Ruth (edt) Roded Publisher Comments Much of the lively and often heated debate on the role of women in Islam and Middle Eastern society is grounded in different readings of the primary Arabic, Persian, Turkish and other sources and historical precedents. These key texts remain inaccessible...
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Finding Josie
by Wendy Bilen Publisher Comments One woman plumbs her family history in search of meaning and wisdom in her own life. With a focus squarely on the Midwest, Bilen pieces together the history of her grandmother, Josie Broadhead, born in 1911 and raised on the North Dakota prairie. ...
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The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties
by Judith Nies Publisher Comments At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington--Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar...
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Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West (Women in the West)
by Shirley A. (edt) Leckie Publisher Comments The writings of the American West have long dealt with masculine ideals. Well into the twentieth century, what little attention was afforded to women typically reflected prescribed or stereotyped roles, and the work of women scholars received less...
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King of Shadows
by Aaron Shurin Publisher Comments Based on the author's life as a gay man and a poet, King of Shadowsis a collection of twenty-one autobiographical essays that circle in and around San Francisco since the 1960s. The three longest pieces deal with Aaron Shurin's coming into poetry and gay...
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The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894-1930
by Martha H Patterson Synopsis Bringing together a diverse range of essays from the periodical press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Martha H. Patterson shows how the New Woman differed according to region, class, politics, race, ethnicity, and historical...
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Big Black Penis: Misadventures in Race and Masculinity
by Shawn Taylor Publisher Comments Being black and male is a serious business, but its absurd contradictions are often too funny for words. In this award-winning book, Shawn Taylor deftly leads us on a no-holds-barred tour of his masculine development, acknowledging some deep but often...
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Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-century Europe
by Linda L. Clark Publisher Comments This major new history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles during the 'long' nineteenth century examines what women could and could not do if they sought activity, purpose, or recognition beyond their own homes. Linda L...
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All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.
by Craig Seymour Publisher Comments A FRANK, FUNNY, EXPLICIT, AND INSPIRING MEMOIR ABOUT HOW DANCING NAKED IN GAY CLUBS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL HELPED A COLLEGE PROFESSOR DISCOVER HIS TRUE SELF. I felt that I'd made a transformation as surely as Superman slipping out of a phone booth or...
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