Philosophy Without Women the Birth of Se (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)
by Vigdis Songe Moller
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For most of its history, western philosophy has regarded woman as an imperfect version of man. Like so many aspects of western culture, this tradition builds on foundations laid in ancient Greece. Yet the first philosophers of antiquity were hardly...
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"Yours for Liberty": Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper
by Jean M Ward
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In 1871, Duniway launched The New Northwest, one of the few newspapers in the nation devoted to woman's advancement. This first published volume of Duniway's writings from her weekly reform journal offers a vivid portrait of the pioneering suffragist and...
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Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution
by Melissa Bohrer
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Much has been written of the brave deeds, acts of heroism, and intellectual prowess of the men who drafted the Declaration of Independence over two hundred years ago, yet almost no attention has been paid to the extraordinary women of that time -- women...
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Riding Shotgun: Women Write about Their Mothers
by Kathryn Kysar
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Just in time for Mother's Day, a group of America's celebrated literary women have come together to tackle a topic close to their hearts: Mom. These highly personal yet often universal stories offer windows into those influential mother-daughter moments...
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Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America
by Martha Saxton
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-375) and index....
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Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799-1815 (Fashioning the Eighteenth Century)
by June K Burton
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Uncovers the strategies that Napoleonic women employed to control their lives....
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Care and Equality: Inventing a New Family Politics
by Mona Harrington
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Who is now caring for America's children, for the elderly, the sick, the disabled? In practical and general terms, the answer is: nobody. According to Mona Harrington, the traditional system of caregiving--until now almost entirely dependent on the...
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Jewish Feminism in Israel (Brandeis Series on Jewish Women)
by Kalpana Misra
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A dynamic and authentic representation of feminism in Israel, by some of its leading exponents and activists....
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Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (Gender & Culture)
by Rosi Braidotti
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Braidotti argues for a new kind of philosophical thinking, one that would include the insights of feminism and abandon the hegemonic mode that is conventionally adopted in high theory....
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What Women Want Next: In My Twenties, I Thought Sex and Career Would Solve Everything. At Thirty, I Thought Marriage Would. Later I Tried Mo
by Susan Maushart
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In my twenties, I thought sex and career would solve everything. At thirty, I thought marriage would. Later I tried motherhood, therapy, and then divorce. At forty, I decided to renovate. With all the choices available to today’s women, why...
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Sex & Power
by Susan Estrich
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At the dawn of the 21st century, women in America are richer, more educated, and more powerful than before. So why is it, Estrich asks, that they account for a minuscule percentage of the nation's top executives, politicians, lawyers and professors? A...
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Mary Wollstonecraft a Revolutionary Life
by Janet M Todd
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A detailed biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, the first major feminist in England. It highlights her intellectual and sexual dilemmas, and her glamorous and tumultuous lives and loves. The combination of her works with her efforts to live a revolutionary...
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Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650-1800
by Ruth Bloch
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-215) and index....
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Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua
by Jing Wang
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Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.<P>...
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Virtual Slut: I Was a Cybersex Addict
by Screenseductress
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Why do I like Cybersex ? I love it because it is porn for women. Porn for me. My porn. Tailor-made for my fantasies and desires: I choose the porn stars, plot, climax and ending. I am the director and camerawoman. I tell my cyberlovers what to do and...
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Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds
by Kit Bakke
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A progressive-minded American everywoman, a child of the 60s now entering midlife, takes lessons in political commitment and personal fulfillment from her spiritual mentor, Louisa May Alcott....
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The Vagina Monologues
by Eve Ensler
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I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked...
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Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, & Work in the United States & Great Britain, 1880-1940
by Arwen Mohun
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Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American cities -- products of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike the more familiar examples of industrialization, these cleanliness factories remained powerfully...
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Sex & Business Ethics of Sexuality in Bu
by Shere Hite
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After 15 years researching and interviewing business men and women around the globe, Shere Hite now exposes the areas where misunderstandings arise and offers solutions for overcoming gender barriers....
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Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment (Turning Points)
by Eleanor Clift
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A high-profile journalist brings the women?s suffrage movement to life in this latest addition to the Turning Points series
On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified and women in America finally won the right to...
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