Breaking the Silence: French Women's Voices from the Ghetto
by Fadela Amara


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This is a an analysis of the position of Muslim women in France, who are discriminated against both in their communities and in larger French culture.... (read more)

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Muslim Women in India: Political & Private Realities, 1890s-1980s
by Shahida Lateef


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This book investigates the status and role in society of Muslim women in India. Based on a survey of nine major Indian cities in different states, it creates a new context in which issues such as education, literacy, social legislation and purdah can... (read more)

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Women's Work and Public Policy: A History of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945-1970
by Kathleen A Laughlin


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This institutional history of the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau shows how the collaboration between a federal agency with grassroots constituents in the 1940s and 1950s set the stage for resurgent feminism in the 1960s.... (read more)

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Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female
by Willa Shalit


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In the tradition of "The right Words at the Right Time" comes a collection of original essays on the joys, trials, and unexpected outcomes of growing up female, written by dozens of celebrities, writers, and exceptional women.... (read more)

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Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth Century Woman
by Caroline Heale Dall


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Boston was well-known in the nineteenth century as a center for intellectual ferment. Amidst the popular lecturing of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the discussion groups led by Margaret Fuller sat a remarkable young woman, Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912... (read more)

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Shattered Dreams Broken Promises
by Michael Viner


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Viner traveled to various Eastern European countries to interview women of all ages and circumstances who are willing to do anything to get to America. The revealing and often unsettling tales of these women, told in their own words, shine a light on a... (read more)

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Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward
by Carolyn Ware


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Cajun Women and Mardi Gras is the first book to explore the importance of women's contributions  to the country Cajun Mardi Gras tradition, or Mardi Gras “run.” Most Mardi Gras runs--masked begging processions through the countryside... (read more)

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From Suffrage To the Senate Volume 2
by Suzanne O Schenken


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A comprehensive and valuable compendium of biographies of leading women in U.S. politics, past and present, and an examination of the wide range of women's movements. With this dynamically illustrated reference work, readers can explore American women's... (read more)

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Sacrificed Lives: Kristeva on Women and Violence
by Martha Reineke


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This volume elaborates a theory of sacrifice designed to explore the culture of violence. In particular, the author wants to explain why speech becomes so inadequate that acts of violence against human bodies becomes necessary, why it is more often... (read more)

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Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World
by Jean Shinoda Bolen


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Offering a unique combination of visionary thinking and practical how-to, this is Bolen's most activist work to-date. Written in a lyrical, inspiring language, this book seeks to galvanize the still untapped power of women coming together to change the... (read more)

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American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
by Kay Bailey Hutchison


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As long as there has been an America, the indomitable spirit of American women has shaped both the country’s history and society. Regardless of the time and place these women were born each excelled in her respective field, making it easier for the... (read more)

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Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity
by Stephanie Budin


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In this study, Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person??'s body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient world. Reconsidering the evidence from... (read more)

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The Lives of Agnes Smedley
by Ruth Price


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Drawing on 15 years of intensive research and unprecedented access to previously unpublished documents, this vibrant book brings to life one of the 20th century's most fascinating women.... (read more)

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J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by John Stuart Mill


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Three of Mill's classic texts, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and the posthumous Chapters on Socialism are brought together in this edition.... (read more)

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Renaissance Woman a Study of Womens Role
by Linda S Bowlby


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In a society where men are often complimented as "Renaissance men," why is there no equivalent phrase, "Renaissance woman?" The author searches for answers to this question by examining the art and social structures of Ancient Greece, the Middle Ages... (read more)

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Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for the New Millennium
by Robin Morgan


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Commissioning more than 50 original essays from established feminist leaders and artists as well as exciting new thinkers and activists, "Sisterhood Is Forever" is a landmark work, a composite mural of where women have been, where they are now, and where... (read more)

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A Sinner of Memory
by Melita Schaum




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In this collection of essays, poet and essayist Melita Schaum reflects on individual experience from the perspective of a wanderer in mid-journey: a woman in her 40s, traveler, writer, and self-styled seeker who finds herself flaunting the "system" and... (read more)

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Women and Citizenship (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)
by Marilyn Friedman


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The notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights, privileges, and responsibilities; an elevated and exclusionary status, a relationship between individual and state, and more. In recent decades citizenship has... (read more)

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