Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Women's Lives Aren't Getting Any Easier--And How We Can Make Real Progress for Ourselves and
by Carolyn Maloney
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As a young woman, Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked her grandmother for career advice. She was shocked by the reply: "Get married." Though much has changed for women since then, more has...
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The Breaking Point: How Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today's Women
by Sue Shellenbarger
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In the tradition of The Second Shift, a groundbreaking work that identifies and explains the phenomenon poised to redefine our culture.
When Sue Shellenbarger wrote about her midlife crises in her award-winning Wall Street Journal "Work & Family...
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Her Own Woman Life of Mary Wollstonecraf
by Diane Jacobs
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A portrait of the dilemmas of this pioneering woman's life: her petition for women's economic, social and political equality, and most of all, her tumultuous personal experience....
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Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot
by Scarlot Harlot
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A declared feminist activist, Carol Leigh refers to herself as a life artist, an "autobiographical journalist ... using myself and my life as an example, employing the image of whore in order to reclaim female sexual symbolism." Scarlot Harlot, Leigh's...
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Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development
by Irene Tinker
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Synthesizing the vast amount of research done in the last two decades on the roles of women in economic development, this anthology provides both a historical and political overview of the field and a careful examination of major areas of current...
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Hating Women
by Shmuel Boteach
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From the author of the internationally bestselling Kosher Sex. A wake-up call about the growing trend of misogyny in our culture-as evidenced by the flood of reality TV shows, ads, and lyrics that portray women as brainless bimbos, or worse Shmuley...
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Classrooms and Courtrooms: Facing Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schools
by Nan D Stein
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In this comprehensive volume on sexual harassment in K-12 schools, Stein not only summarizes legal cases and the findings of major surveys but also presents the students' points of view. Boys and girls describe their experience, telling how much sexual...
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Creating a Life: What Every Woman Needs to Know about Having a Baby and a Career
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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Featuring a new Introduction by the author, this is the book that touched off a national debate about how career women can start a family if they plan for it with the same intensity as they do for their careers....
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Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
by Benson Tong
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"Unsubmissive Women" explores the lives of Chinese girls and women shipped to San Francisco in the 19th century and forced into prostitution. They maintained their will to alter their fate, survived subjugation, and quite often escaped to establish...
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Leading Ladies: American Trailblazers
by Kay Baile Hutchison
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In a series of skillfully drawn biographical portraits, United States senator and bestselling author Kay Bailey Hutchison examines the lives of sixty-three pioneers in military service, journalism, public health, social reform, science, and politics...
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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...
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The Dream of the Perfect Child (Bioethics and the Humanities)
by Joan Rothschild
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A feminist critique of bioethics and attitudes toward reproductive technologies....
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Shady Ladies: Nineteen Surprising and Rebellious American Women
by Suzann Ledbetter
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Suzann Ledbetter has researched and written about American history for almost twenty years. The depth of her work is reflected in these well-crafted and enormously entertaining biographies of little-known---till now---Shady Ladies. Some were crackpots...
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The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific
by Patty Obrien
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O'Brien (history, Georgetown U.) contests the conventional view of
Pacific women as benignly exotic and free of complications. She
identifies the historical myths and understandings that adorn the
image, explains how they have constituted the Pacific...
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A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna
by Paul Rutherford
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"A World Made Sexy" explores what the author refers to as the Eros project the mainstreaming of blatant sexuality in modern culture as a mechanism both of liberation and domination. It is a study that will appeal to anyone interested in understanding the...
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Before They Could Vote: American Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1819-1919 (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
by Sidonie Smith
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The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition—some well known, some forgotten over generations—who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to...
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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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Catfight: Women and Competion
by Leora Tanenbaum
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Catfight: Women and Competition is Leora Tanenbaum's dissection of the gender war waged among women. Tanenbaum meticulously analyzes the roots of destructive competitiveness among women, asserting that "catfights" thrive because, despite women's many...
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Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation
by Ellen Bravo
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"Please, please, please. All working women must read this book! Ellen Bravo not only vividly exposes workplace inequities, she gives real-life solutions, picking up where my film 9 to 5left off."-Jane Fonda Enough about "breaking the glass ceiling."Here...
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Boundaries of Her Body
by Debran Rowland
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Through detailed insight and the use of court cases, Boundaries of Her Body reveals how the realities of a woman's biology has controlled her legal rights. This paper edition includes a new foreword reflecting the changes that can be anticipated as a...
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