Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
by Lynne Olson
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THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE VITAL ROLE WOMEN -- BOTH BLACK AND WHITE -- PLAYED IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, credit finally goes where credit is due -- to the bold women who were crucial to the success...
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Obsession, with Intent: Violence Against Women
by Lee Lakeman
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"Obsession, With Intent" is an investigative report into cases of -violence against women; in "all" cases the women tried to get help from the system. It is a harrowing account of individual women's stories, their understanding of the danger they faced...
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Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil (Hypatia Book)
by Robin May Schott
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Any glance at the contemporary history of the world shows that the problem of evil is a central concern for people everywhere. In the last few years, terrorist attacks, suicide bombings, and ethnic and religious wars have only emphasized humanity's...
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From Patriarchy to Empowerment: Women's Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
by Valentine Moghadam
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North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia has been called the
"patriarchal belt," yet they are also experiencing the emergence of
vibrant women's movements fighting for their own empowerment and
other economic, political, and cultural changes. The...
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Women in Politics Voices From the Common
by Commonwealth Secreta
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A collection of profiles of thirty-three women in politics from eleven Commonwealth countries.Women in Politics: Voices from the Commonwealth shows that to a large extent the degree of women's integration into political life depends on the system of...
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Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America (Civil War America)
by Jane Schultz
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As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial...
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Theorizing Feminist Policy (Gender and Politics)
by Amy Mazur
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Theorizing Feminist Policy avoids the usual clash between feminist analysis and non-feminist social science in mapping out the new field of feminist comparative policy. Instead, it intersects empirical feminist policy analysis with non-feminist policy...
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The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics)
by Christine De Pizan
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In The Book of the City of Ladies France's first professional woman of letters confronted head-on the misogyny of fourteenth-century Europe. Here, with the help of Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan constructs an allegoricaL city in which...
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Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics: Essays by Estelle B. Freedman (Gender and American Culture)
by Estelle B Freedman
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One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Freedman in the past thirty years has produced a body of work in which scholarship and politics have never been mutually exclusive. This collection brings together eleven essays...
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