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Women and Society: The Road to Change by Ashok S. Kolaskar Publisher Comments The interface between women and society has witnessed great changes over the past few millennia. From gender equality in many societies in ancient times to the fight for reproductive rights, protest against domestic violence, and unequal wage to right to... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover 
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Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence by Sally Alexander Publisher Comments Available June 2012 Your price: $29.75 New - Trade Paper
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Feminist Ethics in Film: Reconfiguring Care Through Cinema by Joseph Kupfer Publisher Comments Popular films can do more than merely entertain us; they can contribute to our understanding of human nature and the ethical theory that informs it. Feminist Ethics in Film explores a varied group of cinematic narratives from the perspective of care... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $50.25 New - Trade Paper
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality by Hanne Blank Publisher Comments Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly and permanently transformed Western culture. The idea of “the heterosexual” was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex... (read more) Available October 2, 2012 Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth, Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics by Andreana Clay Publisher Comments Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\: *{behavior: url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: Table Normal; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-parent: ; mso-padding... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $85.50 New - Hardcover
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Muses: Women Who Inspire by Farid Hamed Abdelouahab Publisher Comments The stories of thirty-three women who enthralled societys artistic geniuses and thus inspired the creation of some of the greatest works of the past two centuries. American Lee Miller was a successful model before traveling to Paris to become the... (read more) Available October 2, 2012 Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth by Jean Zimmerman Publisher Comments In this stunning celebration and reappraisal of the importance of "women's work," acclaimed journalist Jean Zimmerman poignantly addresses the tug that many Americans of the twenty-first century feel between our professional and private lives. With sharp... (read more) Available July 7, 2012 Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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Gender: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Ancients & Moderns) by Brooke Holmes Publisher Comments Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite its familiarity within universities and colleges, some have argued that the radical debates which first characterized gender studies have become ghettoized or... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (Civil War America) by Judith Giesberg Publisher Comments Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, where they managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Gender, Peace and Security: Women's Advocacy and Conflict Resolution by Fredline A. O. M'cormack-hale Publisher Comments United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 recognises both war's adverse effects on women and women's important contributions to peace and security. Yet despite the resolution being passed unanimously over a decade ago, women are still generally... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $27.75 New - Trade Paper
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Studying Men and Masculinities by David Buchbinder Publisher Comments The late-twentieth-century anxiety about a crisis in masculinity still persists today, particularly in English-speaking cultures. Studying Men and Masculinities offers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to masculinities studies. Drawing on a wide... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $56.95 New - Trade Paper
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The War Against Boys: How We Are Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers Publisher Comments Despite popular belief, American boys tag behind girls in reading and writing ability, and they are less likely to go to college. Our young men are greatly at risk, yet the best-known studies and experts insist that it's girls who are in need of our... (read more) Available August 1, 2013 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin Publisher Comments A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world. Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true.... (read more) Available September 11, 2012 Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Risky Genes: Genetics, Breast Cancer, and Jewish Identity (Genetics and Society) by Jessica Mozersky Publisher Comments Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying three specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. This book provides previously unexplored first hand intimate descriptions of women 's experiences of being... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $146.50 New - Hardcover
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Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism by Elizabeth A. Sheehy Publisher Comments Sexual Assault in Canada is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada. Gathering together feminist scholars, lawyers, activists and policy-makers, it presents a picture of... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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History and Women, Culture and Faith #05: History and Women, Culture and Faith, Volume 5: Unbought Grace: An Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Reader by Elizabeth Fox-genovese Publisher Comments History and Women, Culture and Faith is a five-volume collection of eighty essays and journal articles spanning the extraordinary intellectual career of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941-2007). A working scholar for more than three decades, Fox-Genovese made... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them by Betsy Prioleau Publisher Comments Casanovas: where are those great romancers of women? In Swoon, Betsy Prioleau gives us a smart, entertaining study of ladies' men, demystifying their character, seductive secrets, and killer charm. Combining history, science, culture, and colorful... (read more) Available February 2013 Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Papa's Baby: Paternity and Artificial Insemination by Browne Lewis Publisher Comments When a child is conceived from sexual intercourse between a married, heterosexual couple, the child has a legal father and mother. Whatever may happen thereafter, the childs parents are legally bound to provide for their child, and if they dont, theyre... (read more) Available July 3, 2012 Your price: $56.95 New - Hardcover
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Buy It Now: Lessons from Ebay by Michele White Publisher Comments In Buy It Now, Michele White examines eBay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional texts, rule systems, and... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $30.25 New - Trade Paper
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Women of the Washington Press: Poltics, Prejudice, and Persistence by Maurine H. Beasley Publisher Comments The Women of the Washington Press argues that for nearly two centuries women journalists have persisted in their efforts to cover politics in the nations capital in spite of blatant prejudice and restrictive societal attitudes. They have been held back... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $29.25 New - Trade Paper
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