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Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond by Dale L Walker Publisher Comments Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) defied the conventions of her era. Born and raised on a farm in Oswego, New York, Walker became one of a handful of female physicians in the nation-and became a passionate believer in the rights of women. Despite the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Womens America Refocusing the Past 5TH Edition by Linda K Kerber Publisher Comments This new edition of a widely-acclaimed anthology incoroprates the best of the extensive new scholarship in women's history with American history as a whole. Some sixty documents and articles, including essays written by the editors especially for this... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life #02: The Public Years by Charles Capper Publisher Comments Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of America's most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written, and one of the great biographies in American... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Theodosia Burr Alston by Richard N Cote Publisher Comments For Vice President Aaron Burr, providing his daughter, Theodosia, with an extraordinary education was much more than just a lifelong obsession. By the time she could walk, Burr had envisioned an incredible goal for her and crafted a master plan to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth Century Woman by Caroline Heale Dall Publisher Comments This Journal is my safety valve-and it is well, that I can thus rid myself of my superfluous steam . . . I trust posterity will remember this, should it ever be gratified by a glimpse at these pages. In the nineteenth century, Boston was well known as a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle by Janet Todd Publisher Comments From the Romantic period's star circle, the story of its saddest casualty — Fanny Wollstonecraft, daughter of an original feminist, sister of a literary star, and hopeful object of a poet's affection, dead of suicide at the age of nineteen... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Across an Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time by Julia Markus Publisher Comments From the much acclaimed author of Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, a new book that retrieves the lives of Victorian women--writers, actresses, poets, journalists, sculptors, and social reformers--celebrated in their... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $2.25 Used - Hardcover
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The Belles of New England by William Moran Publisher Comments The Belles of New England is the story of one group of pioneers in the American labor movement--the thousands of women who left New England farm towns to work in the textile cities that sprang up in the region in the early nineteenth century. Their goal... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Mother's Book by Lydia Maria Child Publisher Comments Child's 1831 book on childhood and motherhood, with its "plain, practical good-sense, written with earnestness and simplicity of style," offers chapters on Early Cultivation of Intellect, Amusements and Employments, Politeness, Management during the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fire in the Hole (Women's West Series) by Sybil Downing Synopsis The award-winning Fire in the Hole is the tale of a young widowed lawyer swept up in the violence of the famous Colorado coal strike of 1913-1914 known to history as the Ludlow Massacre. Opposed by the coal companies, the union, Wall Street, and the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Woman Citizen: Social Feminism in the 1920s by Stanley Lemons Publisher Comments This book touches on several significant themes and adds considerably to our understanding of both the woman's movement and reform efforts in the 1920s. A clearly written study that is rewarding reading for any student of the 1920s and the woman's... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders by Mark Perry Publisher Comments In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite position as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, for a life dedicated to abolitionism and advocacy of women's rights in the North... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire in the Hole by Sybil Downing Publisher Comments Alex MacFarlane, a widowed lawyer, decides to represent a striker who had tried to save her husband's life ten years before, despite the fact that her father's firm represents the mine... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $11.49 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Geoffery Ward Publisher Comments The definitive Ken Burns hardcover selection. Six hardcover classics, including: The Civil War: An Illustrated History, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jazz: A History of America's Music, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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When Hens Crow: The Womans Rights Movement in Antebellum America by Sylvia D Hoffert Publisher Comments In 1852 the New York Daily Herald described leaders of the woman's rights movement as "hens that crow." Using speeches, pamphlets, newspaper reports, editorials, and personal papers, Sylvia Hoffert discusses how ideology, language, and strategies of... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women & Power in American History Volume 2 by Kathryn Kish Sklar Publisher Comments This anthology brings together carefully selected, quality articles in U.S. Women's Historyorganized around an interest in issues of gender and power in American society. Twenty individual essays provide readers with a unifying theme, and a greater... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Womens America 4TH Edition by Linda K Kerber Publisher Comments The fourth edition of this widely-acclaimed anthology integrates the best of recent scholarship in women's history with American history as a whole. Now updated to include many more selections on ethnicity, as well as work on the frontier, the Civil War... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women & Economics by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Publisher Comments When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The private war of Mrs. Packard by Barbara Sapinsley Book News Annotation A review of the functions and issues facing American counties as the federal government begins to relinquish more responsibility to state government, specifically identifying the counties' roles and shifting management techniques. The 12 contributing... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $1.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries & Personal Crusade by Doris Beik Publisher Comments The entries not only illuminate the career of a remarkable woman, but yield insights into the early industrial system of the 1830s and 1840s. --Library Journal A child of both the French and Industrial revolutions, Flora Tristan (1803-1844) became a bold... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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