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Vindication of the Rights of Women (96 Edition) by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments Considered a heroine of feminism, Wollstonecraft argues that women, rather than cultivating power from sexual allure, should be honest, intelligent, and independent. Her views about how women's innate worth is denigrated by improper definitions of the... (read more) Your price: $3.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Who Cooked the Last Supper? : the Women's History of the World (01 Edition) by Rosalind Miles Publisher Comments Men dominate history because men write history. There have been many heroes, but no heroines. This is the book that overturns that "phallusy of history," giving voice to the true history of the world which, always and forever, must include the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Wollstonecraft Anthology by Janet M. Todd Publisher Comments "A Wollstonecraft Anthology" brings together Mary Wollstonecraft's well-known and lesser-known texts: "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, The French Revolution," her early education al writings, her letters to... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.65 Sale - Trade Paper
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History of Women in the West #03: A History of Women in the West, Volume III: Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes by Georges Duby Publisher Comments Volume III of A History of Womendraws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman" as she appears in a wealth of representations, from... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty by Jean Zimmerman Publisher Comments The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, and promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate. Zimmerman deftly traces the astonishing rise of Margaret and the Philipse women who... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America by Martha Saxton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-375) and index.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Women in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies Publisher Comments Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is "a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . . . Highly recommended... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives by Natalie Zemon Davis Publisher Comments As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the seventeenth century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Caty: A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene (Brown Thrasher Books) by John Stegeman Publisher Comments Throughout her life, Catharine Littlefield Greene struggled to clear her own place as an individual within a society that was itself fighting for its place as an independent nation. In Caty, John and Janet Stegeman follow the life of a woman whose spirit... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments Arguably the earliest written work of feminist philosophy, Wollstonecraft produced a female manifesto in the time of the American and French Revolutions. This era induced many to reconsider not only the rights of men, but also of women, and none argued... (read more) List Price $4.49 Your price: $3.98 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon Publisher Comments Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the founder of modern feminism — in her time, the most famous woman in Europe and America. In this exciting new biography, Lyndall Gordon proposes that at each stage of a passionate and courageous life — as... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Hardcover
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Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner Publisher Comments a fresh, cross-disciplinary examination of what's known about Joan's short life and how it has been interpreted by historians, artists, and writers over the centuries since her death.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Publisher Comments Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Uppity Women of the Renaissance by Vicki Leon Publisher Comments The author of "Uppity Women of Ancient Times" introduces some of history's most outrageous women from Renaissance times. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Betsy Prioleau Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-354) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Diane Jacobs Publisher Comments Pioneering eighteenth-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft lived a life as radical as her vision of a fairer world. She overcame great disadvantages -- poverty (her abusive, sybaritic father squandered the family fortune), a frivolous education, and the... (read more) Your price: $18.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Women in Medieval Society (Middle Ages) by Susan M Stuard Publisher Comments Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played an important part in public affairs. They practiced birth control through abortion and... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wives of the Signer's: The Women Behind the Declaration of Independence by Harry Clinton Green Publisher Comments Originally penned in 1912, this historical reprint showcases individual portraits of the fiercely courageous women who endured tremendous hardship as their husbands fought to build an independent nation. women such as Abigail Adams, Dorothy Quincy... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Maria: Or, the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments In 'Maria, ' Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.' Her story of a woman incarcerated in a madhouse by her abusive husband dramatizes the effect of the English marriage laws, which made women... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.46 Used - Trade Paper
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Revolutions) by Mary. Annotated By Anna Power Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments 'It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.69 New - Trade Paper
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