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Haunting Korean Diaspora (08 Edition) by Grace M. Cho Synopsis Since the Korean War—the forgotten war—more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by Deanne Blanton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-262) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Victims, Perpetrators or Actors?: Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence by Caroline O N Moser Publisher Comments Increasing levels of global conflict and political violence provide a critical challenge for development theorists and practitioners. Many countries have endured decades of armed conflict, and others live under the permanent menace of political violence.... (read more) List Price $105.25 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Amazing Women of the Civil War by Webb Garrison Publisher Comments Celebrates the Civil War contributions and exploits of such women spies, soldiers, journalists, doctors, and nurses as Harriet Tubman, Belle Boyd, Elizabeth Van Lew, Lucy Hayes, and Pauline... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $11.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Women At War by Nigel Fountain Synopsis This series combines text based largely on eyewitness accounts lodged in the archives of the Imperial War Museum, with a CD based on actual recordings held in the same archives. This volume examines the part that women played in the two major wars of the... (read more) Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa by Joshua Goldstein Publisher Comments Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war, yet our understanding of the relationship between gender and war is confused. Joshua Goldstein analyzes the near-total exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and across cultures. He... (read more) List Price $76.25 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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She's Got a Gun by Nancy Floyd Synopsis Using historical and contemporary accounts and visuals of America's gun women-in fiction and entertainment, sports shooting, armed self-defense, and the professional fields (police and military)-this highly illustrated volume looks at how armed women... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War by Bonnie Tsui Publisher Comments She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War tells the little-known, true stories of the brave women who boldly challenged gender boundaries during The War Between the States. Whether disguising themselves as male soldiers or participating in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Amazing Women of the Civil War: Fascinating True Stories of Women Who Made a Difference by Webb Garrison Publisher Comments Former slave Harriet Tubman, surgeon Mary Walker, and spy Belle Boyd, the "siren of the Shenandoah, " are among the fascinating women profiled in this informative history by the author of "Civil War Curiosities" and "Friendly Fire in the Civil War... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War by Cynthia Enloe Publisher Comments Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, Charlene. In a book that once again blends her distinctive flair for capturing the texture of everyday life with shrewd political insights, Cynthia Enloe looks closely at the lives of eight ordinary... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women and War by Jenny Matthews Publisher Comments War is overwhelmingly a male occupation. Yet its victims are often civilians -- many among them women and children. In Women and War Jenny Matthews gives a voice to this silent majority of casualties through a series of deeply moving -- sometimes... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier by Laura Leedy Gansler Publisher Comments Resurrecting a lost hero of the Civil War, The Mysterious Private Thompson tells the remarkable story of one heroic woman who defied convention in nineteenth-century America to live, work, and defend her country at a time of war, when most women were... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Women As Weapons of War : Iraq, Sex, Media (07 Edition) by Kelly Oliver Publisher Comments Ever since Eve tempted Adam with her apple, women have been regarded as a corrupting and destructive force. The very idea that women can be used as interrogation tools, as evidenced in the infamous Abu Ghraib torture photos, plays on age-old fears of... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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What Kind of World Do We Want?: American Women Plan for Peace by Judy Barrett Litoff Publisher Comments Even before the United States officially entered World War II, American women began to map out a far-reaching agenda for the postwar world. This book by Judy Barrett Litoff and David C. Smith is a collection of readings that show women activists' efforts... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $29.79 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II by Emily Yellin Publisher Comments "Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front." — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1944 Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War by Marijo Moore About the Author MariJo Moore (Cherokee/Irish/Dutch) is the author of a dozen books including Spirit Voices of Bones, Confessions of a Madwoman, Red Woman With Backward Eyes and Other Stories, The Diamond Doorknob, The Boy With A Tree Growing From His Ear and Other... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Women Who Lived for Danger: Behind Enemy Lines During WWII by Marcus Binney Publisher Comments "They flirted with men, and with death." In The Women Who Lived for Danger, acclaimed historian Marcus Binney recounts the story of ten remarkable women -- some famous, some virtually unknown -- recruited to work behind enemy lines as secret agents... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin Publisher Comments An acclaimed writer explores the interplay between the public tragedy of war and the daily struggles of our private lives — the conflicts between truth and falsehood, secrecy and revelation, testimony and denial. A brilliant philosophical inquiry... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How Women Can Beat Terrorism by Curt Weeden Publisher Comments In How Women Can Beat Terrorism, author Curt Weeden sounds an urgent warning: If the world stays on its present course, terrorism and conflict may take the lives of over 100 million people during the next three decades. Give women the opportunity... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mothers of Heroes Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief by Suzanne Evans Synopsis Maternal love is considered the most unconditional form of love, yet mothers have been prepared to sacrifice their children, or to see them sacrificed, for a "noble" cause. Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs shows that, across cultures and historical... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Hardcover
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