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Chick Lit and Postfeminism (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture) by Stephanie Harzewski Publisher Comments Chick Lit and Postfeminism is a bold and fascinating exploration of the 'most culturally visible form of postfeminist fiction'--chick lit. Demanding and sometimes dizzying in its range and readings, the book moors the genre in the commodified context of... (read more) Your price: $25.50 New - Trade Paper 
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Women of Beat Generation (96 Edition) by Brenda Knight Publisher Comments Winner of an American Book Award, this collection is an unprecedented exploration of the lives, writings, and astonishing stories of the long-overlooked women of the Beat Generation.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880-1930: An Anthology of Plays by British and American Women from the Modernist Period (Women, Theatre and Performance) by Maggie B. (edt) Gale Publisher Comments This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Trade Paper
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Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color by Gloria Anzaldúa Publisher Comments A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women Who Dare 2009 Engagement Calendar Publisher Comments This inspiring calendar profiles fifty-three outstanding women — both historical and contemporary — who have made profound contributions in art, education, politics, sports, science, and other endeavors. Each week of the calendar features... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Calendar Engagement
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Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi Publisher Comments Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, "Sexual/Textual Politics" nevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction by Nina Auerbach Publisher Comments In this classic work of feminist and literary criticism, Auerbach explores how the fellowship of sisterhood as it occurs or fails to occur in historical reality is reflected in famous novels such as those of Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), Charlotte... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Methodology of the Oppressed (00 Edition) by Chela Sandoval Publisher Comments In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World: Completely Revised and Updated by Joni Seager Publisher Comments In this revision of her ground-breaking atlas, Joni Seager draws on a vast amount of new global data to explore the key issues facing women today: equality, motherhood, feminism, beauty, culture, women at work, women in the global economy, changing... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean by Mildred P. Mortimer Publisher Comments Writing from the Hearth probes the relationship of gender to space in close readings of texts of Francophone women writers of Africa Aoua KZita, Mariama B, Calixthe Beyala, and Aminata Sow Fall, and the Caribbean Marie Chauvet, Simon Schwarz-Bart, Maryse... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $28.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womanhood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America by Frances B. Cogan Publisher Comments Our image of nineteenth-century American women is generally divided into two broad classifications: victims and revolutionaries. This divide has served the purposes of modern feminists well, allowing them to claim feminism as the only viable role model... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Virginia Woolf as Feminist by Naomi Black Publisher Comments Virginia Woolf as Feminist claims Woolf's radical and political version of feminism and activism is most explicitly laid out in her nonfiction text "Three Guineas."... (read more) Your price: $31.75 New - Trade Paper
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Gilbert and Gubar's the Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years by Annette R. Federico Publisher Comments When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision by Elaine Neil Orr Publisher Comments This intense examination of the writings of Tillie Olsen shows Elaine Neil Orr's deeply sympathetic passion for Olsen's literary world. Orr's objective is not simply to offer literary criticism but to interpret the subjects that inspire and disclose... (read more) Your price: $32.50 New - Trade Paper
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Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontes by Diane Long Hoeveler Publisher Comments As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of bourgeois female sensibility. Building on her earlier... (read more) Your price: $37.25 New - Trade Paper
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Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View by Barbara J. Cook Synopsis Women Writing Nature addresses the question, _Do women write about nature differently?_ In the process, the collection considers women's writings about the natural world in light of recent and current feminist and ecofeminist theory.... (read more) Your price: $74.25 New - Hardcover
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Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms: Feminist Review, Issue 56 by Feminist Review Publisher Comments Included in this issue: Who Needs [Sex] When You Can Have [Gender]? --Feminist Discourses at the UN Conference at Beijingby Sally Baden and Anne-Marie Goetz;To Whom Does Ameena Belong? --Towards a Feminist Analysis of Childhood and Nationhood in... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $32.68 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa: A Study of Contemporary Fiction by Yulisa Amadu Maddy Publisher Comments In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction... (read more) Your price: $39.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Feminist Bestseller (06 Edition) by Whelehan Publisher Comments Imelda Whelehan provides an overview of popular feminist fiction from the late 1960s to the end of the 1990s, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women's Room, Kinflicks and Fear of Flying have influenced popular contemporary works such as... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Grace Paley: Illuminating Dark Lives by Jacqueline Taylor Publisher Comments Grace Paley is a writer's writer, admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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