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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan Publisher Comments The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? by Leslie Bennetts Publisher Comments Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really "have to" work, it's better for their families if they stay home. Not only is this untrue, Leslie Bennetts says, but the arguments in favor... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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How Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995 by Julia K Blackwelder About the Author Julia Kirk Blackwelder is professor and head of the Department of History at Texas A&M University. She holds the Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University and is the author of Women of the Depression, published by Texas A&M Press in 1984... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women by Mary S Hartman Book News Annotation Interviews with 13 women, in areas ranging from philanthropy to politics and from business to academia, present a thought-provoking look at differences and commonalities in the lives and leadership approaches of women committed to social change... (read more) List Price $26.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life on the Line: One Woman's Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival by Solange De Santis Publisher Comments As a veteran reporter throughout the "downsizing" years of the auto industry in the United States and Canada, Queens-born Solange De Santis covered her fair share of auto plant closings, but almost always from the management's point of view. That is... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dilemmas of a Double Life: Women Balancing Careers and Relationships by Nancy B. Kaltreider Publisher Comments Here, in what one of the contributors felicitously calls a mentoring book, sixteen professional women write as generational role models about the hard choices and real problems that surface throughout the life cycle. Because the economics of choice are... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $48.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Doing Without: Women and Work After Welfare Reform by Jane Henrici Publisher Comments The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving public assistance, most of whom were women with children. Today, however, more than a decade later... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World by Birute Regine Synopsis A compelling narrative, "Iron Butterflies" weaves together the stories of 60 successful women from all walks of life and demonstrates how traditional feminine skills and values can be applied to empower more people than ever before.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation by Ellen Bravo Publisher Comments Enough about "breaking the glass ceiling." Here are blueprints for a redesign of the entire building, ground up, to benefit women and men — and even the bottom line. The feisty humor of Molly Ivins and the journalistic flair of Barbara... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unraveled: A Weaver's Tale of Life Gone Modern by Elizabeth L Krause Publisher Comments Deftly bridging literary conventions, this compelling work exposes the cultural origins of a quiet revolution that occurred over the course of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Krause combines novelistic and ethnographic techniques to illuminate... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Latinas and African American Women at Work: Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality by Irene Browne Book News Annotation Contains 13 contributions in which prominent sociologists and economists investigate the mixed progress of Latinas and African American women in the US labor market. Contributions are divided into three sections: employment and earnings; the dynamics... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Secrets of Powerful Women: Leading Change for a New Generation by Andrea Wong Publisher Comments "There is something special that happens when you get a group of powerful women in a room . . . and shut the door." Andrea Wong, President and CEO, Lifetime Networks "There's such a reservoir of power among us when we pool our resources... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) by Jane Latour Publisher Comments Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against... (read more) List Price $31.75 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 by Barbara Kingsolver Publisher Comments Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan Staff Pick Evelyn Ryan's family may have been one of the poorest in town, but her children did not go without the occasional taste of well-earned luxury. Their mother entered every contest imaginable (there were plenty in the '50s and '60s) and won everything from... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Economic Emergence of Women 2nd Edition by Barbara R. Bergmann Publisher Comments This new edition of a classic feminist book explains how one of thegreat historical revolutions--the ongoing movement toward equalitybetween the sexes--has come about. Its origins are to found, not inchanging ideas, but in the economic developments that... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965 (Gender and American Culture) by Jennife Mittelstadt Publisher Comments "Well-organized. . . . Valuable. . . . . Will appeal to readers interested in women and poverty, reform and the policymaking process, the influence of economy on government, and the intricacies of federal welfare law." — Business History Review "A... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker (Literature of American Labor) by Theresa Ser Malkiel Book News Annotation Originally published in 1910, this is a fictional account of the 1909 New York shirtwaist makers' strike, written by a Jewish immigrant who was a labor activist and militant socialist. The informative introduction to this edition is by Francoise Basch,... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women & the Trades by Elizabeth B Butler Publisher Comments Women and the Trades has long been regarded as a masterwork in the field of social investigation. Originally published in 1909, it was one of six volumes of the path breaking Pittsburgh Survey, the first attempt in the United States to study... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Running as a Woman: Gender and Power in American Politics by Linda Witt Publisher Comments The authors show just how women politicians tapped into the vote for the 1992 elections and how they will shape their campaign strategies and political agendas around it in the future. Includes interviews with Geraldine Ferraro, Pat Schroeder, Nancy... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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