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Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue by Nicholas M. Teich Publisher Comments Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women by Elisabeth Badinter Publisher Comments In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhood Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Finding Fernanda by Erin Siegal Publisher Comments A compelling, dramatic narrative of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother, shedding light on the alarming and growing problem of international adoption fraud. Over the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, and Care by Julie Stephens Publisher Comments There is a deep cultural anxiety around public expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to society as a whole. Julie Stephens examines why postmaternal thinking has become so influential in recent decades and why there has been a... (read more) Your price: $103.75 New - Hardcover
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Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples by Rodger Streitmatter Publisher Comments For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton by Jane E. (edt) Schultz Publisher Comments After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. Portland's Free Street Baptist Church, with liberal ties to abolition, established the Maine Camp... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski Publisher Comments Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York by Suzana Maia Publisher Comments Life histories of women negotiating their identities between two... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein Publisher Comments “I was born male and now I’ve got medical and government documents that say I’m female—but I don’t call myself a woman, and I know I’m not a man. . . .” Scientologist, husband and father, tranny, sailor, slave... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Transfeminist Perspectives in and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies by Anne (edt) Enke Synopsis If feminist studies and transgender studies are so intimately connected, why are they not more deeply integrated? Offering multidisciplinary models for this assimilation, the vibrant essays in Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and... (read more) Your price: $84.50 New - Hardcover
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Sex Changes by Patrick Califia Publisher Comments Patrick Califia's meticulously researched history of transsexuality combines well thought-out chronology with Califia's hallmark candor and insight. Writing about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, Califia examines the lives of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Sexuality, Equality and Diversity by Diane Richardson Publisher Comments Investigating the dynamics of identity and sexual citizenship in a changing world, this compelling text explores key debates around human rights and representation, policy and resistance. Incorporating theory with original research, this is a thought... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages (Working Class in American History) by Jessie B. Ramey Publisher Comments This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two "sister" orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan's Home and the all-black Home for... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior by Peter B. Gray Publisher Comments We've all heard that a father's involvement enriches the lives of children. But how much have we heard about how having a child affects a father's life? As Peter Gray and Kermyt Anderson reveal, fatherhood actually alters a man's sexuality, rewires his... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words by Harvey Milk Publisher Comments The unrehearsed and unguarded conversations in this collection reveal Harvey Milk's sense of humor, outrage over injustice, and love of dramatic confrontation. This volume contains the texts of 39 interviews Milk did for newspapers, radio, and television,... (read more) Your price: $31.95 New - Hardcover
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Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire (Society and the Sexes in the Modern World) by Julie Berebitsky Publisher Comments In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed since the 1860s, when... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $36.75 New - Hardcover
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Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences by Sarah Schulman Synopsis “Familial homophobia,” as prizewinning writer and professor Sarah Schulman calls it, is a phenomenon that, until now, has not had a name but is nevertheless an integral part of most peoples experience. For it is in the family that straight... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) by Shefali Chandra Publisher Comments In The Sexual Life of English, Shefali Chandra examines how English became an Indian language. She rejects the idea that English was fully formed prior to its life in India, or that it was imposed from without. Rather, by drawing attention to sexuality... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Manthropology: The Science of Why the Modern Male Is Not the Man He Used to Be by Peter Mcallister Publisher Comments Featured in The Wall Street Journal and on ABCs Nightline, Manthropology is an entertaining and surprising look at manliness Anthropologist Peter McAllister set out to prove once and for all that man today is the best man who has ever lived. But to his... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Women and the Military in Europe: Comparing Public Cultures by Irene Eulriet Publisher Comments Women's military participation has attracted attention since the 1970s across the social sciences. But their participation within the European Union has been neglected as an object of inquiry. This book explores the policies adopted in the United Kingdom,... (read more) Your price: $85.00 New - Hardcover
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