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Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
by Daisy Hernández
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A collection of bold new writing by women of color introduces new themes of family and mixed ethnicity into the ongoing conversation about feminism and feminist values. Original.... (read more)

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Women, Race, & Class
Women, Race, & Class
by Angela Y. Davis
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A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.... (read more)

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Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India
Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India
by Richa Nagar
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Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is... (read more)

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Sex & Money: Feminism and Political Economy in the Media
Sex & Money: Feminism and Political Economy in the Media
by Eileen R. Meehan
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It all comes down to sex and money: how the media are organized, how they work, what they say, who gets to say it and to whom. That is the message this book delivers -- and then parses for its meaning to society and culture. Forcefully and persuasively... (read more)

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Paternal Tyranny
Paternal Tyranny
by Arcangela Tarabotti
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Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.... (read more)

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Citizenship: Pushing the Boundaries: Feminist Review, Issue 57
Citizenship: Pushing the Boundaries: Feminist Review, Issue 57
by Feminist Review
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This topic is fast becoming a major issue of debate among a wide cross-section of disciplines. Citizenship brings together global perspectives on issues of citizenship in particular regional and national contexts. Papers include: - Women, Citizenship and... (read more)

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Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both
Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both
by Laura Sessions Stepp
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A Washington Post reporter evaluates the sexual experiences of three groups of young women who have responded to what the author terms America's increasingly sexualized culture by engaging in obligation-free intimate relationships rather than navigating... (read more)

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Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century
Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century
by Susan Gubar
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Is feminism dead, as has been claimed by notable members of the media and the academy? Has feminist knowledge, with its proliferation of methodologies and fields, been purchased at the price of power? Are the conflicts among feminists evidence of self... (read more)

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Rousseau & Politics Ambiguity
Rousseau & Politics Ambiguity
by Mira Morgenstern
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In this refreshing contrast to many commentators, Morgenstern does justice to the complexity of Rousseau's work by drawing on his novels as well as his explicity political writings.-Choice"This book is a well-written, innovative, in-depth investigation... (read more)

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Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean
Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean
by Mildred P. Mortimer
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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)

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Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Automony, Agency, and the Social Self
Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Automony, Agency, and the Social Self
by Catriona MacKenzie
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This collection of original essays explores the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge and... (read more)

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High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean
by Carla Freeman
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High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman’s fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalism... (read more)

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
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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)

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Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies: Activism in the GirlZone
Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies: Activism in the GirlZone
by Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau
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Case study of the life of a feminist organization in a changing political and funding climate.... (read more)

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Gilbert and Gubar's the Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years
Gilbert and Gubar's the Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years
by Annette R. Federico
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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)

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Ungendering Civilization
Ungendering Civilization
by K. Anne Pyburn
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Ungendering Civilizationexamines early state societies for evidence of the long-assumed male dominance/ female subordination that has characterized archaeological study, research and scholarship since our ancestors first started speculating about the... (read more)

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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in mid-nineteenth-century England
The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in mid-nineteenth-century England
by Steven Marcus
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Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revolutionary perspective on the underside of Victorian... (read more)

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Adelaide Hoodless: Domestic Crusader
Adelaide Hoodless: Domestic Crusader
by Cheryl MacDonald
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Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered one of the radical new woman of the late nineteenth... (read more)

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Gender Roles, Traditions, and Generations to Come: The Collision of Competing Interests and the Feminist Paradox
Gender Roles, Traditions, and Generations to Come: The Collision of Competing Interests and the Feminist Paradox
by Wade C. MacKey
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While everyone alive today is guaranteed to have ancestors, no one is born with a similar guarantee to have descendants. In a parallel truism, everyone alive in the year 2200 AD will be able to trace his or her lineal ancestry to a parental stock in the... (read more)

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Fast Forward: Work, Gender, and Protest in a Changing World
Fast Forward: Work, Gender, and Protest in a Changing World
by Torry D. Dickinson
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This innovative, global feminist analysis of work and politics examines the diverse problems and related protests of women and men who labor to make ends meet in a rapidly-changing world. Using vivid examples from around the world, it reveals how... (read more)

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