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Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies by Cristina Bacchilega Publisher Comments An extraordinary book, and a 'first' on the topic. . . . Bacchilega has a remarkable capacity to reveal the intersections of folklore, literature, and film. Her interpretations of classical folk-tale types and their postmodern revisions . . . are... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $20.81 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Storming Caesar's Palace by Annelise Orleck Publisher Comments In Storming Caesars Palace, historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country’s most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring “We can do it and do it better,” these women proved that... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $21.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Song of the Hummingbird by Graciela Limón Publisher Comments On her death bed, Huitzitzilin, an old woman of royal Mexican heritage, tells young Father Benito of her life, what the Aztec culture was like before the arrival of the Spanish, and how an initial alliance between the two cultures resulted in the... (read more) List Price $10.36 Your price: $9.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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These Fiery Frenchified Dames by Susan Branson Publisher Comments On July 4, 1796, a group of women gathered in York, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of American independence. They drank tea and toasted the Revolution, the Constitution, and, finally, the rights of women. This event would have been... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $20.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick Publisher Comments IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women’s geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, black women inhabit diasporic locations... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $19.97 Google eBooks - Electronic
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When Battered Women Kill by Angela Browne Publisher Comments Shares the experiences of battered wives, discusses the psychological impact on victims and their children, and explains why some women are driven to... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class by Diana Elizabeth Kendall Publisher Comments The Power of Good Deeds allows us to see behind the media image of upper-class women and to observe how these women use their social power not only to benefit other, less-fortunate people, but also to benefit themselves and their families. The personal... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $26.90 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters by Jessica Valenti Publisher Comments The creator of Feministing.com presents evidence of the ongoing spirit of feminism that considers a wide range of topics from health and reproductive rights to violence and education, in a volume that challenges modern criticisms of today's young women... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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'Other Kinds of Dreams' by Julia Sudbury Publisher Comments Accounts of political activism in African Caribbean and Asian communities often overlook the role of black women activists, contributing towards an image of passivity, apathy and exclusion. Through an empirical study of black women's organizations, this... (read more) Your price: $41.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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What Is a Real Man? by William A. McLean Publisher Comments What Is a Real Man? Have you ever wanted to know what a Real man is but were afraid to ask? Are you just like most people who were taught one thing but later found out that the information was inaccurate? The Bible states in Hosea 4: 6 that God's people... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband: Russian-American Internet Romance by Ericka Johnson Publisher Comments In the American media, Russian mail-order brides are often portrayed either as docile victims or as gold diggers in search of money and green cards. Rarely are they allowed to speak for themselves. Until now. In Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband, six... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price: $73.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century by Natalʹi︠a︡ Lʹvovna Pushkareva Publisher Comments As the first survey of the history of women in Russia to be published in any language, this book is itself an historic event -- the result of the collaboration of the leading Russian and American specialists on Russian women's history. The book is... (read more) List Price $27.96 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Redefining Babes, Booze and Brawls: Men against Violence - towards a New Masculinity by Luoluo Hong Publisher Comments Despite evidence that 90% of violent crimes are committed by men, higher education professionals and researchers still understand relatively little about the process by which male students acquire the attitudes, knowledge, values and skills which serve... (read more) List Price $22.06 Your price: $19.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Masculinities in Theory: An Introduction by Todd W. W. Reeser Publisher Comments Masculinities in Theory aims to provide a response to the important and complicated question: “What is masculinity and how does it work?” The volume is intended to serve as a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the field of... (read more) Your price: $64.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Visible: A Femmethology, Volume Two by Jennifer Clare Burke Publisher Comments Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity, calls the LGBTQI community on its prejudices and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and new voices come together to... (read more) List Price $15.96 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia by Beverly Allen Publisher Comments In 1992, Beverly Allen learned of the existence of rape/death camps in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia from a former student, a women of Croatian heritage. In these camps, women have been detained and raped repeatedly by Serbian soldiers, whose goal often... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $17.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Thinking about Sexual Harassment: A Guide for the Perplexed by Margaret A. Crouch Publisher Comments This illuminating work on one of today's most provocative issues provides all the necessary information for careful, critical thinking about the concept of sexual harassment. Consisting mainly of two parts, it first traces the construction of the concept... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $46.25 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Choosing to Lead: Women and the Crisis of American Values by Constance H. Buchanan Publisher Comments Examines the barriers that keep women from a full participation in the public sphere, citing the history of religious ideas restricting women's authority and how these endure to shape modern... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $24.41 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mothers of All Children: Women Reformers and the Rise of Juvenile Courts in Progressive Era America by Elizabeth Jane Clapp Publisher Comments A history of the juvenile court movement in America, which focuses upon the central but neglected contribution of women reformers.The establishment of juvenile courts in cities across the United States was one of the earliest social welfare reforms of... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Organizing Rural Women: The Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, 1897-1919 by Margaret C. Kechnie Publisher Comments Kechnie places the WI within the context of the country life movement emanating from the United States, arguing that Ontario farm women's attempts to organize should be viewed as part of the Department of Agriculture's efforts to revive the flagging... (read more) Your price: $95.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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