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Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-Of-The-Century Brooklyn
by Reg Morantz Sanchez  Publisher Comments In the spring of 1889, a burgeoning Brooklyn newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones. The ensuing...
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Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
Publisher Comments This seriously funny book portraying a classic Utopia based upon feminist and socialist ideals is a landmark feminist book. Reissue....
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The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894-1930
by Martha H Patterson Synopsis Bringing together a diverse range of essays from the periodical press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Martha H. Patterson shows how the New Woman differed according to region, class, politics, race, ethnicity, and historical...
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Warrior Women Amazons of Dahomey & Natur
by Robert Edgerton Publisher Comments Some prominent anthropologists have been joined by an eminent military historian in declaring that military combat - at all times and in all places - has been a male activity. They advance many reasons for this pattern, some more plausible than others...
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Gender and American Culture)
by Elizab Fox Genovese Publisher Comments Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters...
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Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth Century Woman
by Caroline Heale Dall Publisher Comments Boston was well-known in the nineteenth century as a center for intellectual ferment. Amidst the popular lecturing of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the discussion groups led by Margaret Fuller sat a remarkable young woman, Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912...
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Flapper (06 Edition)
by Zeitz Publisher Comments Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own...
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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life #02: The Public Years
by Charles Capper Publisher Comments Winner of the 1993 Bancroft Prize and praised in The Nation as "the richest account we have yet of Fuller's formative years," the first volume of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life was acclaimed by critics and scholars alike as the finest...
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Essential Margaret Fuller
by Margaret Fuller Publisher Comments The leading feminist intellectual of her day, Margaret Fuller has been remembered for her groundbreaking work Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which recharted the gender roles of nineteenth-century men and women. In this new collection, the full range...
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Living My Life
by Emma Goldman Publisher Comments Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famousand notoriouswoman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in...
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Living My Life Volume 2
by Emma Goldman Publisher Comments Volume 2 of the candid, no-holds-barred account by foremost American anarchist Goldman continues with the fascinating story of her life, the anarchist movement, her famous contemporaries, and their influential ideas....
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Mother Jones : the Most Dangerous Woman in America (01 Edition)
by Elliot Gorn Publisher Comments In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America, " Gorn proves why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their...
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Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
by Car Smith Rosenberg Publisher Comments This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex...
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Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond
by Dale L Walker Publisher Comments Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) defied the conventions of her era. Born and raised on a farm in Oswego, New York, Walker became one of a handful of female physicians in the nation-and became a passionate believer in the rights of women. Despite the...
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Birth of American Feminism: The Seneca Falls Woman's Convention of 1848
by Virginia Bernhard Publisher Comments The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was at the beginning of the long struggle for women's rights in the United States. The documents collected in this anthology bring to life the anger and the excitement of a moment when a small but determined group of...
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Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse
by Francine Du Pl Gray Publisher Comments Gray draws on Louise Colet's recently discovered journals to present a compelling biography of one of the most fascinating women of the 19th century. Colet defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become an award-winning writer and...
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Subjection of Women Dover Thrift Edition
by John Stuart Mill Publisher Comments This landmark in the struggle for human rights, written by the great English philosopher, argues for equality in all legal, political, social and domestic relations between men and women....
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
by Joshua Zeitz Publisher Comments Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep,...
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White Women's Rights: Racial Origins of American Feminism
by Louise Miche Newman Publisher Comments This study reinterprets a crucial period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women's rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory. At a time when white elites were concerned with imperialist projects and civilizing...
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Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy
by Louise W Knight Publisher Comments Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher. In this book we...
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