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Remaking Women : Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (98 Edition)
by Lila (ed.) Abu-lughod  Publisher Comments Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays...
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Pobladoras, Indigenas, and the State: Conflicts Over Women's Rights in Chile
by Patricia Richards Publisher Comments Can laws, policies, and agencies that are designed to help women achieve equality with men accommodate differences among women themselves? In Pobladoras, Indigenas, and the State, Patricia Richards examines how Chilean state policy shapes the promotion...
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Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics
by Irma Mcclaurin Publisher Comments In the discipline's early days, anthropologists were assumed to be white and male. Women and black scholars were relegated to the field's periphery. White feminist anthropologists have successfully carved out an intellectual space identified as feminist...
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Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the 21st Century
by Wendy Mcelroy Publisher Comments The contributors to this collection offer a vision of contemporary feminism that runs counter to and goes beyond the dominant attitudes of the feminist orthodoxy. Basing their arguments on individual rights and personal reponsibility, the contributors...
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The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis
by Andrea (edt) Cornwall Publisher Comments Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on politics of rights explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with...
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Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self
by Susan J Brison Publisher Comments On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a...
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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 "Please, please, please. All working women must read this book! Ellen Bravo not only vividly exposes workplace inequities, she gives real-life solutions, picking up where my film 9 to 5left off."-Jane Fonda Enough about "breaking the glass ceiling."Here...
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Undomesticated Ground : Recasting Nature As Feminist Space (00 Edition)
by Stacy Alaimo Publisher Comments From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature", women have for centuries been associated with nature. Feminists, troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic space, have sought to...
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The Fall of Sophia: A Gnostic Text on the Redemption of Universal Consciousness
by Violet Macdermot Publisher Comments This new translation of the Pistis Sophia ... brings clarity to the Gnostic myth of the exile of feminine wisdom whose dwelling place is with the people. Her story, like that of the Hebrew Shekinah and of Mary Magdalene herself, is the story of the...
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The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order
by Rene Denfeld Publisher Comments Why do so many young women who believe strongly in equal rights refuse to call themselves feminists? Does feminism's counterproductive obsession with date rape, pornography, and goddess religions alienate young women - and lead the movement toward a...
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Global Feminist Ethics
by Rebecca Whisnant Book News Annotation Scholars of philosophy at US universities offer frameworks and concepts for approaching ethical issues in far away places from a feminist perspective. They cover women's activities, responsibilities, and identities; hunger and poverty; individuals and...
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Ten Thousand Sorrows the Extraordinary
by Elizabeth Kim Synopsis Not since "Angela's Ashes" has there been a story about childhood told with so much poignancy and triumph over the odds as Elizabeth Kim's harrowing memoir. A mixed-race bastard, Elizabeth witnessed the hanging murder of her mother in their small Korean...
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Identity Matters: Rhetorics of Difference
by Lil Bridwell Bowles Publisher Comments Showing the interconnections between such issues as race, class, gender, nationalism, and ability, this multicultural reader introduces basic rhetorical strategies for analyzing the complex variables which define identity in the postmodern world...
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Feminist Imagination: Genealogies in Feminist Theory (Theory, Culture & Society)
by Vikki Bell Publisher Comments Reading feminist theory as a complex imaginative achievement, Feminist Imagination considers feminist commitment through the interrogation of its philosophical, political and affective connections with the past, and especially with the `race' trials of...
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What Women Want Next: In My Twenties, I Thought Sex and Career Would Solve Everything. At Thirty, I Thought Marriage Would. Later I Tried Mo
by Susan Maushart Publisher Comments In my twenties, I thought sex and career would solve everything. At thirty, I thought marriage would. Later I tried motherhood, therapy, and then divorce. At forty, I decided to renovate. With all the choices available to today’s women, why...
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Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with the Wellesley Class of '69
by Miriam Horn Publisher Comments From the Introduction Theirs was a generation that imagined it would reinvent the world. Self-conscious iconoclasts and pioneers, the women of '69 would experiment boldly with sex and work and family and religion and politics. They would also develop...
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Women Organising
by Helen Brown Publisher Comments "Women Organising" is the first study to bring organization theory and the real-life experiences of women organizing together. Helen Brown uses the example of the Greystone Women's Centre in Britain to illustrate the struggles of women seeking to manage...
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Re-Orienting Western Feminisms: Women's Diversity in a Postcolonial World
by Chilla Bulbeck Publisher Comments The agenda of contemporary western feminism focuses on equal participation in work and education, reproductive rights, and sexual freedom. But what does feminism mean to the women of rural India who work someone else’s fields, young Thai girls...
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Artificial knowing :gender and the thinking machine
by Alison Adam Publisher Comments "Artificial Knowing" challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us how gender is inscribed in AI-based computer systems...
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Female Sexualization: A Collective Work of Memory
by Frigga Haug Synopsis Within current theories of sexuality the place of the body is central. Taking as their theme 'the sexualization of the body' -- in particular women's sexualization -- and the construction of gender. Frigga Haug and the other authors of this remarkable...
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