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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
by Naomi Wolf  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-335) and index....
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Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women
by E Walsh Publisher Comments Despite the large number of books devoted to women's issues in the last twenty years, "Washington Post reporter Elsa Walsh felt that the literature was missing a crucial element--the voices of women themselves. Setting out to probe the myriad layers of...
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Women in the Soviet Countryside
by Susan Bridger Publisher Comments This book presents the first substantive western treatment of the role of women in Soviet rural development. It analyzes both the gains made and the problems still faced by rural women in a society where development policies have been accompanied by...
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The Vagina Monologues
by Eve Ensler Publisher Comments I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked...
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Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union
by Teresa Rees Publisher Comments The EU has recently launched a framework for policy development in education, training and the labor market. While equal opportunity is identified as important in the model framework, "Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union" argues that the...
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George W. Bush and War on Women (06 Edition)
by Finlay Publisher Comments This book takes a devastating look at the actions and policies of the George W. Bush administration in terms of their impact on women in the United States and abroad. A largely ignored aspect of his presidency, Bush's policies and actions have in many...
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Quintessence...realizing the Archaic Future: a Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto (98 Edition)
by Daly Publisher Comments A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto A new book from "an extraordinary woman and . . . the foremost feminist theoretician in the U.S." (The New York Times). "Suffused with her inimitable word play and stunning intelligence, and embodying a...
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Queen Bee: Discover Your Feminine Power
by Valerie Khoo Publisher Comments By showing how to utilize her animal instincts--intuition, brains, and innate strengths--"Queen Bee" can put new buzz into any woman's life. Quips, advice, stories of queen bees throughout history, and simple techniques for setting goals all combine to...
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Dragon Ladies : Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire (97 Edition)
by Sonia Shah 
Publisher Comments In Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire, prominent Asian American women writers, artists, and activists seize the power of their unique political perspective and cultural background to articulate an Asian American feminist politics and to...
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Ritualizing Women: Patterns of Spirituality
by Lesley A Northup Synopsis Northup offers a captivating, in-depth examination of many of the issues regarding women's ritualizing -- such as the common patterns and images used, the construction of sacred space and time, the value of narrative, and the patterns of politics and...
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Feminism and the Final Foucault
by Dianna (edt) Taylor Publisher Comments Feminism and the Final Foucault is the first systematic offering of contemporary, international feminist perspectives on the later work of philosopher Michel Foucault. Rather than simply debating the merits or limitations of Foucault's later work, the...
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Culture and Performance: The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory
by Vikki Bell Publisher Comments Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from the textual nature of the world to how the social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. The rise of performativity in cultural theory...
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Globalization, Gender, and Religion: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts
by Jane H. Bayes Publisher Comments In the early 1970s, accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic and often Western oriented regimes. Reasserting patriarchal gender relations presumably...
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Women & Politics the Pursuit of Equality
by Lynne Ford Publisher Comments The second volume in the New Directions in Political Behavior series, Women and Politics brings two perspectives on equality for women to the forefront: the legal doctrine, emphasizing gender neutrality; and the fairness doctrine, recognizing the...
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Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint (Economics as Social Theory)
by Nancy Folbre Publisher Comments "Who Pays for the Kids?" asks important questions about the burdens placed on women both inside and outside the money economy. The development of capitalism has brought women many opportunities and allowed them greater economic independence. But they...
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Bits of Life: Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology (In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science)
by Anneke (edt) Smelik Synopsis Provocative essays inquire into the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of a feminist approach to the meeting of biotechnology and information technology. A speedy, smart, provocative, hybrid assemblage of essays on contemporary technoscientific...
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Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism
by Rosalind Rosenberg Synopsis Examines the lives of female social scientists in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, their difficulties in gaining acceptance, and their pioneering studies of the differences between the sexes....
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In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution
by Susan Brownmiller Publisher Comments There once was a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape crisis center or a shelter for battered women, when...
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Life and Death
by Andrea Dworkin Publisher Comments In this, her most provocative book to date, she brings together her essays, speeches and commentary on subjects ranging from the highly-publicized murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, via the atrocities committed against Bosnian women in Serbian death camps...
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Feminist Philosophy in Latin America and Spain.
by Mara Luisa Femenas Publisher Comments This book demonstrates the vast range of philosophical approaches, regional issues and problems, perspectives, and historical and theoretical frameworks that together constitute feminist philosophy in Latin America and Spain. It makes available to...
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