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Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America
by Anne L Macdonald  Publisher Comments "Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States."<BR>SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE<BR>In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative...
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Understanding Health Inequalities (UK Edition)
by Hilary Graham Publisher Comments Understanding Health Inequalities turns the spotlight on a question at the heart of health and welfare policy. Why is there a social class gradient in health? How do socio-economic inequalities in life chances and living conditions take their toll on...
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Motherhood in Bondage (00 Edition)
by Margaret Sanger Publisher Comments Margaret Sanger (1883-1966) was a leading figure in the American birth control movement. Trained as a nurse, she moved to New York City to work among the poor. Having witnessed firsthand the travails of mothers in the city's poorest neighborhoods, she...
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When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex--And Sex Education--Since the Sixties
by Kristin Luker Publisher Comments Luker, a professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and a professor at Boalt Law School, explores the ideas and values behind the fight over sex education through the lives of parents, its most passionate participants....
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Gender Basics : Feminist Perspectives on Women and Men (2ND 00 Edition)
by Anne Minas Publisher Comments This highly accessible combination of articles with readable and teachable supporting introductions and text enables students to understand assigned readings well enough to be able to come to class ready to ask intelligent questions and engage in...
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Cambridge Middle East Studies #0001: Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran
by Parvin Paidar Publisher Comments In a challenging and authoritative analysis, Parvin Paidar considers how Iranian women have been affected, and their position redefined, by the political transformations of twentieth-century Iran....
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Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960
by Mary Jo Maynes Publisher Comments Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills offers a comparative history of European girlhood from 1750 to 1960, with a focus on Britain, France, and Germany. It covers diverse issues in the lives of girls, from sexuality and leisure to social roles in the family and...
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American Stand-Up and Sketch Comedy: Between Race and Gender
by Elizabeth Ludwig Synopsis Stand-up and sketch comedy are live forms of entertainment that have been popularized in America through media. Analyzing the performance strategies of comedians Dave Chappelle and Margaret Cho, this thesis investigates how these artists construct abject...
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Women War Workers of World War I
by Gilbert Stone Publisher Comments Sub-titled Accounts contributed by representative workers of the work done by women in the more important branches of War Employment this volume brings together the eloquent testimonies of the many women whose contribution to the survival of the United...
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Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development (97 Edition)
by Anne Marie (ed.) Goetz Publisher Comments "Gender and Development or Women in Development" policies have been promoted in development organizations for almost three decades now. Although they have helped improve the immediate material condition of women, by and large such policies have involved...
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Love in America
by Francesca M. Cancian Publisher Comments In the past twenty-five years, Americans have gained considerable freedom in their personal lives. Relationships are now more flexible, and self-development has become a primary goal for both men and women. Most scholars have criticized this trend to...
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Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty & Romance in Taiwan's
by Bonnie Adrian Publisher Comments A fascinating study of Taiwan's bridal industry. The norm in Taiwan has become extravagant Western-style weddings and lavish photos where bride and groom look like anything but themselves, and where certainlfamily members are air brushed out. The book...
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Bachelor Girl: 100 Years of Breaking the Rules--A Social History of Living Single
by Betsy Israel Publisher Comments Chapter One The Classical Spinster: Redundants, The Singly Blessed, And the Early New Women "My dear, to a brighter future -- when there will not be so many forced marriages, and women will be taught not to feel theirs a destiny manqué, nor the...
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The Moral Sex: Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment
by L Steinbrugge Publisher Comments This book deals with a question that currently has a great deal of resonance among historians, feminists, and literary scholars: How was the nature of women redefined and debated during the French Enlightenment? Instead of treating the Enlightenment in...
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Exploring Black Sexuality
by Robert Staples Publisher Comments Exploring Black Sexuality provides an overview of the myths and stereotypes that surround Black sexuality and an analysis of how Euro-Americans developed these myths as part of a strategy to enslave and exploit Afro-Americans in the new world. It...
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Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics
by Marcella Althaus-reid Publisher Comments By examining the dialectics of decency and indecency and exploring a theology of sexual stories from the margins, this book brings together for the first time Liberation Theology, Queer Theory, post-Marxism and Postcolonial analysis are brought together...
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The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire
by Greg Thomas Publisher Comments Interrogates the language of body politics in the context of neo-colonialist...
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Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation: A Thousand Dialogues
by Rawwida Baksh Publisher Comments Women and young people are often viewed as victims of conflict rather than decision-makers and actors in peace agreements, in conflict resolution and post-violence reconstruction initiatives. Containing contributions by Olara Otunnu, UN Under Secretary...
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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...
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Men Don't Cry...Women Do: Transcending Gender Stereotypes of Grief (Ravan Labour Studies)
by Terry L Martin Publisher Comments Do men and women grieve differently? This new text, while emphasizing that there are many ways to cope with grief, offers a refreshing change from the popular gender stereotypes of grief. Two patterns of grieving are described: an intuitive pattern where...
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