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Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880-1940
by Lee M. A. Simpson  Publisher Comments “Thoroughly researched, this book will be of considerable interest to a broad range of scholars....All in all, this book is valuable both for its substantial accomplishments and for the questions it raises.”—American Historical Review &#...
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Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914
by Patricia M. Mazon Publisher Comments "This book is important for modern German history and it is also filled with acute observations for all who are interested in educational opportunity and social change."-- Lora Wildenthal, Rice University " This is a valuable study, informative and...
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Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990
by Sandra Morgen Publisher Comments Recent history has witnessed a revolution in women's health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over women's health. Few people today realize the extent to which these...
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Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico (Puerto Rican Studies)
by Magali Roy-fequiere Publisher Comments In this book, Magali Roy-Fequiere casts new light on the "Generacion del Treinto, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, she focuses on the interlocking...
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Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville (Gender and American Culture)
by M. Alison Kibler Publisher Comments A disrobing acrobat, a female Hamlet, and a tuba-playing labor activist -- all these women come to life in ###Rank Ladies#. In this comprehensive study of women in vaudeville, Alison Kibler reveals how female performers, patrons, and workers shaped the...
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Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
by Suad Joseph Publisher Comments This collection of articles written by native feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relationships -- mother-son, brother-sister, mother-daughter-granddaughter, co-wives, and father-daughter...
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Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)
by Cynthia Simmons Publisher Comments From September 1941 until January 1944, Leningrad suffered under one the worst sieges in the history of warfare. At least one million civilians died, many during the terribly cold first winter. Bearing the brunt of this hardship -- and keeping the city...
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Sufrage and Power: The Women's Movement, 1918-1928
by Cheryl Law Publisher Comments "The Women's Cause is One"--a slogan from a 1919 lobbying pamphlet in support of women's trade unionism--sums up the crusading spirit of this exciting period in women's history. This book shows how the women's movement, through its network of...
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Reaction to the Modern Women's Movement, 1963 to the Present
by Angela Howard Publisher Comments Puts antifeminism in cultural context To give today's readers an understanding of the social and political forces that actively fought against any changes in women's status in the United States, the editors selected these original examples from the...
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Women and Gender in Early Jewish and Palestinian Nationalism
by Sheila H. Katz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-207) and index....
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None So Pretty: The Sexing of Rebecca Pine: The Story of a Changing Life
by Reg Mckay Publisher Comments Until he reached the age of 64, Robert J. Pine had led a life that was both ordinary and extraordinary. Born into a middle class family in suburban England, Pine grew up concealing a secret passion. Throughout his years as a public schoolboy, a soldier...
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The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
by Amanda Vickery Publisher Comments What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? This lively book, based on letters, diaries, and account books of over one hundred middle class women, transforms our understanding of the position of women in Georgian England.<P...
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Gender Inequalities in Health
by Ellen Annandale Publisher Comments This state-of-the-art collection reflects critically upon the current status of our knowledge about gender inequalities in health and develops an agenda for future research. Leading experts address a range of themes that are central to the development of...
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Feminist Sociology (New Horizons in Sociology)
by Sara Delamont Publisher Comments `Sara Delamont eloquently explores the impact of feminism on sociology and powerfully argues that it has been marginalised. A "must read" for all sociologists searching for a complete account of the development of the discipline' - Emma Wincup, School of...
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Toward a Phenomenology of Sexu
by Sara Heinamaa Publisher Comments In Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference, Sara Heinmaa rediscovers neglected passages of Le Duexime Sexe in her quest to follow Simone de Beauvoir's line of thinking. She finds that when Beauvoir wrote Le Duexime Sexe, she was writing not as Sartre'...
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The Illustrated History of the Housewife, 1650-1950
by Una A. Robertson Publisher Comments Throughout history, effort, enterprise and energy have been expended by women in maintaining the household: cooking, cleaning, lighting, heating, and laundry. This highly illustrated and delightfully written account looks at the changing role of the...
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Women and the Creation of Urban Life: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University)
by Elizabeth Yo Enstam Publisher Comments Those individuals remembered as the "founders" of cities were men, but as Elizabeth York Enstam shows, it was women who played a major role in creating the definitive forms of urban life we know today.<P>A case in point is Dallas. In its early...
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Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860
by Carolyn Lawes Publisher Comments As part of the ongoing reevaluation of the prehistory of the women's movement, Carolyn Lawes analyzes the organized social activism of the mostly middle-class, urban, white women of Worcester, Massachusetts, and finds that they were at the center of...
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Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music
by Sarah Cooper Publisher Comments In recent years, much attention has been lavished on the New Women of rap and rock. From rap stars such as Queen Latifah to bands such as Velocity Girls, popular music has been aggressively redefined by a new generation of women, with a startling range...
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Dangerous Knowing Sexuality Pedagogy and: Sexuality, Pedagogy and Popular Culture
by Debbie Epstein Publisher Comments This book is an exhilarating and important addition to the literature on sexuality and on education. An unusually international collection--with contributions on Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, the UK and the United States--it...
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