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Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality During World War II
by Marilyn E. Hegarty  Publisher Comments "In this carefully crafted and highly readable history, Marilyn E. Hegarty reminds us of the multiple links between sexuality and war. She captures the contradictions and shows us how women's sexuality was both mobilized and policed." —Joanne...
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Quilting: The Fabric of Everyday Life (Dress, Body, Culture)
by Marybeth C. Stalp Publisher Comments Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through the barriers of history, art and commerce to become a global phenomenon, international multi-billion dollar industry and means of gendered cultural production. In Quilting, sociologist...
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Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform (Women in Culture & Society)
by Sara M Evans Book News Annotation This in-depth analysis of the Minnesota experience--where pay equity has proceeded farther than any other place in the nation--focuses on what actually happened in implementing the most important and controversial wage policy since minimum wage and on...
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The Natural Man
by Terris Greene Publisher Comments The author claims that women contribute to most of the wrong doings of men, and that they have been led astray or influenced by women....
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Creating Gender: the Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy
by Noelle H. Norton Book News Annotation Using the example of the adoption and implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, known as welfare reform, Johnson (political science, democratic studies, Williams College), Duerst-Lahti (political studies...
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When Women Ask the Questions : Creating Women's Studies in America (98 Edition)
by Marilyn Jacoby Boxer Publisher Comments "An enlightening examination of the political, social, intellectual, and cultural debates that initiated and informed the institutionalization of women's studies scholarship and programs in American higher education." -- Journal of American...
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The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts
by Michael (edt) Kimmel Publisher Comments In the late 1960s two sociologists, John Gagnon and William Simon, developed the concept of sexual scripts as part of a larger project of treating sexuality like any other social phenomenon. In the end, their vision of social construction turned Kinsey...
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Women Who Kill
by Ann Jones Publisher Comments Through tales of crime and punishment from Lizzie Borden to Jean Harris, this international best seller explores how and why women have killed throughout American history—and what their cases reveal about social prejudices and legal practices that...
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Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Women's Thinking to Psychological Theory and Education
by Carol Gilligan Publisher Comments In the fourteen articles collected in this volume, Gilligan and her colleagues expand the theoretical base of "In A Different Voice" and apply their research methods to a variety of life situations. The contrasting voices of justice and care clarify...
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The Morning After
by Cynthia Enloe Publisher Comments Cynthia Enloe's riveting new book looks at the end of the Cold War and places women at the center of international politics. Focusing on the relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe charts the changing...
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Sex Segregation and Inequality in the Modern Labour Market
by Book News Annotation For some three decades, gender equality in the workplace has been a core tenet of institutional conduct in Britain, yet key differences persist, such as the distribution of pay and occupational status. A sex segregation and equality specialist, Browne...
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Women's Struggle for Equality (American Ways)
by Jean V Matthews Publisher Comments A concise history of the early years of the women's rights movement, showing how the early agitators aimed at a complete rethinking of womanhood, and how their concerns resembled the revived feminism of the 1970s. A biographical and political base for...
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Solitude of Self
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Publisher Comments Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed this to be the most important speech of her lifetime. With gorgeous and direct language, she presents a compassionate appeal for human equality and dignity, and she addresses the place of solitude in the lives of women and...
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What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You and Your Father Didn't Know: a Practical Guide To Improving Communication Between the Sexes (UK Edition)
by John Gray Publisher Comments From the author of >Men Are From Mars And Women Are From Venus<. In his new book, John Gray provides a practical guide to improving communication between the sexes. A Vermillion title....
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European Feminisms, 1700-1950 : a Political History (00 Edition)
by Karen M. Offen Publisher Comments "This is an important work both for its recovery of little-studied aspects of European feminisms and for the reinterpretation of their main strands. The author's ability to situate feminisms squarely in the political and intellectual history of Europe...
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Mismeasure of Women: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
by Carol Tavris Publisher Comments When "man is the measure of all things," woman is forever trying to measure up. In this enlightening book, Carol Tavris unmasks the widespread but invisible custom -- pervasive in the social sciences, medicine, law, and history -- of treating men as the...
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Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West
by John M Riddle Publisher Comments and prosecuted as a crime in our own time, the control of fertility by "Eve's herbs" has been practiced by Western women since ancient times....
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Women and Migration in Asia #3: Gender, Conflict and Migration
by Navnita Chadha (edt) Behera Publisher Comments Gender, Conflict and Migration takes up the crucial issue of the gendered character of conflict-driven migration. The contributors highlight the importance of taking gender seriously in migration research to improve both migration theory and conflict...
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Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan
by E. Patricia Tsurumi Publisher Comments Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for...
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Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture
by Sherrie A. Inness Publisher Comments Using popular culture as a fertile environment for challenging the stereotype that the most brilliant geeks or nerds must be men, the essays in this book demonstrate how the popular media repeatedly affirms stereotypes of femininity while paradoxically...
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