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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. (edt) 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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The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together (Family and Public Policy)
by Eleanor E Maccoby Publisher Comments Finally, she considers social changes in gender roles in light of her discoveries about the constraints and opportunities implicit in the same-sex and cross-sex relationships of childhood....
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Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines
by Agnes Jensen Mangerich Publisher Comments Thrust into a perilous situation and determined to survive, a group of World War II Army flight nurses crash-lands in Albania, finding courage and strength in the kindnesses of Albanians and guerrillas who hide them from the Germans. 26 illustrations....
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Criminalizing Women: Gender and Injustice in Neo-Liberal Times
by Gillian Balfour Publisher Comments This reference focuses on the key issues addressed by feminists in their engagement with criminology over the past four decades. Exploring women's lives as "errant females," this volume maps out the connections between the choices women make and their...
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Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work
by Arlie Ru Hochschild Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-302) and index....
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Mars and Venus in Love: Inspiring and Heartfelt Stories of Relationships That Work (UK Edition)
by John Gray Synopsis Written by the author of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus", this collection of first-person stories illustrate how couples have successfully put Dr Gray's principles to work in their own lives and provides advice and inspiration for readers....
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Practising Gender Analysis in Education (Oxfam Skills and Practice)
by Fiona E. Leach Publisher Comments * Provides accessible tools for carrying out gender-sensitive analyses of current situations.* Includes frameworks for analysing systems, institutions, and policies, in a simple but powerful way.* These tools will enable readers to think though problems...
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The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage
by Almroth E. Wright Publisher Comments The suffragist woman, when she is the kind of woman who piques herself upon her ethical impulses, will, even when she is intellectually very poorly equipped, and there is no imprint of altruism upon her life, assure you that nothing except the moral...
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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau
by Judith Still Publisher Comments Dr Still draws on literary theory to examine Rousseau??'s ideas about the individual and human relationships....
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Maneuvers: Intl. Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives
by Cynthia Enloe Publisher Comments "Enloe blends a sharp analytical eye with an attention to real people's lives. She examines the structural forces that militarize our lives, but does not overlook the role of the individual in either advancing or resisting militarization."--Jennifer...
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Russian Women and Their Organizations
by Rebecca Kay Publisher Comments Grassroots Russian women's organizations faced multiple challenges in the early 1990s. Like their members, they were confronted with both potentially hostile attitudes and numerous practical difficulties. Post-Soviet ideologies of gender difference...
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Women in Twentieth-Century Europe (Gender and History)
by Ann Taylor Allen Publisher Comments Women's lives changed more in the twentieth century than in any previous century. It was a period of transformation, not only of the political realm, but also of the household, family and workplace. Innovations in military technology, the mass media...
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Mars and Venus Together Forever: Practical Guide To Improving Communication and Relationship Skills (UK Edition)
by John Gray Publisher Comments Repackaged and retitled version of "What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You and Your Father Didn't Know", which brings it into line with John Gray's other classics including "Mars and Venus in the Bedroom". In this book Gray explains how to have an exciting...
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Battle Cries and Lullabies : Women in War From Prehistory To the Present (98 Edition)
by Linda Grant Depauw Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking work, covering thousands of years of history and spanning the globe, Linda Grant De Pauw explores the varied roles women have played in war. De Pauw depicts women as victims and as warriors; as nurses, spies, sex workers, and wives...
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Beyond Gender: The New Politics of Work and Family
by Betty Friedan Publisher Comments A basic restructuring of our economy is needed now, writes Betty Friedan in her latest book, Beyond Gender. And this restructuring can't be accomplished in terms of women versus men, black versus white, old versus young, conservative versus liberal. We...
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