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Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life
by Marjorie Garber  Publisher Comments In this witty, learned, and scrupulously researched book, Marjorie Garber examines bisexuality and its many modes through a dazzling variety of critical lenses: cultural, scientific, literary, and psychological. Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday...
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Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones
by Wenona (edt) Giles Publisher Comments In this book, militarization, nationalism, and globalization are scrutinized at sites of violent conflict from a range of feminist pespectives....
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Cross Cultural Perspectives on Women #0005: Women and Space: Ground Rules and Social Maps
by Shirley (edt) Ardener Publisher Comments Second, Revised Edition The relationship between women and space has now been recognized as an important issue for feminist discussion. Developments in psychology and geography have encouraged the use of social maps' to explore the way in which space...
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Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama #24: Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920
by Katie N Johnson Publisher Comments An original examination of the forgotten brothel drama during the Progressive Era, Sisters in Sin recovers a slice of theatre history in demonstrating how the prostitute was central to American realist theatre. Through readings of previously unexamined...
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To Live or to Die?
by Joe Ibekwe Synopsis In a similar mode to How to be a Kenyan, the author takes a comic look at what it takes to be an African lady and what an African lady should do when faced with certain situations. Thirty hilarious essays and some light hearted illustrations cover...
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Literature and Gender : Thinking Critically Through Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (99 Edition)
by Robyn Wiegman Publisher Comments * Each part has an introduction and selections are preceded by a brief biographical note about the author. * The section on "Learning" includes stories from Bobbie Ann Mason, Raymond Carver, and Cathy Song. * Part III, "Resisting," includes selections...
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The Mistress: Histories, Myths and Interpretations of the "Other Woman"
by Victoria Griffin Synopsis Griffin asks why our society still treats marital infidelity as an unfathomable aberration, studying various arenas including the political mistress, the writer's mistress and the artist's mistress. She examines how the roles of wife and mistress come...
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Straight Writ Queer Non Normative Expr
by Richard Fantina Publisher Comments Heterosexuality is determined by whether sexual performance conforms to society-designated gender roles. From this wider perspective, this book examines literature previously viewed as ?straight? in a search for alternative manifestations of desire and...
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Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century
by Rosalind Rosenberg Publisher Comments In this lively and informed exploration of women’s lives in the larger context of U.S. social and political history, Rosalind Rosenberg shows how American traditions of federalism, racial and ethnic diversity, geographic mobility, and relative...
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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
by Caroline Walk Bynum Publisher Comments These seven essays by noted historian Caroline Walker Bynum exemplify her argument that historians must write in a andquot;comicandquot; mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion. Exploring a diverse array of medieval texts, the essays...
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Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures
by Sherrie A. (edt) Inness Publisher Comments The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the...
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Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism
by Christopher Lasch Publisher Comments The best-selling author of The Culture of Narcissism and The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy looks at the role of women and the family and how it changed in Western society. "Lasch's critical apparatus is stunning -- the fluency and...
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Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945
by Ruth Oldenziel Publisher Comments To say that technology is male comes as no surprise, but the claim that its history is a short one strikes a new note.<P>Making Technology Masculine maps the historical process through which men laid claims to technology as their exclusive terrain....
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The Praeger Handbook of Transsexuality: Changing Gender to Match Mindset (Sex, Love, and Psychology)
by Rachel Ann Heath Publisher Comments People born with one gender's sexual organs who are drawn physically, psychologically, and spiritually to life as a member of the opposite gender, are more common than is generally realized. In this unprecedented book, Heath introduces the transsexual...
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Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America
by Laura Browder Publisher Comments The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have interrupted the popular association of guns and masculinity, spurring debates about women's capabilities for violence as...
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Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940
by Sarah Deutsch Publisher Comments In the 70 years between the Civil War and World War II, the women of Boston changed the city dramatically. From anti-spitting campaigns and demands for police mothers to patrol local parks, to calls for a decent wage and living quarters, women rich and...
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Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America
by Laura Browder Publisher Comments Browder examines the relationship between women and guns in America and the ways in which the figure of the armed woman has served as a lightning rod for cultural issues. She traces appearances of the armed woman across a chronological spectrum from the...
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Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women's Ordination 1889-1985
by Pamela S. Nadell Publisher Comments "The definitive study of 'the road to women's ordination' in Judaism." <BR>--Jonathan D. Sarna, author of The American Jewish Experience <BR> Pamela S. Nadell mines a wealth of untapped sources to bring us the first complete story of the...
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Putting Women in Place : Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World (01 Edition)
by Mona Domosh Publisher Comments Why do women and men tend to work in different jobs, in different ways, and in different spaces? Which is more "masculine"--the city or the suburbs? Why is nature often represented in feminine form? This thought-provoking book uses the lens of gender to...
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Self Made Man One Womans Journey Into Ma
by Norah Vincent 
Publisher Comments A journalist's provocative, spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent undercover will transform the way we think about what it means to be a man. Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me) and Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel...
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