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The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany
by Barbara Duden  Publisher Comments In this provocative study, Barbara Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms that we use to describe our own bodies--male and female, healthy or sick--are indeed cultural constructions. To illustrate this, Duden delves into the...
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Feminist Methodologies for International Relations
by Maria (edt) Stern Publisher Comments This volume shows how feminism has made crucial contributions to the study of international relations....
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Between Femininities (03 Edition)
by Gonick Publisher Comments A volume in the SUNY series, Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations Deborah P. Britzman...
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The Politics of Sexual Harassment: A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany
by Kathrin S. Zippel Publisher Comments Kathrin Zippel explores the globalization and diffusion of the concept of sexual harassment from the US to Europe, and the different paths countries have embarked on to change employers practises and the culture in the workplace. It draws on theories of...
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From Eve To Dawn Volume 1 Origins
by Marilyn French Publisher Comments The first volume of a three-volume work, this book is the culmination of over two decades of exhaustive research examining women's roles and activities during various civilizations through the world from the perspective of our foremost feminist thinkers....
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Story of Jane : the Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service (95 Edition)
by Laura Kaplan Publisher Comments "In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, most women determined to get abortions had to subject themselves to the power of illegal, unregulated abortionists...But a Chicago woman who happened to stumble across a secret...
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Wives and Warriors: Women and the Military in the United States and Canada
by Laurie Weinstein Publisher Comments This book is about the women who serve the military as wives and those who serve as soldiers, sailors, and flyers. Comparing wives and warriors in the U.S. and Canada, it examines how the military in both countries constructs gender to exclude women from...
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture #42: Gender and the Victorian Periodical
by Judith Johnston Publisher Comments Examines the role of the Victorian periodical in defining and refining ideas of gender....
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Communicating Gender Diversity : Critical Approach (07 Edition)
by Victoria Pruin Defrancisco Publisher Comments A practical `cut to the chase' handbook that quickly explains the when, where, and how of statistical data analysis as it is used for real-world decision-making in a wide variety of disciplines. In this one-stop reference, the authors provide succinct...
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Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
by Edna G. Bay Publisher Comments Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a precolonial West African state, Dahomey, whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America....
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Women of the West (98 Edition)
by Gray Publisher Comments The J030136independent-minded western woman was often eclipsed in popular literature by sensations like Calamity Jane and Belle Starr. Dorothy Gray looks at the actual lives of women who made their own way out west.<P>Starting with Sacajawea, the...
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Sticks and Stones : the Troublesome Success of Children's Literature From Slovenly Peter To Harry Potter (01 Edition)
by Jack Zipes Publisher Comments Have children ever really had a literature of their own? In Sticks and Stones Jack Zipes, translator of the Grimm tales, teacher, storyteller and scholar, explores children's literature, from the grisly moralism of Slovenly Peter to the hugely successful...
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Women's Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics
by Nancy A Naples Publisher Comments "Women's Activism and Globalization" is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the "new world order" in their communities. The first person accounts and regional case studies...
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Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics, and Everyday Life After Socialism
by Susan Gal Publisher Comments The striking fact that abortion was among the first issues raised, after 1989, by almost all of the newly formed governments of East Central Europe points to the significance of gender and reproduction in the postsocialist transformations. The fourteen...
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Women and Politics in the Third World (96 Edition)
by Haleh (ed.) Afshar Publisher Comments An innovative feminist analytical perspective on the specific forms of resistance, organisation and negotiation used by women in Third World states....
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Real Heat: Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service
by Carol Chetkovich Publisher Comments In the struggle over affirmative action, no employment setting has seen more friction than urban fire departments. Thirty years of legal and political efforts have opened the doors of this historically white male preserve, but men of color have yet to...
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Gender and Catastrophe
by Ronit Lentin Publisher Comments This book explores the gendered and gendering effects of violence against women in extreme situations such as major wars, genocides, famines, slavery, the Holocaust, mass rape and ethnic cleansing. The female experience of methodical genocidal rape in...
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Gender Development (94 Edition)
by Susan Golombok Publisher Comments Gender Development is the first book to examine gender from a truly developmental perspective. It looks at the processes involved in the development of gender, addressing sensitive and complex questions. The authors provide an up-to-date integrative...
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Reconstructing Gender : Multicultural Anthology (5TH 08 Edition)
by Estelle Disch Publisher Comments Reconstructing Gender is an anthology that addresses the contemporary experiences from a variety of women and men. Drawing from a wide range of sources including research articles, critical essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible...
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Uppity Women of the New World
by Vicki Leon Publisher Comments Men weren't the only explorers between the early 1500s and 1800s. This book recounts the adventures of more than 200 of history's forgotten female pioneers, including France's Jeanne Baret, the first person to circumnavigate the globe. 40 illustrations....
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