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Striptease Culture
by Brian Mcnair  Publisher Comments From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of popular culture. "Striptease Culture explores this 'sexualisation' of contemporary life, relating it to wider changes in the sexual politics of post-war...
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Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
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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Uppity Women of Ancient Times
by Vicki Leon Publisher Comments In a witty and informative way, Vicki Leon profiles 150 women who made their mark around the Mediterranean between 2800 B.C. and 450 A.D.--3,200 years of history from a female vantage point. Among those featured are the Assyrian queen of Babylon who is...
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Sexual Metamorphosis : an Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs (05 Edition)
by Jonathan Ames Publisher Comments But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman. — Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, a Medico-Forensic Study by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing At the...
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At Odds : Women and the Family in America From the Revolution To the Present (80 Edition)
by Carl N. Degler Publisher Comments Pulitzer prizewinner Carl Degler has written the first general history of women in America for our generation. The book brings into historical perspective one climactic question: How is woman's right to equality of opportunity going to be reconciled with...
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Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide
by Maureen Dowd Publisher Comments Fresh from her success with the best-selling BUSHWORLD, Maureen Dowd turns her sparkling prose and wise wit to a topic even more incendiary than presidential politics: sexual politics. Four decades after the sexual revolution, nothing has worked out the...
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Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
by Susan J Douglas 
Publisher Comments Where the Girls Are is about the confusing and contradictory images of women in American pop culture. Media critic Susan J. Douglas looks back at the television programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reports of the past four decades to...
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Taking the Wheel (92 Edition)
by Virginia Scharff Publisher Comments The automobile collided head on with gender in the early twentieth century. Women struggled as hard to overcome the stereotype of the flighty driver as they did to win access to the vote, higher education, and the professions. The gender debate...
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My Husband Wears My Clothes: Crossdressing from the Perspective of a Wife
by Peggy J. Rudd Publisher Comments My Husband Wears My Clothes is the first book to be written by the wife of a cerossdresser. Dr. Rudd addresses many of the questions frequently asked by the wives, partner, friends and family members of men and women who cross gender lines....
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Gender and the Media
by Rosalind Gill Publisher Comments Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates. Eschewing a...
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Domestica : Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (2ND 07 Edition)
by Pierrette Hondagneu-sotelo Publisher Comments In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in...
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Women Warriors: Adventures from History's Greatest Female Fighters (Live Girls)
by Teena Apeles Publisher Comments Women from all walks of life--peasants, queens, princesses, wives, mothers, and sisters--have fought for freedom and honor throughout history. In this fun, informative, and beautifully designed volume, the true stories of women from around the globe come...
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Sexing the Body : Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (00 Edition)
by Anne Fausto-sterling Publisher Comments Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most...
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Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset (Dress, Body, Culture)
by Leigh Summers Publisher Comments Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This Victorian icon has inspired more passionate debate than any other article of clothing. As a means of body modification, perhaps only foot binding and female genital...
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Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation
by Thomas Buckley Publisher Comments Examining cultures as diverse as long-house dwellers in North Borneo, African farmers, Welsh housewives, and postindustrial American workers, this volume dramatically redefines the anthropological study of menstrual customs. It challenges the widespread...
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Twenty Thousands Roads (03 Edition)
by Virginia Scharff Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-228) and index....
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine
by Noelle Howey Publisher Comments Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her father’s brusqueness, Noelle idolized her nurturing tomboy mother and her conservative grandma who tried to turn...
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Politics of Women's Bodies : Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior (2ND 03 Edition)
by Rose Weitz Publisher Comments For nearly three decades, feminists have examined how the female body and ideas about the female body affect women's lives. The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior is the first anthology to bring together recent critical...
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Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present
by Lisa Grunwald Publisher Comments These letters offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women's lives. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, "Women's Letters" is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived-...
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When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex--And Sex Education--Since the Sixties
by Kristin Luker Publisher Comments There's a sexual revolution coming to a schoolroom near you, but it's not the one you remember. When Sex Goes to School explores the ideas and values behind the fight over sex education through the lives of parents, its most passionate participants...
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