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Head Over Heels: Wives Who Stay with Cross-Dressers and Transsexuals (Haworth Press Human Sexuality)
by Virginia, Ph.d. Erhardt  Book News Annotation Virginia Erhardt is a clinical psychologist in private practice who specializes in gender issues. In this volume, she shares the stories of 30 women who are married to natal males who are cross-dressers and/or identify as transgender (male-to-female)....
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Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity
by Julie Bettie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index....
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Ethnic Options
by Mary Waters Publisher Comments In this perceptive and revealing study, Mary Waters explores the reinvention of ethnicity in the lives of the grandchildren and great grandchildren of European immigrants, asking how their ethnic heritage is lived, maintained, and celebrated. Through in...
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Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
by Leonard Sax Publisher Comments Offering fresh, gender-specific ways to help girls and boys avoid drugs and early sexual activity, Dr. Sax explains in clear, accessible language how the brains of boys and girls differ and shows parents why recognizing these differences is an important...
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Taking Sides Clashing Views in Gende 3RD Edition
by Jacqu White Publisher Comments Taking Sides Takes on a Wide Range of Issues The 2006 Taking Sides Student Collection brings together the arguments of leading social and behavioral scientists, educators, and contemporary commentators, forming 18 to 20 debates, or issues, that...
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
by Jane Latour Publisher Comments Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against...
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Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
by Laura Maria Agustin Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura...
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Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX
by Jessica Gavora Publisher Comments A former athlete, Jessica Gavora interviewed dozens of leading college athletes, educators and legal experts for this provocative book. She argues that the 1999 World Cup victory of the U.S. women's soccer team, widely seen as a Title IX triumph, was...
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Worth of Women (97 Edition)
by Moderata Fonte Publisher Comments Gender equality and the responsibility of husbands and fathers: issues that loom large today had currency in Renaissance Venice as well, as evidenced by the publication in 1600 of "The Worth of Women" by Moderata Fonte. Moderata Fonte was the pseudonym...
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Death Row Women: Murder, Justice, and the New York Press (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture)
by Mark Gado Publisher Comments During the 20th century, only six women were legally executed by the State of New York at Sing Sing Prison. In each case, the condemned faced a process of demonization and public humiliation that was orchestrated by a powerful and unforgiving media. When...
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The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine
by Robert W Bly Publisher Comments From Robert Bly, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Iron John, and famed Jungian analyst Marion Woodman comes an interpretation of a primordial folktale that takes the message behind Iron John to its next phase: the reunion of masculine and feminine....
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
by Ann Fessler Publisher Comments This powerful revelation uncovers the astonishing, untold history of the million-and-a-half women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before "Roe v. Wade."...
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A History of the Wife
by Marilyn Yalom Publisher Comments Provocative and comprehensive, this study of how marriage has affected the lives of women from the earliest days of civilization to the 21st century uses the modern marriage as a focal point. Yalom charts the evolution of this institution in the Judeo...
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Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History
by James Stuart Olson Publisher Comments In "Bathsheba's Breast", historian James S. Olson - who lost his left hand and forearm to cancer while writing this book - provides a narrative history of breast cancer told through the stories of women who have confronted the disease, from Theodora to...
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
by Leonard Shlain Book News Annotation Proposes, rather than argues closely, that the shift from apprehending the world from images to writing--especially alphabetic--contributed largely to the suppression of goddess worship and the decline in the status of women in society. Shlain is a...
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Women, Families and Communities: RDGS, Volume Two (2ND 08 Edition)
by Hewitt Publisher Comments Each article is accompanied by illustrations, as well as a list of readings and Web sites for further research. The individual volumes surround distinct and significant themes: conquest of land and peoples and the impact on women and families; the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by Peter (edt) Sabor Publisher Comments The most informative and accessible single volume available on...
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Able-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston
by Martha H. Verbrugge Publisher Comments As urban life and women's roles changed in the 19th century, so did attitudes towards physical health and womanhood. In this case study of health reform in Boston between 1830 and 1900, Martha H. Verbrugge examines three institutions that popularized...
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Letters to Penthouse #18: Letters to Penthouse XVIII
by Not Available (na) Publisher Comments This 13th collection from the popular Letters column in "Penthouse" magazine is filled with torrid, teasing, and smokingly sexy tales of carnal confessions--and they are all true. Original....
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Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
by Susan Faludi 
Powells.com Staff Pick With the publication of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women in 1992, Susan Faludi became a feminist icon. When current trends put economic theory or genetic programming at the center of the dialogue on gender issues, Faludi...
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