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The Plantation Mistress
by Catherine Clinton  Publisher Comments This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of...
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Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset
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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Virtually Normal (UK Edition)
by Andrew Sullivan Publisher Comments Andrew Sullivan takes a detailed look at homophobia, seeing it not as a mere prejudice but a series of rational arguments; prohibitionist, liberationist, conservative, liberal etc., and addressing each in turn. A passionately argued work, which...
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A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor"; Or, a Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia (Dodo Press)
by Marie E. Zakrzewska Publisher Comments Maria Elizabeth Zakrzewska (1829-1902) was a Germanborn physician of Polish descent who made her name as a pioneering female doctor in the United States. After studying medicine and serving as an assistant and then as a teacher in the college in which...
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A Teenager's Tears: When Parents Convert to Polygamy
by John R. Llewellyn Publisher Comments Travel the world of polygamy through a modern-day family that leaves traditional Mormonism and enters polygamy....
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When Sex Became Gender (06 Edition)
by Shira Tarrant Publisher Comments This book is a study of post World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that the social construction of gender has its origins in the feminist theorists of this period. This paradigm is a key foundational...
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More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Oregon Women (More Than Petticoats)
by Gayle C Shirley Publisher Comments With in-depth and accurate coverage, this book pays tribute to the often unheralded efforts and acheivements of the historical women of Oregon....
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by Sally Mcmillen Publisher Comments In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course...
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Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime
by Kane Publisher Comments "The essays that make up Crime's Power draw upon the best tools of anthropology to attack, undermine, and encircle the issue of 'crime.' They provide fresh insights into the social category 'crime' and a fascinating window into major issues of power, law,...
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Cambridge Companion To Victorian Novel (01 Edition)
by Deirdre David Publisher Comments In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot and other canonical writers, as well as that of such writers as Olive Schreiner, Wilkie...
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Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
by Cris Beam Publisher Comments When Beam moved to Los Angeles, she was drawn deeply into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered. This work shows readers their world--a dizzying mix of familiar teenage cliques and crushes with far less familiar challenges like how...
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Cross-Cultural Psychology Series #03: Masculinity and Femininity: The Taboo Dimension of National Cultures
by Geert H. Hofstede Publisher Comments The first in-depth discussion of the masculinity dimension, and how it can help us to understand differences amongst cultures....
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As Nature Made Him : Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl -PS Edition (01 Edition)
by John Colapinto Publisher Comments In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine—and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the...
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Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
by Kathryn Kish Sklar Publisher Comments Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's...
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Male and Female
by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Significance of the Questions We AskHow are men and women to think about their maleness and their femaleness in this twentieth century, in which so many of our old ideas must be made new? Have we over-domesticated men, denied their natural...
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How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914
by Rebecca J. Mead Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "In this densely written and tightly argued work, Mead (Northern Michigan Univ.) presents answers to the often asked question of why woman suffrage was accomplished in the US West well...
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The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court
by Mmatshilo Motsei Publisher Comments Inspired by rare strength and courage, this gripping narrative tells the story of a young woman—known variously as “Khwezi” and “the complainant”—who made a principled decision to lay a charge of rape against Jacob...
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Bodies and Pleasures
by Ladelle Mcwhorter Publisher Comments Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Here, Ladelle McWhorter reads Foucault from an original and personal angle and takes the reader beyond unexplored norms and imposed identities as she points the way toward a personal politics...
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Campaigns of Curiosity: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in Late Victorian London (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
by Elizabeth L. Banks Publisher Comments In the 1890s American journalist Elizabeth L. Banks became an international phenomenon through a series of newspaper articles. Disguising herself in various costumes, Banks investigated and made public the working conditions of women in London. Writing...
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Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century
by Bonnie G Smith Publisher Comments In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the middle class and confined them to a largely reproductive...
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