Gender Studies
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Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942
by Gwendolyn Mink  
Synopsis Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink...
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Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution
by Thomas Dublin
Synopsis This book explores the work and family lives of rural and urban New Englanders across the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century....
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If Women Ruled the World: How to Create the World We Want to Live In--Stories, Ideas, and Inspiration for Change
by Sheila Ellison
Publisher Comments With women making up only 14 percent of Congress and eight women CEOs in the entire group of Fortune 500 companies, women's collective voices are clearly underrepresented. Nor are they proportionately present on the airwaves or the op-ed pages of the...
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Single Woman of a Certain Age: 29 Women Writers on the Unmarried Midlife - Romantic Escapades, Heavy Petting, Empty Nests, Shifting Shapes and Serene Independence
by Jane Ganahl Publisher Comments In Single Woman of a Certain Age, Jane Ganahl assembles a chorus of sophisticated and witty voices for this revealing anthology about flying solo in midlife. Joyce Maynard and Dakota Cassidy try online hookups, Debra Ginsberg brings up the M-word...
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50 Ways To Support Lesbian and Gay Equality (05 Edition)
by Meredith Maran
Publisher Comments Homosexuality has been politicized. But when the issue hits home, whether it involves a family member, colleague, or neighbor who's gay, all that controversy fades in the face of a real, live person who wants and deserves basic human rights and freedoms....
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50 Ways to Improve Women's Lives: The Essential Guide for Achieving Health, Equality, and Success for All
by Ncwo
Publisher Comments A powerful new call-to-action series was launched with the New York Times bestselling MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country. The second book in the series, 50 Ways to Improve Women's Lives,written by nationally recognized women, is poised to again become...
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Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869
by Ellen Carol Dubois
Synopsis In the two decades since feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patterns have focused renewed attention on an issue general perceived as nineteenth-century For this new edition,...
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Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick: 28 Women Writers on Life, Sex, and Survival
by Autumn Stephens
Publisher Comments The title of this anthology riffs on Teddy Roosevelt's phallocentric motto, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick." Few American women today are interested in cultivating a Teddyesque machismo — but in Roar Softly, women writers recount witty and...
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After Shock: September 11: Global Feminist Perspectives
by Susan Hawthorne
Publisher Comments When the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington were hit by planes the western world stood in shocked silence. This collection of writing by feminists world-wide brings together the voices of women and discussess the connections between...
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Return To the Sea
by Anne M. Johnson Publisher Comments In 1955, Anne Morrow Lindbergh published her timeless book of reflections, Gift from the Sea. This perennial favorite used the metaphor of seashells to explore the inner spiritual path, gently guiding readers to practice simplifying, quieting, shedding...
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Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present
by Bettina Knapp Synopsis Travel is sacred. Travel is a quest. Travel is an escape. Travel is a passion! It is enlightening, a distraction, a novelty, a dream fulfilled. It may inspire joy, terror, longing ? often, all three. Women explorers and travelers are a special breed...
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Sexual Spectrum (04 Edition)
by Olive Skene Johnson
Publisher Comments Questions of sexuality and gender are in the forefront of public discourse. Every day there are stories in the newspaper about same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian parenting, and queer rights. In this fascinating book, Olive Skene Johnson explores the...
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I Sit Listening to the Wind: Woman's Encounter Within Herself
by Judith Duerk Publisher Comments Companion to the beloved bestselling classic Circle of Stones, I Sit Listening to the Wind invites women everywhere to tap into the powers of interiority, regain the sacred, and create communities of support — in the process reimagining and...
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Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls : Personal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty in the South (86 Edition)
by Victoria Byerly
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Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (88 Edition)
by Joan B. Landes
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Liberty's Daughters : the Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (96 Edition)
by Mary B. Norton
TOC The small circle of domestic concerns -- The important crisis up on which our fate depends -- Fair flowers if rightly cultivated -- In what wou'd you shew your activity? -- As independent as circumstances will admit -- We commenced perfect statesmen...
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Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
by Barbara Kingsolver
Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-199) and index....
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Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession
by Sarah Stage
TOC Home economics, what's in a name? /Sarah Stage --Ellen Richards and the social significance of the home economics movement /Sarah Stage --Spreading the germ theory: sanitary science and home economics, 1880-1930 /Nancy Tomes --Modernizing mothers: home...
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Defining Womenus Scientific Enterprise: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science
by Miriam R. Levin Synopsis An important new look at how gender, religion, pedagogy, and geography help shape women's scientific work....
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