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by M Z Rosaldo Publisher Comments Sixteen women anthropologists analyze the place of women in human societies, treating as problematic certain questions and observations that in the past have been ignored or taken for granted, and consulting the anthropological record for data and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ellen Bravo Publisher Comments "Please, please, please. All working women must read this book! Ellen Bravo not only vividly exposes workplace inequities, she gives real-life solutions, picking up where my film 9 to 5left off."-Jane Fonda Enough about "breaking the glass ceiling."Here... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elizabeth Kim Synopsis Not since "Angela's Ashes" has there been a story about childhood told with so much poignancy and triumph over the odds as Elizabeth Kim's harrowing memoir. A mixed-race bastard, Elizabeth witnessed the hanging murder of her mother in their small Korean... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $1.74 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lil Bridwell Bowles Publisher Comments Showing the interconnections between such issues as race, class, gender, nationalism, and ability, this multicultural reader introduces basic rhetorical strategies for analyzing the complex variables which define identity in the postmodern world... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Susan Maushart Publisher Comments In my twenties, I thought sex and career would solve everything. At thirty, I thought marriage would. Later I tried motherhood, therapy, and then divorce. At forty, I decided to renovate. With all the choices available to today’s women, why... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Piya Chatterjee Publisher Comments "Piya Chatterjee presents an innovative ethnography of female tea plantation workers through a kaleidoscope of drama, personal narrative, labor history review, and the interrogations of her subjects. "A Time for Tea" addresses issues of colonial and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Julia K De Pree Publisher Comments Body Story conveys Julia K. DePree's troubling journey from adolescence to adulthood and from anorexia to health.In high school, the five-foot-ten DePree weighed as little as 114 pounds. She was too weak to raise her arms above her head. De Pree renders... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Katherine Martin Publisher Comments Thirty-five women who succeeded in making a difference in the world relate their experiences in this inspiring collection. Katherine Martin introduces each first-person account with background information on the writer and the obstacles she faced. Lesser-... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joan Newlon Radner Publisher Comments Explores the nature and complexity of women's coded acts. The volume focuses chiefly on North America and on women's folklore in areas ranging from mothering, housework, crafts and healing to music, ballads, and storytelling.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin Publisher Comments What faces do they choose to present to the world and what faces has the world forced them to acquire? We can look in vain to most pictorial histories of America and even of African America for images of Black women. With noteworthy exceptions, even most... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $4.88 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Jane Henrici Publisher Comments The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving public assistance, most of whom were women with children. Today, however, more than a decade later... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Phyllis Rose Publisher Comments With richness of experience and expression, this treasury of 20th-century literature of women's lives--autobiographies, memoirs and journals--is a celebration of life. It includes famous writers, from Woolf to Angelou, as well as women from other walks... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mary Morse Publisher Comments Women Changing Science: Voices from a Field in Transition explores the experiences of today's women in the natural and physical sciences. In interviews with women at all stages of their scientific careers, Ms. Mary Morse, a frequent contributor to Utne... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments Author of "Marie Antoinette" - the film rights of which have been sold to Sofia Coppola (daughter of Francis Ford) - and "The Six Wives Of Henry VIII) tells the stories of women, like Boudicca and Catherine the Great, who have both ruled and led in war... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Miriam Horn Publisher Comments From the Introduction Theirs was a generation that imagined it would reinvent the world. Self-conscious iconoclasts and pioneers, the women of '69 would experiment boldly with sex and work and family and religion and politics. They would also develop... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $5.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Maralee Mayberry and Banu Subramaniam and Lisa H. Weasel Publisher Comments The next generation of feminist scientists and scholars discuss the new advances in the growing field of feminist science studies. The essays address the generational divide between the veteran feminist science studies scholars who established the field... (read more) Your price $39.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Catherine Clinton Publisher Comments Historians Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber have edited a collection of essays that deal with the question of women and the Civil War, as well as relat4ed problems. Divided Houses demonstrates that the abolitionist movement was strongly allied with... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by In Sandole Staroste Publisher Comments As the transition from state socialism to capitalism takes place in various parts of the world, the everyday experiences of those individuals who are primarily affected by the drastic changes are often overlooked. Here, the authentic voices of 52 East... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price $12.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jane Gottesman Publisher Comments The extraordinary collection of photographs and rich personal stories that make up Game Face documents the tremendous impact that sports has on the daily lives of millions of girls and women. On playing fields and street corners, in backyards and gyms... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gisela Ecker Publisher Comments Feminist Aesthetics reflects the current thinking among German scholars and artists. Novelist Christa Wolf probes the pre-Homeric significance of Cassandra, prophetess of Troy.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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