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by Cynthia Gorney  Publisher Comments Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Articles of Faith is a powerful exploration of one of the most divisive issues in our recent political history, and the only book to portray the passion of both sides of the abortion conflict. Drawing from... (read more)  List Price $25.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Andrea Oreilly Publisher Comments Using women's writing, film, feminist theory, and personal experience, contributors to Mothers and Daughters explore how the mother/daughter relationship is represented and experienced as a site of empowerment. This volume will offer readers an important... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mikelann R. Valterra Publisher Comments "Why Women Earn Less" is a practical, step-by-step guide for under-earning women who are ready to turn their lives around. It demystifies the process of underearning, explores its underlying psychological and emotional issues, and offers practical advice... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anibal Faundes Publisher Comments Deeply touched by the tragedies of botched abortions that they witnessed as medical students and young physicians in Chile in the 1970s and later around the world, the authors have attempted in their professional lives and now in this book to establish a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Maryam Poya Publisher Comments This book explores Islamism in practice and looks at the influence of state, economy and religion on women in Iran. Drawing on original research into women's participation in the work force, the author shows how the Islamization of state and society... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali's profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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by James Cicarelli Publisher Comments Joan Robinson was one of the most significant economists of the 20th century. Juanita Morris Kreps was Secretary of Commerce under Jimmy Carter. And forecasting guru Abbey Joseph Cohen appears regularly on PBS, CNN, and CNBC. Women are vital members of... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $14.10 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Social Justice Group Publisher Comments What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, classes, and sexual orientations? How can it be directed into more effective social... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by M Abramovitz Publisher Comments Praised widely as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, as well as political advocacy, Regulating the Lives of Women tells the story of social welfare from women's perspectives.<P>The critical new insights in this... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Fenella Porter Publisher Comments This important book is a multi-authored contribution to development debates on integrating gender issues into development institutions. The specially commissioned articles in Gender Works chart the experience of Oxfam in turning words into action on... (read more) List Price $22.35 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Heather Joshi Publisher Comments The authors argue that no amount of training, maternity and parental leave, or child care provisions will change women's economic status if pay treatment remains unequal--if the market values men's time more than women's.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $1.93 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Faulkner Synopsis Carol Faulkner offers a vivid social history of the way the women's radical reform movement shaped goverment policy toward former slaves in the Civil War and Reconstruction era. "Important for its contribution to redefining women's activism."--Carol... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Frances Bartkowski Publisher Comments The utopias envisioned by Edward Bellamy and other novelists late in the nineteenth century were generally blueprints of government. As satellites of men, women were expected to share in the general improvement of society. The resurgence of the feminist... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy F Cott Publisher Comments Enriched by the wealth of new research into women's history, No Small Courage offers a lively chronicle of American experience, charting women's lives and experiences with fascinating immediacy from the precolonial era to the present. Individual stories... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marilyn French Publisher Comments Analyzing feudalism in Europe and Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and their... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by F M Kamm Publisher Comments Presenting a new argument, this book attacks the view that if a fetus has the moral standing of a person it has a right to life and abortion is impermissable. Most discussion of abortion has assumed that this premise is correct, and so has focused on the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dorothy W Cantor Publisher Comments Both timely and fascinating WOMEN IN POWER takes a close look at the new numbers of women in high elected office today who have redefined the model of leadership in American politics. With a rallying cry for women to enter politics in greater numbers... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen V Hansen Publisher Comments Karen V. Hansen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Ilene J. Philipson is on the faculty of the Psychology Graduate Program at the New College of California, San Francisco.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $8.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Lawless Publisher Comments This book serves as the first nationwide empirical account of how gender affects political ambition.... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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