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by Carolyn G Heilbrun  Publisher Comments Heilbrun's important investigation into issues of identity for 20th-century American women probes the problem with past models and the ongoing task of creating new ones today. "Essential reading for anyone interested not only in the future of womanhood... (read more)  List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by James P Sterba Publisher Comments Feminism was born in controversy and it continues to flourish in controversy. The distinguished contributors to this volume provide an array of perspectives on issues including: universal values, justice and care, a feminist philosophy of science, and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah Deutsch Publisher Comments In the 70 years between the Civil War and World War II, the women of Boston changed the city dramatically. From anti-spitting campaigns and demands for police mothers to patrol local parks, to calls for a decent wage and living quarters, women rich and... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marie C Wilson Publisher Comments The defining examination of the new role of women in Americanow fully revised When first published in 2004, Marie Wilson's Closing the Leadership Gap finally drew attention to what everyone knew but no one talked aboutthe lack of women in America's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander Doty Publisher Comments From Josephine Baker to Judy Garland to Elton John, the figure of the diva occupies a fascinating place in American culture. This special issue of Camera Obscura explores the impact of divas (and divos) in film and popular culture and considers their... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael L Penn Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Clare Coss Publisher Comments This volume includes Clare Coss's play Lillian Wald: At Home on Henry Street, which is closely based on Wald's writings and actual events in her life as well as speeches, letters, and leaflets by Wald herself-"a carefully balanced selection, highlighting... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Berenice Mal Fisher Publisher Comments Taking a fresh look at questions that have long troubled teachers committed to social change, No Angel in the Classroom provides a richly conceptualized and down-to-earth account of feminist teaching in higher education. Long-time feminist educator... (read more) List Price $42.25 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by G Kass Simon Publisher Comments Women of Science focuses on accomplishments of women in astronomy, archaeology, biology, chemistry, crystallography, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics. It confirms what other recent work has shown: past women scientists worked... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nita Kumar Publisher Comments 'Women as Subjects' affords a rare opportunity to consider the changing identity and status of women in India today--how they view themselves and how they are viewed--through the current work of seven scholars: anthropologists, historians, and... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Miller Publisher Comments Rendered by women artists and writers, these portraits illuminate the most influential women of our time. Liv Ullman marvels at Anne Frank’s faith in the face of atrocity. Claudia Roth Pierpont explores how Virginia Woolf’s atypical persona... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Shinoda Bolen Publisher Comments The message to all women of the world is, "Wake Up! Arise! Do not ask for permission to gather the women. What cannot be done by men, or by individual women, can be done by women together. Earth is Home." Jean Shinoda Bolen's life's work — her... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark A Graber Publisher Comments Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice - abortion should remain legal or bans should be strictly enforced. Steering away from... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frances Mascia Lees Publisher Comments Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World offers an engaged cultural criticism in a postfeminist context. At the end of the twentieth century, an increasingly globalized world has given rise to a cultural complexity characterized by a rapid increase in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claudia Demonte Synopsis The last century gave women of many countries a greater opportunity for independence, while for others it offered little relief from age-old oppression. But the recent explosion in communication and information technology has diminished our differences... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Mirsky Publisher Comments This book, by writers from a wide variety of countries, is a timely review of where the world's women now stand. With a mix of moving descriptions of the situations facing individual women and its up-to-date general information and analysis, this book... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $4.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Melanie S Gustafson Publisher Comments A collection of original essays concerning American women's interaction with political parties between 1880 and 1960.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan M Wolf Publisher Comments Bioethics has paid surprisingly little attention to the special problems faced by women and to feminist analyses of current health care issues other than reproduction. FeminismandBioethics: Beyond Reproduction aims to counterbalance this one-sided... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Kress Publisher Comments Carolyn G. Heilbrun has achieved recognition as a preeminent feminist critic of the culture and (as Amanda Cross) a writer of witty detective novels. In Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Feminist in a Tenured Position, Susan Kress provides a compelling intellectual... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $19.55 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Roiphe Publisher Comments In this captivating memoir, novelist Anne Roiphe shows us what it was really like to grow up rich and Jewish in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Revisiting the world of her childhood, Roiphe brings alive a cast of characters who are both difficult to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $2.24 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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