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by Kim Chernin  Publisher Comments "The Obsession" is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it... (read more)  List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Karen Kelsky Publisher Comments Over the past few decades, many young Japanese women have emerged as Japan's most enthusiastic "internationalists", investing in study or work abroad, or in romance with Western men as opportunities to circumvent what they consider their country's... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wendy Chapkis Publisher Comments This expansive analytic perspective draws on more than 50 interviews in both the illegal sex industry of the United States and in the free and open trade in the Netherlands to capture the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor. 12... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joan M. Jensen Publisher Comments Beginning with the Native Americans who were working the land when the first Europeans arrived in North America, Jensen's unique collection traces the history of farm women of all races in the United States. Their complex lives emerge through letters... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Frances C Hutner Publisher Comments This book covers issues critical to women--issues of women's participation in the economy, in business management, in politics and government, and in the community's spiritual life. It discusses how women can evaluate and control the various risks that... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rashmi Du Bhatnagar Publisher Comments Examines female infanticide in colonial and postcolonial India.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thanh Dam Truong Publisher Comments This book presents a variety of feminist perspectives on human security under globalisation. Looking at gender as a multifaceted power domain, and human security as a policy framework, it explores the configuration of the state, power/knowledge systems... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Terry Ryan Publisher Comments The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marcia Millman Publisher Comments Sisterhood is one of the most complicated relationships anyone can have. Throughout their lives, sisters are confidantes, competitors, touchstones for shared memories, and, sometimes, each other's harshest critics. Our siblings are our first peers and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martha Tod Dudman 
Publisher Comments The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her. True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kamala Kempadoo Publisher Comments Presents the personal experiences of sex workers in Asia, Australia, the Americas, the Caribbean, West Africa and Western Europe. In exploring the individual narratives of people involved in the sex trade around the world, this book seeks to undermine... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elaine Showalter Synopsis B B B In 1926 and 1927, the Nation published 17 anonymous essays by "women active in professional and public life."The editor's objective was "to discover the origin of their modern point of view toward men, marriage, children, and jobs." In her... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Willa Shalit Publisher Comments In the tradition of "The right Words at the Right Time" comes a collection of original essays on the joys, trials, and unexpected outcomes of growing up female, written by dozens of celebrities, writers, and exceptional women.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynne Segal Publisher Comments Segal surveys the impact of feminist thought and activism on contemporary culture. Three decades after the remarkable resurgence of feminism, both critics of the movement and feminists themselves hold sharply opposing views on the success or failures of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary P Ryan Publisher Comments "Ryan's elegant essays sketch a chronology of changing gender symbology and contribute to our understanding of the cultural construction of boundaries between public and private. Historians and feminists will pursue for some time her questions about the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth C Edelin Publisher Comments A memoir covering the years 1971-1976. It's about what Dr. Edelin saw, heard, felt, and experienced in treating sick and poor women during the days of his residency at Boston City Hospital, and it's about the perversion of justice in the pursuit of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Emily Franklin Publisher Comments This collection of 26 provocative essays, all original, aims to empathize with, encourage, and inspire twenty-something women. Ultimately, writers will shed a light on what one should and should not expect from what she's been led to believe are the best... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Moore Synopsis A series of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide range of readers. Drawing upon the most recent thinking in English studies, each book considers biographical material, examines recent criticism, includes a detailed... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $5.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English Synopsis A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gen Doy Publisher Comments Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations, this book challenges the widespread belief that Marxism has nothing valuable to contribute to women's studies. The author argues that, from... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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