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by Webb Garrison Publisher Comments Former slave Harriet Tubman, surgeon Mary Walker, and spy Belle Boyd, the "siren of the Shenandoah, " are among the fascinating women profiled in this informative history by the author of "Civil War Curiosities" and "Friendly Fire in the Civil War... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rita Mae Kelly Publisher Comments Women's voices and experiences from around the world are brought to bear upon issues of globalization and democratization in this volume of strikingly original and diverse essays. From the Comfort Women of Japan to the Mexican maquiladoras, from the debt... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Norma Clarke Publisher Comments "I dined yesterday at Mrs Garrick’s with Mrs Carter, Miss Hannah More and Miss Fanny Burney. Three such women are not to found; I know not where I could find a fourth, except Mrs Lennox, who is superiour to them all." --Samuel Johnson Dr. Johnson... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tricia Rose Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-404) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kate Weigand Publisher Comments "The gulf between first- and second-wave feminism seems less broad thanks to this thoughtful analysis of women's activism with the Communist Party U.S.A. between World War II and the mid-1950s... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Daisy Dwyer Publisher Comments A challenge to economic theories that view the household as a harmonious unit with a single decision-maker, this book shows that in the Third World the household is an arena of conflict marked by inequality and negotiation over income and expenditures.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Josephine Donovan Publisher Comments This third edition of the classic study of the roots of feminist theory is updated to include developments in the 1990s, including cofeminism, the intertwining of the women's rights and animal rights movements, postmodern figures such as Camille Paglia... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Vivian Gornick Book News Annotation In 11 essays, memoirist Gornick looks at the role of love in the lives and writings of Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Christina Stead, Grace Paley, and other figures of the modern era. In the title essay, she... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Louis B Antoine Synopsis A study of gender and race issues, examining the "tribulations and triumphs" of women in America, especially the experiences of black women. It provides a history of the women's rights movement and then, in a series of transcribed interviews, offers the... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Curt Weeden Publisher Comments In How Women Can Beat Terrorism, author Curt Weeden sounds an urgent warning: If the world stays on its present course, terrorism and conflict may take the lives of over 100 million people during the next three decades. Give women the opportunity... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Maria Braden Book News Annotation Though its cliche to say that women must be twice as good as men to compete, the question still remains whether even that's good enough. Braden (journalism, U. of Kentucky) studies the media's influence on public perceptions of women seeking national... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jennifer Ward Publisher Comments The conventional view of women in medieval Europe was one of submissiveness and obedience. But as this book shows, such a bland and generalised picture ignores great areas of female experience. Jennifer Ward compares and contrasts the lives and... (read more) Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Linda W Rosenzweig Publisher Comments Relying on women's own words in letters and journals, Rosenzweig refutes the prescriptive literature of the times with its dire predictions of inevitable rifts between Victorian mothers and their daughters, the new women of the twentieth century. Instead... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thais Mazur Synopsis If you have ever imagined a world without violence, hunger or hatred... a world that supports life rather than destroys it... Warrior Mothers points the way to discovering your ability to make a difference. Twenty-four women, from all walks of life... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elizabeth P Mckenna Publisher Comments Demonstrating that working women risk true happiness until they relinquish the ideal of "having it all", this book offers constructive ways for women to redefine their identities on their own terms.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Germaine Greer Publisher Comments “From the start, Greer’s has been a memorable voice — direct, passionate, un-repentant –– and this collection of her writings is witness to the tenacity of her personal vision. . . . Greer is informed, intelligent, genial... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $1.55 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frances K Conley Publisher Comments In May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanford University to protest the medical school’s unabashed gender discrimination. In this controversial,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cherie Matrix Publisher Comments True stories from some of the world's most pro-sex feminists. These women have provided intimate, anti-censorship essays, to reestablish the idea that equality of the sexes doesn't have to mean no sex.From intimate sexual experiences and physical... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Teresa Amott Publisher Comments With new data from the '90s, this classic feminist book explores the intersecting effects of race and gender on women from diverse backgrounds.... (read more) List Price $24.75 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Brett Silverstein Publisher Comments In The Cost of Competence, authors Brett Silverstein and Deborah Perlick argue that rather than simply labeling individual women as, say, anorexic or depressed, it is time to look harder at the widespread prejudices within our society and child-rearing... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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