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Second To None a Documentary History V2 by Ruth Barne Moynihan Publisher Comments At the beginning of the twentieth century it was still necessary for women to ask lawmakers, "Are women persons?" The rights and treatment of women in their homes, workplaces, and government were issues that men in power often preferred to ignore. But... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. -- Newsweek.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Animal Vegetable or Woman: A Feminist Critique of Ethical Vegetarianism by Kathryn Paxt George Publisher Comments Kathryn Paxton George challenges the view held by noted philosophers Tom Regan and Peter Singer and ecofeminists Carol Adams and Deane Curtin who assume the Principle of Equality to argue that no one should eat meat or animal products. She shows how... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women's Studies Quarterly (96:1-2): Beyond Beijing: Women in the Twenty-First Century... (Women's Studies Quarterly) by Feminist Press Publisher Comments This extra-large double issue of WSQ combines two themes, related but distinct: a report on the largest United Nations sponsored gatherings of women in history-at Beijing and Huairou-and a series of national reports on women's studies.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot by Scarlot Harlot Publisher Comments A declared feminist activist, Carol Leigh refers to herself as a life artist, an "autobiographical journalist ... using myself and my life as an example, employing the image of whore in order to reclaim female sexual symbolism." Scarlot Harlot, Leigh's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Office Ladies & Salaried Men: Power Gender Work in Japan by Yuko Ogasawara Publisher Comments In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as "office ladies" (OLs) or "flowers of the workplace". Largely nameless, OLs serve tea to the men and type and file their reports. They are exempt from the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Powerchicks by Matt Towery Synopsis A prescient investigation of the most dramatic power shift in American history.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Raging Grannies: Wild Hats, Cheeky Songs, and Witty Actions for a Better World by Carole Roy Publisher Comments Women's courage is ancient. Women fought against slavery and offered shelter to hunted runaways, demanded economic justice for the starving or working poor, raised their voices when rights were trampled, raised their fists when their children were... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Female Odyssey Visions for the 21ST Cent by Charlotte Cole Publisher Comments In this collection of essays, leading female thinkers and writers share their visions for the new millennium.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Feminist Studies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking by Elizabeth Schneider Publisher Comments As recently as the 1960s the harm of domestic violence was not legally recognized. This book examines how pathbreaking feminist activists and lawyers have brought the severity of domestic violence to public attention since then and have led the U. S... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gender, Work & Medicine: Women & the Medical Division of Labour by Elianne Riska Publisher Comments Even though the proportion of female doctors is rising, continued constraints are placed on women in the health professions. A critical assessment of the division of labor in medicine, Gender, Work, and Medicine reveals the centrality of gender divisions... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon Publisher Comments The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family, work, and personal relationships, she nevertheless... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture by Suzanna Dan Walters Publisher Comments In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge, Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds by Kit Bakke Publisher Comments A progressive-minded American everywoman, a child of the 60s now entering midlife, takes lessons in political commitment and personal fulfillment from her spiritual mentor, Louisa May Alcott.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reinventing the Culture of Womanhood in America and Brazil, an Anthropological Perspective: Models for the 21st Century 1964-2001 by Alex Westfried Publisher Comments In Reinventing the Culture of Womanhood in America and Brazil, an Anthropological Perspective, Alex Westfried examines the heroic struggle of Brazilian women to restore justice, bring a democratic society, and gain virtually total independence... (read more) List Price $29.45 Your price $4.24 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings: An Anthology by Janet Zandy Publisher Comments Meridel Le Sueur, Barbara Smith, Nellie Wong, Judy Grahn, and Sharon Doubiago are among the writers who range through speeches, songs, poetry, essays, and fiction in this moving anthology. --Ms. Magazine Powerful in their dailiness, and full of memory... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alone! Alone! by Rosemary Dinnage Publisher Comments In the 30 years she has spent writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has examined a variety of odd and accomplished women, all of whom in one way or another lived their lives apart from their contemporaries.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace by Sara Ruddick Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1989 Philosopher, mother, and feminist Sara Ruddick examines the discipline of mothering, showing for the first time how the day-to-day work of raising children gives rise to distinctive ways of thinking.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dead End Feminism by Elisabeth Badinter Publisher Comments In this provocative new book, France's leading feminist theorist launches a broadside against the way in which feminism has evolved since the 1990s. After the victories of the previous decades, during which women had made some real advances in social and... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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