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by Rosalyn Baxandall Publisher Comments Today's women are so comfortable in their authority that they often forget to credit the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s for paving the way—from the kitchen to the boardroom, from sexual harassment to self-defense, from... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ellyn Spragins Publisher Comments If you could send a letter back in time to yourself, what would it say? Following in the tradition of the bestselling What I Know Now™ comes a new collection that will speak directly to young women. Editor Ellyn Spragins asked women under forty to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Penelope Rosemont Publisher Comments Few books in US history have provoked more outrage and debate than The Story Of Mary Maclane did when it was first published in Chicago in 1902. With unprecedented frankness, the 19 year old author revealed her utter scorn for conformity and puritanism... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gail Collins Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-540) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Emily Grosholz Publisher Comments This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir's thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of her most influential book, The Second Sex. A team of distinguished philosophers and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $21.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kayla Williams Publisher Comments "A woman soldier has to toughen herself up" writes Kayla Williams in this fiercely honest account of what it's like to be part of the female 15% of today's Army. "Not just for the enemy, for battle, for death. I mean to toughen herself to spend months... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gloria Feldt Publisher Comments Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Nancy A Naples Publisher Comments This collection on women's community activism demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against violence, homophobia and racism, and for housing, civil rights, economic security, educational equity and environmental justice. It focuses on the... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joan Blades Publisher Comments Women shouldn't be discriminated against simply because they are mothers...but they are! "The Motherhood Manifesto" shares the heartfelt stories of mothers in America who dream of jobs with flexibility and benefits, mothers who can't afford their... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Suad Joseph Publisher Comments Native feminist scholars focus on intimate Arab familiar relationships and discuss gendering of the self in the Arab community. In biographical and autobiographical, ethnographical, and literary accounts, they identify key family relationships and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Arlie Ru Hochschild Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-314) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sue Shellenbarger Publisher Comments “[The Breaking Point] suggests that the national conversation is about to have a hot flash. The passage through middle age of so large a clump of women . . . guarantees that some rules may have to be rewritten and boundaries moved to accommodate... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lesley Doyal Publisher Comments Lesley Doyal has done it again! By making a political, cross-cultural analysis the core of every topic she covers, she makes us change the way we think about and act on critical issues in women's health. Students in public health and in women studies... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Takie Sugiyam Lebra Publisher Comments Japan, a decade behind the United States, is now expressing its awareness of women as a major social issue. This awareness manifests itself in floods of publications, television coverage, the burgeoning of women's studies groups, court rulings... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lisa Yount Book News Annotation This reference contains profiles of 195 women who have contributed to math and science, including chemists, astronomers, environmental scientists, geologists, and others. Women were chosen based on the importance of their contribution, their fame, and... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Georges Duby Publisher Comments Informed by the work of seventy-five distinguished historians, this five-volume series sets before us an engaging, panoramic chronicle that extends from antiquity to the present day. The inaugural volume brings women from the margins of ancient history... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sheila Rowbotham Publisher Comments Women Resist Globalisation is a stimulating account of women's grassroots activism in two important areas: claims to livelihood, and to human rights. Looking at specific cases ranging from the British miners' strike, to making gender central to the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Deborah C De Rosa Publisher Comments Explores why women abolitionists turned to children's literature to make their case against slavery. Deborah C. De Rosa examines the multifaceted nature of domestic abolitionism, a discourse that nineteenth-century women created to voice their political... (read more) List Price $57.50 Your price $14.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Reg Morantz Sanchez Publisher Comments In the spring of 1889, a burgeoning Brooklyn newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones. The ensuing... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $2.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mary Shanley Publisher Comments Heart-wrenching, high-profile court cases such as the Baby M case have called attention to the troubling consequences of new reproductive technology; the law has yet to catch up with the ways that people create families today. Although these times may... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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