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by Nancy Neuman Publisher Comments Written by prominent American women - activists, academics, politicians, journalists, mothers, and daughters - A Voice of Our Own is a collection of twenty-nine original essays that celebrate the indomitable spirit of the American woman. The stories are... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 attacked... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kathryn Leigh Scott Publisher Comments A remarkable range of bright and ambitious women launched their careers while working as Playboy Bunnies. Kathryn Leigh Scott's memoir is based on over 250 interviews with former Bunnies and her own recollections of working in the New York Club while... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Maresi Nerad Publisher Comments The academic Kitchen tells the story of the evolution of an all-women's department, the Department of Home Economics, at the University of California, Berkeley from 1905 to 1954. The book's unique focus on the connection between gender and the status of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Leslie Bennetts Publisher Comments Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really "have to" work, it's better for their families if they stay home. Not only is this untrue, Leslie Bennetts says, but the arguments in favor... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Pat Ross Publisher Comments In the same heartfelt way that author Pat Ross drew from a century's worth of photographs and sentiments to interpret women's friendship in The Kinship of Women and romantic love in The Circle of Enduring Love, she now explores the bonds of yet another... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jael Silliman Publisher Comments "If you have come to help me, please go away. But, if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, let us work together."-Lila Watson, Aboriginal Activist<P>Vibrant. Strong. Fierce. "Undivided Rights" captures the evolving and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rita J Simon Publisher Comments This work is a survey of the efforts through which women have changed their place in American society from the nation's founding to the present. Examining the historical struggle for suffrage, legal and property rights, and rights in the work place, the... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $55.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rebecca Edwards Publisher Comments Historian Rebecca Edwards reveals the history of the role of gender in American politics, from the days of the Revolution to the early 20th century. Using cartoons, speeches, party platforms, news accounts, and campaign memorabilia, Edwards offers a... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Martha Tod Dudman Publisher Comments "I'm not telling you where I am. Don't try to find me." Remember Go Ask Alice? Augusta, Gone is the memoir Alice's mother never wrote. A single parent, Martha Tod Dudman is sure she is giving her two children the perfect life, sheltering them from the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Vicki Ruiz Publisher Comments Unequal Sisters has become a beloved and classic reader in American Women's History. It provides an unparalleled resource for understanding women's history in the United States today. When it was first published in 1990, it revolutionized the field with... (read more) Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Brazenly exposing the truth behind the conflicting messages directed at young women during and after the sexual revolution, "Promiscuities" reveals how our "liberated" culture still fears and distorts female passion.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Pamela Churc Gibson Publisher Comments A book about not just the theory but also the practice of pornography, Dirty Looks includes essays by photographer Grace Lau and porn-performer Annie Sprinkle as well as renowned writers Lynne Segal and Linda Williams.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jan Haaken Publisher Comments Speaking Outgrew from an international peace project addressing issues of war, from personal effects of combat to institutional factors shaping armed conflicts. Drawing on the Sierra Leone civil war, this curriculum bridges local and global, placing... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lori Ginzberg Publisher Comments In this book, Lori D. Ginzberg examines benevolent work performed by middle- and upper-middle-class American women from the 1820s to 1885 and offers a new interpretation of the shifting political contexts and meanings of this long tradition of women's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Olive Schreiner Publisher Comments This feminist classic represents a vivid and eloquently expressed effort to promote the rectification of inequalities of labor practices between men and women of the early 20th century. It carefully examines the social changes engendered by... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Debra Sands Miller Publisher Comments "Independent Women" explores new, positive models for achieving independence within the context of relationship, work, and family. The book profiles women whose unwillingness to be boxed in or limited by preconceived notions of women's roles or... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jean B Elshtain Publisher Comments Jane Addams is synonymous in the American imagination with Hull-House, the legendary Chicago institution she founded, and from which she helped a generation of poor immigrants carve new lives for themselves in the midst of a desolate urban landscape. Yet... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Catherine Clinton Publisher Comments When Europeans settled in the early South, they quarreled over many things--but few imbroglios were so fierce as battles over land. Landowners wrangled bitterly over boundaries with neighbors and contested areas became known as "the devil's lane... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alison M Jaggar Publisher Comments Some people believe that feminist ethics is little more than a series of dogmatic positions on issues such as abortion rights, pornography, and affirmative action.This caricature was never true, but Alison Jaggar’s Living with Contradictions is the... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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