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by Sarah B. Pomeroy Publisher Comments "The first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism. Though much debated, its position as the basic textbook on women's history in Greece and Rome has hardly been challenged."--Mary Beard, Times... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Estelle Freedman Publisher Comments Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charlotte Painter Publisher Comments Writer Charlotte Painter and artist/photographer Pamela Valois have combined their impressive talents to present these intimate glimpses into the lives of thirty-two remarkable women, each of whom has discovered in maturity the opportunity of exploring... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jenifer Glynn Synopsis A thoroughly researched and eminently readable biography of the Garrett sisters.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elizabeth P Mckenna Publisher Comments Following its strong hardcover sales, this trade paperback edition of Elizabeth Perle McKenna's eye-opening look at work and women examines the paradoxes facing females in the working world, and offers ways for women to redefine their identities on their... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $1.49 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Celinda Lake Publisher Comments In this smart study, two of the hottest trend-spotters in America show how a united power base among women is reshaping the state of the nation much more than the politics of left and right.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Virginia Bernhard Publisher Comments The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was at the beginning of the long struggle for women's rights in the United States. The documents collected in this anthology bring to life the anger and the excitement of a moment when a small but determined group of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rebecca Messbarger Publisher Comments By uncovering the characteristics of the expansive dominant discourse about women among Italian Enlightenment thinkers and of the counter-discourse women authors produced to assert their own distinct authority over constructions of femininity and the... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $33.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter J Kreeft Publisher Comments Peter Kreeft's Socrates enters the debate on abortion, considering the arguments of psychology, medicine and philosophy.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by bell hooks Synopsis A critical response to dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticizing art and aesthetics at a time when the art world is locked in an analysis of identity politics. The book addresses the question of how art can be an empowering and revolutionary... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Patricia Foster Book News Annotation Foster (English, University of Iowa) weaves together the life of a mother and daughter caught in the web of the mother's ambition in this memoir of a white, middle-class girl who grew up in rural south Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s. The time and... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $5.96 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell Powells.com Staff Pick The Friend Who Got Away cost me two nights' sleep, rehashed accounts of every extinct relationship, conjured up nearly every minute emotion previously stashed away, and caused me to literally toss it on the floor... in other words, this book is painfully... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Eve Ensler Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of "The Vagina Monologues" comes an illuminating, provocative look at America's obsession with security in a post-9/11 world--and how people can experience freedom and true fulfillment by letting it go.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gwendolyn Mink Publisher Comments Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Judith S Justad Publisher Comments Judith Justad is audacious, she is entrepreneurial, and she is focused. She started three social service agencies, each addressing the issues revolving around women and children. For thirty years she dealt with scurrilous incidents of violence and abuse... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sara Evans Publisher Comments The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they... (read more) List Price $10.50 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mary Jane Moffat Publisher Comments Excerpts from the private diaries of women, known and unknown, among them Louisa May Alcott, Sophie Tolstoy, George Eliot, Anais Nin.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Londa Schiebinger Publisher Comments Gender in the Making of Modern Science Winner of the 1994 Society for Social Studies of Science Ludwik Fleck Prize "Schiebinger's incisive book draws timely attention to the critical roles of language, metaphor, and ideology in the development of science.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kimberly Jensen Publisher Comments The case for woman suffrage, economic equality, and citizenship in... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Walter Kendrick Publisher Comments Walter Kendrick traces the relatively recent concept of pornography--the word was not coined until the late 18th century--which became a public issue once the printing press gave ordinary people access to the erotica of the Greeks and Romans, the art and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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