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by Karen Anderson  Publisher Comments While great strides have been made in documenting discrimination against women in America, our awareness of discrimination is due in large part to the efforts of a feminist movement dominated by middle-class white women, and is skewed to their... (read more)  List Price $22.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Susan Bordo Publisher Comments In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cheryl Brown Travis Publisher Comments Are women and men biologically destined to be in perpetual conflict? Does evolutionary genetics adequately explain sexual aggression? Such questions have been much debated in both the media and academia. In particular, the notion that rape is an... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $4.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments This second edition offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976, providing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document in English.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven G Smith Publisher Comments How can we accept the gender system in view of its ills? Yet, are we really at liberty to abolish gender differences, "when the gender system gives us benchmarks of personal identity and worth along with primary channels in which to pursue the rewards of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Janice Jiggins Publisher Comments "Changing the Boundaries" explores gender relations with respect to education, reproductive health services, and agricultural resources -- three factors that are widely recognized as being central to the struggle for gender equity, population control... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joan Von Mehren Publisher Comments "The most substantial account of Fuller's life now available". -- Journal of American History<P>"Von Mehren's splendid biography of Fuller fills a need, for not only is it highly readable but it supersedes prior and inadequate biographical studies".... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Krieger Publisher Comments 'An adventuresome foray into the construction of gender and a view from inside the citadel of higher education. It is sure to stir up feelings about sexism, institutional status, academic freedom, and homophobia.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Diana Tietje Meyers Publisher Comments How is women’s conception of self affected by the caregiving responsibilities traditionally assigned to them and by the personal vulnerabilities imposed on them? If institutions of male dominance profoundly influence women’s lives and minds... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kathryn Kish Sklar Publisher Comments This masterful biography by one of America's foremost historians of women tells the story of Florence Kelley, a leading reformer in the Progressive Era. The book is also a political history of the United States during a period of transforming change when... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by K Lynn Stoner Publisher Comments Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography covers primary and secondary sources found in Cuba and the United States on Cuban and Cuban-American women from the period 1868 to the present. The editors have amassed primary, archival materials... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $25.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Maura Conlon-mcivor Publisher Comments - FBI GIRL follows in the same successful tradition as such heartfelt memoirs as A Girl Named Zippy (Broadway, 9/02), which was named a Today show book club pick; and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (Random House, 3/03), which spent 18 weeks on the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ashley Montagu Publisher Comments Among the central issues of the modern feminist movement, the debate over biology and culture over sex and gender, over genetics and gender roles has certainly been one of the most passionately contested. Making revolutionary arguments upon its first... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by N E H Hull Publisher Comments Hull and Hoffer review more than a century of abortion practice (and abuse), common-law views on abortion, 19th-century criminalization measures, and the rapid changes in science, public mores, and civil rights that finally brought the issue before the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arwen Mohun Publisher Comments Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American cities -- products of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike the more familiar examples of industrialization, these cleanliness factories remained powerfully... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $11.53 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $3.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cynthia Eag Russett Publisher Comments One scarcely knows whether to laugh or cry. The spectacle presented, in Cynthia Russett's splendid book, of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men--thereby providing, along with "savages" and... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zillah R Eisenstein Publisher Comments A new understanding of humanity and feminism from the starting point of breast health is the ultimate goal of Zillah Eisenstein's political memoir of her family's experience with breast cancer. The well-known feminist author argues that politics always... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Betty Holcomb Publisher Comments In this provocative work, Betty Holcomb offers a fresh and thoughtful analysis of the real costs and benefits of women working outside the home. Puncturing popular myths, she takes a hard look at decades of research and shows that working mothers suffer... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $1.49 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wendy Shalit Publisher Comments Where once a young woman had to be ashamed of her sexual experience, today she is ashamed of her sexual inexperience. Where not long ago an unmarried woman was ashamed to give public evidence of sexual desire by living with someone, today she must be... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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