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by Linda Gordon Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-430) and index.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joni B Cole Publisher Comments "What is a day in the life really like for a CEO, a single mom, a TV celebrity, an inmate?" This was the question that inspired "This Day, a book project that invited a cross-section of women to create a "day diary" on a single, ordinary Tuesday. The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $2.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Margaret Ann Murray Publisher Comments Women Becoming Mathematicians looks at the lives and careers of thirty-six of the approximately two hundred women who earned Ph.D.s in mathematics from American institutions from 1940 to 1959. During this period, American mathematical research enjoyed an... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Margaret Sartor Publisher Comments Margaret Sartor, a fiercely determined girl from rural Louisiana, who is equal parts “Holden Caulfield and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (Atlanta Journal Constitution), presents a poignant portrait of American life during the 1970s. Crafted... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Cordingly Publisher Comments Now in paperback, Cordingly offers a rip-roaring voyage of a book through some of the least known and most fascinating annals of maritime history: a sweeping look at the women who infiltrated the male-dominated high seas of the 17th, 18th, and 19th... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sally L Kitch Book News Annotation An innovative discussion of the symbolism of sexuality and gender. Focusing on the issue of celibacy, Kitch (women's studies, Wichita State U.) explores the cultures of three post-Civil War utopian communities and their relation to female status in... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Pilar Riano Synopsis The volume is celebratory in two senses: first, it brings together the experience of many committed media activists whose work is little known; second, at a time when much of the liberation potential of cultural studies is wrapped up in reception studies,... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Janet Smarr Book News Annotation Smarr explores how speech-acts relate to the genre of the dialogue, observing that in the act of dialogue the self is actually plural because it is by definition intertwined with the other actor in the dialogue. She examines how Italian and French... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $34.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $20.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elizabeth Wurtzel Publisher Comments Ms. Wurtzel is back, armed with advice for the modern woman. Some of her words of wisdom: Enjoy your mistakes -- and try not to make them again. Eat dessert. Be gorgeous. Be strong. Have opinions. Say your prayers. Make your boyfriend do the dishes. And... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Annette Fuentes Publisher Comments In free trade zones all over the world, women make up 80 to 90 percent of the workforce. Women in the Global Factory explores the lives of these women-from California's Silicon Valley to Mexico's maquiladoras (border factories) to New York's garment... (read more) List Price $6.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mark Perry Publisher Comments Praise for Conceived in Liberty: ?An ambitious book, a history of the North and South from before the war to the end of Reconstruction. . . . Remarkable.? (The New York Times Book Review) In the late 1820s, Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $1.24 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jyl Lynn Felman Publisher Comments Teachers are really performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captive audience. Does this sound like your educational experience? Would you like it to be? Jyl Lynn Felman, performance artist, feminist, and teacher of over twenty years, is here... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frances A Karnes Publisher Comments Are you planning a career in the sciences, math, or technology? If you're a girl, you probably should be. It is estimated that by the year 2010 the need for qualified personnel in science and technology careers will increase dramatically. Yet right now... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $10.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Donna M Lucey Publisher Comments I Dwell in Possibility sweeps across three centuries of history to present a vivid gallery of women who in ways great and small shaped America's character and ideals from the country's beginnings to the early 1900s. In this wide-ranging panorama... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $2.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments In this powerful new collection, the author of two of the most celebrated memoirs in recent years presents the autobiographical writings of 14 of her English-speaking predecessors and contemporaries. The women who tell their stories in Written By Herself,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Diane Carson Publisher Comments Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism offers a comprehensive survey of the rich and varied contributions feminist scholars have made to film studies over the past two decades. Individual chapters present a range of perspectives, from psychoanalytic,... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Caroline Daley Publisher Comments The 1980s and 1990s have seen an unprecedented emphasis on global feminism, on the connectedness of women regardless of race, class, or geography. And yet, the status and position of women throughout the world remains enormously disparate. Even so... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Shahla Haeri Publisher Comments Conversations with Muslim working women challenge notions of the "veiled" woman as being victimized or unproductive.<P>This groundbreaking work sheds new light on the status, conflicts, and social realities of educated Muslim women in Pakistan. Six... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $11.05 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ritch Calvin Publisher Comments This work examines the Gilmore Girls from a post-feminist perspective, evaluating how the show's main female characters and supporting cast fit into the classic portrayal of feminine identity on popular television. The book begins by placing Gilmore... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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