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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalog of Their Virtues by Susan Griffin Review "Provocative and compelling, filled with Susan Griffin's typically wise and beautiful writing, The Book of The Courtesans rescues from near oblivian some of history's most outrageous and audacious women." --Alice Walker, author of The Color... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons, and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era by Autumn Stephens Publisher Comments A fascinating and sometimes humorous glimpse into the lives of 150 19th-century American women who refused to whittle themselves down to the Victorian model of proper womanhood. 50-black-and-white photos.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hard Choices: How Women Decide about Work, Career and Motherhood by Kathleen Gerson Publisher Comments How do women choose between work and family commitments? And what are the causes, limits, and consequences of the "subtle revolution" in women's choices over the 1960s and 1970s? To answer these questions, Kathleen Gerson analyzes the experiences of a... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage by Mary Daly Publisher Comments This philosophical autobiography of the world's foremost radical feminist philosopher offers an imaginative chronicle of Mary Daly's voyage. Daly sees her work as that of a pirate, righteously plundering treasures of knowledge that have been stolen and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 by Suzanne Lebsock Publisher Comments In a new book that has important implications for our vision of the female past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position of women in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of the nineteenth century? Winner of the Bancroft Prize... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Childless Revolution: What It Means to Be Childless Today by Madelyn Cain Publisher Comments Thanks in part to birth control, delayed marriages, and the emergence of two-career couples, 42% of the adult female population is childless, representing the fastest-growing demographic group to emerge in decades. Alternately pitied and scorned... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism by Jodi Gold Publisher Comments Just Sex chronicles the movement to end all forms of sexual violence on campus and gives a voice not only to rape victims but also to reformed rape perpetrators.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ladies, Women, and Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston (Gender and American Culture) by Jane H Pease Publisher Comments Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, "Ladies, Women, and Wenches" compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850. In contrast to most... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Generations: A Century of Women Speak about Their Lives by Myriam Miedzian Publisher Comments The women featured in this rich oral history of the profound changes women's lives have undergone over the last century represent every ethnic group and social background. They talk about all aspects of their lives, from their professional and romantic... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers by Jane Robinson Publisher Comments There is nothing quite like parrot pie for breakfast. First one must catch one's parrot, of course, and build the hearth to bake it, but that is all in a day's work for the woman pioneer. This riveting anthology tells the story of over 100 such women... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $1.93 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Feminist Studies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Telling Lives: Women's Self-Writing in Modern Japan by Ronald Loftus Synopsis In this fascinating collection of translations, Telling Lives looks at the self-writing of five Japanese women who came of age during the decades leading up to World War II. Following an introduction that situates women's self-writing against the... (read more) Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times by Sylvia B Bashevkin Publisher Comments Feminism underwent perhaps its most difficult challenges in the 1980s, when conservatism reached the height of its influence in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Women on the Defensive: Living through Conservative Times explodes some... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks Publisher Comments Acclaimed visionary and intellectual, bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation with the groundbreaking and soul-stirring... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list State of Women in World Atlas 2ND Edition by Joni Seager Publisher Comments In this revision of her ground-breaking atlas, Joni Seager draws on a vast amount of new global data to explore the key issues facing women today: equality, motherhood, feminism, beauty, culture, women at work, women in the global economy, changing... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran About the Author Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958. In 1997 she moved to London. This is her first book.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Inappropriate Behaviour: Prada Sucks! and Other DeMented Descants by Jessica Berens Publisher Comments A new century, maybe, but what the mainstream media sees as womens interests' remains totally predictable. "Inappropriate Behaviour "is a collection by writers who neither wish to be Bridget Jones or look like Jennifer Aniston, nor do they want to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan by Myra H Strober Publisher Comments In a time of societal transition, women and men around the globe struggle to combine careers and family in new ways. However, conventional work and family structures and power imbalances between women and men often reinforce traditional gender... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Negotiating Conquest Gender & Power In by Miros Chavez Garcia Publisher Comments Conquest usually has a negative impact on the vanquished, but it can also provide the disenfranchised in conquered societies with new tools for advancement within their families and communities. This study examines the ways in which Mexican and Native... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics by T Mihn Ha Trinh Publisher Comments In this collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, award-winning filmmaker and theorist Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory by Michele Wallace Publisher Comments 'A new and updated edition of the classic work of black feminism. First published in 1990, Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. The original edition includes an exploration of the work of her mother, the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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