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by Susan Faludi  Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. -- Newsweek.... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by K Wind Hughes Publisher Comments Making the transition into womanhood is a time of great potential, challenge, discovery, courage and confusion. Girls often face the journey alone, risking their sense of self and purpose along the way. Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sunprovides... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Benjamin Demott Publisher Comments A leading social critic presents a provocative and powerful argument that the new "killer woman", who believes that achievement lies in tough, aggressive, "male" behavior, is reshaping American society and betraying the original vision of feminism.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Kilbourne Publisher Comments "When was the last time you felt this comfortable in a relationship?" -- An ad for sneakers "You can love it without getting your heart broken." -- An ad for a car "Until I find a real man, I'll settle for a real smoke." -- A woman in a cigarette ad... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Colapinto Publisher Comments In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine — and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Petra Munro Publisher Comments Situated within current feminist/poststructuralist theories regarding the 'subject', this book takes seriously the lives of women teachers. Drawing on the life histories of three teachers, it explores their narrative strategies to author themselves as... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Ann Banaszak Publisher Comments This ambitious volume brings together original essays on the U.S. women's movement with analyses of women's movements in other countries around the world. A comparative perspective and a common theme--feminism in social movement action--unite these... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Goldberg Publisher Comments The first edition of this book was lavishly praised by many authorities as the most formidable demonstration of an unpopular truth: males rule in all societies known to history or anthropology, for reasons arising from innate physiology, a brute fact... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Deborah L Rhode Publisher Comments that obscure and perpetuate women's disadvantages.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paula J Caplan Publisher Comments .,."the fact that some assertion has been accepted as truth does not mean that it is inevitably and forever right. The only way we can make efficient progress is by always questioning the truth of those claims and evaluating both the good and the harm... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Wittig Albert Publisher Comments Much of the time our society stereotypes and dismisses old women as ridiculous, troublesome, irrelevant, and (worst of all) boring. These memoirs contradict the assumptions. The women who wrote them have experienced solid, hearty lives, with a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wade C Mackey Publisher Comments Wade C. Mackey examines the biocultural character of fathering with a special focus on the American father. This study draws on empirical data from a cross-cultural study of over 59,000 father-child groupings from 23 countries, illuminating the societal... (read more) List Price $76.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers Publisher Comments A landmark demonstration of how groundless beliefs about "natural" differences between the sexes have harmed both women and men — with a hopeful vision based on up-to-the-minute research. From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Dian Miller Publisher Comments A generation of feminist research has explored the extent to which the roles--and expectations--of women and men vary across cultures. In this volume, leading anthropologists reflect on the evidence and theories, broadening the conventional field of... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gaylene Becker Publisher Comments The story of advanced technologies from the user's perspective: the hope that is attached to advanced technologies, the dissaray that occurs when a technology's promise is not realized, and the long-term effects of technological advances on the lives of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jenny Uglow Publisher Comments "The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography" contains details of the lives of over 2100 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life - from queens to TV chefs, engineers to stand up comics, pilots to poisoners. With subsections for... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Voss Publisher Comments Women of Our Time is a glorious photographic celebration of 75 of the most creative, controversial, witty, brave, beautiful and inspirational women of the twentieth century. These revealing portraits, by an array of distinguished photographers, form a... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Diana Fuss Publisher Comments Lesbians and gays have gone from "coming out," to "acting up," to "outing," meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in "Inside/Out" employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kit Bakke Publisher Comments A progressive-minded American everywoman, a child of the 60s now entering midlife, takes lessons in political commitment and personal fulfillment from her spiritual mentor, Louisa May Alcott.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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