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by Leslie Heywood  Publisher Comments In the length of time from Gloria Steinem to Courtney Love, young feminists have grown up with a plethora of cultural choices and images. In THIRD WAVE AGENDA, feminists born between the years 1964 and 1973 discuss the things that matter NOW, both in... (read more)  List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Hannah Barker Synopsis A collection of essays drawing together recent historical research on gender and 18th century England. The book examines the experiences of men and women in public and private life, drawing widely on historical sources to show how complex and fluid... (read more) List Price $24.40 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carly Milne Publisher Comments When adult entertainment first appeared on the pop culture radar as an underground film phenomenon, women were little more than starlets, who -- for the most part -- answered to men. But as pornography evolved in step with technology and consumer demand... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Monique Wittig Publisher Comments These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julian B Carter Publisher Comments ""The Heart of Whiteness" is brilliant; it has the capacity to transform what we thought we knew about both race and sexuality in the twentieth century. Furthermore, in Julian Carter's hands 'normal' takes on a meaning that is so specific, clear, and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul A Cimbala Publisher Comments Against the Tide is a collection of in-depth biographical essays on the most important women reformers in American history. This reader will be useful in any history course that deals with the important contributions made by women to the development of... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vendela Vida Publisher Comments In a fascinating look at how young women are coming of age in America, Vendela Vida explores a variety of rituals that girls have adapted or created in order to leave their childhoods behind. Vida doesn't just observe the rituals, she actively... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nan Johnson Publisher Comments Nan Johnson demonstrates that after the Civil War, nonacademic or “parlor” traditions of rhetorical performance helped to sustain the icon of the white middle class woman as queen of her domestic sphere by promoting a code of rhetorical... (read more) Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gayle Ann Gullett Publisher Comments In 1880, the California woman safeguarded the Republic by maintaining a morally sound home. Scarcely forty years later, women in the Pacific state won full-fledged citizenship and voting rights of their own. Becoming Citizens shows how this enormous... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Ball Publisher Comments Peninsula of Lies is a nonfiction mystery, set in haunting locales and peopled with fascinating characters, that unwraps the enigma of a woman named Dawn Langley Simmons, a British writer who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the 1960s and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Debra Sands Miller Publisher Comments "Independent Women" explores new, positive models for achieving independence within the context of relationship, work, and family. The book profiles women whose unwillingness to be boxed in or limited by preconceived notions of women's roles or... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Hawkins Publisher Comments Promoted as the 'Cadillac of contraception, ' the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device was used by four million women worldwide between 1970 and 1974. However, physicians and women were not warned of its dangers. Unshielded: The Human Cost of the Dalkon... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cris Beam Publisher Comments PRAISE FOR TRANSPARENT "Transparent is a remarkable book - captivating, powerful, funny, and wise. Without ever upstaging her subjects, Beam explains how she fell in love with them, and so allows us to do the same. This is literature of the first order."... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Zeiss Stange Book News Annotation Stange, a teacher and experienced hunter, challenges the traditional assumptions about femininity and masculinity by relating her experiences as a hunter and sharp shooter in the gender debates. It's refreshing to read Stange's arguments about why... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Thurman Publisher Comments Cleopatra's Nose is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles representing twenty years of Judith Thurman's celebrated writing, particularly her fascination with human vanity, femininity, and "women's work" — from haute couture to literature to... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Shields Publisher Comments The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the "women's network" still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kevin Sessums Publisher Comments Mississippi Sissy is destined to become an American classic In a book that echoes the time-honored fiction of Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor and memoirs by Mary Karr and Augusten Burroughs, Kevin Sessums brings the American South and the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Amy Cohen Publisher Comments ???You are strong, you can do this, ??? the 35-year old Amy tells herself as she careens towards a parked Mercedes, attempting to ride a bike for the first time in decades. Such is the life of Amy Cohen, who, after losing her job as a TV writer, her... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynn Ann Catanese Publisher Comments Traditionally, scholars have used Hagley to study the history of business and technology, but in the 1990s, they have begun to use Hagley's collections to examine such issues as gender and the workplace, domesticity, female entrepreneurs, engendering... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $9.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Karbo Publisher Comments When Karen Karbo's father, a charming, taciturn Clint Eastwood type who lives in a triple-wide in the Nevada desert, is diagnosed with lung cancer, his only daughter rises to the challenge of caring for him. Neither of them is exactly cut out for the job.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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