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by Gwendolyn Mink  
Publisher Comments Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink... (read more)  List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Publisher Comments Many young women today consider "feminism" a dirty word, an antiquated term that hasn't expanded to accommodate the diverse needs of a new generation. In addition, decades of negative campaigns, excessively "messaged" issues, and hanging chads have all... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pamela E Butler Publisher Comments The bestselling assertiveness guide that shows women how to get what they want--reissued with a new preface by the author. < P> < I> Self-Assertion for Women< /I> offers practical advice with realistic sample dialogues and step-by-step... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sara Evans Publisher Comments The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they... (read more) List Price $10.50 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by bell hooks Synopsis A critical response to dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticizing art and aesthetics at a time when the art world is locked in an analysis of identity politics. The book addresses the question of how art can be an empowering and revolutionary... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Levine Publisher Comments Women want change: egalitarian sexual relationships, families, and workplaces. But women, like men, also fear change—to achieve it, both men and women will sacrifice what are now thought of as prerogatives. In intimate interviews with eighty women,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joshua Zeitz Publisher Comments Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Faye D Ginsburg Publisher Comments Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mabel Coll Donnelly Publisher Comments This new socio-historical study explores the dynamics of growing up female in the second half of the nineteenth century--a time when traditional patriarchal standards were beginning to be questioned by small groups of courageous reformers. Donnelly... (read more) List Price $57.95 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Nardi Publisher Comments Growing Up Before Stonewall tells the stories of 11 American gay men who tried to make sense of their identities in the years before the gay liberation movement. These men provide fascinating accounts of what it was like to negotiate their desires within... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Clum Publisher Comments Why do gay men love musical comedy? That is a question that has plagued humankind through the ages or at least ever since Riff lost his heart to Tony in "West Side Story" and Ethel Merman proved that you don't have to be a drag queen to find love With a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Cazden Publisher Comments Steeped in family correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and Blackwell's own work, Elizabeth Cazden has written the first biography of the 19th-century feminist and first American woman to be ordained a Christian minister. Antoinette Brown... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $2.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Betty Berzon Synopsis This gay marriage manual was originally published in 1988 and has sold well ever since. Dr. Berzon has updated it to reflect the current media focus on gay marriage and the legal issues surrounding it.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lesley A Northup Synopsis Northup offers a captivating, in-depth examination of many of the issues regarding women's ritualizing -- such as the common patterns and images used, the construction of sacred space and time, the value of narrative, and the patterns of politics and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by London Rape Cris Publisher Comments The third edition of this resource for women offers information on dealing with the emotional and mental consequences of sexual violence, and answers questions about the law and police procedure in dealing with these crimes.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joan Williams Publisher Comments In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Hussey Publisher Comments This collection of up-to-date articles and short fiction from a wide range of sources and disciplines, including sociology, medicine, history, philosophy, education, cultural studies, and biology, gives the reader perspective on the meaning of... (read more) List Price $54.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Hasselstrom Publisher Comments The grassroots publishing sensation that began with "Leaning Into the Wind" continues in this second volume of women's writing from the heart of the American West.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laurel Thatc Ulrich Publisher Comments In this engrossing volume, Ulrich explores what it means to make history. She shows how the feminist wave of the 1970s has created a generation that challenged traditional accounts of both mens and womens histories, and which stimulated better-documented... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joanne J Meyerowitz Publisher Comments Starting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of single women's experiences as they lived apart from their families. In an era when family all but defined... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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