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by Susan B Evans  Publisher Comments Life turns out in ways you never expected. The eighteen million women born in the first years of the baby boom grew up anticipating a life of rules--go to college, get married, have a family. But when the time came, the cultural, social and political... (read more)  List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by bell hooks About the Author One of the leading public intellectuals of her generation, bell hooks has authored over 20 books, including several classics in African-American and Women's Studies. Known mainly as a feminist thinker, hooks addresses a broad range of issues related to... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Janet Sternberg Publisher Comments "With its many voices, images and aphorisms--from those of Maxine Kumin to Luisa Valenzuela, from Rita Dove to Elizabeth Jolley--the book is a pleasure and a faithful companion".--Publishers Weekly. "Twenty terrific women writers reveal a little... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Todd G Morrison Publisher Comments Open any "gay lifestyle" magazine (even the serious ones) or go to any gay bar, and you're likely to encounter something related to pornography, be it an image of a porn "superstar" or advertisements for pornographic magazines, DVDs, calendars, etc... (read more) List Price $72.00 Your price $32.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Stryker Publisher Comments Queer Pulp exposes the history of queer sexuality in mid-twentieth century American paperbacks. Historian Susan Stryker charts the rise of the queer paperback within the context of American pop- and publishing culture, with a peppy and accessible... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (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 $2.96 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Harry Brod Synopsis A new field of inquiry and growing interdisciplinary area, men's studies, is just now beginning to develop its own distinctive methodologies and perspectives as demonstrated in the pages of Theorizing Masculinities. This first major compilation of new... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $2.88 (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 Alison M Jaggar Publisher Comments The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Roberts Publisher Comments This volume addresses the contentious issues surrounding women's work during a century of social upheaval. Elizabeth Roberts focuses on working-class women and their work--full time and part-time, paid and unpaid, outside and inside the home--examining... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sharon Hom Publisher Comments The contributors to this volume were born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; they have been immigrants, foreign students, settlers, permanent residents, citizens, and-above all-"travelers." They are both geographic inhabitants of various overseas... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 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 Sandra Lipsitz Bem Publisher Comments A leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our culture, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Illustrated.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $11.95 (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 Vern Bullough Publisher Comments In any society, the perception of femininity and masculinity is not necessarily dependent on female or male genitalia. Cross dressing, gender impersonation, and long-term masquerades of the opposite sex are commonplace throughout history. In contemporary... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $15.50 (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 $37.75 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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