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The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World
by Joni Seager
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The most up-to-date global perspective on how women are living today across continents and cultures In this completely revised and updated fourth edition of her groundbreaking atlas, Joni Seager provides comprehensive and accessible analysis of up-to-the-... ( read more)
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Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America (Alternative Criminology)
by Jeanne Flavin
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The intense policing of womenas reproductive capacity places womenas health and human rights in great peril. Poor women are pressured to undergo sterilization. Women addicted to illicit drugs risk arrest for carrying their pregnancies to term. Courts... ( read more)
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Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture #18: Every Woman Is a World: Interviews with Women of Chiapas
by Gayle Walker
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Born in the remote mountains and tropical forests of southern Mexico, the elder women of Chiapas have witnessed tumultuous change during their lifetimes, which in some cases spanned the entire twentieth century. Through hard experience, these women have... ( read more)
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... ( read more)
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The Female Eunuch (P.S.)
by Germaine Greer
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The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's... ( read more)
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The New Jewish Feminism
by Elys Goldstein
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Growing up in the 1960s, the notion of a woman rabbi, a woman Israeli Supreme Court judge, an Orthodox female Talmud scholar, or an Orthodox synagogue where women read the Torah from their side of the mechitzah were impossible, even ridiculous scenarios.... ( read more)
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Battle Cries: Black Women and Intimate Partner Abuse
by Hillary Potter
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Contrary to the stereotype of the strong Black woman, African American women are more plagued by domestic violence than any other racial group in the United States. In fact, African American women experience intimate partner violence at a rate 35% higher... ( read more)
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Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies)
by Ruth Crocker
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This is the biography of a ruling-class woman who became a major American philanthropist. The wife of robber-baron Russell Sage (partner of Jay Gould) and in her husband's shadow for 37 years, she took on the mantle of active, reforming womanhood in New... ( read more)
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Her Oxford
by Judy G Batson
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2009 is the 50th anniversary of the former women's colleges achieving full status within... ( read more)
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Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths: Essays on the Fiction of Girl Detectives
by Michael G. (edt) Cornelius
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This collection of essays focuses on the girl sleuth, made famous by Nancy Drew but also characterized by other famous detectives like Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, Linda Carlton, and even in contemporary media by Veronica Mars and Hermione Granger of the... ( read more)
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Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
by Siddharth Kara
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Every year, millions of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, made to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. Generating huge profits for their exploiters, sex slaves form the... ( read more)
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Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 (Women Scientists in America)
by Margaret W Rossiter
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In volume one of this landmark study, focusing on developments up to 1940, Margaret Rossiter describes the activities and personalities of the numerous women scientists -- astronomers, chemists, biologists, and psychologists -- who overcame extraordinary... ( read more)
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French Feminist Theory Exemplified Through the Novels of Julia Kristeva
by Szu-chin Hestia Chen
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Chen (English, Kaohsiung Medical U., Taiwan) writes on writer Julia
Kristeva, known particularly in semiotic studies and French feminism,
and focuses on Kristeva's theoretical and fictional works to develop
a discourse between two different approaches... ( read more)
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Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. Bell
by Paul A Lombardo
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Three generations of imbeciles are enough. Few lines from Supreme Court opinions are as memorable as this declaration by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the landmark 1927 case Buck v. Bell. The ruling allowed states to forcibly sterilize residents... ( read more)
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Women Between: Construction of Self in the Work of Sharon Butala, Aganetha Dyck, Mary Meigs and Mary Pratt
by Verna Reid
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In Women Between, author Verna Reid explores the evolving perceptions of self in the work of four Canadian women--visual artists Aganetha Dyck and Mary Pratt, and writers Sharon Butala and Mary Meigs. All four came into prominence in middle age, doing... ( read more)
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Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India
by Aradhana Sharma
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Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies (Refiguring American Music)
by Nichole Rustin
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The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America (Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
by Ann Boulis
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Running for All the Right Reasons: A Saudi-Born Woman's Pursuit of Democracy (Arab American Writing)
by Ferial Masry
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