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1	The Awakening more books like this by Nancy A Walker (Editor), Kate Chopin add to wishlist This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1969 Seyersted text of Kate Chopin's novel along with critical essays that introduce students to "The Awakening" from the perspectives of feminism, gender (new essay), new historical, deconstructionist, and reader response criticism. An additional new essay demonstrates how various ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.16!
2	Women's Magazines, 1940-1960: Gender Roles and the Popular Press more books like this by Nancy A Walker (Introduction by) add to wishlist During and following World War II, women's magazines served as advice manuals, fashion guides, marriage counselors, and catalogs. This thematically arranged collection of selections from "Ladies' Home Journal," "Woman's Home Companion," "McCall's," "Redbook," and others provides a resource for understanding how the popular press perceived and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.52! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Awakening: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives more books like this by Nancy A Walker (Editor), Kate Chopin add to wishlist Kate Chopin's novel is a probing psychological study of a woman who, oppressed by family life and her romantic difficulties, drowns herself in the ocean. It is also an examination of a particular culture at the end of the 19th century: the aristocratic society of southern Louisiana. Condemned at the time it was written, THE AWAKENING has been ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| SVS
4	The Green Kingdom more books like this by Rachel Maddux, Nancy A. Walker (Editor) add to wishlist The dream of a green kingdom, a new world, a place to start over - this is the vision that compels the five central characters in this novel to seek a hidden land. The story is at once the age-old tale of utopia and dystopia and the saga of Americans at mid-century, with a history of economic depression, the midwestern dust bowl, and two world ... see all copies from $5.06! new only from $49.94! \| first editions
5	Shaping Our Mothers World: American Womens Magazines more books like this by Nancy A Walker add to wishlist How midcentury periodicals that fostered an indelible middle-class ideal for American women also confronted the happy homemaker stereotype Read by millions of women each month, such mainstream periodicals as "Ladies' Home Journal" and "McCall's" delivered powerful messages about women's roles and behavior. In 1963 Betty Friedan's "The Feminine ... see all copies from $4.09! new only from $4.09! \| SVS
6	The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition more books like this by Nancy A Walker add to wishlist For centuries, women who aspired to write had to enter a largely male literary tradition that offered few, if any, literary forms in which to express their perspectives on lived experience. Since the nineteenth century, however, women writers and readers have been producing "disobedient" counter-narratives that, while clearly making reference to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.74! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Feminist Alternatives: Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary Novel by Women more books like this by Nancy A Walker add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.05! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Kate Chopin: A Literary Life more books like this by Nancy A Walker add to wishlist In a career that lasted little more than a decade, Kate Chopin became well known for stories set in the Creole and Acadian regions of Louisiana, but her masterwork, "The Awakening" (1899), told the daring story of a woman who defied social and sexual conventions, eliciting negative reviews that denied Chopin prominence until the middle of the 20th ... see all copies from $32.53! new only from $46.11! \| SVS
9	What's So Funny?: Humor in American Culture: Humor in American Culture more books like this by Nancy A Walker (Editor), Michael Barton (Editor) add to wishlist Critical studies attempting to define and dissect American humor have been published steadily for nearly one hundred years. However, until now, key documents from that history have never been brought together in a single volume for students and scholars. What's So Funny? Humor in American Culture, a collection of 15 essays, examines the meaning of ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $24.64! \| SVS
10	Abortion Counseling: A Clinician's Guide to Psychology, Legislation, Politics, and Competency more books like this by Rachel B Needle, Lenore E. A. Walker, Ed.D., ABPP, Nancy Felipe Russo (Foreword by) add to wishlist This unique resource for psychotherapists and counselors takes a look at the political and psychological possibilities and necessity for abortion counseling. It tackles both sides of this important issue to reach a clear understanding of what women face when they make this choice.It will help to understand the: emotional and cognitive competencies ... see all copies from $36.60! new only from $40.16! \| SVS
11	A Very Serious Thing: Women's Humor and American Culture more books like this by Nancy A Walker add to wishlist "A Very Serious Thing "was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "It is a very serious thing to be a funny woman." -Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher "A Very Serious Thing" is ... see all copies from $7.15! new only from $83.12! \| first editions
12 view cover	A Walk in the Spring Rain, and the Orchard Children more books like this by Rachel Maddux, Nancy A Walker (Editor) add to wishlist The two works by Rachel Maddux reprinted in this volume could be called her "Tennessee" books. Both were written after Maddux and her husband, King Baker, moved to Houston County, Tennessee, in 1960, and both draw upon her experiences with and perceptions of life there in the 1960s and 1970s. A Walk in the Spring Rain is a novel, and The Orchard ... see all copies from $9.39! new only from $9.39! \| first editions
13	Communication: The Autobiogrphy of Rachel Maddux, and Her Novella, Turnip's Blood more books like this by Rachel Maddux, Nancy A. Walker (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14	Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s more books like this by Nancy A Walker add to wishlist see all copies from $6.95! first editions
15 view cover	Women's Magazines, 1940-1960 more books like this by Nancy A Walker (Introduction by) add to wishlist This is the first volume to use women's magazines as a window into the experience of women living in the 1940s and 1950s. The book chronicles the debate over women's domestic and public roles during two decades of enormous social change in America. Organized into 7 topics, the 60 compelling articles and 10 advertisements, taken primarily from ... see all copies from $60.83! new only from $60.83! \| SVS
16	Fanny Fern more books like this by Nancy A. Walker add to wishlist see all copies from $6.20! first editions
17 view cover	Whats So Funny?: Humor in American Culture more books like this by Nancy A Walker (Editor), Michael Barton (Editor) add to wishlist 80.00 see all copies from $9.49! new only from $23.00!
18	Lost Opportunities: the Reality of Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System by Nancy E. Walker; J. Michael Senger; Francisco A. Villarruel; Angela M. Arboleda add to wishlist see all copies from $6.85!
19	The Awakening: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemp more books like this by Kate Chopin, Nancy A. Walker (Editor) add to wishlist This volume reprints the full text of The Awakening, together with a detailed introduction placing the work in its biographical and historical context. Five contemporary critical essays reflecting diverse ways of approaching the text are also reprinted, including an essay from Elaine Showalter giving a feminist perspective on the work. see all copies from $50.00!
20	Women's Magazines and Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery: Movement more books like this by A Ed Walter, Nancy A Walker, Professor Kathryn Kish Sklar add to wishlist see all copies from $28.68! new only from $28.68!
21	America Views the Holocaust and Women's Magazines: A Brief Documentary History by Abzug Walker, Robert H Abzug, Nancy A Walker add to wishlist see all copies from $47.44! new only from $47.44!
22	Declaring Rights and William Lloyd Garrison and Traveler from Altruria and: Twenty Years at Hull House and Women's Magazines by Jane Addams, Nancy A Walker, Dr. Jack N Rakove add to wishlist see all copies from $71.70! new only from $71.70!
23	Brown V. Board of Education and Women's Magazines and Thomas Edison & Modern: America by E Jr Martin, Waldo E Martin, Jr., Nancy A Walker add to wishlist see all copies from $43.02! new only from $43.02!
24	The Hamlet and the Dead and the Awakening 2e more books like this by Shakespeare Joyce Chopin, Nancy A Walker, Susanne L Wofford add to wishlist see all copies from $35.53! new only from $35.53!

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