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Race, Class, & Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study
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Paula S Rothenberg
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
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Ariel Levy
If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, female chauvinist pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women -and of themselves. With a wink and a nudge, they are welcoming back strippers, porn stars and Playboy Bunnies as the heroes of post-feminist culture. Taking off your bra used to ...
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The Forbidden Daughter
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Shobhan Bantwal
Bantwal's debut "The Dowry Bride" received rapturous reviews. In her gripping second novel, set in the sensual richness of India, she takes on a controversial subject and asks: Where can a woman turn when her life's greatest blessing is seen as a curse?
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape
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Jaclyn Friedman (Editor), Jessica Valenti (Editor), Margaret Cho (Foreword by)
In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Freidman and Full Frontal Feminism and He's A Stud, She's A Slut author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. Feminist, political, and activist writers ...
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
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Inga Muscio
An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In this fully revised edition, she explores, with candidness and humor, such traditional feminist ...
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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
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Jessica Valenti
Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is supposed to both virginal and provocatively ...
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Women, Culture & Politics
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Angela Davis
A sequel of sorts to the author's masterful Women, Race And Class, this book examines the critical issues important to women: racism, violence, health, children, education and peace.
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The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Womans Nature
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Nancy Tuana
"Less perfect than man, though more perfect than other animals, woman is incapable of rational thought and lacks in a moral sense; in fact, woman is characterized by a dangerous sexuality in need of control." Such beliefs were once accepted a prior as evidence of women's inferiority. Ranging over literature from philosophy, cosmology, theology, ...
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Racism, Sexism, and the Media: The Rise of Class Communication in Multicultural America
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Clint C Wilson, Felix F Gutierrez, Lena M Chao
Racial and ethnic inclusiveness has grown to be more important in the Untied States as its society has become increasingly diverse. "Racism, Sexism, and the Media: The Rise of Class Communication in Multicultural America, Third Edition" examines how people of color fit into the fabric of America and how the media tell them and others how they fit ...
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks's first book, written when she was 19 and published about 10 years later. She has said that feminist criticism at the time did not value the black female perspective, and writings on the black experience did not value the female perspective. Her intention was to change that.
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Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society
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Anne Wilson Schaef, Ph.D.
Describes the white male outlook that dominates our society, dictating the behaviour of both men and women. Schaef leads her audience to an understanding of the powers that affect our views of ourselves and our world.
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Why Men Are the Way They Are
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Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
Farrell has conducted role-playing workshops with thousands of men and women for more than 20 years. His ground-breaking research is the basis for the book, which most experts agree may be one of the most extraordinary, eye-opening books of our time.
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In Defense of Women
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H. L. Mencken
He was one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, but like most men of his time, he was never more clueless about women than when he believed himself most enlightened about them. American satirist and cultural critic HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956) "clarified" his many contradictory ideas about women-espoused over a long ...
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A New Psychology of Women with Sex & Gender Online Workbook
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Hilary M Lips, M Lips Hilary
This text begins with the premise that everything we think we know about human beings is shaped and limited by our own culture and experience. Its aim is to show students how gender-related expectations interact with other cultural assumptions and stereotypes, as well as with social and economic conditions, to affect women's experiences and ...
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Gender and the Social Construction of Illness
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Dr. Judith Lorber
Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. For a creative, feminist-oriented alternative to traditional texts on medical sociology ...
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The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men
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Linda J Sax, Alexander W Astin (Foreword by), Helen S Astin (Foreword by)
Drawing on data from a sample of approximately 17,000 male and female students that represent 200 institutions, "The Gender Gap in College" examines the impact of college experiences, peer groups, and faculty on a comprehensive array of student outcomes. Author Linda Sax's approach is unique because she directly examines the interaction between ...
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Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality
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Peggy R Sanday
In this book, Professor Peggy Sanday provides a ground-breaking examination of power and dominance in male-female relationships. How does the culturally approved interaction between the sexes originate? Why are women viewed as a necessary part of political, economic, and religious affairs in some societies but not in others? Why do some societies ...
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Gender
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Ivan Illich
An insightful examination of the different work roles taken by each sex in traditional and modern societies.
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The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader
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Professor Deborah Cameron (Editor)
Feminism has placed language firmlu on the political agenda. A 'feminist critiqwue of language' now undeniably exists: its influence on public, and especially academinc discourse has grown to the point where those with an interest in literary of social theory can no longer dismiss it. Feminist views on language are varied and complex, with ...
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Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture
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Bram Dijkstra
A provocative and absorbing analysis of the unprecedented eruption of misogyny at the turn of the century in the works of the key artists of the age. Illustrated throughout.
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Still Failing at Fairness: How Gender Bias Cheats Girls and Boys in School and What We Can Do about It
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David Sadker, Karen Zittleman
Now thoroughly revised and updated, this groundbreaking book on gender bias brings the issue up to date, examining the impact of the backlash against gender issues since the book was first published in 1994, and exploring the current movement toward same-sex education.
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Men and Masculinity
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Bernard Lefkowitz
By setting his unflinching study of a celebrated case of sexual assault firmly within the cultural context of middle-class suburban life, Lefkowitz has produced a secular morality tale told with a level of evocative detail that is almost novelistic in its impact. Backed by by more than 200 interviews conducted over six years of research, "Our Guys ...
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Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System
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Anne Wilson Schaef, Ph.D., Carol S Pearson, Ph.D. (Foreword by)
A ten-year anniversary edition of Anne Wilson Schaef's feminist classic. This book explains how women see themselves, how they see men and how they see the societal system in which they live. Also by the author are "Co-dependence", "Escape From Intimacy" and "Meditations For Women Who Do Too Much".
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Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women
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T Denean Sharpley-Whiting
"Pimps Up, Ho's Down" pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics of gender. In this fascinating and forceful book, Sharpley-Whiting, a feminist writer who is a member of the hip hop generation, ...
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War Against Women
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Marilyn French
From Ahmadabad to Washington, women are under attack. Documenting women's political, economic and physical oppression, Marilyn French shows how woman-hatred pervades all of life, from global accounting and development agencies, to our institutions, to our life at home and in public. It is the most serious problem facing women today: one which both ...
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