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Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings
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Susan M Shaw, Janet Lee
This introductory women's studies reader offers a wide range of classic, conceptual, and experiential writings - over 105 selections in all. Chapter introductions provide background information on each chapter's topic, including explanations of key concepts and ideas and references to the subsequent reading selections. The anthology also offers ...
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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Judith P Butler
One of the classic works in feminist theory, originally published in 1990. Judith P. Butler critiques what she calls "heteronormativity" and argues for new ways of looking at gender and sexuality.
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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
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Carol Gilligan
Siince its publication more than a decade ago, this highly influential book has won international acclaim and pioneered a revolution in our understanding of female development psychology. Now, witth more than half a million copies of the first edition inprint, CArol Gillgan reflects on the impact and implictions of her findings in a new preface to ...
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Women: Images & Realities, a Multicultural Anthology
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Amy Vita Kesselman, Lily D McNair, Nancy Schniedewind
"Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology" is a unique introduction to feminism and women's studies. This best-selling text presents a multidisciplinary collection of academic essays and analyzes, personal narratives, and fiction and poetry about women's lives. The selections illustrate the variety of women's experiences, primarily ...
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Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives
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Gwyn Kirk, Margo Okazawa-Rey
This interdisciplinary, multicultural text-reader provides an introduction to women's studies by examining U.S. women's lives in a global context and across categories of race-ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, and age. Substantial chapter introductions provide updated statistical information and explanations of key concepts and ideas as a ...
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The Second Sex
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Simone de Beauvoir
This triumphant and genuinely revolutionary book began as an exceptional woman's attempt to find out who and what she was. It ended up shocking, infuriating, and galvanizing millions of readers and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about themselves. Forty years later, it retains all of its vitality and passion.
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Beauty Myth
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Wolf
In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. The author exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today, in the home and at work, in literature and the ...
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Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad
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Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller
Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. She remembers her early childhood as carefree- racing camels and ...
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Feminist Frontiers
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Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, Leila J Rupp
The most widely used anthology of feminist writings and the first to incorporate issues of sexual identity and sexual diversity, "Feminist Frontiers" has stood the test of time. With both classic and contemporary readings on cutting-edge topics that cut across disciplinary and generational lines, this text presents the full diversity of women's ...
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Feminine Mystique
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Betty Friedan
Published in 1963, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE is generally agreed to be the book that launched the women's liberation movement. In her groundbreaking study, Betty Friedan writes of her experiences as a wife and mother in the 1950s, and her growing sense of frustration with the idealized postwar concept of the perfect nuclear family--Dad in a business ...
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We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
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Cokie Roberts (Read by)
Using her own life and the lives of other successful woman as a guide, the nationally recognized correspondent addresses several key issues in the lives of women in the nineties: the work/home balance, the changing roles of women, relationships between generations of women, and the diversity of opportunities.
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Thinking about Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender
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Margaret L Andersen
Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender 7th edition, provides a comprehensive review of feminist scholarship in the social sciences, showing how gender operates in every aspect of society, and how the experiences of both men and women are created through social institutions. The seventh edition introduces new discussions ...
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Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women's Relationships in the Bible
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Renita J Weems, Marcia Broucek (Editor), Nashormeh Wilkie (Illustrator)
"We are frequently just a sister away from our healing. We need a woman, a sister, who will see in our destitution a jagged image of what one day could be her own story. We need a sister who will respond with mercy". Renita J. Weems
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Good wives : image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Breathing life into old records and stripping away familiar abstractions, this work reveals the vital--and often unrecognized--roles of women in colonial New England.
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Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
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Linda K Kerber
Drawn from the direct testimony provided by women in their letters, diaries, and legal records, this text describes women's participation in the American Revolution, evaluates changes in their education in the late 18th century and analyzes their status in law and society.
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Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism
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Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards
Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, "Grassroots" is an activism handbook for social justice.
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Feminist Theory: A Reader
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Wendy K Kolmar, Frances Bartkowski
This comprehensive reader represents the history, intellectual breadth, and diversity of feminist theory. An historical framework organizes a great wealth of selections, 103 in all, with an entirely new concluding Part VII that covers 1995-2002.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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Patricia Hill Collins
In Black Feminist Thought , Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She not only provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde, but she shows the importance ...
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How Fascism Ruled Women
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Victoria de Grazia
'Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians', goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce's rule are the subjects of Victoria de Grazia's new work. De Grazia draws on an ...
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Woman Hating
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Andrea Dworkin
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Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
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Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Chandra Talpademohanty
Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Feminism without Borders" addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and pedagogy, Mohanty has been at the vanguard of ...
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Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of ...
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Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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Naomi Wolf
A sweeping indictment of the idealization and commercialization of female beauty by the American patriarchal culture as a backlash response to the feminist movement.
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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
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Bell Hooks
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Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation
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Barbara Findlen (Editor)
This is a collection of brash essays written by women in their 20s. Includes contributions from Jennifer DiMarco, Katie Roiphe, Rebecca Walker, and Veronica Chambers as well as trailblazers Naomi Wolf and Susan Faludi.
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