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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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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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Room of Ones Own
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Woolf
Woolf's ardent plea for women's share in power, wealth, and fame is a seminal feminist text. This extended essay is an articulation of her belief that all a woman needs is an income that will sustain her, and her own room in which to work.
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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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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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Bell Hooks
These essays face squarely the problems of teachers who do not want to teach, and of students who do not want to learn, of racism and sexism in the classroom, and of the gift of freedom that is, for Hooks, the teacher's most important goal. Raising many concerns central to the field of critical pedagogy, Hooks connects them to feminist thought, an ...
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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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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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Adrienne Cecile Rich
A blend of memoir and history which investigates women's role as mother. Drawing on anthropolgy, medecine, psychology, literature and her own experience, the author explores the contradictory pleasures and pains of motherhood. The author also wrote "On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-78" and "Blood, Bread and Poetry: Selected Prose ...
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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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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
In this engrossing volume, Ulrich explores what it means to make history. She shows how the feminist wave of the 1970s has created a generation that challenged traditional accounts of both mens and womens histories, and which stimulated better-documented accounts of the past.
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
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Paula Giddings
In her landmark appraisal of black women's unsung contributions to the struggles for racial and sexual equality, Giddings draws on speeches, diaries, and letters of influential black women, including Zora Neale Hurston, Ida B. Wells, and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, to reveal how black women have transcended the double discrimination of being ...
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What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
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Danielle Crittenden
Argues that the feminist objective of career success and non-reliance on men has produced confusion and insecurity.
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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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Manliness
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Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Jr.
This book demands a response from its readers. It is impossible not to be drawn in to the provocative (often contentious) discussion that Harvey Mansfield sets before us. This is the first comprehensive study of manliness, a quality both bad and good, mostly male, often intolerant, irrational, and ambitious. Our 'gender-neutral society' does not ...
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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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Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essays
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Mary Beth Norton
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. Major Problems in American Women's History is the leading reader for courses on the history of American women, covering the subject's entire ...
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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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