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  • Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor
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    Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor

    With sharp wit and keen insight, Bonnie J. Morris opens new perspectives on the gender and generation gaps on campus, exploring the negative stereotypes that keep many students from taking women's studies courses. Since 1993, the George Washington...
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  • The Picture of Abjection The Picture of Abjection
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    The Picture of Abjection

    Tina Chanter resolves a fundamental problem in film theory by negotiating a middle path between "gaze theory" approaches to film and spectator studies or cultural theory approaches that emphasize the position of the viewer and thereby take account of...
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  • Goth's Dark Empire Goth's Dark Empire
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    Goth's Dark Empire

    In Goth's Dark Empire cultural historian Carol Siegel provides a fascinating look at Goth, a subculture among Western youth. It came to prominence with punk performers such as Marilyn Manson and was made infamous when it was linked (erroneously) to the...
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  • Born in a Mighty Bad Land Born in a Mighty Bad Land
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    Born in a Mighty Bad Land

    The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagolee" and "John Hardy," as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced "gangsta" rap. "Born in a...
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  • Perfectionism and Contemporary Feminist Values Perfectionism and Contemporary Feminist Values
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    Perfectionism and Contemporary Feminist Values

    Although formal barriers to women's social and political participation have crumbled, society remains, to a significant degree, gendered in the roles that women and men play. Women's and men's choices regarding work and family are largely responsible for...
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  • Women in Sub-Saharan Africa Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
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    Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

    These four volumes in this major series... provide a single-source reference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the field can be expanded.... A basic set for all academic libraries." -Library Journal Academic NewswireBerger...
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  • Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements
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    Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements

    The book illustrates how community-based actions, programs, and organizations that allow women to determine their lives and participate in decision making contribute to the creation of a civil society and thus enhance democracy. The case studies show how...
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  • Real Things Real Things
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    Real Things

    What a great premise for an anthology! And it succeeds, both in its celebration of our crazy culture and its fascinating analysis, through the poems, of popular myths that have stood the test of time." -KliattIn the past few decades, poetry about and...
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  • Midwestern Women Midwestern Women
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    Midwestern Women

    ... an excellent introduction to a complex subject. Anyone interested in the Midwest or in women's history will find it a valuable resource." -Agricultural History... the volume as a whole invigorates the field of midwestern history." -Wisconsin Magazine...
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  • Tudor and Stuart Women Writers Tudor and Stuart Women Writers
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    Tudor and Stuart Women Writers

    ... a nuanced, carefully argued work that reveals how women writers of the Renaissance, whether upper-class aristocrats close to court, daughters of successful merchants, Protestants, or Catholics, are inevitably affected by the gender biases that infuse...
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  • They Called Me Sky Hunter They Called Me Sky Hunter
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    They Called Me Sky Hunter

    "You are a girl, you can't be a pilot." Those words resonated in Myriam's head throughout her teenager years while growing up in a small Swiss village. Nourishing her dream in silence, a dramatic event triggered the start of her commitment to turn her...
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  • Women and Housing Women and Housing
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    Women and Housing

    In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of...
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  • Race, Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 Race, Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970
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    Race, Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970

    Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 describes the young black male crisis, why we are largely unfamiliar with the story of the black superman, and why this matters to contemporary debates. It does so by returning to the work of...
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  • Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process
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    Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

    Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research...
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  • Rethinking Europe Rethinking Europe
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    Rethinking Europe

    Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford argue that we need a theory of society in order to understand Europeanization...
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  • Socialist Women Socialist Women
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    Socialist Women

    This fascinating new study examines the experiences of women involved in the socialist movement during its formative years in Britain and the active role they played in campaigning for the vote. By giving full attention to this much-neglected group of...
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  • The Sexual Politics of Time The Sexual Politics of Time
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    The Sexual Politics of Time

    Looking at a diverse range of texts including Marilyn French's The Women's Room, Philip Roth's Patrimony, the writings of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson, and films such as Cinema Paradiso, Susannah Radstone argues that though time has been...
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  • Law, Selfhood and Feminist Philosophy Law, Selfhood and Feminist Philosophy
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    Law, Selfhood and Feminist Philosophy

    At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and 'selves' continue to be treated as monstrous aberrations from the 'ideal' figure or norm.
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  • Dalit Feminist Theory Dalit Feminist Theory
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    Dalit Feminist Theory

    Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and rethinks Indian feminism by...
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  • Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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    Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

    More than sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings to feminist theory. His exploration of the relationship between the body and the space it inhabits is key to modern phenomenological...
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  • Beauty of a New Land Beauty of a New Land
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    Beauty of a New Land

    Five extraordinary immigrant women. Five amazing life stories.What is it like to immigrate to a new country? To adapt to new customs but honour the customs of the home you left behind? What is raising children like in a new land? Will children value...
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  • The Goddess of Go-Getting The Goddess of Go-Getting
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    The Goddess of Go-Getting

    With more than 25 years of experience in business, strategy, and empowering others, and as a recognized thought-leader and sought-after international speaker, Rita takes us through her life journey and childhood experiences of growing up in London as a...
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  • Lost Virginity Lost Virginity
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    Lost Virginity

    This true story finds the author travelling to Europe instead of attending university with her high school friends. This book is set in 1969, when she was 19 years old. Adventure, excitement, disappointment and a true dose of reality await her. She soon...
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  • Angela Carter and Decadence Angela Carter and Decadence
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    Angela Carter and Decadence

    By reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic antithetical to her feminism. Through historical contextualization of the woman-as-doll, muse and femme...
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  • Masculinity and Film Performance Masculinity and Film Performance
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    Masculinity and Film Performance

    Masculinity and Film Performance is a lively and engaging study of the complex relationship between masculinity and performance on and off screen, focusing on the performance of "male angst" in American film and popular culture during the 1990s and 2000s...
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  • Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England
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    Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England

    Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey...
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  • Forces for Good? Forces for Good?
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    Forces for Good?

    Forces for Good? explores British soldier 'herographies' to identify constructions of gender, race, class and nation and their consequences on complex, multi-dimensional operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book aims to intervene in the debates...
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  • The Happy Hooker The Happy Hooker
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    The Happy Hooker

    The 30th anniversary edition of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution--with a new Afterword by the author.An international phenomenon upon its initial publication in 1972, The Happy Hooker established Xaviera Hollander--previously the most...
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  • Rehearsals for Dying
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    Rehearsals for Dying

    An expansive, darkly funny, and deeply personal reflection on the reality of living with and dying from metastatic breast cancer.Deena stepped out of the shower and opened her towel in the steam. 'Does my breast look weird?'These words irrevocably change...
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  • "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer"
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    "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer"

    A fascinating collection of questions and answers about courtship, marriage, love, and sex from a seventeenth-century periodicalThe Athenian Mercury a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London included the world's first personal advice...
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  • Shadows of Azadi
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    Shadows of Azadi

    Azaadi, or ‘freedom’, represents a woman’s right to choose, and to live by the choices she makes. So what happens when you aren’t allowed to choose? When your childhood, education, worklife and self-determined future are forbidden due to your gender?In...
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  • Field Notes from Death's Door
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    Field Notes from Death's Door

    This Is Going to Hurt meets Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) - a rollicking, smart and self-aware memoir about the extremes of the human experience, the limits to compassion, and what trying to save the world actually entails.In her early...
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