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  • A Random ACT A Random ACT
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    A Random ACT

    Cindi Broaddus didn't realize that her life was about to be forever altered as she sat in the passenger seat of a car on a lonely highway, speeding toward the airport in the early morning hours of June 5, 2001. A single mother of three and a delighted...
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  • I'm Every Woman I'm Every Woman
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    I'm Every Woman

    Black women have been balancing the competing demands of work and home since before women even won the right to vote. But black voices are barely acknowledged in the mainstream "mommy wars" dialogue. Lonnae O'Neal Parker is determined to change that, in...
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  • Eating My Words Eating My Words
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    Eating My Words

    As one of the country's foremost restaurant reviewers, Mimi Sheraton set the standard for food writing and criticism. In this engrossing memoir, the doyenne of food criticism explains how she developed her passion for writing about food and wine, sharing...
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  • Affect and the Making of the Schoolgirl Affect and the Making of the Schoolgirl
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    Affect and the Making of the Schoolgirl

    By exploring the material-discursive production of gender norms in Australian secondary schools, this book offers a novel feminist posthuman new materialist perspective on how schoolgirls are pre-determined within educational space and place. The text...
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  • Women & Others Women & Others
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    Women & Others

    This volume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa. It analyzes how various agents within the Nigerian society 'encounter' the state - ranging from the most routine form of contact to the...
    $85.79

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  • Founding Mothers and Others Founding Mothers and Others
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    Founding Mothers and Others

    Interest in progressive education and feminist pedagogy has gained a significant following in current educational reform circles. Founding Mothers and Others examines the female founders of progressive schools and other female educational leaders in the...
    $63.02

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  • Screen's queen Screen's queen
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    Screen's queen

    Screen's Queen is a biography of a woman battling mental health and racial biases while working as a professional housekeeper in Australia. Raised between Italy and Russia, Deborah's story brings attention to her unstable childhood, touching on the lack...
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  • Trapped in Education Trapped in Education
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    Trapped in Education

    I qualified as a teacher in 2004, the days of the numeracy and literacy hour. I have 20 successful years in education and have been fortunate to work in around 10 different schools.However, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, my world turned upside...
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  • Refiguring the Ordinary Refiguring the Ordinary
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    Refiguring the Ordinary

    If social, political, and material transformation is to have a lasting impact on individuals and society, it must be integrated within ordinary experience. Refiguring the Ordinary examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and...
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  • Maria's Memories Maria's Memories
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    Maria's Memories

    From the quaint village of Katharinendorf, nestled in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, comes the story of a young girl whose adventures lead her beyond her wildest dreams. A country barren, rugged and even cruel awaits her and her tenacious...
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  • Creeksong Creeksong
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    Creeksong

    A spirited elder recounts her activist journey to confront the terrors of climate change.In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first Assessment Report. By then, award-winning urban planner Wendy Sarkissian had been...
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  • Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime
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    Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime

    Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a...
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  • Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger
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    Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger

    Martin Heidegger's commitment to the idea that Dasein (human existence) is ultimately gender neutral, as well as several other major aspects of his thought, raises significant questions for feminist philosophers. The fourteen essays included in this...
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  • The Sword and the Pen The Sword and the Pen
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    The Sword and the Pen

    In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the...
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  • Braided Relations, Entwined Lives Braided Relations, Entwined Lives
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    Braided Relations, Entwined Lives

    [A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history." -Leslie Schwalm, University of IowaThis study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Cynthia M. Kennedy takes up...
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  • Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives
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    Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives

    Religious conflicts had a pronounced effect on women and their families in early modern England, but our understanding of that impact is limited by the restrictions that prevented the open expression of religious beliefs in the post-Reformation years...
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  • Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens
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    Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens

    Kennedy's unique study explores the arrests, trials, and defenses of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the U.S. entered WWI. These trials became important arenas in which women's relationships and obligations to national...
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  • Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva
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    Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva

    Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate black subjectivity from its...
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  • First Feminists First Feminists
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    First Feminists

    An invaluable resource to scholars interested in feminist thought.... " -Ruth PerryAnyone interested in women's history or feminist thought must read this book." -Lillian FadermanMoira Ferguson has selected wisely from well-known and little-known figures...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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...
    $119.12

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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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