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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body
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    The Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body

    Wild and strange stories have circulated about the female body since antiquity. While legends of poisoned hymens and fanged vaginas circulated, the first female figure Mother Earth was recreated as a crooked rib. Ranging from the absurd to the...
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    Open Play

    'Open Play challenges the patriarchal system that has dictated women's participation in sport around the world...This book is not just a must-read it should become foundational in the future of women's sport from the grassroots to professional levels.'...
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  • The Book of Awesome Asian Women
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    The Book of Awesome Asian Women

    Celebrating the Legacy of Strong Asian WomenThe Book of Awesome Asian Women illuminates the stories of powerful Asian women who have shaped history, providing inspiration and recognition to their incredible contributions across the globe.A Crucial...
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  • Black Women Need Love Too Black Women Need Love Too
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    Black Women Need Love Too

    Stay Awake. Be Aware. Be Informed. Take Action"Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you." -Unknown Black women are loud, ghetto, and gold-digging sluts. They are angry, bitter, independent, and either prudish or...
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  • My Broken Smiles My Broken Smiles
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    My Broken Smiles

    After becoming a teenage mother of two children while in high school, suffering spiritual depression, and surviving an emotionally abusive, narcissistic husband, Melanie Smiles was broken. But with an unyielding faith, she found transformation and...
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  • Memoir of a Feminist Memoir of a Feminist
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    Memoir of a Feminist

    Roz McGrath is a woman living in the right time. She was fortunate to have been given an education at a time when women were encouraged to break out and pursue careers other than nursing, teaching and secretarial skills. She was on the cusp of a new era...
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  • Venus Reborn Venus Reborn
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    Venus Reborn

    "Teetering between sex and politics, /The end of the world and the end of an orgasm, /Injustice and gestation, /All the things Venus can feel at her core", Scarlett Gray's second book of poetry, Venus Reborn is an exploration of identity of the self and...
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  • I Know Jesus Christ Is Real I Know Jesus Christ Is Real
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    I Know Jesus Christ Is Real

    I Know Jesus Christ Is Real, is a candid, spiritual and philosophical memoir  aimed at adults. There is no doubt in my mind that Jesus Christ is real. Time after time, he has appeared to me to comfort, challenge, rebuke, encourage, provide,...
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  • The Faring Light Letters The Faring Light Letters
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    The Faring Light Letters

    "You'll be astonished to hear what I'm doing now - something that has always been a particular dream of mine."What happens when the life you thought you should want doesn't turn out as planned? What do you do when you'd rather be somewhere, somewhen, and...
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  • Women Behaving Courageously Women Behaving Courageously
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    Women Behaving Courageously

    Changing the world is women's workSince time began women of all ages, colours and creeds have stepped forward to say 'no' or 'enough' or 'there has to be a better way'. This is the story of 25 female warriors and dozens of female heroes. It's the story...
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  • Fictional Feminism Fictional Feminism
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    Fictional Feminism

    This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement. Kim Loudermilk provides close readings of four...
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  • Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s
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    Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s

    This book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of...
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  • Governing Women Governing Women
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    Governing Women

    Using case studies from around the world, this volume argues that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than just additional women in politics: it requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support...
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  • The Social Economy of Single Motherhood The Social Economy of Single Motherhood
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    The Social Economy of Single Motherhood

    Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America--a place greatly...
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  • The Science Glass Ceiling The Science Glass Ceiling
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    The Science Glass Ceiling

    In The Science Glass Ceiling, Sue Rosser chronicles the plight of women faculty across the country. Noting difficulties, double standards, and backlash that they routinely face. Rosser interviewed some of the country's best female scientists about...
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  • Feminism and Method Feminism and Method
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    Feminism and Method

    Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over objectivity, the paradox of discourse, the dilemma of...
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  • With All Our Strength With All Our Strength
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    With All Our Strength

    With All Our Strength is the inside story of this women-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, the first writer given in-depth access to visit and interview their members and operations in Afghanistan...
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  • Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature
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    Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature

    Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation attempt to forge a connection back to...
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  • Gender Hurts Gender Hurts
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    Gender Hurts

    It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal...
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  • The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700
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    The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700

    The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of women's role and place in western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth...
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  • Women in the British Army Women in the British Army
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    Women in the British Army

    In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army, and female military organizations, during the First and Second World Wars, peacetime, the interwar era and in the post-war period.
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  • Women, Quotas and Politics Women, Quotas and Politics
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    Women, Quotas and Politics

    This is the first study of the controversial new trends of gender quotas now emerging in global politics, presenting a comprehensive overview of changes in women's parliamentary representation across the world.
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  • Female Sex Trafficking in Asia Female Sex Trafficking in Asia
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    Female Sex Trafficking in Asia

    The book argues that strategies for prevention of female sex trafficking should not be universalized but should be contextualized on the basis of country-specific ground situations.
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  • The Rhetorics of Feminism The Rhetorics of Feminism
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    The Rhetorics of Feminism

    Is it possible that changes in rhetorical practice could alter not just how thought is expressed, but also how it is made? Through a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis of contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to...
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  • Technology and Women's Empowerment Technology and Women's Empowerment
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    Technology and Women's Empowerment

    This book offers the reader broad evidence on how new information and communication technologies impact women's economic and social empowerment and hence have an impact on overall welfare creation.
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  • Philosophy by Women Philosophy by Women
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    Philosophy by Women

    What is philosophy, why does it matter, and how would it be different if women wrote more of it? At a time when the importance of philosophy, and the humanities in general, is being questioned and at a time when the question of gender equality...
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  • Feminist Theory Reader Feminist Theory Reader
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    Feminist Theory Reader

    The fifth edition of the Feminist Theory Reader assembles readings that present key aspects of the conversations within intersectional US and transnational feminisms and continues to challenge readers to rethink the ways in which gender and its multiple...
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  • Gender Equality in a Global Perspective Gender Equality in a Global Perspective
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    Gender Equality in a Global Perspective

    Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to discuss whether Gender Equality can be adopted as it has been defined in international documents anywhere, or whether it needs to be adapted in a more local context; discuss which factors and perspectives...
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  • Missing Caroline Missing Caroline
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    Missing Caroline

    This book is about the grief and pain endured when a parent loses a child. It tells the story of a journey for which no one is prepared and for which there are no waypoints.This book pays tribute to the wonderful life of an extraordinary person -...
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