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  • Margaret the Sly Serpent Margaret the Sly Serpent
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    Margaret the Sly Serpent

    Margaret the sly serpent lives her life on Supremacy Hill when she spots some chickens that she wants for her next meal. She doesn't expect a fight, but that is what she gets. With the help of a sneaky weasel she devises a plan for...
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  • Memoirs of a Mystic Misfit Memoirs of a Mystic Misfit
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    Memoirs of a Mystic Misfit

    Have you ever wondered why you're here? Do you want to understand life at a deeper level? Would you like to bring more guidance and magic into your life?Memoirs a MysticMisfit takes you and Barbara's intimate, memorable, and often times humorous journey...
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  • Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11
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    Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11

    In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot...
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  • Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts
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    Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts

    Overwhelmingly, it is women who are the victims of domestic violence and this book puts women's experiences of domestic violence at its centre, whilst acknowledging their many diverse and complex identities. Concentrating on the various forms of domestic...
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  • Gender and Public Relations Gender and Public Relations
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    Gender and Public Relations

    Although there is a small body of feminist scholarship that problematizes gender in public relations, gender is a relatively undefined area of thinking in the field and there have been few serious studies of the socially constructed roles defining women...
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  • Sex Trafficking in South Asia Sex Trafficking in South Asia
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    Sex Trafficking in South Asia

    This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular...
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  • Feminist Security Studies Feminist Security Studies
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    Feminist Security Studies

    This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective - uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to Security Studies. 
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  • The Capacity to Care The Capacity to Care
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    The Capacity to Care

    Provides a unique theorization of the nature of selfhood, drawing on developmental and object relations psychoanalysis, philosophical and feminist literatures.
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  • Quaker Women Quaker Women
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    Quaker Women

    One nineteenth-century commentator noted the 'public' character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the...
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  • Wollstonecraft's Ghost Wollstonecraft's Ghost
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    Wollstonecraft's Ghost

    Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the...
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  • Exile in Global Literature and Culture Exile in Global Literature and Culture
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    Exile in Global Literature and Culture

    Prompted by centuries of warfare, political oppression, natural disasters, and economic collapses, exile has had an enormous impact not only on individuals who have undergone transplantation from one culture to another but also on the host societies they...
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    One Light Still Shines One Light Still Shines
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    One Light Still Shines

    "My story is not about my past, but about your future," says Marie Roberts Monville. In the startling tragedy of the Amish schoolhouse shooting at Nickel Mines, one story has never been told; Marie Roberts Monville, the wife of the man who created such...
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  • Shoebox Baby Shoebox Baby
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    Shoebox Baby

    Shoe Box Baby is a creative non-fiction story based on the life of Susan Fenton and her family. Sue was born in Nova Scotia on a blustery winter night in a crude weather-worn shack with dirt floors. Although the doctor told Sue's mother that her baby...
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  • And Yet... And Yet...
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    And Yet...

    There's nothing in life that you cannot overcome if you have faith and believe in yourself. In this book you are invited to take a mindful journey. Our destination is the Power of Resilience. We will explore at the fountain of human nature, and will map...
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  • Stepping Stones of My Life Stepping Stones of My Life
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    Stepping Stones of My Life

    This memoir of a childhood in constant flux and readjustment is this woman's candid perspective on life, uncertainty, and the struggles and joys of a large family that included a brother, Felix, who was born mute and with hydrocephalus. Entering...
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  • Seven Generations From Continent to Continent Seven Generations From Continent to Continent
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    Seven Generations From Continent to Continent

    The life of seven generations is an incredibly interesting process to write about. I have discovered that each generation went thorough more hard and sad times than happy times. Wars, hunger, constant moving to find a better place, and then I figured out...
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  • Daughter of Wales, Rita Landi Daughter of Wales, Rita Landi
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    Daughter of Wales, Rita Landi

    Daughter of Wales, Rita Landi is both a tribute and a celebration. It is a tribute to those who uphold the great tradition of choral singing while, at the same time, it celebrates the life of one exceptional lady whose musical leadership garnered...
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  • Miss Understanding Miss Understanding
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    Miss Understanding

    Zoe Rose never quite fit in. As the only kid in kindergarten with an enormous red afro, Zoe was taunted by the other little girls for refusing to share her "Annie" wig, even when she swore it was her own hair (it was).In second grade, after seeing her...
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  • Poderosas Poderosas
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    Poderosas

    Dr. Lisette Garcia is an experimental psychologist, human rights activist, Buddhist scholar, and Latina percussionist. Her first book, "Poderosas: Conversations with Extraordinary Women," is a series of stories that take place between Dr. Garcia, her...
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  • Girl To City Girl To City
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    Girl To City

    GIRL TO CITY follows one young woman's progression from Elton John fan in the Pittsburgh suburbs to Manhattan art student; from punk show habitué to fledgling musician to cult singer-songwriter who caused a sensation with...
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  • Disability, Mothers, and Organization Disability, Mothers, and Organization
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    Disability, Mothers, and Organization

    This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the...
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  • Gendered Pathologies Gendered Pathologies
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    Gendered Pathologies

    Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. According to medical and scientific views of the period, the...
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  • Surviving the Crossing Surviving the Crossing
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    Surviving the Crossing

    By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of...
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  • Making Transnational Feminism Making Transnational Feminism
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    Making Transnational Feminism

    This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women's organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco. This book takes what some...
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  • Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry
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    Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry

    Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which...
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  • Sex Integration in Sport and Physical Culture Sex Integration in Sport and Physical Culture
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    Sex Integration in Sport and Physical Culture

    Scholars of academic sport studies have long debated the relationship between sport and gender. Modern sport forms have been shown to have historically supported ideals of male superiority, by largely excluding women and/or celebrating only men's...
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  • Criminalising the Purchase of Sex Criminalising the Purchase of Sex
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    Criminalising the Purchase of Sex

    In 1999, Sweden criminalised the purchase of sex whilst simultaneously decriminalizing its sale. In so doing, it set itself apart from other European states, promoting itself as the pioneer of a radical approach to prostitution. In the context of its...
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  • Clifford Geertz in Morocco Clifford Geertz in Morocco
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    Clifford Geertz in Morocco

    Between 1963 and 1986, eminent American anthropologists Clifford and Hildred Geertz - together and alone - conducted ethnographic fieldwork for varying periods in Sefrou, a town situated in north-central Morocco, south of Fez.  This book...
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  • Globalizing Dissent Globalizing Dissent
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    Globalizing Dissent

    Arundhati Roy is not only an accomplished novelist, but equally gifted in unraveling the politics of globalization, the power and ideology of corporate culture, fundamentalism, terrorism, and other issues gripping today's world. This volume -...
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  • Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice
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    Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice

    Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. 'African' female genital cutting and 'Western' cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly...
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  • The Memoir of Ilse Seger The Memoir of Ilse Seger
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    The Memoir of Ilse Seger

    Elisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March 5, 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. A week later, the Nazis arrested...
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    If I Canoe It, So Canoe!

    Join Elizabeth Kranz on this journey from vacationing in the protection of a cabin with the company of friends, to travelling solo by canoe into the amazing backwoods and sleeping in the freedom of a hammock, with all the living wilderness and the still...
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    Cauldron of the Feminine

    In Cauldron of the Feminine, a profound exploration through dreams of the shift away from a patriarchal religion to freedom, Pearl leaves the sky gods and travels unwittingly to the underworld. Gregor asks tantalizing questions about women's...
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    Jeckyll and Hyde

    Over 62 years of abuse by siblings, theirfriends, husband, uncle, and kids. Whathappened, how and why. Sufferingthrough financial, physical, mental,verbal, sodomizing, drowning andstrangulation, sexual assault by brotherin law, who later stole from her...
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  • Dead Girls Dead Girls
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    Dead Girls

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018An Edgar Award nominee for best critical / biographicalBest of 2018 according to Kirkus, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Portland Mercury, Bustle, Thrillist, and Electric LitA New York Times Editor's...
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    The Nazi Officer's Wife The Nazi Officer's Wife
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    The Nazi Officer's Wife

    #1 New York Times BestsellerEdith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground...
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    Founding Mothers Founding Mothers
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    Founding Mothers

    Legendary journalist Cokie Roberts' New York Times bestseller, Founding Mothers, is an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families--and their country--proved just as...
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  • Women and the Family in Chinese History Women and the Family in Chinese History
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    Women and the Family in Chinese History

    This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as...
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    Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature

    Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah...
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  • Women (Re)Writing Milton Women (Re)Writing Milton
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    Women (Re)Writing Milton

    This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and...
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  • Revisiting Italy Revisiting Italy
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    Revisiting Italy

    With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female...
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  • Gendered Capitalism Gendered Capitalism
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    Gendered Capitalism

    Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850-1940 is a history of the gendered corporation, a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticity and the cultures of sewing and embroidery, being...
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