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Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
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From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testinggoing against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and big pharma that more screening is the be.
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Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care
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A nationally recognized expert describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care-for fans of overdiagnosed and malcolm gladwellyou might think t.
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Diving Deep & Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest
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Diving deep and surfacing reveals how the writings of kate chopin, margaret atwood, doris lessing, adrienne rich, and ntozake shange can inform women's search for spiritual renewal.
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Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction
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A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 yearsin 1910, alice wells took the oath to join the all-male los angeles police department.
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The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
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*one of washington post's notable nonfiction books of the year"beautifully written and full of important insights," this is a bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, eng.
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Quintessence. Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto
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""suffused with her inimitable word play and stunning intelligence, and embodying a balance of mysticism and critical theory, daly's clarion call to uncover the quintessence of the universe is quite an intriguing tune.
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The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
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*the nearly forgotten story of the american plan, a government program to regulate women's bodies and sexuality-and how they fought back-told through the lens of one of its survivors"a consistently surprising page-turner.
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Reimagining Equality
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From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against clarence thomas in the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago at the historic clarence thomas confirmation hearings, anita hill spoke out courageously about workp.
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All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian
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A fascinating journey through history and culture, examining how makeup affects self-empowerment, how people have used it to define (and defy) their roles in society, and why we all need to carethere is a history and a cul.
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Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families
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An activist calls for better support of young families so they can thrive and reflects on her experiences as a black mother and college student fighting for opportunities for herself and her child.
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Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America
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A fresh exploration of american feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world.
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The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood
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A brutally honest look at the systemic exclusion of women in film-an industry with massive cultural influence-and how, in response, women are making space in cinema for their voices to be heard.
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Contraception: A Concise History
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The development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.
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Forbidden Wife: The Life and Trials of Lady Augusta Murray
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-5%On the night of 4 april 1793, two lovers were preparing to compel a cleric to perform a secret ceremony.
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Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media
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-18%Women, visibility and morality in kenyan popular media explores familiar constructions of femininity to assess ways in which it circulates in discourse, both stereotypically and otherwise.
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The Maternal Tug: Amblivalence, I dentity, and Agency
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-5%While the existence of maternal ambivalence has been evident for centuries, it has only recently been recognized as central to the lived experience of mothering.
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The Suffering of Women Who Didn't Fit: 'Madness' in Britain, 1450-1950
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-28%For over 500 years, women have suffered claims of mental decay solely on account of their gender.
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Struggle and Suffrage in Sheffield: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
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-18%This book looks into the role of women of sheffield and how it has evolved from the powerlessness of a woman involved in a wife sale, to the achievement of the election of its first female lord mayor.
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A History of Women's Lives in Hove and Portslade
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This book looks at the lives of the women from hove and portslade, ranging from artists, musicians, writers, performers, reformers, pioneering doctors and business-women to those employed in factories, shops, laundries and as domestic servants, no.
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Adventuress: The Life and Loves of Lucy, Lady Houston
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-5%In the 1930s lady lucy houston was one of the richest women in england and a household name, notorious for her virulent criticisms of the government.
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Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837
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Exploring the lives of women, 1558-1837' is an engaging and lively collection of original, thought-provoking essays.
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The Intersectionality of Women's Lives and Resistance
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-10%This book uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality..
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Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump
$40.09
-10%Misogyny and media in the age of trump argues that misogyny has increased in the united states under president trump and that although women's experiences under misogyny are by no means universal, patriarchal social and institutional syst.
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Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism
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-10%Feminist praxis against u.
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Mothers as Keepers and Tellers of Origin Stories
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-5%This collection presents diverse critical perspectives and discussion about the keeping or telling of children's originstories as a part of contemporary mothering labor.
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Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran
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-18%While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 islamic revolution on life in iran, discussions about the everyday life of iranian women have been glaringly missing.
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Social Activism in Women's Tennis: Generations of Politics and Cultural Change
$48.95
Analyzing the key players and political moments in women's professional tennis since 1968, this book explores the historical lineage of social activism within women's tennis and the issues, expressions, risks, and effects associated with each coho.
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Re-writing Women as Victims: From Theory to Practice
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This volume critically analyses political strategies, civil society initiatives and modes of representation that challenge the conventional narratives of women in contexts of violence.
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Folk Tales for Bold Girls
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Do you think that legends are all about princes and princesses, knights and heroes, giants and monsters?
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No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History
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The beloved new york times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in america (parade magazine)..
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Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival
$16.79
-28%More than 60 female comics creators share their personal experiences with sexual violence and harassment through new and original comicsinspired by the global #metoo movement, drawing power: women's stories of sexual v.
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Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS
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A gripping account of thirteen women who joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the islamic state-based on years of immersive reporting by a pulitzer prize finalist.
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Inappropriate Bodies Art, Design and Maternity
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-5%This edited collection examines conflicting assumptions, expectations, and perceptions of maternity in artistic, cultural, and institutional contexts.
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Girl Warriors: Feminist Revisions of the Hero's Quest in Contemporary Popular Culture
$19.69
-18%Quest narratives are as old as western culture.
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Women Of Early Christianity (Illustrated and Annotated)
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A unique edition: illustrated;beautifully formatted with optimized, easy-to-read fonts;the complete, unabridged, original version of the first 1907 edition;annotated, with additional content.
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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
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*nineteen arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by cnn chief international correspondent christiane amanpour"a stirring, pro.
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Fight Like a Girl, Second Edition: How to Be a Fearless Feminist
$26.59
-5%A blueprint for the next generation of feminist activistsfight like a girl offers a vision of the past, present, and future of feminism.
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Feminist Perspectives on Young Mothers and Young Mothering
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-5%To be a young mother is almost by definition to be considered an "unfit" mother.
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Speaking of Feminism: Today's Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Women's Movement
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-5%From the women's marches to the metoo movement, it is clear that feminist activism is still alive and well in the twenty-first century.
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