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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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The new york times bestselling author of being mortal and complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklistwe live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the.
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Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan
$11.99
A sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in afghanistan after the talibansoon after the bombing of kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist ann jones set out for the shattered city, de.
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The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America
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From the pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of backlash-an unflinching dissection of the mind of america after 9/11in this most original examination of america's post-9/11 culture, susan falu.
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War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War
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From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original inquiry into the aftermath of wars and their impact on the least visible victims: womenin 2007, the international rescue committee, which brings reli.
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Character is Destiny: The Autobiography of Alice Salomon
$67.99
-20%In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker alice salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems.
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Women's Studies on the Edge
$18.69
-28%At many universities, women's studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments.
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Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean: Envisioning a Politics of Coalition
$52.95
This book uses the anglophone caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies.
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Arguments with Silence
$31.99
-20%Women in ancient rome challenge the historian.
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All Things Altered: Women in the Wake of Civil War and Reconstruction
$19.69
-18%Few readers of margaret mitchell's gone with the wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed scarlett o'hara tried to rebuild tara after the civil war ended.
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Transforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor in 1898
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-28%In 1898, the year queen wilhelmina of the netherlands was inaugurated, five hundred women organized an enormous public exhibition showcasing women's contributions to dutch society as workers in a strikingly broad array of professions.
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Women of the Revolution
$12.99
Each of the southern revolutionary battlefields holds the history of soldiers and legends of women.
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Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
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-20%As a young woman, democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney asked her grandmother for career advice.
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
$12.99
Winner of the pulitzer prizedrawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the new england frontier..
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Capital Intentions
$19.19
-20%Late nineteenth-century san francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth.
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The Feminist Classroom
$28.79
-20%The issues explored in the feminist classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago.
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
$12.99
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens.
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Writing Women's History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott
$39.59
-28%Anne firor scott's the southern lady: from pedestal to politics, 1830-1930 stirred a keen interest among historians in both the approach and message of her book.
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Bi
$13.59
-20%Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike.
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The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege
$40.09
-10%The issues explored in the feminist classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago.
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Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide
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Arnold bennett (1867-1931) was a prolific british writer and journalist.
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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
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From the author of the bestselling prozac nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written.
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Conversations with Feminism: Political Theory and Practice
$38.29
-10%Applying the idea of conversation broadly, penny a.
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Hearts Beating for Liberty
$23.99
-20%Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the east to show how the women of ohio, indiana, illinois, michigan, and wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the old northwest.
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Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls
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-5%Assembling writers, advocates, and academics, this volume spotlights the sexualization and objectification of girls and women in the media, popular culture, and society.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
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Seminal work on the rights of woman.
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Doulas and Intimate Labour: Boundaries, Bodies, and Birth
$11.99
-20%Scholars turn to reproduction for its ability to illuminate the practices involved with negotiating personhood for the unborn, the newborn, and the already-existing family members, community members, and the nation.
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Off-Ramps and On-Ramps Revisited
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The findings were announced at the new york times auditorium with presentations by sylvia ann hewlett, one of the authors of the study and founder and president of the center for work life policy, and lisa belkin, the author of the new york times magazine cover story the opt-out revolution" which caused a media firestorm about time-outs from careers ( off-ramping") in 2003 and inspired the center's first study of the trend in 2005.
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Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
$14.99
The bestselling author of sexual personae and sex, art, and american culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, lorena bobbitt to bill and hillary.
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Governed through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction
$26.59
-5%At the center of the "war on women" lies the fact that women in the contemporary united states are facing more widespread and increased surveillance of their reproductive health and decisions.
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They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
$11.99
Throughout history there have been women, endowed with curiosity and abundant spirit, who stepped out of the cave, cast off the shackles of expectation, and struck out for new territory.
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Mabuhay to Beauty
$5.99
Beauties and beauty pageants are as dear to filipino hearts as music, dance and basketballa are.
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Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices
$10.69
-18%Feminist parenting creates unique challenges.
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Entitled to Power
$23.99
-20%The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the american family farm.
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Living My Life, Vol. 1
$16.95
""you damn bitch of an anarchist, i wish i could get at you.
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A Field Guide for Female Interrogators
$13.99
The world was shocked by the images that emerged from abu ghraib, the us-controlled prison in iraq.
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Rwanda: History and Hope
$36.49
-10%Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world.
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Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife
$11.59
-23%""the author of altered loves.
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Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances
$19.49
-28%Like the complex systems of man-made power lines that transmit electricity and connect people and places, feminist alliances are elaborate networks that have the potential to provide access to institutional power and to transform relations.
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