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Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927
$23.09
-20%Women writers of the american west, 1833-1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the american west during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poet.
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The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30
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-20%Documenting the rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse, the women's joint congressional committee and the politics of maternalism is the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded in 1920 by former suffrage leaders in order to coordinate organized women's reform.
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Sweet Dreams
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-20%One of the most influential and acclaimed female vocalists of the twentieth century, patsy cline (1932â€"63) was best known for her rich tone and emotionally expressive voice.
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Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films
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-20%This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity.
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Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood
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-20%Between 1912 and 1919, the universal film manufacturing company credited eleven women with directing at least 170 films, but by the mid-1920s all of these directors had left universal and only one still worked in the film industry at all.
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Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film
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-20%This insightful study places african american women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five african american women: dorothy dandridge, pam grier, whoopi goldberg, oprah winfrey, and halle berry.
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Maya Market Women
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-20%As cultural mediators, chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the maya historical legacy.
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Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor
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-20%In this timely and detailed examination of the intersections of feminism, labor politics, and global studies, suzanne franzway and mary margaret fonow reveal the ways in which women across the world are transforming labor unions in the contemporary era.
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Brazilian Women's Filmmaking
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-20%At most recent count, there are no fewer than forty-five women in brazil directing or codirecting feature-length fiction or documentary films.
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Feminist Literacies, 1968-75
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-20%In the late 1960s and early 1970s, ordinary women affiliated with the women's movement were responsible for a veritable explosion of periodicals, poetry, and manifestos, as well as performances designed to support "do-it-yourself" education and consciousness-raising.
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Les Guerilleres
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-20%One of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and monique wittig's most popular novel, les guerilleres imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women.
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The Story Within Us
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-20%This volume features in-depth, oral interviews with eleven incarcerated women, each of whom offers a narrative of her life and her reading experiences within prison walls.
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Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France
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-20%This far-reaching study of maternal societies in post-revolutionary france focuses on the philanthropic work of the society for maternal charity, the most prominent organization of its kind.
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Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance
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-20%Although the international press closely chronicled the dismantling of south africa's apartheid policies, it paid little attention to the unique role women from a variety of political parties played in establishing the new government.
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Cold War Progressives: Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom
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-20%In recognizing the relation between gender, race, and class oppression, american women of the postwar progressive party made the claim that peace required not merely the absence of violence, but also the presence of social and political equality.
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Exporting Perilous Pauline
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-20%Exceptionally popular during their time, the spectacular american action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority.
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Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan
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-20%This book is the first in english to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century taiwan.
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The Road to Seneca Falls
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-20%Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the seneca falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the united states and beyond.
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Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age
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-20%To date, most research on immigrant women and labor forces has focused on the participation of immigrant women on formal labor markets.
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Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950
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-20%In the late nineteenth century, midwifery was transformed into a new woman's profession as part of japan's modernizing quest for empire.
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Emily Greene Balch: The Long Road to Internationalism
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-20%A well-known american academic and cofounder of boston's first settlement house, emily greene balch was an important progressive era reformer and advocate for world peace.
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Finding Cholita
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-20%Finding cholita is a fictionalized ethnography of the ayacucho region of peru covering a thirty-year period beginning in the 1970s.
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A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler
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-20%In this study of marie dressler, mgm's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, victoria sturtevant analyzes dressler's use of her body to challenge hollywood's standards for leading ladies.
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Indigenous Women and Work
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-20%These essays create a transnational and comparative dialogue on the history of the productive and reproductive lives and circumstances of indigenous women from the late nineteenth century to the present in the united states, australia, new zealand/aotearoa, and canada.
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Kaija Saariaho
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-20%This book is the first comprehensive study of the music and career of contemporary composer kaija saariaho.
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Women Singers in Global Contexts
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-20%Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, women singers in global contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-making.
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Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign
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-20%Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored alice paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record.
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Seeing Sarah Bernhardt
$21.59
-20%The most famous stage actress of the nineteenth century, sarah bernhardt enjoyed a surprising renaissance when the 1912 multi-reel film queen elizabeth vaulted her to international acclaim.
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New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000
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-20%For me, doing black feminist criticism involved a literary activism that went beyond the halls of academe, not because i had so legislated but because in practice that is what it often, happily, had to be-barbara christian, from "but what do we think we're doing anyway?
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Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s
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-20%Wanted cultured ladies only!
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Redesigning Women
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-20%In the 1990s, american televison audiences witnessed an unprecedented rise in programming devoted explicitly to women.
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Child Care in Black and White
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-20%This innovative study examines the development of institutional child care from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two sister orphanages in pittsburgh: the all-white united presbyterian orphan's home and the all-black home for colored children.
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The Crimes of Womanhood: Defining Femininity in a Court of Law
$28.79
-20%Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century america.
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Muddying the Waters
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-20%In muddying the waters, richa nagar uses stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, to grapple with the complexity of working through solidarities, responsibility, and ethics while involved in politically engaged scholarship.
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Women Shaping Islam: Reading the Qur'an in Indonesia
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-20%In the united states, precious little is known about the active role muslim women have played for nearly a century in the religious culture of indonesia, the largest majority-muslim country in the world.
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Doing Women's Film History
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-20%Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history is enjoying a period of dynamic growth.
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Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America
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-20%Female gladiators is the first book to examine legal and social battles over the right of women to participate with men in contact sports.
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Women for President
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-20%Newly updated to examine hillary clinton's formidable 2008 presidential campaign, women for president analyzes the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for america's highest office in 1872.
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Ghost Stories for Darwin
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-20%In a stimulating interchange between feminist studies and biology, banu subramaniam explores how her dissertation on flower color variation in morning glories launched her on an intellectual odyssey that engaged the feminist studies of sciences in the experimental practices of science by tracing the central and critical idea of variation in biology.
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Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
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-20%The first african american to head a branch of the new york public library (nypl), regina andrews led an extraordinary life.
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