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The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away

Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed.

Complete Without Kids: An Insider's Guide to Childfree Living by Choice or by Chance

In Complete Without Kids Licensed Clinical Psychologist Ellen L. Walker examines the often-ignored question of what it means to be childfree by choice or by circumstance in a family-focused society.

La mixité dans l'éducation

Dès 1791 Condorcet défend avec fougue l'instruction en commun des deux sexes comme mesure démocratique - mais il ne sera pas écouté.

Corps meurtris, rêves brisés

The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

""A moving story of action - direct, forceful, and plain-spoken.…It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this autobiography.

Violência dói e não é direito

O tema da violência contra a mulher é abordado neste livro de maneira franca e objetiva, analisando-o como uma questão social e de saúde pública.

The Ethics of the Dust, Ten Lectures to Little Housewives

According to Wikipedia: "John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, stage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well.

Women of Color and Feminism

In this Seal Studies title, author and professor Maythee Rojas offers a look at the intricate crossroads of being a woman of color. Women of Color and Feminism tackles the question of how women of color experience feminism, and how race and socioeconomics can alter this experience.

Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams

Oriental Women, Illustrated

Volume 4 of Woman in All Ages and in All Countries. First published in 1907.

The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild

Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. In The Rise Of Enlightened Sexism, Susan J.

Why Some Women Lie About Rape

A legal expert's investigation of why some women falsely claim rape, and the devastating effects on those who have been wrongfully accused. For each criminal category, a small percentage of claims are proven to be unfounded.

Broken Bodies, Broken Dreams

Violence against women is a pandemic, one that transcends the bounds of geography, race, culture, class and religion. It touches virtually every community, in virtually every corner of the globe.

Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System

Defines the Female System as an emerging reality-a system in which women are valued, first-class citizens. Now with a new foreword by Carol S.

Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics

Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947.

Catching a Wave

Women in Japanese Religions

A comprehensive history of women in Japanese religious traditionsScholars have widely acknowledged the persistent ambivalence with which the Japanese religious traditions treat women.

All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930

They were smart. Sassy.

Remarkable Women of Old Lyme

Old Lyme's illustrious history owes much to innovative women. Suffragist Katharine Ludington was co-founder of the League of Women Voters.

The Crimes of Womanhood: Defining Femininity in a Court of Law

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. By examining the colorful rhetorical strategies employed by lawyers and reporters of women's trials in newspaper articles, trial transcriptions, and popular accounts, A.

Violence against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia

This report documents the dynamics of violence against women in South Asia across the life cycle, from early childhood to old age.

Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives

Fundamental Differences

Fundamental Differences brings together lucid interdisciplinary critiques of social conservative politics and ideas in the areas of welfare, family and school policy, gender representation, and conservative doctrine. The distinguished group of authors responds directly to New Right political discourse, identifying key ambiguities, ideological convictions, and methodological problems.

Confronting Postmaternal Thinking

Public discourse maintains a deep cultural anxiety around expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to the society as a whole. In a policy context, postmaternalism is the priority given to women's claims as employees over their political claims as mothers.

Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape

In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race.

Portraits of Change: Unparalleled Freedoms, Unanticipated Consequences

Portraits of Change is a deep, intimate look at the powerful impact of the women's movement and the widespread social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s on women's lives.

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality

Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention?

Women of the Romance Countries, Illustrated

First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "What, then, must have been the task of the author of the present volume, in essaying to write of the women of Italy and Spain!

PRISMS: REFRACTING LIGHT OF WOMEN'S LIVES

Dr. Jackie De Hon "bought" the culture's prescription for women while growing up in the 40s and 50s when women were allowed to be one of four things-wife/mother, teacher, nurse, or secretary.

Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting

Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting explores some of the ways in which reproductive experiences are taken up in the rich arena of cultural production. The chapters in this collection pose questions, unsettle assumptions, and generate broad imaginative spaces for thinking about representation of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.

Women At War 1914-91: Voices of the Twentieth Century

Women at War captures the reality of women at war in their own words, examining the enormously important part that women played in the major wars of the twentieth century.

Whose Garments Are You Wearing?

Who Am I? In this journey called life, as women we have lost ourselves and no longer are we the women that God created us to be, instead we have become many things to fit the many situations in which we have found ourselves in.

In Love and Struggle

Winner of the 2009 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize Do you think I can be a feminist mother? Did I make you and your kisses up in my mind?

NAACP P

By highlighting the life of a key figure in the NAACP Wedin has given us a welcome addition to the literature of that organization."-Library Journal"In its densely researched, sensitively interpreted, and crisply written evocation of her subject's career, Professor Wedin's biography opens a wide window onto much of the inner life of the NAACP as it evolves from a virtual one-person show scripted by the incomparable (and sometimes insufferable) Du Bois through the unflappable stewardship of James Weldon Johnson and the manic operational brilliance of Walter White to become, in classic Weberian progression, a well-honed bureaucracy of lawyers, accountants, field secretaries, and lobbyists-and, overwhelmingly, of African Americans.

The Crisis-Woman: Body Politics and the Modern Woman in Fascist Italy

Femininity in the form of the donna-crisi, or "crisis-woman," was a fixture of fascist propaganda in the early 1930s.

A History of U.S. Feminisms

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Vishwaprasiddha Vaigyanik Mahilayen

Lesbian, Queer, and Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships: Narratives of Sexual Identity

This book draws on interviews with women who left relationships with women to begin relationships with men, and uncovers how the women make sense of who they are.

History of Woman Suffrage, all six volumes

This file includes all six volumes, told by the heroines who fought for the women's vote. .

Love, InshAllah

In this groundbreaking collection, American Muslim women writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their real-life tales of flirting, dating, longing, and sex. Their stories show just how varied the search for love can be-from singles' events and college flirtations to arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist.