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Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Most people have heard of Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Margaret Sanger, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

To Be Useful to the World

Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster for women.

Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo

One of the most fascinating figures of seventeenth-century music, composer and singer Antonia Padoani Bembo (c.1640 - c.

Vrouwen zijn gelijk aan mannen

Vrouwen zijn gelijk aan mannen - behalve in de directiekamer Het gebrek aan topvrouwen ligt niet alleen aan ambitieloze vrouwen, maar ook aan structureel lagere promotiekansen.

Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women

Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women explores the relationship between American women and their bodies as mediated by both traditional and contemporary foundation garments.

Home on the Rails

Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there.

I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married: Successful Single Black Women Speak Out

Through lively and revealing interviews with women from various walks of life, this account speaks directly to the single black woman's experience, addressing unique challenges such as income discrepancies between genders, the high rate of male incarceration, and the "Baby Mama Syndrome." Women discuss the false expectations they face from men, from families, and from friends as well as reevaluate dating, single home ownership, career choices, having children or not and caring for aged parents.

Woman In The Ninteenth Century: And Kindred Papers Relating To The Sphere Condition And Duties Of Woman

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The 51% Minority: How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It

""Lis Wiehl tells us where the law protects us, and where it is letting us down. And as a bonus she gives us the tools to make change happen!

Latina Activists across Borders: Women's Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas

Over the past twenty-five years, nongovernment organizations (NGOs) run by women and devoted to advancing women's well-being have proliferated in Mexico and along both sides of the U.S-Mexico border.

Tete-a-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

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Responsabilités et violences envers les femmes

Des professionnels du terrain et de la recherche mobilisent tous leurs savoirs et leurs compétences afin de lever le voile sur les violences faites aux femmes.

The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty

From the author of Writing a Woman's Life comes an inspirational reflection on aging and the gift of life in your 70s and beyond.

A Passion for Friends

This feminist classic explores the many manifestations of friendship between women and examines the ways women have created their own communities and destinies through friendship.

Scarlett's Sisters

Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women.

Reclaiming the Feminist Vision: Consciousness-Raising and Small Group Practice

It's called consciousness-raising (CR). Asking questions about our experiences and sharing insights and analyses with others can be the basis for informed activism for positive social change.

The Women We Love

A chorus of gay voices rises to sing the praises of women who inspired them - muses, mentors, even mothers who amuse and amaze. Jason Howard, an activist, artist, and writer with many accolades of his own, gathers this stunning homage to those females gay men hold as icons.

Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film

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. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have deftly negotiated the uneven terrain of racial, gender, and class stereotypes.

Maya Market Women

As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the instability of violent military dictatorships and the advent of new global technologies.

Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society.

Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan

Reproductive rights are human rights.

One Ordinary Woman, One Extraordinary God

An Encouragement for the Heart SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOD CALLS YOUR NAME You dream of being used by God but think your life has been too rough, you have been through too much, or done too much for yourself. If you want to find out if God could use you, join with Lorene Kimura to see how he used even the most unsuspecting women.

Love Strong as Death: Lucy Peel's Canadian Journal, 1833-1836

A transcription of Lucy Peel's wonderfully readable journal was recently discovered in her descendent's house in Norwich, England.

The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India

In The Sexual Life of English, Shefali Chandra examines how English became an Indian language. She rejects the idea that English was fully formed before its life in India or that it was imposed from without.

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a long essay written by American journalist Margaret Fuller in 1843. Fuller was also a woman's rights advocate and this work shows her thoughts on the inequality of women during her time.

African Women's Movements

Women entered the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. Women in Rwanda hold the highest percentage of legislative seats in the world.

Il sonno di Arianna

La rappresentazione della donna nei suoi diversi volti ha radici lontane. Nasce dalle leggende, spesso più vive dei racconti d'attualità.

Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor

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. Situating specific case studies within broad feminist topics, Franzway and Fonow concentrate on union feminists mobilizing at multiple sites, issues of wages and equity, child care campaigns, work-life balance, and queer organizing, demonstrating how unions around the world are broadening their focuses from contractual details to empowerment and family and feminist issues.

The Borderlands of Education: Latinas in Engineering

This innovative work critically studies the contemporary problems of one segment of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The lack of a diverse U.

A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences

In this updated edition of a pathbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together, these topics and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories.

Mistresses: True Stories of Seduction, Power and Ambition

Mistresses is a collection of highly entertaining mini-biographies of eight women from the last 300 years who have used their sexuality to procure power and, in some cases, great wealth.

Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware

In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nation's leading historians. A friendship and a correspondence began, lasting until Murray's death in 1985.

Girls' Studies

Professors and students alike are taking interest in Girls' Studies-the socialization of girls versus boys-and beginning to analyze the impact of media, pop culture, messaging, and more on America's girls. Girls' Studies tackles socialization and gender expectations, body image, and media impact, and gives insight into girl empowerment and how to equip our girls for a brighter future.

From Eve to Dawn, a History of Women in the World: Origins: From Prehistory to the First Millennium

In her powerful and bold writing style, best-selling author Marilyn French synthesizes women's history from our pre-historical roots through the rise of states across the globe to the onset of state-backed religions in this first of four readable volumes.

Abortionist

Prior to Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions occurred in the United States every year.

Bad Girls

In this innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s. She argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the rise among girls and young women decades earlier.

The Black Feminine Mystique

The Black Feminine Mystique is a collection of poetry that celebrates women of color. It draws from mythology; from the many Black women heroines from history; from women living and dead; and from writers, artists, athletes, and women from the author's life, including but not limited to his four sisters and his mother.

Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House

Gilbert Herdt is Director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is also Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology.

Masculinity, Senses, Spirit