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Women of the Revolution

Each of the Southern Revolutionary battlefields holds the history of soldiers and legends of women. From the wooded slopes of Kings Mountain to the fields of Cowpens, to the lesser-known sites like Fishing Creek and Hanging Rock, author Robert M.

Women of Early Christianity, Illustrated

First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "Christianity introduced a new moral epoch in the course of human history.

Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

As a young woman, Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked her grandmother for career advice. She was shocked by the reply: "Get married.

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

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.

Capital Intentions

Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that combined family concerns with money-making activities.

The Feminist Classroom

The issues explored in The Feminist Classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago. This expanded edition offers new material that rereads and updates previous chapters, including a major new chapter on the role of race.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

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.

Writing Women's History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott

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.

Bi

Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. Bi takes a long overdue, comprehensive look at bisexual politics-from the issues surrounding biphobia/monosexism, feminism, and transgenderism to the practice of labeling those who identify as bi as either too bisexual" (promiscuous and incapable of fidelity) or not bisexual enough" (not actively engaging romantically or sexually with people of at least two different genders).

The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privilege

The issues explored in The Feminist Classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago.

Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a prolific British writer and journalist. Bennett is popular for fiction such as The Old Wives' Tale and also for non-fiction works such as How to Live on 24 Hours a Day and Mental Efficiency.

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

From the author of the bestselling Prozac Nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written.

Conversations with Feminism: Political Theory and Practice

Applying the idea of conversation broadly, Penny A. Weiss offers a collection of essays that are either constructed dialogues, letters, or discussions about voice and silencing.

Hearts Beating for Liberty

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. Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest-with its own complicated history of slavery and racism-created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism.

Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

Assembling writers, advocates, and academics, this volume spotlights the sexualization and objectification of girls and women in the media, popular culture, and society.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Seminal work on the rights of woman.

Doulas and Intimate Labour: Boundaries, Bodies, and Birth

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. The scholarship in this volume draws attention to doula work as intimate and relational while highlighting the way boundaries are created, maintained, challenged, and transformed.

Off-Ramps and On-Ramps Revisited

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.Since the recession, the study found, timeouts or off-ramping" from a career for childcare or other reasons have become increasingly unaffordable to women whose income has become increasingly important to family budgets.

Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

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.

Governed through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction

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.

They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades

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.

Mabuhay to Beauty

Beauties and beauty pageants are as dear to Filipino hearts as music, dance and basketballa are. To celebrate what we all cherish, the editors have put together humorous, informative, insightful and thoughtful profiles of beauties, reviews of pageants, and a historical essay on the cultural significance of beauties and contests in this ground-breaking book.

Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices

Feminist parenting creates unique challenges. As women experience the unique powerlessness of motherhood, they also hold the uncomfortable power of acting as advocates for and as agents of socialization and social control over their children.

Entitled to Power

The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women's unexpected response to new labor-saving devices.

Inside This Place, Not of It

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Living My Life, Vol. 1

""You damn bitch of an anarchist, I wish I could get at you. I would tear your heart out and feed it to my dog.

A Field Guide for Female Interrogators

The world was shocked by the images that emerged from Abu Ghraib, the US-controlled prison in Iraq.

Rwanda: History and Hope

Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world.

Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife

""The author of Altered Loves. now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women.

Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances

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.

The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990

A thematic history of the women's movement in India both before and after independence, this book covers the period from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-conflict Peacebuilding

Women are among the most competent, yet marginalized, unnoticed and underutilized actors in efforts to rebuild war-torn societies.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity.

Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East

Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West.

L'ombre et son double

World's Women 2010, The

The World's Women 2010 uniquely reviews and analyses the current availability of data and assesses progress made in the reporting of national statistics, as opposed to internationally prepared estimates, relevant to gender concerns.

Women Singers in Global Contexts

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. Ten unique women constitute the heart of this volume: each one has engaged her singing voice as a central element in her life, experiencing various opportunities, tensions, and choices through her vocality.

A Path Not Strewn With Roses: One Hundred Years of Women at the University of Toronto 1884-1984

In the histories of the University of Toronto which have been written to date women are conspicuous in their absence. It must be stressed that the present book is not intended to stand as a full-scale history of women at the University of Toronto.

X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790-1895

During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain's ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world.

La morte ci fa belle

Non c'è niente di più poetico al mondo della morte di una bella donna, scriveva Edgar Allan Poe a metà dell'Ottocento.