Women's Studies
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
$22.99 Add to cartIn the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers,
- Author: Lasalle, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0312284314
- Language: English
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Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
$31.00 Read moreToward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called “women’s secrets,” by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Park, Katharine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1890951684
- Language: English
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Invisible Women of Prehistory: Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War
$29.95 Add to cartBased on many years of research into ancient history and prehistory, this insightful tome argues that three million years of peace–a period when women’s status in society was much higher than it is n… [more below]
- Author: Foster, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1876756918
- Language: English
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Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
$28.99 Add to cart‘Rich, complex and witty’ ROSE GEORGE, SPECTATOR
‘Devastating and clever’ BEL MOONEY, DAILY MAIL ‘Could not be more necessary’ RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER What is about women in their forties and beyond th- Author: Smith, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0349726965
- Language: English
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The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship Volume 31
$19.95 Add to cartThis book is an invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and the lives of her clients, as well as from dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, and literature, Linda Schierse L
- Author: Leonard, Linda Schierse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: May 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0804011583
- Language: English
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We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
$33.99 Add to cartIncluding oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200,000 free black women in the 19th century.
- Author: Sterling, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0393316297
- Language: English
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Angela Davis: Seize the Time
$45.00 Add to cartInspired by a private archive and featuring contemporary work by artists who acknowledge the continued relevance of Angela Davis’s experience and politics, the essays, interviews, and images in this b… [more below]
- Author: Beegan, Gerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 02 2020
- ISBN10: 3777435740
- Language: English
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Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements
$25.99 Add to cartEschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women’s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American s… [more below]
- Author: Cobble, Dorothy Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490540
- Language: English
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The Book of Medicines
$15.00 Add to cartNational Book Critic’s Circle Award finalist, 1994. Colorado Book Award winner.”…elemental and direct with a tremendous evocative force of imagery…”–Publisher’s Weekly
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1566890101
- Language: English
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Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
$27.99 Add to cartSome people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that coo… [more below]
- Author: Theophano, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1403962936
- Language: English
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The Barbie Chronicles: A Living Doll Turns Forty
$17.95 Add to cartA THOROUGHLY GROWN-UP LOOK AT A TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSE OF OUTSTANDING PROPORTIONS
To some she’s a collectible, to others she’s trash. In The Barbie Chronicles, twenty-three writers join together to … [more below]- Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 1999
- ISBN10: 0684862751
- Language: English
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Vagina: Revised and Updated
$16.99 Add to cartOne of our bestselling and most respected cultural critics, Naomi Wolf, acclaimed author of The Beauty Myth and The End of America, brings us an astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural h
- Author: Wolf, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0061989177
- Language: English
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Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty
$42.95 Read more“(A) deeply moving, must-read for mothers and daughters everywhere.” – Chanticleer Reviews
In a series of intimate, revelatory personal histories, Navajo grandmothers, mothers, and daughters in twent- Author: Hooker, Kathy Eckles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1734989920
- Language: English
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A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
$17.99 Add to cartRevised and updated, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty.
When A Retur- Author: Shalit, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1476756651
- Language: English
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The Rules Handbook: A Guide to Creating Loving and Lasting Relationships
$17.95 Read moreMillions of women have already learned these time-tested lessons of love. The world has changed . . . Now it’s time for a new generation to find “the one.”
In their #1 New York Times bestseller, THE R
- Author: Fein, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 087516935X
- Language: English
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Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
$24.95 Read moreFeminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.
We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies.- Author: Kern, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1788739817
- Language: English
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First Generations
$20.00 Add to cartCarol Berkin’s multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied
- Author: Berkin, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0809016060
- Language: English
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Holding the Line
$20.95 Add to cartHolding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver’s first non-fiction book, is the story of women’s lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and par
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0801483891
- Language: English
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
$22.99 Add to cartGail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women’s lives over the past 50 years, with her usual “sly wit and unfussy style” (People).
When Eve- Author: Collins, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0316014044
- Language: English
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
$21.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
“Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable.”–Sadie Stein, The New York Times
“A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific a
- Author: Ciuraru, Carmela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0062356925
- Language: English
