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'No more!': Women speak out against violence

By: N/A

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses (OAITH): January 2000

Seller ID: 23440

ISBN: 096876990X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Feminists Rethink the Self (Feminist Theory and Politics Series)

By: N/A

Price: $23.50

Publisher: Westview Press: December 1996

Seller ID: 25980

ISBN: 0813320836

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How is women's conception of self affected by the caregiving responsibilities traditionally assigned to them and by the personal vulnerabilities imposed on them? If institutions of male dominance profoundly influence women's lives and minds, how can women form judgments about their own best interests and overcome oppression? Can feminist politics survive in face of the diversity of women's experience, which is shaped by race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, as well as by gender? Exploring such questions, leading feminist thinkers have reinvigorated work on the concept of self and per...
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Ascent of Women: A New Age Is Dawning for Every Mother's Daughter

By: Armstrong, Sally

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Vintage Canada: February 2014

Seller ID: 53287

ISBN: 0307362604

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From Africa to Asia, women are the key to progress on ending poverty, violence and conflict. In this #1 national bestseller, award-winning humanitarian and journalist Sally Armstrong shows us why women are the way forward and introduces us to the leading women who are making change happen, from Nobel Prize winners to little girls suing for justice.
This book is about the final frontier for women: having control over your own body, whether in zones of conflict, in rural villages, on university campuses or in your own kitchen.
Ascent of Women describes the perilous journe...
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Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics

By: Battersby, Christine

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr: July 1990

Seller ID: 23292

ISBN: 0253311268

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Women and Nation-Building

By: Benard, Cheryl

Price: $19.95

Publisher: RAND Corporation: April 2008

Seller ID: 23047

ISBN: 0833043110

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Examines the role of women in the reconstruction activities in Afghanistan, while evaluating the effect of societal circumstances and nation-building processes on the status of female populations in post-conflict regions.
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No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario 1920's to 1950's

By: Brand, Dionne,Placement, Immigrant Women's Job,De Shield, Lois

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Women's Press (CA): January 1991

Seller ID: 50738

ISBN: 0889611637

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Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)

By: Chadwick, Whitney

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: April 2002

Seller ID: 47933

ISBN: 0500203547

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A reappraisal of the position and work of women artists from the Middle Ages to the present. It examines the way in which women's work has been perceived in the history of Western art - often in direct reference to gender - and re-examines the works themselves.
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

By: Collins, Gail

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: October 2009

Seller ID: 43008

ISBN: 0316059544

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Gail 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 Everything Changed" begins in 1960, when most American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after four hundred years, expectations about the lives of American women were smashed in just a generation.
A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gai...
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Blood at the Root: Motherhood, Sexuality and Male Dominance

By: Ferguson, Ann

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Pandora Pr: May 1989

Seller ID: 53456

ISBN: 004440445X

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The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)

By: Fonte, Moderata

Price: $24.95

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: August 1997

Seller ID: 48883

ISBN: 0226256820

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Gender equality and the responsibility of husbands and fathers: issues that loom large today had currency in Renaissance Venice as well, as evidenced by the publication in 1600 of The Worth of Women by Moderata Fonte.

Moderata Fonte was the pseudonym of Modesta Pozzo (1555-92), a Venetian woman who was something of an anomaly. Neither cloistered in a convent nor as liberated from prevailing codes of decorum as a courtesan might be, Pozzo was a respectable, married mother who produced literature in genres that were commonly considered "masculine"--the chivalric romance and the litera...
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The Bleeding Heart

By: French, Marilyn

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: February 1980

Seller ID: 58147

ISBN: 067144784x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

small tears on corners of binding
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The Fountain of Age

By: Friedan, Betty

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 1993

Seller ID: 45470

ISBN: 0671400274

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Fundamentals of Feminist Gerontology

By: Garner, J Dianne

Price: $24.50

Publisher: Routledge: September 1999

Seller ID: 23214

ISBN: 0789007622

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Explore feminist ideals and advocacy for aging women in health care, home life, work, and retirement

Fundamentals of Feminist Gerontology strives to increase women's self-esteem and their overall quality of life by encouraging education and by putting a stop to age, sex, and race discrimination. As a student or professional in psychology, social work, or gerontology, you will learn about feminist conceptions of retirement, economic issues, psychological issues, and social issues and will explore studies on old age discrimination and devaluation and sexism toward women in Western soc...
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Fundamentals of Feminist Gerontology

By: Garner, J Dianne

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Routledge: September 1999

Seller ID: 25672

ISBN: 0789007622

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Female Eunuch

By: Greer, Germaine

Price: $14.95

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: June 1971

Seller ID: 51413

ISBN: 0070243727

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Gendering the Vertical Mosaic: Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Society

By: Hamilton, Roberta

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Pearson Education Canada: April 2004

Seller ID: 51168

ISBN: 0131473719

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No small legacy: A study guide

By: Hancock, Carol L

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Wood Lake Books: January 1986

Seller ID: 14493

ISBN: 0919599338

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Half Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640

By: Henderson, Katherine,McManus, Barbara F

Price: $14.50

Publisher: University of Illinois Press: September 1985

Seller ID: 56211

ISBN: 0252011694

Binding: Hardcover

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Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation

By: Heyward, Carter

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Pilgrim Pr: May 1984

Seller ID: 44002

ISBN: 0829807055

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A collection of Heyward's essays, sermons, lectures, and liturgical poetry that reveals the prophetic depth of her commitment to social justice. Powerfully addresses the issues of racism, sexism, exploitation, and oppression from a feminist standpoint, insisting that the appropriate position for Christians is always on the side of justice.
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Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World

By: Hirshman, Linda R.

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Viking Adult: January 0001

Seller ID: 40239

ISBN: 0670038121

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Examining the trend of affluent, educated women abandoning their careers to raise their children, Hirshman argues that the time is ripe for a new feminist revolution based on values and quality of life, rather than on the false promise of choice.
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Category: Women's Studies