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Dropped Threads 3: Beyond The Small Circle.

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Price: $11.95

Publisher: Vintage Canada / Random House: January 2006

Seller ID: 5248

ISBN: 0679313850

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In the tradition of the bestselling Dropped Threads and Dropped Threads 2 comes this new collection of essays from well-known writers and new voices.

Ever since the publication of the first two Dropped Threads books, readers and writers have longed for another installment -- and here it is. For this collection, editor Marjorie Anderson took a new thematic path, searching out pieces that don't necessarily focus on what women haven't been told, but rather on what they have to tell. In Dropped Threads 3: Beyond the Small Circle, thirty-five wo...
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'No more!': Women speak out against violence

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Price: $13.95

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

Seller ID: 23440

ISBN: 096876990X

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Feminists Rethink the Self (Feminist Theory and Politics Series)

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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

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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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What Works: Gender Equality by Design

By: Bohnet, Iris

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press: March 2016

Seller ID: 58610

ISBN: 0674089030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Compelling, lucid, and filled with actionable insights, What Works draws from a deep well of research to explain how we can end gender inequality."--Adam Grant, author of Give and Take and Originals

"A pathbreaking work, packed with insights on every page... The best book ever written on behavioral science and discrimination."--Cass Sunstein, coauthor of Nudge

A Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Finalist

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-b...
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Rapists

By: Bourke, Joanna

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Virago: January 2007

Seller ID: 51501

ISBN: 1844081540

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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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Woman's Inhumanity to Woman

By: Chesler, Phyllis

Price: $11.25

Publisher: Plume: January 2003

Seller ID: 42991

ISBN: 0452284082

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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

By: Collins, Gail

Price: $10.50

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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The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women

By: Douglas, Susan,Michaels, Meredith

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Free Press: February 2005

Seller ID: 52933

ISBN: 0743260465

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Taking readers on a provocative tour through thirty years of media images about mothers -- the superficial achievements of celebrity moms, the sensational coverage of dangerous day care, the media-manufactured "mommy wars" between working mothers and stay-at-home moms, and more -- The Mommy Myth contends that this "new momism" has been shaped by out-of-date mores, and that no matter how hard they try, women will never achieve it. In this must-read for every woman, Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels shatter the myth of the perfect mom and all but shout, "We're not gonna take it an...
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Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism

By: Eric-Udorie, June

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 2018

Seller ID: 51023

ISBN: 0143132377

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"As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now." --Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming

"The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read" (Bustle), edited by a feminist activist and writer who "calls to mind a young Audre Lorde" (Kirkus)

Why do some women struggle to identify as feminists, despite their commitment to gender equality? How do other aspects of our identities - such as race, religion, sexuality, gender identity, and more - impact how we relate to feminism? Why i...
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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 Embroidered Tent: Five Gentlewomen in Early Canada

By: Fowler, Marian

Price: $7.50

Publisher: House Of Anansi: June 1982

Seller ID: 5044

ISBN: 0887840914

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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

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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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Category: Women's Studies