Gender Studies
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Personal Politics
The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
Paperback
ISBN: 0394742281
Argues that the women most crucial to the liberation movement in the 1960s were responding to their treatment in the civil rights and New Left movements
Gynecology
The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
Paperback
ISBN: 0807014133
"In this deeply original, provocative book, outrage, hilarity, grief, profanity, lyricism and moral daring join in bursting the accustomed bounds even of feminist discourse."
—The New York Times Book Review
Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
1st Edition Paperback
ISBN: 006250925x
Alphabetically arranged entries offer a feminist perspective on mythology, anthropology, sexuality, and religion and trace major figures, myths, concepts, and symbols back to their pre-patriarchal origins
Wild Swans
Three Daughters of China
Paperback
ISBN: 0385425473
A Chinese woman chronicles the struggle of her grandmother, her mother, and herself to survive in a China torn apart by wars, invasions, revolution, and continuing upheaval, from 1907 to the present
The Free Women of Petersburg
Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860
Paperback
ISBN: 0393952649
In this book, which has important implications for our vision of thefemale past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position ofwomen in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of thenineteenth century?
I, Rigoberta Menchu
An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Paperback
ISBN: 0860917886
Interviews with a Guatemalan national leader discuss her country's political situation and the resulting violence, which has claimed the lives of her brother, mother, and father
The Chalice and the Blade
Our History, Our Future
Paperback
ISBN: 0062502891
Argues that there was a prehistoric shift in human society to patriarchy and at present society is beginning to shift away from patriarchy
In a Different Voice
Psychological Theory and Women's Development
Paperback
ISBN: 0674445449
An assessment of psychological misinterpretations of women attempts to refocus perspectives on female personality and correct misconceptions of female psychological growth
Gender and German Cinema
Feminist Interventions : German Film History/German History on Film
Paperback
ISBN: 0854963243
International film has received some of its most original impulses from German film makers however the works by women directors in German speaking countries have been largely ignored in spite of the important social, political and historical issues they have raised. This is the first work to consider the broad spectrum of German cinema through the category of gender. These volumes will be standard handbooks in film studies for many years to come.
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Paperback
ISBN: 0060390778
In this collection of five original essays, the author examines the current state of humanity--and inhumanity--and urges the individual to rise above the constraints of society to build a better world
