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The Essential Difference (Books from differences)

By: N/A

Price: $7.45

Publisher: Indiana University Press:

Seller ID: 9780253350930

ISBN: 025335093X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

What is essentialism? What is anti-essentialism? The Essential Difference attempts to answer questions at the heart of current feminist theory and cultural study. The book deals with origins and contexts of the debate; relationships between essentialism, anti-essentialism, and the power of language; reasons for the demonization of essentialism within the academy; the relationship between essentialism and Third World studies. The essays also speculate about whether there can be an anti-essentialist feminism, whether there can in fact be a feminist politics that dispenses with the notion o...
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Issues in Feminist Film Criticism (A Midland Book)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Indiana University Press:

Seller ID: 9780253206107

ISBN: 0253206103

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"This anthology makes it abundantly clear that feminist film criticism is flourishing and has developed dramatically since its inception in the early 1970s." --Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismErens brings together a wide variety of writings and methodologies by U.S. and British feminist film scholars. The twenty-seven essays represent some of the most influential work on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking to appear during the past decade and beyond.Contributors include Lucie Arbuthnot, Linda Artel, Pam Cook, Teresa de Lauretis, Mary Ann Doane, Elizabeth ...
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Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women

By: N/A

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New World Library:

Seller ID: 9781577315247

ISBN: 1577315243

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Presenting the photography, paintings, poetry, fiction, songs, and essays of 105 young women from fifty-seven countries, "Imagining Ourselves captures the energy of the first global generation of women. From Nasra Abubakar, a Somalian camel-farmer's daughter who is the first in her family to go to college to Anita Khemka, who reflects on the generation gap between yesterday's and today's teenage women in urban India, the young women in this book will inspire and encourage you to take action to transform your own life and the world around you. Enlightening, uplifting, challenging, and funny...
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Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology 1968-2000

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell:

Seller ID: 9780631208501

ISBN: 063120850X

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Charting over 30 years of debate on the significance of gender in the making and understanding of art, this anthology gathers together 99 representative texts from North America, Europe and Australasia.
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"Gender, Culture, and Power: Toward a Feminist Postmodern Critical theory"

By: "Agger, Ben"

Price: $24.95

Publisher: "Westport, CT", Praeger: 1993

Seller ID: 9DH012

ISBN: 0275947009

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: FINE

"As new. No DJ, as issued. Sections: Critical Theory and Postmodernity; Postmodernism and the End of Politics 1: New French Theory; Postmodernism and he End of Politics 2: Feminist Theory"
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"Girlfriends: Invisible Bonds, Enduring Ties"

By: "Berry, Carmen Renee,Traeder, Tamara"

Price: $6.45

Publisher: Council Oak Books:

Seller ID: 9781885171085

ISBN: 1885171080

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Wilder Shores of Love

By: "Blanch, Lesley"

Price: $8.95

Publisher: "Harmondsworth, UK", Penguin (#1360): 1959

Seller ID: 74P023

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, yellowed, age soiled exterior, curled. Corner bump to bottom front has done light damage to corners of 1st 36 pages. Edgewear and hinge crease. ""the adventures of four European women of the nineteenth century who sought in the East the fulfillment of their lives and loves: Isabel Arundell Burton, Jane Digby El Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, Baroness Venningen, Countess Theotoky), Aime Dabucq de Rivery (the French Sultana) & Isabelle Eberhardt."
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"Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements"

By: "Carruthers, Charlene"

Price: $7.45

Publisher: Beacon Press:

Seller ID: 9780807039823

ISBN: 0807039829

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

The Road to Radicalism: Further Reflections of a Frustrated Feminist

By: "Clift, Elayne"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: O G N Pubns:

Seller ID: 9780963482716

ISBN: 0963482718

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"The Scholar and the Feminist III: The Search for Origins (A conference sponsored by the Barnard College Women's Center - Papers from the Morning Session, April 10, 1976"

By: "Eisenstein, Janeway, Reiter & Pagels"

Price: $13.95

Publisher: NY, Barnard College Women's Center: 1976

Seller ID: 04T019

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new except for faint sun shading to cover edges. Introduction - Hester Eisensein; Opening Remarks - Elizabeth Janewya; Unraveling the Problem of Origins: An Anthropological Search for Feminist Theory - Rayna E. Reiter; When Did Man Make God in His Image?: A Case Study in Religion and Politics - Elaine H. Pagels. 46 page, staple-bound."
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Power* Gender *Values

By: "Genova, Judith (ed.)"

Price: $49.95

Publisher: "Edmonton, AL", Academic Printing & Publishing: 1987

Seller ID: 7-9H008

ISBN: 0920980252

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD+

"Tight, bright, clean and square. Hinge and spine creases. Owner's stamp on bottom exterior page edges. 1 essay has light pencil underlining and margin notes. 8 essays, originally presented at the eleventh annual meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle, May 1-4, 1986. ""each essay attacks the myth of 'raw power'. Power is sexed and, as these essays demonstrate, power in the history of the West has been harnessed male. 190 indexed, annotated pages with bibliographical references."
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The Book of Women: 300 Notable Women History Passed by

By: "Griffin, Lynne, McCann, Kelly"

Price: $5.45

Publisher: Adams Media Corp:

Seller ID: 9781558501065

ISBN: 1558501061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

Theology and Feminism (Signposts in Theology)

By: "Hampson, Daphne"

Price: $6.00

Publisher: "Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated":

Seller ID: 9780631149446

ISBN: 0631149449

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Feminism represents a radical challenge to Christianity. Having developed its doctrine and its scriptures in a world in which women were considered subordinate, the Christian religion is now confronted with a deeply held ethical belief that women should be treated as equals. Dr Hampson argues that this ethical challenge confronts the church over the issues of priesthood and ordination, language and imagery, and hermeneutics and theology. In each of these areas, she claims, the Christian religion cannot by definition come to terms with the equality of women. Feminism however suggests new wa...
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California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party

By: "Healey, Dorothy Ray, Isserman, Maurice"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: University of Illinois Press:

Seller ID: 9780252062780

ISBN: 0252062787

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

DAUGHTERS OF BRITANNIA: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF DIPLOMATIC WIVES

By: "HICKMAN, KATIE"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: FLAMINGO:

Seller ID: 9780006387800

ISBN: 0006387802

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A Positive Life: Portraits of Women : Living With HIV

By: "Huston, River"

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Running Pr:

Seller ID: 9780762402441

ISBN: 076240244X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

She could be your mother, your sister, your neighbor, your colleague. She's just like anyone you know, except she's living with HIV. The women portrayed in this profoundly moving volume of essays and photographs speak openly about their feelings and their hopes, while conveying what it is like to be, in the author's words, "a woman living with a disease that provokes anger, hatred and denial, yet somehow inspires in us equal measures of compassion, faith, and humanity". As Huston, who is HIV positive herself, has written, "like many of the women in this book, I have frequently been misquoted, ...
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The Gender Knot : Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy

By: "Johnson, Allan G."

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Temple University Press:

Seller ID: 9781566395199

ISBN: 1566395194

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

"We, the American Women: A Documentary History"

By: "Kava, Beth Millstein, Bodin, Jeanne"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: SRA: Science Research Associates:

Seller ID: 9780574420008

ISBN: 0574420002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

By: "Kristof, Nicholas D., WuDunn, Sheryl"

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Knopf:

Seller ID: 9780307267146

ISBN: 0307267148

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with a...
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"Women's Secrets (Suny Series, Environmental Public Policy)"

By: "Lemay, Helen Rodnite"

Price: $5.00

Publisher: State University of New York Press:

Seller ID: 9780791411445

ISBN: 0791411443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD