Category: women's studies
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The Essential Difference (Books from differences)
By: Schor, Naomi
Price: $7.45
Publisher: Indiana University Press:
Seller ID: 9780253350930
ISBN: 025335093X
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... View more info
Issues in Feminist Film Criticism (A Midland Book)
By: Erens, Patricia
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Indiana University Press:
Seller ID: 9780253206107
ISBN: 0253206103
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 ... View more info
Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women
By: Goldman, Paula
Price: $13.50
Publisher: New World Library:
Seller ID: 9781577315247
ISBN: 1577315243
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... View more info
"Gender, Culture, and Power: Toward a Feminist Postmodern Critical theory"
By: "Agger, Ben"
Price: $24.95
Publisher: "Westport, CT", Praeger: 1993
Edition: (1st edition)
Seller ID: 9DH012
ISBN: 0275947009
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" View more info
The Wilder Shores of Love
By: "Blanch, Lesley"
Price: $8.95
Publisher: "Harmondsworth, UK", Penguin (#1360): 1959
Edition: (1st thus)
Seller ID: 74P023
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." View more info
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
Condition: GOOD
After Patriarchy: Feminist Transformations of the World Religions (Faith Meets Faith Series)
By: "Cooey, Paula M., R., William Eakin"
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Orbis Books:
Seller ID: 9780883447482
ISBN: 0883447487
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
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." View more info
Power* Gender *Values
Price: $49.95
Publisher: "Edmonton, AL", Academic Printing & Publishing: 1987
Seller ID: 7-9H008
ISBN: 0920980252
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." View more info
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
Condition: GOOD
Theology and Feminism (Signposts in Theology)
Price: $6.00
Publisher: "Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated":
Seller ID: 9780631149446
ISBN: 0631149449
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... View more info
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
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
Condition: GOOD
The Gender Knot : Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Temple University Press:
Seller ID: 9781566395199
ISBN: 1566395194
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
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
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... View more info
"Women's Secrets (Suny Series, Environmental Public Policy)"
Price: $5.00
Publisher: State University of New York Press:
Seller ID: 9780791411445
ISBN: 0791411443
Condition: GOOD
Women of the Upper Class (Women In The Political Economy)
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Temple University Press:
Seller ID: 9780877224754
ISBN: 0877224757
Condition: GOOD
Extravagance of Sentiment
Price: $18.95
Publisher: "Bountiful, UT", "Debry-Pexton, Inc.": 1989
Edition: "(1st edition, 1st printing)"
Seller ID: 21T003
ISBN: 0962403903
Condition: FINE
"As new - gift quality! ""The Brilliancy, Passion and Wit of Women in the French Courts and Salons of the 17th, 18th & 19th Centuries"" 122 indexed pages." View more info
"Sexual Violence and the Military, Part II, Volume 13, Number 9, September 2007 (SAGE Series - Violence Against Women)"
By: "Renzetti, Claire M (ed.)"
Price: $34.95
Publisher: "LA, CA", SAGE Publications: 2007
Seller ID: 0DT021
Condition: FINE
"As new - gift quality! ""An International and Interdisciplinary Journal"" Contents: Attitudes Toward Women and Tolerance of Sexual Harassment Among Reservists (Vogt, Bruce, Street & Stafford); Modern-Day Comfort Women: The U.S. Military, Transnational Crime, and the Trafficking of Women (Hughes, Chon & Ellerman); Lifetime and Current Sexual Assault and Harassment Victimization Rates of Active-Duty United States Air Force Women (Bostock and Daley); Rape Rates and Military Personnel in the United States: An Exploratory Study (Rosen); Analysis and Implications of the Omission... View more info