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	'Other Kinds of Dreams' Author: Sudbury, Julia Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: Accounts of political activism in African Caribbean and Asian communities often overlook the role of black women activists, contributing towards an image of passivity, apathy and exclusion. Through an...	$43.63
	"Women Reinvented: True Stories of Empowerment and Change Author: N/A Publisher: LaChance Publishing LLC Format: Adobe PDF Description: Offering personal recollections from dozens of women with diverse backgrounds, this guide offers advice and inspiration to women struggling to redefine their lives by revealing how others achieved inn...	$7.79
	13 Women: Parables from Prison Author: Faith, Karlene Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Format: Adobe PDF Description: However their stories differ in the details, all of the women in this book speak about their time in prison with eloquence and admirable candor. Some have spent most of their lives behind bars; for ot...	$14.78
	A Companion to Women in the Ancient World Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB Description: A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient wor...	$194.95
	A Longing for Wisdom: One Woman's Conscience and Her Church Author: Edmisten, Patricia S. Taylor Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF Description: Patricia S. Taylor Edmisten was raised and educated with the traditions of the Catholic faith. But in later years, she began to question this faith on which she had relied for most of her life. In A L...	$11.04
	A Thesaurus of Women: From Cherry Blossoms to Cell Phones Author: Zeitz MA, Barbara Joan Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF Description: A Thesaurus of Women: From Cherry Blossoms to Cell Phones offers a social presentation of history linking places with the unfamiliar female faces traced to their creation. The places, both of long ago...	$4.41
	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF Description: Written in 1792 this is one of the earliest works on feminism and philosophy. The major themes in the book are as follows; social class, republicanism, sensibility, rational education and most of all...	$6.02
	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary Publisher: Digireads.com Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$3.57
	A Woman's Place is in the House Author: Burrell, Barbara C. Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: In this first comprehensive examination of women candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, Barbara Burrell argues that women are as successful at winning elections as men. Why, then, are there...	$29.78
	African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices Author: N/A Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal ...	$16.86
	AIDS and the Body Politic Author: Waldby, Catherine Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$41.55
	Antebellum Women Author: Lasser, Carol Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF Description: How did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution ...	$28.82
	Athena Unbound Author: Etzkowitz, Henry / Kemelgor, Carol / Uzzi, Brian Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Why are there so few women scientists? Persisting differences between women's and men's experiences in science make this question as relevant today as it ever was. This book sets out to answer this qu...	$36.40
	Before They Could Vote: American Women¿s Autobiographical Writing, 1819¿1919 Author: N/A Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambitionÂ—some well known, some forgotten over generationsÂ—who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sex...	$12.63
	Braided Relations, Entwined Lives Author: Kennedy, Cynthia M. Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Cynthia M. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and ...	$33.76
	Brother Jacob Author: George Eliot Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format.Â Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public.Â Because of the original condition of many of these historical ma...	$2.71
	Changing Lives Author: N/A Publisher: Dundurn Group Format: Adobe PDF Description: An examination of the lives of women who influenced, and were influenced by, northern Ontario.	$24.37
	Character is Destiny Author: N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker Alice Salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems. Salomon ...	$93.93
	Chick Ink Author: Hudson, Karen L. Publisher: Polka Dot Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Life. Beauty. Womanhood. That's what tattoos today are all about. Join the women of Chick Ink in this celebration of the tattoos that grace our bodies, tell our stories, and mark forever the signific...	$11.66
	Childfree and Loving It! Author: Defago, Nicki, Publisher: Vision Paperbacks Format: Adobe PDF Description: Childfree and Loving It! is a broad and definitive exploration of non-parenthood, challenging the myths of parenthood and boldly proclaiming the joys of a childfree life. 'The responsibility of paren...	$11.69
	Class Matters: Working Class Women's Perspectives On Social Class Author: Mahony, Pat Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF Description: This text focuses on the theory of class as it relates to women. It debates questions such as: how do women define themselves in terms of social class and why?; is definition important or not?; what p...	$61.31
	Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists Author: Sullivan, J. Courtney / Martin, Courtney E. Publisher: Seal Press Format: Adobe ePUB Description: When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Clic...	$13.22
	Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists Author: Sullivan, J. Courtney / Martin, Courtney E. Publisher: Seal Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Clic...	$13.22
	Colombian Women Author: Garcés, Elena Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF Description: From her personal diary as an eleven-year-old in a Catholic girl's school, in which she chastises herself for the sin of wearing a bathing suit, through erudite analysis of the patriarchal structures ...	$27.26
	Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives Author: Meyers, Debra Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Religious conflicts had a pronounced effect on women and their families in early modern England, but our understanding of that impact is limited by the restrictions that prevented the open expression ...	$27.00
	Communities and Law Author: Barzilai, Gad Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Communities and Law looks at minorities, or nonruling communities, and their identity practices under state domination in the midst of globalization. It examines six sociopolitical dimensions of commu...	$29.78
	Constituting Workers, Protecting Women Author: Novkov, Julie Lavonne Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Constitutional considerations of protective laws for women were the analytical battlefield on which the legal community reworked the balance between private liberty and the state's authority to regula...	$77.35
	Corporate Strategy Author: Du-Toit, Angelique Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB Description: This book takes a fresh look at corporate strategy, exploring it from a feminist perspective. Challenging male-dominated theory, Corporate Strategy looks at unquestioned assumptions held about strateg...	$166.40
	DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Women's Health Politics Author: Bell, Susan Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: How a DES catastrophe created the feminist health movement	$22.70
	Desire Author: Solod Warren, Lisa Publisher: Seal Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: A captivating collection of essays, Desire delves headfirst into its subject matter and explores the complexity of desire with essays about the things women want, crave, lust after, and covet. An extr...	$12.44
	Educating Activists Author: Klenk, Rebecca Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF Description: What do people make of their own development? In Educating Activists, Rebecca M. Klenk illuminates a reality that is far more complex than either development planners or critics commonly assume. This ...	$54.59
	Encyclopedia of Women and Gender, Two-Volume Set: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender Author: Worell, Judith Publisher: Academic Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The study of gender differences began in earnest in the 1970s and has since increased dramatically to infiltrate virtually all fields of study in the social and behavioral sciences. Along the way, it ...	$647.95
	Endangered Daughters Author: Croll, Elisabeth Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: The increasing number of 'missing girls' in much of South and East Asia provides the disturbing focus this key title. It is unique in it's positive attention to daughter discrimination in these region...	$26.99
	Ending Aid Dependence Author: Tandon, Yash / Tandon, Yashpal Publisher: Pambazuka Format: Adobe PDF Description: Developing countries reliant on aid want to escape this dependence, and yet they appear unable to do so. This book shows how they may liberate themselves from the aid that pretends to be developmental...	$10.91
	Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger Author: Alidou, Ousseina Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Engaging Modernity is Ousseina AlidouÂ’s rich and compelling portrait of Muslim women in Niger as they confront the challenges and opportunities of the twentieth century. Contrary to Western stereotyp...	$16.86
	Erotic Revolutionaries Author: Lee, Shayne Publisher: Hamilton Books Format: Adobe PDF Description: Why is there no "pro-sex" contingency in black feminist scholarship? Why do so few African-American scholars expound on issues celebrating female sexual pleasure? Perhaps the answers to these question...	$21.06
	Exposed: Battered Women Shelters: Violence, 'Hate All Men', Lesbians & Prostitutes, Children Sexually Abused & Preyed Upon, Exp Author: Louge', Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF Description: Louge's book, 'Exposed: Battered Women Shelters', is a tell-all book of what really happens to the women and children inside these places, revealing nasty secrets: The kidnapped boy the shelter didn't...	$11.04
	Facing Age Author: Hurd Clarke, Laura Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF Description: The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wri...	$17.15
	Fashioning the Feminine in the Greek Novel Author: Haynes, Katharine Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: The Greek novel plays a key part in the debate on gender in antiquity, forcing us to ask why the female protagonists are such strong and positive characters. This book shows how such heroines can be s...	$43.63
	Female Suffrage Author: Cooper, Susan Fenimore Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB Description: In this extremely thought-provoking work, Cooper has argued against women suffrage. She has drawn on historical, biological as well as religious arguments to contend that women should not have the rig...	$3.11
	Femininity and the Physically Active Woman Author: Choi, Precilla Y. L. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$31.15
	Feminist Research Methodology: Making Meanings of Meaning-Making Author: Wickramasinghe, Maithree Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$145.60
	Feminists, Islam, and Nation Author: Badran, Margot Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, jou...	$38.68
	Framed Author: Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Framed uses fin de siÃ¨cle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era ...	$29.78
	France and Women, 1789-1914 Author: McMillan, James F. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description:	$33.23
	Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters Author: Valenti, Jessica Publisher: Seal Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Feminism isn't dead. It just isn't very cool anymore. Enter Full Frontal Feminism, a book that embodies the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagates on her popular website, Femi...	$12.44
	Gates of Freedom Author: DeLamotte, Eugenia C. Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The question of souls is old; we demand our bodies, now. These words are not from a feminist manifesto of the late twentieth century, but from a fiery speech given a hundred years earlier by Voltairin...	$28.67
	Gender and Chinese Development: Towards an Equitable Society Author: Chen, Lanyan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: This book takes a look behind the surface of China's "miracle growth", to explore the political economy of this process. Beyond the superficial macroeconomic indicators of high growth rates, increasin...	$49.87
	Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts Author: N/A Publisher: IGI Publishing Format: Adobe PDF Description: Gender Differences in Learning and Working with Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts discusses the social studies of information technology, specifically how IT skills are learned and h...	$152.10
	Gender, Economy and Culture in the European Union Author: Duncan, Simon Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF Description: This study provides an analysis of comparative gender differences in the EU. It addresses a range of issues from employment and households to culture, sexuality, male violence, the state, migration an...	$166.40