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Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical real...

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Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical real...

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Riots and demonstrations, the lifeblood of American social and political protest in the 1960s, are now a historical memory. But Mary Fainsod Katzenstein argues that protest has not disappeared-it has simply moved off the streets into the country's core institutions.

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This book discusses the theory that alternative relationship and family structures challenge the privileged status of the nuclear family as the preferable mode of family life for all, and the one to be endorsed and encouraged by society.

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This book is the result of a survey conducted among experts on the problems faced by families and women in Central-Eastern Europe. Each contributor evaluates the chances for equal rights and opportunities for men and women, and indicates trends in social policy concerning the family and working women.

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Is Gangsta Rap just black noise Or does it play the same role for urban youth that CNN plays in mainstream America This provocative set of essays tells us how Gangsta Rap is a creative "report" about an urban crisis, our new American dilemma, and why we need to listen.

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This book argues that Indonesian female workers are actively confronting matters that are important to their interests as labor. In their writings and activism, they challenge the political order and demand gender justice.

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This text examines the place of food in the American woman's life, roles and self-image. Combining feminist anthropology and theory with culinary history, it examines food in women's history, with a particular emphasis on the life and changing roles of the American woman and her self-image.

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The essays in this volume explore female emotional and social relationships in literary, cinematographic, and artistic contexts. These intimate unions offer a reflection on different historical and cultural milieus as well as the universal human need for friendship.

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Focusing particularly on the dynamic mid-twentieth-century period of protest, he examines the various legal, cultural, and economic orientations that have characterized these movements and given them special force.

Solomon first reviews the long protest history of black activism and feminism in the United States.

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An annotated bibliography of writings from the 1960s through the 1990s on feminism and Christian tradition. Themes are presented in both a historical and a topical framework, aiding further research into feminist theology and sociology.

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Offers deeply researched entries on nearly 200 essential people, events, organizations, laws, concepts, and issues that have defined US feminist movements, from the founding era through today.

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Presenting an in-depth review of feminist and nonfeminist literature, it explores influential feminist ideologies as well as those that are only beginning to be voiced.

The authors first review the femininst movement in relation to the pornography debate among both feminists and nonfeminists.

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This book offers a critique of power feminism using the critical theories of Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida. It counters a triumphalist reading of female empowerment using the negative, parergonal philosophies of these two authors and advocates listening to the sufferer rather than celebrating the triumphalism of the reigning neoliberal order.

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What is the relationship between feminism and popular culture Can feminism learn from popular culture This book explores these questions through a range of texts and sites - from news coverage, "The Vagina Monologues", "Ally McBeal" and "Sex and the City", sex documentaries and TV cooks, to breakdancing, beauty salons, and computer game-playing.