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The relationship between U.S. masculinity and American feminist movements of the twentieth century is complex. This collection engages with prominent film and television texts that directly interrogate images of U.S. masculinity that have appeared since second-wave feminism, acknowledging the limits of their negotiations and self-actualization.

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The first comprehensive account of women's participation in the Israeli labor force, Kraus's book analyzes the trends in the status of women in paid employment since the 1960s.

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More scotch and cigarettes than tea and sympathy, this frank and funny collection puts in print what you might only hear among girlfriends behind closed doors.

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Taking a close look at the women who ravished the world and the lost art of love, this expos reveals the secrets and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses, from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to lesser-known women with killer charm.

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Topics range from personal identity and the effects upon it of gender, socialization, culture, and ethnic background to women's relationships and the role of professional women in occupations defined and dominated by a male perspective.

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Seeing Straight introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. The book addresses tough topics like hate, violence and privilege, and institutionalized heteronormativity. This book is an ideal introduction to gender and sexuality that encourages students to question their own assumptions.

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Seeing Straight introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. The book addresses tough topics like hate, violence and privilege, and institutionalized heteronormativity. This book is an ideal introduction to gender and sexuality that encourages students to question their own assumptions.

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This book analyzes eleven trailblazing 1920s female authors who wrote counter-narratives to sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia. The author brings their novels, poems, plays, film scenarios, and blues lyrics into conversation with each other to show different approaches women could take to become autonomous individuals and full citizens.

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In this major study of poor working women in a third world urban market, the authors expode several assumptions held by agencies working in developing countries. that poor women are the children of poor parents and that their own children can hardly even hope to move up to a factory job, let alone a white-collar job.

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Sellers and Servants is a welcome addition to research on a neglected subject, that of poverty-stricken Peruvian women whose alternatives for subsistence are few and cruel: to be a servant or to peddle goods in the markets and streets of Lima.

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Challenging our understandings of what constitutes the housewife figure, this book addresses the question of why the housewife has been such a problematic figure in feminist debates since World War II.

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Here is the first major study of domestic service in France from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, describing its transformation from a male-oriented occupation, aristocratic in style and often geared to public display, to one that was female, middle-class, and centered on the household. Originally published in 1984. T

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A feminist genealogy of the industrial revolution Parisian seamstress, exploring her agentic intervention in the socio-cultural and political formations of modernity.

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A selection of 211 tested measures pertaining to roles and attitudes toward gender-related issues. The handbook covers heterosocial relations, contraception, abortion, homosexuality, rape and sexual coercion and is a companion volume to the author's "Gender Roles: A Handbook of Tests and Measures".

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In this frank and lively collection of personal essays, well-known writers and feminists address topics ranging from online sex to abortion, from bisexuality to interracial relationships, creating a complex portrait of women's sexual experiences, activities and preferences.

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