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A fascinating new perspective on the Space Race combining brilliant film scholarship with gender studies and feminist theory.

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Using autoethnography, this book answers the Black feminist call to talk back to systems of oppression and highlight agency and resistance of Black women.

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This history of women in early modern Spain opens the field by examining the position of women in religious, political, literary and economic life. Drawing on both historical and literary approaches, the contributors challenge the portrait of Spanish women as passive and marginalised.

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The importance women attach to having friends is seen in the determined search they undertake to replace friends from whom they are periodically separated by residential mobility, job switches, and other major changes in their lives.

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Argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography legitimize the state. This book insists that true democracy requires sharing power, not regulation by it. It applies this argument to various topics, from the basis of litigiousness in political life to the appearance on the academic Left of themes of revenge and a thwarted will to power.

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The only comprehensive, one-stop source for statistics on women in the United States has now been updated and expanded. Highlights of the second edition include data from the 1990 Census, a new section on women's reproductive health, new statistics on women in sports and the armed forces, and broadened coverage of historical trends.

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This study points to enduring themes about women who acquire political power and/or become public figures. The assessments describe "domineering dowagers", witches and "scheming concubines" in various cultures in ancient, medieval and modern times.

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Recently updated with an expanded study guide,Strong Women, Soft Heartshas quickly become an important study for women of all ages. Through inspiring real-life testimonies, Paula Rinehart writes as both a kindred spirit and a compassionate counselor to women feeling robbed of their passions and trapped by life's disappointing realities

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More than 100 entries cover the significant events, people, publications, movements, and organizations associated with Anthony, and each entry describes the topic in historical context.

• More than 100 entries cover the significant events, people, publications, movements, and organizations associated with Susan B.

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This volume offers an analysis of the American women's magazine as a distinct form, as well as a presentation of the construction of the popular woman reader.

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This edited collection deals with intersecting axes of power and privilege in order to advance conversation on motherhood across disciplines. Mother-scholar contributors explore theoretical and disciplinary approaches to academic motherhood, examine its critical and cultural territory, and articulate the challenges of their dual identity.

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This edited collection addresses the institutional context and social issues in which teaching the women's studies introductory course is embedded and provides readers with practical classroom strategies to meet the challenges raised.

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The word occupation is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The war outside is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around them.

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The word occupation is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The war outside is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around them.

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Looks at feminist resistance in the physical and digital space, exploring strategies and aesthetics that express dissent, as well as subversive uses of technology that support gender equality.

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In this classic work - her first - Tannen brilliantly tackles crucial interactions, looking at conversations with colleagues, bosses, friends and family. Engaging, accessible and absolutely compelling, Tannen once again shows us what's really shaping - or breaking- our relationships with others.

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Based on interviews, theory, and practice, this book guides women through the processes of examining present realities, letting go of outdated behaviors, and refocusing on a spirited future during their midlife years.

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The subject of midlife has been dominated by the woes of agingmenopause, divorce, hormone replacement therapies, aging parents, and fleeing children. First, women relinquish old ways, untying themselves from the past and mourning the losses of youth and its illusions.