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What is a "de facto" feminist What might the phenomenon of de facto feminism have to say about social and political change in the U.S. The work employs an interdisciplinary approach to this question and draws arguments from philosophy, history, and American politics to underscore the non-ideological character of feminism.

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Examines gender relations in East Germany from 1945 to the 1970s, focusing especially on the relationship between ordinary women, the Communist Party, and the state created by the Communists, the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

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Like the products of the 'sea-change' described in Ariel's song in "The Tempest", modernist writing is 'rich and strange'. This book argues to the contrary maintaining that modernist form evolved precisely as a means of representing the terrifying appeal of movements such as socialism and feminism.

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This book presents the detailed life stories of nine women academics in business faculties throughout North America. Three are in their early careers, three are facing tenure, and three are recognized leaders in their field. teacher versus researcher, wife/mother versus professional, researcher versus administrator.

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This book presents the detailed life stories of nine women academics in business faculties throughout North America. Three are in their early careers, three are facing tenure, and three are recognized leaders in their field. teacher versus researcher, wife/mother versus professional, researcher versus administrator.

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Scandinavian Women Writers presents short stories written by the leading women writers of the last century.

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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 relationship between U.S. masculinity and American feminist movements of the twentieth century is complex. The essays collected in Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism engage prominent film and television texts that directly interrogate image...

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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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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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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.