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The Rise of Enlightened Sexism

How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild

Susan J. Douglas St. Martin's Griffin

Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with...

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Hardcover : $25.99 Buy	The Daughter Trap Taking Care of Mom and Dad...and You Laurel Kennedy Thomas Dunne Books In the tradition of The Feminine Mystique and Backlash, a groundbreaking look at a social cyclone heading straight for Boomer women Twenty-five percent of...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement Beyond Borders Lynette D. Myles Palgrave Macmillan In a clear and accesible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness...

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Toxic Friends

The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships

Susan Shapiro Barash St. Martin's Griffin

A woman can always count on are her friends—right? But what if those friendships are hurtful, harmful, even toxic? Susan Shapiro Barash explores the ten types...

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Hardcover : $88.00 Buy	Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance Orientalism, Race and the Idea of the Arabian Nights International Library of Cultural Studies Somaya Sami Sabry Tauris Academic Studies The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the "war on terror." But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist...

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The Terror Dream

Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America

Susan Faludi Picador

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and bestselling author of Backlash, examines America's deeply-rooted attitude toward gender....

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Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Cape Verdean Women and Globalization The Politics of Gender, Culture, and Resistance Katherine Carter and Judy Aulette Palgrave Macmillan Offering valuable insights into social science methodology and practice, Cape Verde Women and Globalization employs critical ethnography and critical discourse...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Destined For a Life of Service Defining African-Jamaican Womanhood, 1865-1938 Gender in History Henrice Altink Manchester University Press Based on a wide range of original sources, including folktales, anthropological studies, court statements, poetry, and speeches, this book sheds new light on...

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Girl Power

The Nineties Revolution in Music

Marisa Meltzer Faber and Faber, Inc.

In the early nineties, riot grrrl exploded onto the underground music scene, inspiring girls to pick up an instrument, create fanzines, and become politically...

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Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Victorian Medicine and Social Reform Florence Nightingale among the Novelists Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters Louise Penner Palgrave Macmillan Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale’s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings...

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