Gender studies: women and girls Books
Signature Books Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious
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Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Women and Deafness: Double Visions
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Red Wheel/Weiser Climbing the Corporate Ladder in High Heels
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Kumarian Press Women and War: Gender Identity and Activism in
Book SynopsisWomen everywhere have long struggled for recognition as equal, productive members of society, worthy of taking part in the political process. These struggles become even more pronounced in times of conflict and war, when the symbolism and myths of womanhood are used to stoke nationalistic ideas about the survival of the state. Yet for all the rhetoric that takes place in their name, it’s men who generally make decisions regarding war. Women and War examines how women respond to situations of conflict. Drawing on both traditional and feminist international relations theory, it explores the roles that women play before, during and after a conflict, how they spur and respond to nationalist and social movements, and how conceptions of gender are deeply intertwined with ideas about citizenship and the state. As Kaufman and Williams show, women do more than respond to conflict situations; they are active agents in their own right shaping political and historical processes. Their conclusions encourage us to rethink the prevalent assumptions of international relations, history and feminist scholarship and theory.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective
Book SynopsisHow well does technology assessment (TA) relate to women's lives? If women are underrepresented in the long-term research and development process that leads to scientific advancements, how can TA understand technology aimed at women? It can't, claims the author of "Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective". A relative new field, TA examines the social aspect of technology and provides information critical to decision making, policy development, safety standards, and avoiding litigation. Until gender analysis is introduced into all assessments of new technologies, Janine Marie Morgall argues, TA can't evaluate technology's impact upon women. Morgall investigates two areas of technology that affect women's lives: productive (clerical work) and reproductive (health care). Case studies of clerical workers and health care recipients illustrate gender-specify effects of technology ranging from word processors to treatments for infertility. These studies convincingly demonstrate that TA encourages innovations without questioning their effects on women. Issues of dominance, control, and conflicting values emerge from Morgall's feminist perspective and support her call for gender analysis of new technologies. Janine Marie Morgall is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Pharmacy in Copenhagen. She has worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization, specializing in women's health issues and appropriate health care technology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: On the Importance of Gender Analysis Part I: Technology Assessment 1. Evolution 2. Organization 3. Methods and Their Limitations 4. Problems Perceived by Proponents Part II: Women and Technology 5. A Feminist Perspective on Technology 6. A Feminist Approach to Assessment Part III: Women and Technology: Examples 7. The Clerical Sector 8. Reproductive Technology Conclusion: Drawing Out Criteria for a Critical Feminist Approach Notes Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the
Book SynopsisThe radical feminist movement has undergone significant transformation over the past four decades from the direct action of the 1960s and 1970s to the backlash against feminism in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on organizational documents and interviews with both veterans of the women's movement and younger feminists in Columbus, Ohio, Nancy Whittier traces the changing definitions of feminism as the movement has evolved. She documents subtle variations in feminist identity and analyzes the striking differences, conflicts, and cooperation between longtime and recent activists.The collective stories of the women many of them lesbians and lesbian feminists whom the author shows to be central to the women's movement and radical feminism illustrate that contemporary radical feminism is very much alive. It is sustained through protests, direct action, feminist bookstores, rape crisis centers, and cultural activities like music festivals and writers workshops, which Whittier argues are integral and political aspects of the movement's survival.Her analysis includes discussions of a variety of both liberal and radical organizations, including the Women's Action Collective, Women Against Rape, Fan the Flames Bookstore, the Ohio ERA Task Force, and NOW. Unlike many studies of feminist organizing, her study also considers the difference between Columbus, a Midwest, medium-sized city, and feminist activities in major cities like New York, San Francisco, and Chicago, as well as the roles of radical feminists in the development of women's studies departments and other social movements like AIDS education and self-help. Nancy Whittier is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Smith College.Trade Review"No one has explored the sources of diversity and 'generational conflict' within movements with more theoretical insight and empirical rigor than Whittier. Her book breaks significant new ground in this regard and serves, as well, as an important addition to the history of the women's movement during the somewhat neglected period of the Reagan years." --Doug McAdam, University of Arizona "This book is both an explosion of the myth of 'postfeminism' and a searching look at the reality of transformations that the women's movement has undergone. In her case study of grassroots feminism in a single city, Whittier demonstrates how understanding continuity and change in the women's movement requires attention to both the collective identities that women have forged for themselves and the persistence of organizations they have founded. She integrates the best of contemporary social movement theory and careful ethnography to provide an insightful account of feminist activism over nearly thirty years." --Myra Marx Ferree, University of Connecticut "At last, a sympathetic account of radical feminism by a scholar/activist from the so-called 'post-feminist' generation. Whittier draws from cutting edge ideas in social movements to illustrate the generational dynamics that have transformed the women's movement. An eminently readable and first-rate book that will change the way we think about the impact of the modern women's movement." --Verta Taylor, Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Radical Feminism in Columbus, Ohio 2. The Evolution of Radical Feminist Identity 3. Changers and the Changed: Radical Feminists in the Reagan Years 4. Keeping the Faith: Working for Social Change 5. United We Stand: The Impact of the Women's Movement on Other Social Movements 6. Feminists in the "Postfeminist" Age: The Women's Movement in the 1980s 7. The Next Wave Conclusion: Persistence and Transformation of Social Movements Appendix: Women's Movement Organizations and Dates, Columbus, Ohio Notes Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in
Book Synopsis"Puerto Rican Women and Work: Bridges in Transnational Labor" is the only comprehensive study of the role of Puerto Rican women workers in the evolution of a transnational labor force in the twentieth century. This book examines Puerto Rican women workers, both in Puerto Rico and on the U.S. mainland. It contains a range of information - historical, ethnographic, and statistical. The contributors provide insights into the effects of migration and unionization on women's work, taking into account U.S. colonialism and globalization of capitalism throughout the century as well as the impact of Operation Bootstrap.The essays are arranged in chronological order to reveal the evolutionary nature of women's work and the fluctuations in migration, technology, and the economy. This one-of-a-kind collection will be a valuable resource for those interested in women's studies, ethnic studies, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies, as well as labor studies. Altagracia Ortiz is Professor of History and Puerto Rican Studies at John Jay College, the City University of New York. She has written numerous articles on Puerto Rican women and work and is author of "Eighteenth-Century Reforms in the Caribbean".Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Altagracia Ortiz 1. Needlewomen under the New Deal in Puerto Rico, 1920-1945 Eileen Boris 2. "En la aguja y el pedal eche la hiel": Puerto Rican Women in the Garment Industry of New York City, 1920-1980 Altagracia Ortiz 3. Toward Bilingual Education: Puerto Rican Women Teachers in New York City Schools, 1947-1967 Virginia Sanchez Korrol 4. The Impact of Job Losses on Puerto Rican Women in the Middle Atlantic Region, 1970-1980 Alice Colon-Warren 5. Our Two Full-Time Jobs: Women Garment Workers Balance Factory and Domestic Demands in Puerto Rico Carmen A. Perez-Herranz 6. Gender and Politics: Grassroots Leadership among Puerto Rican Women in a Health Struggle Marya Munoz-Vazquez 7. Negotiating Gender, Work, and Welfare: Familia as Productive Labor among Puerto Rican Women in New York City Rosa M. Torruellas, Rina Benmayor, and Ana Juarbe 8. New Tappings on the Keys: Changes in Work and Gender Roles for Women Clerical Workers in Puerto Rico Geraldine J. Casey About the Contributors Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. It's Our Military Too: Women and the U.S Military
Book SynopsisIn the last twenty-five years the U.S. military has seen the abolition of women's separate corps, the appointment of women generals, and an unprecedented increase in the ratio of women to men. Also, women are now permitted to serve on combat planes and ships. Despite these developments, most civilians know very little about women in the military. This collection includes unusual accounts by women on active duty, retired officers, women who have worked for the armed forces in a civilian capacity, and civilian academics. The book offers insights on a variety of pressing issues including minority women, lesbians, combat, the role of gender in weapons design, and the changing mission of the military. Through personal accounts and commentaries, this book dispels many of the myths about women and the military and explores the reasons for the persistence of misconceptions in the face of increased female participation. This comprehensive effort will be of interest to anyone who wants to know the truth about women in the armed forces and will be a wake-up call to women who feel that the military is irrelevant to them. Author note: Judith Hicks Stiehm is Visiting Professor, Peacekeeping Institute, U.S. Army War College, and Professor of Political Science, Florida International University.Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Voices and Facts 1. Soldiering: The Enemy Doesn't Care If You're Female Rhonda Cornum 2. Duty, Honor, Country: If You're Straight Virginia Solms 3. The Creation of Army Officers and the Gender Lie: Betty Grable or Frankenstein? Billie Mitchell 4. Just the Facts, Ma'am Judith Hicks Stiehm Part II: History and Issues 5. The Military Woman's Vanguard: Nurses Connie L. Reeves 6. From Underrepresentation to Overrepresentation: African-American Women Brenda L. Moore 7. Gender and Weapons Design Nina Richman-Loo and Rachel Weber 8. Gender Ideology in the Ethics of Women in Combat Lucinda Joy Peach 9. To Fight, to Defend, and to Preserve the Peace: The Evolution of the U.S. Military and the Role of Women within It M. C. Devilbiss Part III: Reflection and Speculation 10. Pernicious Cohesion Carol Burke 11. Telling the War Story Susan Jeffords 12. Subverting the Gender and Military Paradigms Miriam Cooke 13. The Civilian Mind Judith Hicks Stiehm About the Contributors Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Teen Mothers
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of teen mothers and their patterns of entering and leaving the welfare systemTable of ContentsForeword Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Adolescent Mothers and Poverty 2. Data and Methods 3. Patterns of Welfare Receipt 4. Welfare Entry 5. Routes of Welfare Exit 6. Welfare Return 7. Work and Welfare 8. Implications for Welfare Policy Appendix A: Reliability of Data Appendix B: Methods of Analysis Notes Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law
Book SynopsisMany of us take the presence of policewomen on patrol and in investigative roles for granted. Realistic dramas and comedies in the movies and on television show women officers performing the same duties as men on the force. This visibility tells us nothing about the hostility and controversy that have beset policewomen since they were first hired by police departments in the 1910s. Author Janis Appier traces the origins of women in police work, explaining how pioneer policewomen's struggles to gain secure footholds in big city police departments ironically helped to make modern policework one of the most male dominated occupations in the United State. With a new vision of non-coercive police work and crime prevention, Progressive reformers exerted political and social pressure to create positions for female officers dedicated to guiding and protecting juveniles and women. Women reformers pointed to changing sexual mores among working-class female youth to emphasize the need for a new approach to policing. The policewomen who undertook the work of counseling sexually active teenage girls and their families saw themselves as helping young people achieve moral equilibrium during a period in which standards of context were in flux. In the Los Angeles Police Department, the first to hire women, this social work was primarily the responsibility of the City Mother's Bureau; in other major cities, policewomen's roles were similarly constructed as maternalistic. Scrutinizing case records, public statements, and departmental policies governing policewomen, Appier shows how female officers handled the complex gender politics of their work with the public and within their departments. Appier reveals that many of these pioneering policewomen succeeded in expanding the scope of policework and carving out a rewarding professional niche, despite continued attempts to oust them or limit their sphere of action. But this advancement was short-lived; within a generation a masculinized model of crime fighting took hold, and policewomen's authority eroded.Trade Review"This book stands out in many ways. [It] is very well researched, interesting to read, and would be an excellent foundation text for a course in women's history. It would also be useful as a supplemental text in a variety of women's studies, history, and sociology courses." --National Women's Studies Association Journal "Policing Women offers new information and new interpretations that will appeal to readers in many fields: courses in law enforcement, women's studies/gender, women in criminal justice/women in crime, women's history. Well written and organized, it provides a fine discussion of national issues as a background for the origins of women in policing and the crime prevention model." --Clarice Feinman, Professor Emerita, College of New JerseyTable of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction. "A Man's Job": Gender and Police Work PART ONE Gender, the Police, and Criminal Justice Reform 1 "All over the Country There Is a Spirit of Cleaning Up": The Female Reform Tradition and the Origins of the Movement for Women Police 2 Preventive Justice: The Campaign for Women Police PART TWO Women Police in Los Angeles 3 "Just Mothers to Everybody": The City Mother's Bureau of Los Angeles, 1914-29 4 Double Lives: Policewomen of the LAPD Juvenile Bureau 5 From City Mother to "Sgt. Tits": The Death of the Crime Prevention Model Epilogue. Out for Justice: The Legacy of the Crime Control Model Notes Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Neither Separate Nor Equal
Book SynopsisWhen she began work on this collection, Barbara Ellen Smith was asked, 'Why work on a book about women in the South? Nobody writes books about women in the Midwest'. In an era of intensified globalization, when populations, cultures, and capital move across the boundaries of nation-states in multiple forms and directions, the concept of a subnational region seems parochial and out-of-date. 'But', Smith argues, 'it is precisely because of the historical construction of the secessionist South as an embattled region when all manners of social problems tend to be blamed on poor women and children and those whose skin is anything but white, that the experiences of racially diverse women in a region legendary for both white supremacy and male supremacy are important to explore'. Collecting in one volume the work of such well-known scholars on Appalachia and the South as Carol Stack, Mab Segrest, and Sally Maggard, among others, "Neither Separate Nor Equal" analyzes the complex and dramatic developments in the lives of contemporary Southern women. Case studies vividly portray women's diverse circumstances and activities from rural African American women in the Mississippi Delta taking on new roles as community builders to female textile workers in North Carolina contending with automation and reorganization of the mills. Focusing on the South's historical legacies as they are manifested and contested in the lives of women today, including the tensions between long-lasting patterns of regional distinctiveness and the disruptions of globalizations, this collection approaches differences of race and class not as forms of separation among women, but as social be they often contentious, difficult, or exploitative relationships. Unifying around a theme of relationality, "Neither Separate Nor Equal" offers searching empirical studies of Southern women and a conceptual model for feminist scholarship as a whole. Barbara Ellen Smith is Director of the Center for Research on Women and Associate Professor of Sociology at The University of Memphis.Trade Review"This collection of thirteen essays about women in the contemporary south offers a heartening example of social science informed by an appreciation of history." --Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Engendering History 1. The Social Relations of Southern Women Barbara Ellen Smith 2. Transgressions in Race and Place: The Ubiquitous Native Grandmother in America's Cultural Memory Darlene Wilson and Patricia D. Beaver 3. "A Good Ol' Woman": Relations of Race and Gender in an Indian Community Patricia B. Lerch Part II: Making a Living 4. Race, Class, and Intimacy in Southern Households: Relationships Between Black Domestic Workers and White Employers Mahnaz Kousha 5. Women, Restructuring, and Textiles: The Increasing Complexity of Subordination and Struggle in a Southern Community Cynthia D. Anderson and Michael D. Schulman 6. A Coalfield Tapestry: Weaving the Socioeconomic Fabric of Women's Lives Ann M. Oberhauser and Anne-Marie Turnage Part III: Sustaining Communities 7. Finding a Voice: Latinas in the South Lorida C. Velazquez 8. Doing Good While Doing Well: Professional Black Women in the Mississippi Delta Cynthia M. Duncan, Margaret M. Walsh, and Gemma Beckley 9. Holding Hands: An American Stuggle for Community Carol Stack 10. Women and Revolutionary Relations; Community-Building in Appalachia Monica Kelly Appleby Part IV: Changing Possibilities in the Global South 11. Gender, Race and Place: Confounding Labor Activism in Central Appalachia Sally Ward Maggard 12. Southern Women and Southern Borders on the Move: Tennessee Workers Explore the New International Division of Labor Fran Ansley and Susan Williams 13. What's Sex Got to Do with It, Y'All? Mab Segrest About the Contributors Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Their Day In The Sun
Book SynopsisThe public perception of the making of the atomic bomb is yet an image of the dramatic efforts of a few brilliant male scientists. However, the Manhattan Project was not just the work of a few and it was not just in Los Alamos. It was, in fact, a sprawling research and industrial enterprise that spanned the country from Hanford in Washington State to Oak Ridge in Tennessee, and the Met labs in Illinois. The Manhattan Project also included women in every capacity. During World War II the manpower shortages opened the laboratory doors to women and they embraced the opportunity to demonstrate that they, too, could do \u0022creative science.\u0022 Although women participated in all aspects of the Manhattan Project, their contributions are either omitted or only mentioned briefly in most histories of the project. It is this hidden story that is presented in Their Day in the Sun through interviews, written records, and photographs of the women who were physicists, chemists, mathematicians, biologists, and technicians in the labs. Authors Ruth H. Howes and Caroline L. Herzenberg have uncovered accounts of the scientific problems the women helped solve as well as the opportunities and discrimination they faced. Their Day in the Sun describes their abrupt recruitment for the war effort and includes anecdotes about everyday life in these clandestine improvised communities. A chapter about what happened to the women after the war and about their attitudes now, so many years later, toward the work they did on the bomb is included.Trade Review"Of the many women who contributed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I remember with pleasure most of the physicists who I knew quite well. It is nice to read about Los Alamos as a success story."-Dr. Edward Teller, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution "I am thrilled to learn of so many of the remarkable women who contributed to innumerable aspects of [this] great enterprise. This book enables us to meet each other, to swap stories. The authors have done a superb job of detective work, tracking down an impressive number of them, more than 300. It is important to record and credit women's contributions to the social and technological history of the making of the bomb."-Ellen C. Weaver, Ph.D., Past President, Association for Women in Science "Quite interesting in what it reveals, both particularly about the chauvinism of the project's male management and the naivete of professional and support staff regarding the harmful effects of nuclear materials. Recommended for academic history of science collections."-Library Journal "Authors Howes and Herzenberg have done a remarkable job in synthesizing archived information on the women of the Manhattan Project and in bringing these women to life on the pages of their book."-AWIS Magazine "Painstakingly researched...this [book] provides a valuable beginning to the study of a previously neglected topic and contributes to our knowledge of the history of women in science."-Science Books and Films "In the process of describing their backgrounds and experiences in nine chapters arranged by field (physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians, technicians, and others), Howes and Herzenberg give us some interesting asides on life and practice at these outposts."-The Journal of American History "...this book contains much useful information about the lives and careers of the many women who worked in some way or another on the Manhattan Project. ...the research is sound and the book would be a valuable reference for a course on the WWII home front or twentieth century women's history."-The History TeacherTable of ContentsForeword Prologue 1. The Great Scientific Adventure 2. The Founding Mothers: Pioneers in Nuclear Science 3. The Physicists 4. The Chemists 5. Mathematicians and Calculators 6. Biologists and Medical Scientists 7. The Technicians 8. Other Women of the Manhattan Project 9. After the War Epilogue Appendix A: Female Scientific and Technical workers in the Manhattan Project Appendix B: Chronology References Index Photographs
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Temple University Press,U.S. Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy
Book SynopsisAn exploration of women's place in the U.S. political economyTrade Review"...mak[ing] an important contribution to our historical understanding of women's pursuits and the ways their employment was shaped by ethnicity and race, class, family composition, regional location, and work opportunities. It will be a useful addition to courses aimed at upper-division undergraduates, in graduate seminars, and for specialists."—Work and Occupations"Bose's book provides a much-needed opportunity to explore [assumptions about women's work] and to broaden our conceptual framework for examining them.... I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from Bose's analysis and her writing, and I am certain that my students will as well."—Gender and Society"Bose's detailed findings deserve the attention of scholars of women's situation, and hopefully will lead to further comparisons with contemporary analyses..."—Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Understanding the Past to Interpret the Present 2. Home-Based Work and the Informal Economy: The Case of the "Unemployed" Housewife 3. Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender: Determining Women's Employment 4. Occupational Concentration: The Links Between Occupational Sex and Race Segregation 5. Ethnic Enclaves and Ethnic Queues: Women and Domestic Work 6. Female-Headed Households and the "Hidden" Headship of Single Mothers: Strategies for an Era Without Government Support 7. Regional Segregation: Geography as a Context for Work 8. Epilogue Appendix: Supplementary Tables Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy
Book SynopsisAn exploration of women's place in the U.S. political economyTrade Review"...mak[ing] an important contribution to our historical understanding of women's pursuits and the ways their employment was shaped by ethnicity and race, class, family composition, regional location, and work opportunities. It will be a useful addition to courses aimed at upper-division undergraduates, in graduate seminars, and for specialists."—Work and Occupations"Bose's book provides a much-needed opportunity to explore [assumptions about women's work] and to broaden our conceptual framework for examining them.... I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from Bose's analysis and her writing, and I am certain that my students will as well."—Gender and Society"Bose's detailed findings deserve the attention of scholars of women's situation, and hopefully will lead to further comparisons with contemporary analyses..."—Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Understanding the Past to Interpret the Present 2. Home-Based Work and the Informal Economy: The Case of the "Unemployed" Housewife 3. Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender: Determining Women's Employment 4. Occupational Concentration: The Links Between Occupational Sex and Race Segregation 5. Ethnic Enclaves and Ethnic Queues: Women and Domestic Work 6. Female-Headed Households and the "Hidden" Headship of Single Mothers: Strategies for an Era Without Government Support 7. Regional Segregation: Geography as a Context for Work 8. Epilogue Appendix: Supplementary Tables Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Fireweed: A Political Autobiography
Book SynopsisA beautifully written, dramatic memoir from one of women's history's foundersTrade Review"Gerda Lerner's absorbing memoir bears witness to the major events of the twentieth century...[She] is a gifted storyteller who writes with passion and clarity. This political autobiography is a must read!"-Joyce Antler, Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture, Brandeis University "A spirited, eminently readable and unapologetic memoir of leftist life in a rightist era...[L]eaving readers hungry for more[,] Lerner's autobiography also makes a fine contribution to social history."-Kirkus Reviews "Fireweed is made out of courage and wisdom. One of the finest historians of our time has written an eloquent memoir that makes clear how Women's History has grown out of lived experience. Read it as a story of a girl coming of age in dark times; read it as a story of a brave young woman who lives her progressive ideals in cold war America. I simply could not put down this loving, chilling and heartbreaking book."-Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor of History, University of Iowa and author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship "Gerda Lerner, a leading pioneer in Women's History...presents an especially vivid account of the connections between her ambivalent but loving relations with her parents...and her own escape from fascism and quest for both autonomy and a professional career."-Professor David Brion Davis, Director, Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and author of In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery "[A] superb memoir... Lerner's power and precision as a writer makes this story read like a fast-paced novel."-Linda Gordon, Professor of History, NYU "Most people become historians by going to school day and night for years. Gerda Lerner became a historian by working in her youth in social justice and women's rights movements that became history. Then, in middle age, she went to school day and night-finally becoming one of our preeminent writers and teachers of Women's History. Fireweed is a wonderful and inspiring story for young women."-Grace Paley "[Fireweed] reads like a novel..."-The New York Times Book Review "As a work of prose, this autobiography has a peculiar beauty. Some of the lines are magical... Perhaps the most striking aspect of Gerda Lerner's memoir, as of her many other publications, is the lucidity of her vision... But, like the eloquent Simone de Beauvoir, who also told her own life, she has made it difficult for any would-be biographer to do better."-The Women's Review of BooksTable of ContentsA Note on UsageIntroductionPart I: BeginningsPart II: Becoming an AmericanPart III: Becoming an American RadicalPart IV: In the Eye of the StormThanksPhotograph gallery
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Zephyr Press The Girl with Three Legs: A Memoir
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Zephyr Press I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories
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Sourcebooks, Inc The Wealthy Spirit: Daily Affirmations for
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Orbis Books (USA) Women Healing Earth: Third-World Women on
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Orbis Books (USA) Introducing Feminist Theology
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Orbis Books (USA) Introducing Womanist Theology
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Orbis Books (USA) Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Missionary Women
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Orbis Books (USA) Women in Misssion: From the New Testament to
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Orbis Books (USA) Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women's
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NavPress Kitchen Table Counseling
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Avalon Publishing Group Otherhood
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Seal Press (CA) Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power
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WW Norton & Co Good Grief: Life in a Tiny Vermont Village
Book SynopsisEllen Stimson and her husband had such a wonderful time in Vermont that they wondered what living there would really be like. “What if we stayed here . . . forever?” So began the series of adventures and misadventures of Ellen Stimson’s hilarious first book, Mud Season. Now, having settled the family in Vermont’s rich, muddy soil, they are faced with new challenges of raising kids in the paradise of this very small, very rural town. Good Grief tells the tales of the hopes and dreams of parents just trying to do their best—and not always succeeding. Imagine being the mom of the kid who peed on his teacher’s chair . . . On. Purpose. Now imagine the governor asking you about it! Good Grief is all about the inevitable moment right after somebody says, “What next?” Ellen Stimson’s irrepressible optimism and good humor prevail as she, her two husbands, their three kids, and various much-loved pets face down real life, and even death and grieving, with good humor intact. This is life in a state where everyone knows everything, and everything is everybody’s else's business.Trade Review"Stimson makes great, entertaining reading out of kids’ unusual dating selections, shark attacks, sudden illness, and even an untimely death. Entertaining? Yes. She has that articular way with words and storytelling that makes the most out of learning to deal with grief." -- Booklist"This is my favorite kind of book—a messy, loving, bubbling over at the edges family, replete with exes, dogs, culinary disasters, and the tender heart of love and loss. A must-read, never-forget story." -- Jo-Ann Mapson, author of Solomon's Oak, Finding Casey, and Owen's Daughter"I laughed and cried the whole way through this marvelous, moving, and, above all, joyful book. A chronicle of the further adventures of Ellen Stimson’s eminently lovable family, Good Grief is a lesson in love and loss, as well as a reminder that life keeps happening, rituals matter, and dogs really are man’s best friend. Ellen Stimson’s voice is humane, human, and hilarious—but always wise. And her family is the one you want to borrow. It’s impossible not to cheer this gang on." -- Julia Reed, author of But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!: Adventures in Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry"Imagine Jerry Seinfeld and Annie Dillard on the dance floor, gliding gracefully from keenly observed humor to contemplative insight. As they glide by, you join them in a few pirouettes, and the challenges of your own life transform: you laugh at them; you understand them better. When the music ends, you feel grateful, lighter, and more compassionate. That dance is Ellen Stimson’s Good Grief. In the midst of the ups and downs of daily life, Stimson and her nontraditional family choose to respond, as she says ‘with love and humor.’ What shines through these pages is Stimson’s deep and genuine gratitude for this whole messy thing we call Living. Good Grief taught me to laugh harder and love better—and to always, always choose compassion." -- BK Loren, author of Theft and Animal, Mineral, Radical"Both hilarious and poignant, Stimson spins the tales of her ever-eventful small-town Vermont life with a self-effacing, smart, and heart-touching honesty that will make you feel as if you are sitting across from her at her (burned) dining room table—and wishing so much that you really were!" -- Suzanne McMinn, author of Chickens in the Road: An Adventure in Ordinary Splendor
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Autonomedia The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days
Book SynopsisReflections of a “revolutionary whore” and champion of sexual freedom and prostitutes'' rights.They have to come back to us, because we know every detail of their orgasms, their little caprices, their little weaknesses and strengths. We know all of them. I mean, where do you expect them to go? They''ll be disappointed anywhere else. Except for with us, because we know them like the back of our hand. As soon as they get in the door, it''s like we''d made them ourselves. We know all the right things to say, all the gestures, there''re no surprises.—from The Little Black Book of Grisélidis RéalThe Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal is the portrait of a true humanist who made a career out of compassion. Hailed as a virtuoso writer and a “revolutionary whore,” Grisélidis Réal (1929-2005) chanced into prostitution at thirty-one after an upper-class upbringing in Switzerland. Serving clients from all walks of life, Réal applied the anarcho-Marxist dictum “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” to her profession, charging sliding-scale fees determined by her client''s incomes and complexity of their sexual tastes. Réal went on to become a militant champion of sexual freedom and prostitutes'' rights. She has described prostitution as “an art, and a humanist science,” noting that “the only authentic prostitution is that mastered by great technical artists...who practice this form of native craft with intelligence, respect, imagination, heart...”This volume includes lengthy dialogues from 1979-1981 with Réal conducted by journalist and author Jean-Luc Henning, in which she eloquently discusses the theoretical implications of sex-positive whoring and relates her experiences both inside and outside the profession: from her lengthy love affair with the “Berber” to such “psychological” and “special” clients as the “moldy rhinoceros.” The “Little Black Book” that rounds out this book is drawn from the logs in which Réal kept track of her many clients, from “Pedro, hilarious fat Spaniard, devoted, simple, honest, fat peasant face, 70F” to “Pierre 8 (from Basel), blue eyes, fifties, slightly balding, cultivated, sweet-violent...licks my finger after I remove it from his anus...100-400F.” It is a journal that not only chronicles Réal''s working life, but offers a clinically direct, investigative sociological analysis of the sexual subcultures of her time.
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Steerforth Press Had it Coming: Rape Culture Meets #MeToo: Now
Book SynopsisHad It Coming is not a diatribe or manifesto, but an informed look at how attitudes around sexual behavior have changed and still need to change. As a culture we aren't very good at having nuanced, complicated discussions, Doolittle writes in her introduction. The public space is not a safe venue to talk about controversial subjects. Social media has seen to that . . . I've come to embrace the complexities and messiness that comes with those tough conversations.Doolittle brings a personal voice to what has been a turning point for most women: the #MeToo movement and its aftermath. The world is now increasingly aware of the pervasiveness of rape culture in which powerful men got away with sexual assault and harassment for years, but Doolittle looks beyond specific cases to the big picture. The issue of consent figures largely: not only is the public confused about what it means, but an astounding number of legal authorities are too.
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Steerforth Press Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo
Book SynopsisRiveting . . . harrowing and propulsive. —The New York Times Book Review*One of The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2021 (Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly)* This powerful story shouldn’t be missed. —Publishers Weekly (starred review) With subject matter like this, you’d expect the book to be worthy, important, but hard-going. You’d be two-thirds right. The same qualities that prompted Toufah to break the barriers she did have allowed her to leaven the tale with humour, and a lot more of the good she encountered along the way than the bad that set her on her path. --The Toronto Star An incandescent and inspiring memoir of resilience from a courageous young woman whose powerful advocacy brings to mind the presence, resolve, and moral authority of Malala and Greta ThunbergBefore launching an unprecedented protest movement, Fatou Toufah Jallow was just a 19-year-old dreaming of a scholarship. Encouraged by her mother to pursue her own ambitions, Toufah entered a presidential competition purportedly designed to identify the country's smart young women and support their educational and career goals. Toufah won. Yahya Jammeh, the dictator who had ruled The Gambia all of Toufah's life, styled himself as a pious yet progressive protector of women. At first he behaved in a fatherly fashion toward Toufah, but then proposed marriage, and she turned him down. On a pretext, his female cousin then lured Toufah to the palace, where he drugged and raped her. Toufah could not tell anyone. There was literally no word for rape in her native language. If she told her parents, they would take action, and incur Jammeh's wrath. Wearing a niqab to hide her identity, she gave Jammeh’s security operatives the slip and fled to Senegal. Her eventual route to safety in Canada is full of close calls and intrigue. 18 months after Jammeh was deposed, Toufah Jallow became the first woman in The Gambia to make a public accusation of rape against him, sparking marches of support and a social media outpouring of shared stories among West African women under #IAmToufah. Each brave and bold decision she made set Toufah on the path to reclaim the personal growth and education that Jammeh had tried to steal from her, a future also of leadership and advocacy for survivors of sexual violence, especially in heavily patriarchal countries lacking resources and laws to protect women and even the language with which to speak openly about sexual threats and violence. “This terrific book had me on the edge of my seat, and sends an inspiring message to all women about the power of their voice.” --Anna Maria Tremonti “My (s)heroes do not wear capes... they call out injustices with enough grace and forgiveness to heal anyone that hears their story. Toufah is that graceful shero the world desperately needs.” --Celina Caesar-Chavannes “Toufah's story is horrifying and infuriating, but ultimately also hopeful and inspiring because of what she was able to achieve out of such darkness. To anyone who cares about addressing gender-based violence, this is essential reading.” --Robyn Doolittle
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Baker Publishing Group Prey Tell – Why We Silence Women Who Tell the
Book Synopsis"A welcome book offering an important wake-up call to the Christian community and beyond."--Gail Eubanks, Library Journal Tiffany Bluhm wishes this wasn't her story to tell. Yet like many women today who are taking action against sexual harassment and sexual assault, it is. Bluhm explores the complex dynamics of power and abuse in systems we all find ourselves in. With honesty and strength, she tells stories of how women have overcome silence to expose the truth about their ministry and professional leaders--and the backlash they so often face. In so doing, she empowers others to speak up against abuses of power. Addressing men and women in all work settings--within the church and beyond--popular author and podcast host Tiffany Bluhm sets out to understand the cultural and spiritual narratives that silence women and to illuminate the devastating emotional, financial, and social impact of silence in the face of injustice. As readers journey with Bluhm, they will be moved to find their own way, their own voice, and their own conviction for standing with women. They'll emerge more ready than ever to advocate for justice, healing, and resurrection.Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionPart 1: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth1. Everything Is Just Fine2. His Way or the Highway3. Be Quiet4. But He's Done So Much for MePart 2: How We Silence Women5. What Do You Have to Lose?6. The Questioning7. Puppets of the Patriarchy8. Look at Who I AmPart 3: How Everyone Can Speak Up9. Allies10. It's Not Her Fault11. He Is Not Indispensable12. Believe Women
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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc Women Behind Bars: Gender and Race in U.S.
Book SynopsisToday's prisons are increasingly filled with poor, dark-skinned, single mothers locked up for low-level drug involvement, with serious ramifications for the corrections system. ""Women Behind Bars"" offers the first comprehensive exploration of the challenges faced by incarcerated women in the United States. Young and Reviere show conclusively that serving time in prisons designed by and for men not only does little to address what landed women, particularly women of color, there in the first place, but also undermines their prospects for an improved life on the outside. Using a multifaceted race/class/gender lens, the authors make a convincing argument that women in prison are punished twice: first by their sentences, and again because the policies that govern time behind bars were not designed to address women's unique problems and responsibilities.Trade ReviewThe integration of race into the discussion of women and corrections is important, particularly in the classroom. This book, unlike most, does not address the issue of race as an afterthought, but instead shows its relevance by integrating it throughout. - Stephanie Bush-Baskette, Rutgers University ""This comprehensive text is a strong contribution to the study of women and incarceration. Particularly effective in terms of its focus on race, gender, and imprisonment, it should be required reading in a wide range of courses."" - Barbara Bloom, Sonoma State University
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Smithsonian Books Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940
Book SynopsisThis oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, DC in the early decades of the twentieth century. In Living In, Living Out Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of eighty-one women who worked for wealthy white families. These women describe how they encountered—but never accepted—the master-servant relationship, and recount their struggles to change their status from “live in” servants to daily paid workers who “lived out.”With candor and passion, the women interviewed tell of leaving their families and adjusting to city life “up North,” of being placed as live-in servants, and of the frustrations and indignities they endured as domestics. By networking on the job, at churches, and at penny savers clubs, they found ways to transform their unending servitude into an employer-employee relationship—gaining a new independence that could only be experienced by living outside of their employers' homes. Clark-Lewis points out that their perseverance and courage not only improved their own lot but also transformed work life for succeeding generations of African American women. A series of in-depth vignettes about the later years of these women bears poignant witness to their efforts to carve out lives of fulfillment and dignity.
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Smithsonian Books The Feminist Revolution: The Struggle for Women's
Book SynopsisExplores the global history and contributions of the feminist revolution.The Feminist Revolution offers an overview of women's struggle for equal rights in the late twentieth century. Beginning with the auspicious founding of the National Organization for Women in 1966, at a time when women across the world were mobilizing individually and collectively in the fight to assert their independence and establish their rights in society, the book traces a path through political campaigns, protests, the formation of women's publishing houses and groundbreaking magazines, and other events that shaped women's history. It examines women's determination to free themselves from definition by male culture, wanting not only to take back the night but also to reclaim their bodies, their minds, and their cultural identity. It demonstrates as well that the feminist revolution was enacted by women from all backgrounds, of every color, and of all ages and that it took place in the home, in workplaces, and on the streets of every major town and city. This sweeping overview of the key decades in the feminist revolution also brings together for the first time many of these women's own unpublished stories, which together offer tribute to the daring, humor, and creative spirit of its participants.
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Pelican Publishing Co Leah Chase: Listen, I Say Like This CD
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Tyndale House Publishers Kingdom Woman
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Hons and Rebels
Book SynopsisJessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set and a noted novelist and biographer; Diana, wife to the English fascist chief Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, who fell head over in heels in love with Hitler; and Deborah, later the Duchess of Devonshire. Jessica swung left and moved to America, where she took part in the civil rights movement and wrote her classic exposé of the undertaking business, The American Way of Death.Hons and Rebels is the hugely entertaining tale of Mitford's upbringing, which was, as she dryly remarks, “not exactly conventional. . . Debo spent silent hours in the chicken house learning to do an exact imitation of the look of pained concentration that comes over a hen's face when it is laying an egg. . . . Unity and I made up a complete language called Boudledidge, unintelligible to any but ourselves, in which we translated various dirty songs (for safe singing in front of the grown-ups).” But Mitford found her family's world as smothering as it was singular and, determined to escape it, she eloped with Esmond Romilly, Churchill's nephew, to go fight in the Spanish Civil War. The ensuing scandal, in which a British destroyer was dispatched to recover the two truants, inspires some of Mitford's funniest, and most pointed, pages.A family portrait, a tale of youthful folly and high-spirited adventure, a study in social history, a love story, Hons and Rebels is a delightful contribution to the autobiographer's art.
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Select Books Inc Beyond Beauty: A Guide to Self-Love,
Book SynopsisWhat is Beyond Beauty? The author's ambition is to persuade all women, but especially younger women, to reach beyond goals of to realize the power of our inner beauty to overcome the limits society places on us. Gen-Y women face a terrible predicament of maturing in a world where media bombards us with information and images that distort our perception of the meaning of beauty, self-confidence, and self-love. If we misunderstand our reality, we can easily turn to outmoded cultural paradigms that convince us that we must behave like men to be valuable to society, or that our hair or waistline determines our success, or that finding the right man is the key to happiness. As a millennial, Ms. Abrego believes modern women must learn to look beyond their physical selves and search for a deeper purpose for life and existence. She aims to take us on a journey of self-awakening to become our best self and unleash our feminine power to follow our dreams of a good life. Beyond Beauty is designed to facilitate and encourage women of this generation to improve every aspect of their lives, starting with their own selves. The message of Beyond Beauty is needed more than ever. The author can inspire and empower the women of Generation Y to want more, to be more, and live "beyond beauty."
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Temple University Press,U.S. Transforming Knowledge 2Nd Edition
Book SynopsisThis is a book about how we define knowledge and how we think about moral and political questions. It argues that the prevailing systems of knowledge, morality, and politics are rooted in views that are exclusionary and therefore legitimate injustice, patriarchy, and violence. That is, these views divide humans into different kinds along a hierarchy whose elite still defines the systems that shape our lives and misshape our thinking. Like the first edition of Transforming Knowledge, this substantially revised edition calls upon us to continue to liberate our minds and the systems we live within from concepts that rationalize inequality. It engages with the past fifteen years of feminist scholarship and developments in its allied fields (such as Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Queer Studies, and Disability Studies) to critique the deepest and most vicious of old prejudices. This new edition extends Minnich's arguments and connects them with the contemporary academy as well as recent instances of domination, genocide, and sexualized violence. * Updated to consider recent scholarship in Gender, Multicultural, Postcolonial, Disability, Native American, and Queer Studies, among other fields of study * Revised to include an extended analysis of the conceptual errors that legitimate domination, including the construction of kinds (\u0022genders\u0022) of human beings * Revised to include new materials from a variety of cultures and times, and engages with today's contemporary debates about affirmative action, postmodernism, and religionTrade Review"In Transforming Knowledge, Second Edition, Elizabeth Minnich dissects the fundamental errors underlying patriarchal thought systems and explains the resistances faced by those working towards an inclusive, truly democratic restructuring of knowledge. This welcome new edition offers the philosophical foundation for the urgent tasks of holistic thinking and a truly life- and earth-saving activism. A brilliant and indispensable book."-Gerda Lerner, Robinson-Edwards Professor of History, Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author, Creation of Patriarchy, Creation of Feminist Consciousness, and Fireweed: A Political Autobiography "Transforming Knowledge, Second Edition enacts the urgent ethical project of demonstrating that informed, careful thinking and passionate politics are fundamental to envisioning a just, liberal education, and a democratic public university. Minnich challenges the reader in her gentle yet sharply critical arguments to examine the epistemic confusions and errors that underlie disciplinary knowledges, curricular strategies, and research paradigms. A brilliantly persuasive, deeply pedagogical book by one of the most insightful and compassionate feminist philosophers writing today."-Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Professor of Women's Studies, Syracuse University, and author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing SolidarityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Still Transforming KowledgeI. Thinking: An Introductory EssayThinking about women, or, "Women's work is never done" * Thinking as philosophical fieldwork * Thinking in the New Academy * Some reframings of thinking from the New Academy: From The One to The Many, From nouns to verbs, From external (additive) to internal (transactional) relationalities, From divided to mutually formative theory and practice * Questioning "Theory" * Returning to the fieldII. Still Transforming Knowledge: Circling Out, Pressing DeeperClassifying humans by kind * Conceptual errors as psychotic conceptualizations * Including nature * Re-ordering historical time * Rights, public/private-and privatization * ReligionPreface and AcknowledgmentsA note on sourcesA note on usage: "We", "Black"/"white" and entwined racializations, Scare quotesAcknowledgments1. No One BeginningCentering critique * More personal beginnings * Speaking as and for ourselves * Why do curricula matter?2. Contextual Approaches: Thinking AboutAccess to the curriculum: some background * Contemporary movements: equality, recognition * Early-and continuing-questions: Scholarship vs. politics?, The disciplines, "Lost women", "Add women and stir" * Critique and reflexive thinking: Thinking with and without the tradition * Public/private * Philosophical cultural analysis; psychotic cultural systems3. Conceptual Approaches: Thinking ThroughConceptual errors: the root problem, Dividing by 'kind' * Some examples from the curriculum * A traditional story * Paideia * Novus ordo seclorum: ideals and practices in the "New World"4. Errors Basic to Dominant TraditionsFaulty generalization & hierarchically invidious monism * Useful universals? Distinguishing thinking from knowing * Articulating the hierarchy: Sex/gender, class, racializations * "Reverse discrimination" * Taking the few to represent all: 'Markers' of particularity, Invisibility, Circular reasoning * Mystified concepts: Excellence, Judgment, Equality, Rationality, intelligence-and good papers, Liberal arts, Woman, Sex, Man, War, Gender * Partial Knowledge: Impartial, objective knowledge; Unanimity; Emotions, animals, morality; Undoing partial public authority; Personal, subjective, located knowledges: relativism? * Continuing resistance to transformation: Professionalization5. Circling Back, Keeping GoingFrom errors to visions * Reclaiming intimacy, universality, public life * Thinking and acting
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Temple University Press,U.S. Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in the
Book SynopsisSisters of The Brotherhood struggle for equalityTrade Review"Live Wire is the story of every group of outsiders who has ever tried to enter the world of insiders, of women braving an all-male kingdom, and of unions that cannot succeed without women—and vice versa. In telling the stories of women electricians, Francine Moccio gives us a universal human story, an exposé of why women are still only two percent of the building trades despite thirty years of trying, and a key to the mystery of why Americans are still seventy percent more likely to end up old and poor if they are female. If President Obama wants to solve the problems of poverty and our crumbling bridges and highways at the same time, he should read this book and insist that women work side by side with men. And if anybody thinks for a moment the women's movement is over, he or she should go right out and buy Live Wire." —Gloria SteinemTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Getting Wired 1. Brotherhood: The History 2. A Closer Look at Local 3 3. The Struggle to Become Electricians 4. On the Electrical Construction Work Site: The Sexual Charge 5. Race for the Brotherhood: The Ironies of Integration 6. A Club of Her Own Conclusion: Getting Women Down to the Job Site Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Notes Selected References Glossary Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. DES Daughters, Embodied Knowledge, and the
Book SynopsisHow a health disaster helped give rise to the feminist health care movementTrade Review“DES Daughters is a pleasure to read. In addition to Bell’s sensitivity and intelligence, she brings the reader close to the people she writes about—we get to know the women in the book and their stories come across very lively and sympathetically.”—Phil Brown, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Connecting Lives, Texts, and Social Change 1. A History of DES 2. Narratives and Lives: The Politics of Knowing for DES Daughters 3. Becoming a Mother after DES 4. Remapping DES Bodies 5. Power, Knowledge, and DES 6. Healthy Baby Girls Conclusion: Performing DES , Embodying a Health Movement Notes References Index
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Strebor Books The Monkey on My Back: A Memoir
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Large Print Press Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for
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Westholme Publishing UNEXPECTED ABIGAIL ADAMS
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Penguin Putnam Inc The End of Men: And the Rise of Women
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Marian Press A Journey to Healing Through Divine Mercy
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Marian Press Piazzas, Popes, and Pasta: Notes from a Rome
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