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This landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2010-02-24
ePub
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We Don’t Need Another Wave is a critique of the ways in which feminism is discussed in the mainstream media. Today’s young feminists are wary of being labeled. They are media-savvy, hyper-aware of being categorized and marginalized, and are here to tell the...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2010-02-24
ePub
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Celebrated for her style and substance, Michelle Obama has transformed the role of first lady and become a 21st century icon, attracting attention from all over the world. The qualities so admired in her - intelligence, strength and charisma - radiate through her...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2009-10-28
ePub
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Professors and students alike are taking interest in Girls' Studies—the socialization of girls versus boys—and beginning to analyze the impact of media, pop culture, messaging, and more on America's girls. Girls' Studies tackles socialization and...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2009-10-06
Collection :
Seal Studies
ePub
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In 2004, Erin Solaro went to Iraq to study American servicewomen—what they were doing, how well they were doing it, how they were faring in combat.In 2005, she went to Afghanistan on the same mission. Having spent time embedded with combat troops and conducting...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2009-05-20
ePub
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Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite - and because of centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-04-29
ePub
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On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a 52-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores , a class action representing 1.4...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-04-20
ePub
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When women decide what to wear, where to go, how to get there, what time of day to be outdoors, and what affects their sense of security and safety, are they aware that they’re afraid of being sexually assaulted? Violence against women is, on a global scale, so...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2008-11-12
Collection :
Seal Studies
ePub
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Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2008-08-04
ePub
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From one of the boldest, "most shocking" (Germaine Greer), and "uncompromising" (Mary Daly) feminist writers of the 20th century, Intercourse is the book that enraged, inspired, and ultimately split apart the feminist movement when it first published...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2008-08-01
ePub
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Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political features more than 40 powerful, hard-hitting literary essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and families—both their own and...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2008-05-27
ePub
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Being a sex worker isn’t something to write home about for most women (and men) in the $12 billion-a-year sex industry. Prostitutes, strippers, and adult film stars put themselves, and what they do for a living, out on the street, stage, and TV screen every day,...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2007-12-28
ePub
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More and more women—mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters—are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there's been little public...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2007-11-02
ePub
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Why is the stereotypical image of the bride before her wedding day that of a stressed, moody, indecisive, and frustrated woman cracking under pressure and snapping at everyone in sight?Why does being a bride feel like going through a second adolescence? And why, with...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2007-09-10
ePub
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The truth about the most important woman in America In Her Way, two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalists deliver: Previously undisclosed details about the Clinton's multi-decade plan for powerincluding 8 years in the White House for Bill and...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2007-06-19
ePub
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Faced with a spirited eleven-year-old daughter, a concern about what therapists have called a 'poisonous' youth culture -- especially for girls -- and a conviction that parents need powerful tools to help their daughters realize their potential, educator-activist Diana...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2007-05-22
ePub
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Radical Feminism Today offers a timely and engaging account of exactly what feminism is, and what it is not. Denise Thompson questions much of what has come to be taken for granted as `feminism' and points to the limitations of implicitly defining feminism in terms of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2001-04-06
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With heterosexuality currently being examined more rigorously than ever before, this accessible and engaging book charts the development of feminist and sociological theorizing on sexuality and the emergence of a radical critique of heterosexuality. Stevi Jackson...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1999-07-26
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This stimulating text presents a concise and accessible introduction to feminist theory today. Covering all the major variants of feminist political thought, it offers a unique examination of the archive of modern feminist theory from the publication of The Feminine...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1995-06-28
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Quebec spoils its families, according to some, with those “long” parental leaves—a full year for mothers (Imagine!)—well-subsidized childcare and more. Marilyse Hamelin challenges that restrictive view. But she adds that although progress has been made compared to other...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2018-09-13
epub sans DRM
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