History Books


Sisters and Workers in the Middle AgesSisters and Workers in the Middle Ages
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Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life-styles, the...
Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society)
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According to John Boswell's book, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, the...
The Constitutional Underclass: Gays, Lesbians, and the Failure of Class-Based Equal ProtectionThe Constitutional Underclass: Gays, Lesbians, and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection
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When the Supreme Court struck down Colorado's Amendment 2?which would have nullified all...
The Invention of HeterosexualityThe Invention of Heterosexuality
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?Heterosexuality,? assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely...
Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second WaveBodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave
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Throughout the 1970s and ?80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about...


Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in AmericaDeparting from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America
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The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In...
Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its CriticsQueer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics
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From the 1969 rebellion at Stonewall to recent battles over same-sex marriage, Gay Liberation in...
Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility (Population and Development (Chicago, Ill.).)Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility (Population and Development (Chicago, Ill.).)
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After decades of tremendous growth, Kinshasa-capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-is...
Catholic Figures, Queer NarrativesCatholic Figures, Queer Narratives
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This new volume of essays examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality. Why...
Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.
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Winner of the 2008 National Women's Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa prize! ...


Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
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Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the...
Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920
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Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of HeterosexualityStraight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality
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Like the increased visibility and rush to study 'whiteness' in the wake of critical race...
Rights, Not Roses: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80 (The Working Class in American History)Rights, Not Roses: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80 (The Working Class in American History)
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Although the most visible banners of feminism were carried by educated, white-collar,...
Queer Episodes in Music and Modern IdentityQueer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity
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Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences,...

The Edge of Change: Women in the Twenty-First-Century PressThe Edge of Change: Women in the Twenty-First-Century Press
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In this book, the nation's leading female newspaper journalists, editors, and executives...
Refiguring Modernism, Volume 1: Women of 1928Refiguring Modernism, Volume 1: Women of 1928
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"... an invaluable aid to the reconfiguration of literary modernism and of the history of...
Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848
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Dr. Moitt knows his stuff. He takes it very seriously. This was one of our texts for his class...
American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular CultureAmerican Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture
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Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time...
Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A ReaderWomen and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader
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Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India...

To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and ModernityTo Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity
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Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their...
The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries)The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries)
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In this landmark case study, historian Rhonda Y. Williams redefines postwar urban history by...
Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in IranConceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran
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While Iranian women have most frequently been viewed through the politics of veiling, ...
Roman Homosexuality: Second EditionRoman Homosexuality: Second Edition
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I first discovered this gem in my school's library. Intrigued by the cover and the great...
Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's HistoryRethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History
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The fourth edition of Rethinking Canada is representative of the most interesting work done in...

A Comparison Between Women and Men: Tarabai Shinde and the critique of gender relations in colonial IndiaA Comparison Between Women and Men: Tarabai Shinde and the critique of gender relations in colonial India
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First published in 1882, Tarabai Shinde's A Comparison between Women and Men is an...
From Independence Towards Freedom: Indian Women since 1947 (Discovery (Oxford))From Independence Towards Freedom: Indian Women since 1947 (Discovery (Oxford))
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The twelve essays in this volume critically examine the relationship between the Indian nation...
Five Women of Sennar: Culture and Change in Central Sudan (Oxford Studies in African Affairs)Five Women of Sennar: Culture and Change in Central Sudan (Oxford Studies in African Affairs)
Recent political, economic, and ecological disasters have brought drastic changes to Sudan, the...
Feminism and Renaissance Studies (Oxford Readings in Feminism)Feminism and Renaissance Studies (Oxford Readings in Feminism)
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This collection brings together essays by well-known feminist scholars from the wide range of...
They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold RushThey Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
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As a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, I found tremendous value in "They Saw The...

A Century of Change-- What's Next? (The American Woman Series)A Century of Change-- What's Next? (The American Woman Series)
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This is the seventh volume of the biannual series documenting the social, reconomic, and...
Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History and the Politics of GenderRewriting the Victorians: Theory, History and the Politics of Gender
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"Rewriting the Victorians" is a collection of essays both feminist and historical...
Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical PerspectivesGender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
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One of the most important contributions to this multi-cultural anthropological anthology is:...
Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of PhilosophyYielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy
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Traditional accounts of the feminist history of philosophy have viewed reason as associated with...
Black British Feminism: A ReaderBlack British Feminism: A Reader
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Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist...

Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural AnxietyVested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety
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Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite,"...
Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (Thinking Gender)Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (Thinking Gender)
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Embattled Eros is a sophisticated analysis of the major dynamics and patterns of the...
Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics and the UniversityMaking Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics and the University
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Combining historical and political analysis with autobiography and memoir, "Making...
My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush YearsMy American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years
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Schulman is right. This is American History. And since it's not in the textbooks, someone...
From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother (Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender)From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother (Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender)
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Explores the cultural history of what underlies popular conceptions of "proper" mothering

Engendering Citizenship in EgyptEngendering Citizenship in Egypt
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You should all go out and buy this book, or sit in your office and buy it online if you want. ...
Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era ReformPolitical Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform
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I learned a lot from this book. Murphy shows how American politics became so suffused with...
Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era ReformPolitical Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform
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In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming...
One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great DepressionOne Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression
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Lorena Hickok, special investigator for Harry Hopkins, traveled the country reporting on the...
Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical CenterCaring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center
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Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96 (Women in American History)Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96 (Women in American History)
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Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925
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The debate over the "new" immigrants - primarily from southern and eastern Europe -...
Voting the Gender GapVoting the Gender Gap
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This book concentrates on the gender gap in voting--the difference in the proportion of women...
Fanny Wright: Rebel in AmericaFanny Wright: Rebel in America
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Fanny Wright, who was born in Scotland in 1795 and came to the United States in 1818, was a...

A Century of Change-- What's Next? (The American Woman Series)A Century of Change-- What's Next? (The American Woman Series)
Best Price: $3.56
This is the seventh volume of the biannual series documenting the social, reconomic, and...
Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History and the Politics of GenderRewriting the Victorians: Theory, History and the Politics of Gender
Best Price: $419.56
"Rewriting the Victorians" is a collection of essays both feminist and historical...
Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical PerspectivesGender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
Best Price: $35.89
One of the most important contributions to this multi-cultural anthropological anthology is:...
Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of PhilosophyYielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy
Best Price: $29.96
Traditional accounts of the feminist history of philosophy have viewed reason as associated with...
Black British Feminism: A ReaderBlack British Feminism: A Reader
Best Price: $35.14
Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist...

Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural AnxietyVested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety
Best Price: $17.77
Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite,"...
Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (Thinking Gender)Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (Thinking Gender)
Best Price: $6.96
Embattled Eros is a sophisticated analysis of the major dynamics and patterns of the...
Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics and the UniversityMaking Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics and the University
Best Price: $76.69
Combining historical and political analysis with autobiography and memoir, "Making...
My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush YearsMy American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years
Best Price: $6.12
Schulman is right. This is American History. And since it's not in the textbooks, someone...
From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother (Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender)From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother (Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender)
Best Price: $11.95
Explores the cultural history of what underlies popular conceptions of "proper" mothering

A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. ForsterA Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
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A New York Times Book Review Editors? Choice Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld...
Women's History: A Guide to Sources at Hagley Museum and Library (Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies)Women's History: A Guide to Sources at Hagley Museum and Library (Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies)
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Traditionally, scholars have used Hagley to study the history of business and technology, but in...
Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate Over War, 1895-1919 (Contributions in Women's Studies)Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate Over War, 1895-1919 (Contributions in Women's Studies)
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Kuhlman explores the reasons so many antiwar progressive reformers ended up forming the most...
Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity: An Ethnography of Men's Filmgoing in India (Controversies in Science)Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity: An Ethnography of Men's Filmgoing in India (Controversies in Science)
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The movie industry in India is the world's largest. Steve Derne's book takes this idea...
Women's Roles in Twentieth-Century America (Women's Roles in American History)Women's Roles in Twentieth-Century America (Women's Roles in American History)
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The twentieth century was a time of great transformation in the roles of American women. Women...

Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)
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From the suffrage movement to the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War, women have...
Women and FarmingWomen and Farming
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Women and Farming: Property and Power looks at women on family farms. It argues that farming...
Sex and Subjection: Attitudes to Women in Early Modern SocietySex and Subjection: Attitudes to Women in Early Modern Society
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Fascinating topic, well-researched and academic in style, yet accessible to anyone with an...
The Best Little Boy in the World Grows UpThe Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up
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I found "The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up" well-written, insightful and...
Beyond Women's Empowerment in Africa: Exploring Dislocation and AgencyBeyond Women's Empowerment in Africa: Exploring Dislocation and Agency
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This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women?s knowledge...

Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's FictionQueer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction
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This book provides the first full-length study of Jean Genet's homoerotic writing but...
Gender: A Genealogy of an IdeaGender: A Genealogy of an Idea
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Gender stands as one of the great conceptual devices of the twentieth century. It has becomes...
Letters between Forster and Isherwood on Homosexuality and LiteratureLetters between Forster and Isherwood on Homosexuality and Literature
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The correspondence between E. M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood is a fascinating record of...
The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782
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Nancy K. Miller is best known for The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English...
A Future for AstyanaxA Future for Astyanax
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The Lesbian PostmodernThe Lesbian Postmodern
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I bought this book because Tee Corinne in her anthology of short stories "Courting...
Days of MasqueradeDays of Masquerade
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Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived...
Romantic GeniusRomantic Genius
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Surprisingly little has been written about homosexuality in British Romantic writing, and,...
From Partners to ParentsFrom Partners to Parents
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As an intellectual divorced father, I have long searched for that one book that gave the...
The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature (Race, Gender, and Science)The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature (Race, Gender, and Science)
"This highly-readable work traces a set of beliefs about the nature of woman that have...

Radical Women in Latin America: Left and RightRadical Women in Latin America: Left and Right
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Radical Women in Latin America is a collection of original essays by scholars from a variety of...
Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Re-Reading the Canon)Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Re-Reading the Canon)
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Images of and references to women are so rare in the vast corpus of his published work that...
For Our Daughters: How Outstanding Women Worldwide Have Balanced Home and CareerFor Our Daughters: How Outstanding Women Worldwide Have Balanced Home and Career
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This is a superb book which successfully discusses the trials and tribulations as well as the...
Daring Wives: Insight into Women's Desires for Extramarital AffairsDaring Wives: Insight into Women's Desires for Extramarital Affairs
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Riveting vignettes show the inner and outer lives of women engaged in extramarital affairs. In...
A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and JusticeA Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice
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I used this collections of essays as a reference in my lit review for my doctoral dissertation....

Generating Bodies And Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England (In Vivo)Generating Bodies And Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England (In Vivo)
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"Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves" examines the textured interrelations between...
Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern ArchitectureLionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture
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the book did not disappoint. it is a gem. the book was a gift to my architect husband. ...
Ono Ono Girl's HulaOno Ono Girl's Hula
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Ono Ono Girl's Hula ia a "loco moc" brew of mongrel identity politics,...
In Praise of Black Women, Volume 3: Modern African WomenIn Praise of Black Women, Volume 3: Modern African Women
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Modern African Women offers powerful and unforgettable tales from Senegal to South Africa, from...
In Praise of Black Women, Volume 1: Ancient African QueensIn Praise of Black Women, Volume 1: Ancient African Queens
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"In Praise of Black Women" is a gorgeously illustrated volume relating the...

The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: The English PhallusThe Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: The English Phallus
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Taking on nothing less than the formation of modern genders and sexualities, Thomas A. King...
Women Medievalists and the AcademyWomen Medievalists and the Academy
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This beautiful, fat book contains informative and inspiring biographical sketches of women...
In Her own Words: Oral histories of Women PhysiciansIn Her own Words: Oral histories of Women Physicians
Best Price: $49.95
Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter: Her Life and EssaysSara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays
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For those interested in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his family, this book gives a glimpse into...
Bisexuality in the Ancient WorldBisexuality in the Ancient World
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First the problems. When a scholar uses such a wide range of sources, it is inevidentual that...

Yale French Studies, Number 90: Same Sex/Different Text? Gay and Lesbian Writing in French (Yale French Studies Series)Yale French Studies, Number 90: Same Sex/Different Text? Gay and Lesbian Writing in French (Yale French Studies Series)
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My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi BerlinMy German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
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This is one of the most moving survivor books I have read since Into Thin Air. Unlike other...
Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in 17th-Century EnglandCommon Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in 17th-Century England
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This is a great social history of women in 17th century England. The author writes in a way...
  
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