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How Simone De Beauvoir Died in Australia : Stories and Essays
ISBN: 9780868405773 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sylvia Lawson moves the essays and stories in this collection through settings in and out of Australia - across Paris, West Papua, Britain, Indonesia - listening to the distinctive local voices from our cultural margins and reclaiming concerns the metropolitan centre ignores.
Sylvia Lawson moves the essays and stories in this collection through settings in and out of Australia - across Paris, West Papua, Britain, Indonesia ...
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93,01 |
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Passions of the First Wave Feminists
ISBN: 9780868407807 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work offers a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, located in rich cultural, social and political context, which also presents a new view of the decades around federation.
This work offers a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, located in rich cultural, social and political context, which also presents a new v...
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93,01 |
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Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding
ISBN: 9780868409696 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Breastwork "delivers an original and personal approach to a near-universal practice and doesn't shy from controversy or controversial topics, such as sexual desire and breastfeeding. It features a broad range of illustrations from Renaissance paintings of mother and child (Madonna del Latte) to Jerry Hall breastfeeding on the cover of "Vanity Fair" and Kate Langbroek breastfeeding on "The Panel" to a banned New Zealand health poster of a man breastfeeding at work.
"Breastwork "delivers an original and personal approach to a near-universal practice and doesn't shy from controversy or controversial topics, such as...
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Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History
ISBN: 9780870233654 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essays on Race, Sex and Class in American History
Essays on Race, Sex and Class in American History
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Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience
ISBN: 9780870236594 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tapestries of Life proposes a way of putting women at the center of our thinking by structuring it out of the dailiness of women's lives. The focus is on women of diverse races, classes, ages, and geographic regions in the United States. Aptheker draws upon the works of women writers, poets, artists, dramatists, dancers, musicians, and academics as well as the words of women factory workers, domestics, and agricultural laborers. She explores how to promote balance in a system that institutionalizes class, race, and gender inequities at every level.
Tapestries of Life proposes a way of putting women at the center of our thinking by structuring it out of the dailiness of women's lives. The focus... |
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141,98 |
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Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
ISBN: 9780870237607 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Black Women Abolitionists: Study in Activism, 1828-1860
ISBN: 9780870497360 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,90 |
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Yours for Liberty: Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper
ISBN: 9780870714740 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1871, Duniway launched The New Northwest, one of the few newspapers in the nation devoted to woman's advancement. This first published volume of Duniway's writings from her weekly reform journal offers a vivid portrait of the pioneering suffragist and her work.
In 1871, Duniway launched The New Northwest, one of the few newspapers in the nation devoted to woman's advancement. This first published volume of Du...
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97,90 |
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The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings
ISBN: 9780871133083 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Always strong and fearless, Germaine Greer strikes right at the heart of the matter--be it John F. Kennedy and vaginal deodorants, rape and artificial insemination, cosmetic surgery, the death of Jimi Hendrix, or the famine in Ethiopia. This collection represents a mosaic of essays, long and short, some of which are appearing for the first time in print and all of which chafe the conventional and are bristling with argument.
From the youthful liveliness of her sixties pieces, which "got up everybody's nose," to the depth and complexity of her later work, The Madwoman's Underclothes is a... Always strong and fearless, Germaine Greer strikes right at the heart of the matter--be it John F. Kennedy and vaginal deodorants, rape and artificial...
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65,51 |
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Heroic with Grace: Legendary Women of Japan
ISBN: 9780873325523 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work presents the lives and times of eight prominent Japanese women who epitomize the tragedies and triumphs of eight characteristically female roles. In examining the lives of the mythological Empress Jingu, Jito Tenno (645-702), Murasaki Shikibu (970s-1000s), Tomoe Gozen (12th century), Hojo Masako (1157-1225), Hani Motoko (1873-1957), Takamine Hideko (b.1924) and Ariyoshi Sawako (1931-1984), the contributors provide a mosaic of Japanese history and culture that encompasses issues of women's status in various stages of Japanese history, the social climate conducive to positive female...
This work presents the lives and times of eight prominent Japanese women who epitomize the tragedies and triumphs of eight characteristically female r...
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225,25 |
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Womens Shoes in America, 1795-1930
ISBN: 9780873386562 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Many a man's heart has been kept from wandering by the bow on his wife's slipper."--Demorest's, 1883 In an engaging narrative history, the beautifully illustrated Women's Shoes in America investigates an aspect of American material culture not previously examined and provides a detailed reference for dating women's footwear. Part One, "A History of Women's Footwear in America," discusses the history of the American shoe industry and surveys changing styles of shoes, boots, boudoir slippers, overshoes, and sports shoes. It examines the relationship between... "Many a man's heart has been kept from wandering by the bow on his wife's slipper."--Demorest's, 1883 In an engaging narrative his... |
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Gentle Warriors: Clara Ueland and the Minnesota Struggle for Woman Suffrage
ISBN: 9780873513180 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gentle Warriors tells the moving story of the final phase of the Minnesota women's struggle for the vote under the leadership of the remarkable Clara Ueland. Clara Ueland, socially prominent wife of a successful Minneapolis attorney and mother of seven children, became president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association in 1914. To that challenge she brought considerable skills acquired as a teacher, a household manager, and a community activist. She was a new woman of her time: politically astute, enormously competent, and widely respected. Under her leadership, enthusiastic, persistent...
Gentle Warriors tells the moving story of the final phase of the Minnesota women's struggle for the vote under the leadership of the remarkable Clara ...
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73,14 |
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In the Company of Women: Voices from the Women's Movement
ISBN: 9780873513296 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seeking to reveal the movement's humanity and diversity, activists Bonnie Watkins and Nina Rothchild recorded the accounts of homemakers and business owners, explorers and artists, factory workers and spiritual seekers, scientists and secretaries, prostitutes and policewomen. Encountering this company of women will change the way readers understand the movement that has transformed American life from the 1960s to the present.
"Like all good art, these stories start from a particular place and become universal. Women in all parts of the country--and in many other countries--will... Seeking to reveal the movement's humanity and diversity, activists Bonnie Watkins and Nina Rothchild recorded the accounts of homemakers and business ...
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77,73 |
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And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855
ISBN: 9780873513371 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " My parents] got tired of eating potatoes, and prairie dogs weren't kosher." --Isadore Pitts, son of Jewish immigrants to South Dakota, about 1913
Linking the personal and the historical, Linda Mack Schloff integrates oral accounts, diaries, letters, and autobiographies with original research and interpretation to present the little-known story of the Jewish experience in America's heartland. And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher uses the voices of four generations of Jewish women who settled in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa, and Wisconsin to show how they transported and transformed... " My parents] got tired of eating potatoes, and prairie dogs weren't kosher." --Isadore Pitts, son of Jewish immigrants to South Dakota, about 1913 |
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Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier
ISBN: 9780873516044 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor--raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter--to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello focuses on the roles of women in this pioneer generation--their changing status from equal partnership to subordination, from being valued for their productive work to being glorified for their reproductive...
In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As t...
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Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice
ISBN: 9780874515589 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A clear and detailed study of Latin American women's history from the late nineteenth century to the present.
A clear and detailed study of Latin American women's history from the late nineteenth century to the present.
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134,87 |
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Daily Meditations for Women Who Love Too Much
ISBN: 9780874778762 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robin Norwood revolutionized the way we look at love, with a compassionate, intimate book offering a recovery program for women who love too much--women who are attracted to troubled men, who neglect their own interests and friends, and who are unable to leave tormented relationships for fear of being "empty without him." With multiple millions in sales throughout the world, her Women Who Love Too Much remains an invaluable and eagerly sought source of help to women (and men) everywhere. Norwood now enhances the practical wisdom of that book with years' worth of deep reflection...
Robin Norwood revolutionized the way we look at love, with a compassionate, intimate book offering a recovery program for women who love too much--wom...
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92,48 |
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The Complete Writings of Florence Scovel Shinn for Women
ISBN: 9780875167831 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A single volume of all four books by Shinn, rewritten for women of today. Shinn shows that we can enjoy a winning streak of health, prosperity, and happiness through this anecdote-rich entertaining book.
A single volume of all four books by Shinn, rewritten for women of today. Shinn shows that we can enjoy a winning streak of health, prosperity, and ha...
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49,91 |
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Vessels of Meaning
ISBN: 9780875802213 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fasick (English, Moorhead State U.) traces the progression of images of women's bodies through two centuries of English literature to construct a historical overview of class and gender relations as reflected in the English novel. She focuses on ways women have been depicted as possessing nurturing
Fasick (English, Moorhead State U.) traces the progression of images of women's bodies through two centuries of English literature to construct a hist...
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149,46 |
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Crimes of Outrage
ISBN: 9780875802428 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores sexual violence against Victorian working women. The author examines how gendered notions inform both women's negotiation of relationships and men's aggression toward women.
This book explores sexual violence against Victorian working women. The author examines how gendered notions inform both women's negotiation of relati...
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180,44 |