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Aristocrats: The Illustrated Companion to the Television Seriesby S. K. TillyardISBN 0297825054 (0-297-82505-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristocrats: The Illustrated Companion to the Television Series'Book summary:A rich social history of the eighteenth century that accompanies a BBC TV series, here is the story of four sisters as threads in the tapestry of a grand era. The daughters of the Second Duke and Duchess of Richmond lived in magnificence as mistresses of some of the most splendid houses in England and Ireland through turbulent times, from the Jacobite Rebellion to the French Revolution. Photographs reveal the spectacular treasure trove of houses, furniture, objects, and paintings that they had commissioned, while stills taken on the location of the TV drama show the actors in their settings and costumes. A historian and best-selling author takes you deep into their opinions, tastes, and habits, describing everything from how and where they bought their furniture and found their gardeners to the details of their lifestyle. A beautiful introduction to a majestic world. 208 pages, 135 color illus., 16 b/w illus., 7 3/4 x 9 1/2. NEW IN PAPERBACK[via]More editions of Aristocrats: The Illustrated Companion to the Television Series:
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Womenby Susan FaludiISBN 0307345424 (0-307-34542-4)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'Book summary:A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work: First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainstream media, career-minded women are generally not husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, "stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's positions have actually led to their downfall." Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tumultuous debate is monumental and it earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. [via]
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Becoming Divine: Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Religionby Grace JantzenISBN 0253212979 (0-253-21297-9)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860by Christine StansellISBN 0252014812 (0-252-01481-2)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerISBN 0156031825 (0-15-603182-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color Purple'Book summary:Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self. [via]
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The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventyby Gerda LernerISBN 0195090608 (0-19-509060-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolutionby Dona Munker, Sattareh Farman FarmaianISBN 0307339742 (0-307-33974-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90by Anne M. ButlerISBN 0252014669 (0-252-01466-9)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Contextby Carol MeyersISBN 0195065816 (0-19-506581-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian Americaby Carroll Smith-RosenbergISBN 0195040392 (0-19-504039-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiographyby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0252010477 (0-252-01047-7)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography'Book summary:Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book. The New Yorker
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literatures most compelling and influential authors. Hurstons powerful novels of the Southincluding Jonahs Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching Godcontinue to enthrall readers with their lyrical grace, sharp detail, and captivating emotionality. First published in 1942, Dust Tracks on a Road is Hurstons personal story, told in her own words. The Perennial Modern Classics Deluxe edition includes an all-new forward by Maya Angelou, an extended biography by Valerie Boyd, and a special P.S. section featuring the contemporary reviews that greeted the books original publication.
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The Edible Womanby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0233961399 (0-233-96139-9)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New Englandby John P. DemosISBN 0195174836 (0-19-517483-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England'Book summary:In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present. [via]
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Entertaining Satan : Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New Englandby John Putnam DemosISBN 0195031318 (0-19-503131-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800by Lawrence StoneISBN 0297771337 (0-297-77133-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Female Eunuchby Germaine GreerISBN 0261632086 (0-261-63208-6)
Hardcover, MacGibbon & Kee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Female Eunuch'Book summary:Available alongside five other Modern Classics first published by Flamingo in the 1970s, this is a re-issue of Germaine's Greer's feminist classic. Translated into many languages, "The Female Eunuch" is a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued piece of polemic. [via]
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Feminism and Compositionby Gesa E. KirschISBN 0312407645 (0-312-40764-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Feminism and Historyby Joan Wallach ScottISBN 0198751699 (0-19-875169-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Feminism, the Public and the Privateby Joan B. LandesISBN 0198752032 (0-19-875203-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Feminist Dictionaryby Cheris Kramarae, Ann Russo, Paula A. TreichlerISBN 025206643X (0-252-06643-X)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Feminist Methods in Social Researchby Shulamit ReinharzISBN 019507386X (0-19-507386-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Feminist Theology: A Readerby Karen Armstrong, Ann LoadesISBN 0281044503 (0-281-04450-3)
Hardcover, SPCK
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The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimkeby Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore GrimkeISBN 0195106059 (0-19-510605-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, Ca. 500-1100by Jane Tibbetts SchulenburgISBN 0226740544 (0-226-74054-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, Ca. 500-1100'Book summary:In this remarkable study of over 2,200 female and male saints, Jane Schulenburg explores women's status and experience in early medieval society and in the Church by examining factors such as family wealth and power, patronage, monasticism, virginity, and motherhood. The result is a unique depiction of the lives of these strong, creative, independent-minded women who achieved a visibility in their society that led to recognition of sanctity.[via]
"A tremendous piece of scholarship. . . . This journey through more than 2,000 saints is anything but dull. Along the way, Schulenburg informs our ideas regarding the role of saints in the medieval psyche, gender-specific identification, and the heroics of virginity." Library Journal
"[This book] will be a kind of 'roots' experience for some readers. They will hear the voices, haunted and haunting, of their distant ancestors and understand more about themselves." Christian Science Monitor
"This fascinating book reaches far beyond the history of Christianity to recreate the 'herstory' of a whole gender." Kate Saunders, The IndependentMore editions of Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, Ca. 500-1100:
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Moviesby Molly HaskellISBN 0226318850 (0-226-31885-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990by Donna GabacciaISBN 0253209048 (0-253-20904-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990'Book summary:"An impressive achievement by a scholar well-versed in the field." Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
"Sweeping in scope and prodigious in research, Gabaccia is able to make insightful comparisons between these female newcomers in both the past and the present and between the experiences of the foreign-born and other minorities in American society." John Bodnar
This long-needed study of women "from the other side" examines the experience of women immigrants as they came to the United Stated from all corners of the earth. Donna Gabaccia traces continuities that characterize women of both the nineteenth-century European and Asian migrations and the present-day Third World migrations. Foreign-born women, even more than men, experienced sharp tensions between communal, familial traditions and U.S. expectations of individualism and voluntarism. She also discovers strong parallels between the lives of foreign-born women and the women of America's native-born racial minorities.
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The Gendered Societyby Michael S. KimmelISBN 0195125886 (0-19-512588-6)
Softcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gendered Society'Book summary:They say that we come from different planets (men from Mars, women from Venus), that we have different brain chemistries and hormones, and that we listen, speak, and even define our morals differently. How is it then that men and women live together, take the same classes in school, eat the same food, read the same books, and receive grades according to the same criteria? In The Gendered Society, Michael S. Kimmel examines our basic beliefs about gender, arguing that men and women are more alike than we have ever imagined.
Kimmel begins his discussion by observing that all cultures share the notion that men and women are different, and that the logical extension of this assumption is that gender differences cause the obvious inequalities between the sexes. In fact, he asserts that the reverse is true--gender inequality causes the differences between men and women. Gender is not simply a quality inherent in each individual--it is deeply embedded in society's fundamental institutions: the family, school, and the workplace. The issues surrounding gender are complex, and in order to clarify them, the author has included a review of the existing literature in related disciplines such as biology, anthropology, psychology and sociology. Finally, with an eye towards the future, Kimmel offers readers a glimpse at gender relations in the next millennium.
Well-written, well-reasoned and authoritative, The Gendered Society provides a thorough overview of the current thinking about gender while persuasively arguing that it is time to reevaluate what we thought we knew about men and women. [via]More editions of The Gendered Society:
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The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywoodby Diana McLellanISBN 0312283202 (0-312-28320-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood'Book summary:The debut volume from the new L.A. Weekly imprint at St. Martin's Press, Diana McLellan's witty and penetrating study of the golden age of Hollywood sapphism will delight the armchair detective as well as the lavender movie buff. Thanks to McLellan's obsessive sleuthing, The Girls offers not only the most detailed biography of Mercedes de Acosta, seducer of the stars, but provides tantalizing evidence of an early affair in Germany between Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, women who in later life claimed never to have met. Much of the book is devoted to Garbo--another sign of the author's good taste--and revelations abound. Sadly, the golden age gave way to McCarthyism. Even the "gayest" of Hollywood lesbians retreated into the closet, or, like de Acosta, left for Europe. McLellan tracks their disappearance in the 1950s and 1960s against the first stirrings of the gay rights movement, providing a satisfying conclusion to a fascinating but not always happy tale. --Regina Marler [via]
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750by Laurel Thatcher UlrichISBN 0195033604 (0-19-503360-4)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750'Book summary:This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising -- and, all too often, mourning -- her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best. [via]
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The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolitionby Gerda LernerISBN 0195106032 (0-19-510603-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition'Book summary:The only Southern white women ever to become leading abolitionists, Sarah and Angelina Grimké encountered many obstacles and leapt many hurdles in pursuing their anti-slavery work. Their greatest accomplishment was overcoming the ubiquitous prejudices of society in regard to women. Indeed, they were the first women to take to the public platform and the first to assert women's rights. In The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, tells the compelling history of these determined sisters and the inroads they made for women and blacks alike. From their wealthy upbringing in Charleston, South Carolina, the societal restraints that kept them from higher education, and their utter contempt of slavery, to their conversion to the Quaker religion, and monumental achievements at the podium and with the pen, Lerner illuminates the lasting contributions of the Grimké sisters, as well as the important role played by women in the anti-slavery movement. [via]
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Growing Up Fastby Joanna LipperISBN 0312422237 (0-312-42223-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Growing Up Fast: Text and Photographsby Joanna LipperISBN 0312422229 (0-312-42222-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Hamlet's Mother: And Other Womenby Carolyn G. HeilbrunISBN 0231071779 (0-231-07177-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Her Blue Body Everything We Knowby Alice WalkerISBN 0156400936 (0-15-640093-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Her Blue Body Everything We Know'Book summary:The quest for peace and joy in a difficult world drives Walker's poetry. Even the most difficult moments can be redeemed, she seems to be saying in the excellent "Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See you in the Morning." Walker has grown as a poet, so that much of the strongest material comes in the later work, especially the wistful "Poem at Thirty-Nine." Highly recommended. [via]
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A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Presentby Bonnie S Anderson, Judith P. ZinsserISBN 0195128397 (0-19-512839-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present'Book summary:This classic two-volume history is an exciting and revolutionary look at women's history from prehistoric times to the present. Its unique organization focuses on the developments, achievements, and changes in women's roles in society. Rather than examining women's history as an inevitable progression of events along a strict timeline, this text is organized within a loose chronology, with chapters focusing on women's place and function in society. This revised edition provides a new introduction, an updated epilogue on women's lives in Europe since 1988, and a completely revised bibliography that includes recent scholarship. A History of Their Own restores women to the historical record, brings their history into focus, and provides models of female action and heroism. Lively and engaging, this new edition takes readers on a fascinating journey through women's history and the changing roles they have played. In addition it is an ideal text for general courses in women's studies and women's history and more specialized courses focusing on women in European history.
Volume Two covers the fifteenth century to the present. Topics include the roles of female monarchs and women of the court; the application of the new tools of the Scientific Revolution to prove traditional views of women; the salons and parlors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and wealthy women's contributions to the arts and social services; the impact of city-living and the Industrial Revolution on women's roles and family life; and the emergence, evolution, and impact of the modern feminist movement. [via]More editions of A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present:
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Veniceby Margaret F. RosenthalISBN 0226728129 (0-226-72812-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice'Book summary:The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onestathe honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, whose published poems and familiar letters offer rich testimony to the complexity of the honest courtesan's position.[via]
Margaret F. Rosenthal draws a compelling portrait of Veronica Franco in her cultural social, and economic world. Rosenthal reveals in Franco's writing a passionate support of defenseless women, strong convictions about inequality, and, in the eroticized language of her epistolary verses, the seductive political nature of all poetic contests. It is Veronica Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and womenand her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporariesthat makes her literary works and her dealings with Venetian intellectuals so pertinent today.
Combining the resources of biography, history, literary theory, and cultural criticism, this sophisticated interdisciplinary work presents an eloquent and often moving account of one woman's life as an act of self-creation and as a complex response to social forces and cultural conditions.
"A book . . . pleasurably redolent of Venice in the 16th-century. Rosenthal gives a vivid sense of a world of salons and coteries, of intricate networks of family and patronage, and of literary exchanges both intellectual and erotic."Helen Hackett, Times Higher Education Supplement
The Honest Courtesan is the basis for the film Dangerous Beauty (1998) directed by Marshall Herskovitz. (The film was re-titled The Honest Courtesan for release in the UK and Europe in 1999.)More editions of The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice:
In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stantonby Elisabeth GriffithISBN 0195037294 (0-19-503729-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in Americaby Barbara SolomonISBN 0300036396 (0-300-03639-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Literary Womenby Ellen MoersISBN 0195035828 (0-19-503582-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Valerie AldersonISBN 0192834347 (0-19-283434-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:This popular series of readers has now been completely revised and updated, using a new syllabus and new word structure lists. Readability has been ensured by means of specially designed computer software. Words that are above level but essential to the story are explained within the text, illustrated, and then reused for maximum reinforcement. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Little Women: ISBN 0307122131 (0-307-12213-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Little Women: ISBN 0307171167 (0-307-17116-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Little Women: ISBN 030767116X (0-307-67116-X)
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Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 0307275167 (0-307-27516-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:The first thing you notice about the audio version of Memoirs of a Geisha is that Arthur Golden's 428-page novel has been reduced to a scant two cassettes. But dismay quickly gives way to mounting pleasure as Elaina Erika Davis (Contact, As the World Turns) begins her delicate rendering of geisha culture in the years before World War II. Davis reads the abbreviated story of Sayuri with an authentic-sounding Japanese accent--one mixed with a magical combination of Asian reserve and theatrical energy. As Sayuri ages from a 9-year-old peasant girl to a popular geisha in her late 20s, Davis directs her voice gently away from curious youth to a tone that reflects Sayuri's uphill life.
From start to finish, the listener is absorbed in the elegant spirit of Davis's performance, eager to hear the next chapter of Sayuri's transformation into one of the most famous geishas of the century. How unfortunate, then, to learn that book readers not only get the basic story, but a fascinating look at the intricate rules and rituals of geisha culture. Here, for example, is one of the many revelations omitted from the cassette: "Japanese men, as a rule, feel about a woman's neck and throat the same way that men in the West might feel about a woman's legs.... In fact, a geisha leaves a tiny margin of skin bare all around the hairline, causing her makeup to look even more artificial.... When a man sits beside her, he becomes that much more aware of the bare skin beneath."
We're also denied several subplots--the aborted friendship between Sayuri and a geisha named Pumpkin, for example, or much of the story involving the man Sayuri is secretly in love with. But what remains is as precious as a traditional Japanese kimono--at once artistic, suggestive, and moving. --Ann Senechal [via]
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Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur Golden, Pilar VazquezISBN 0307275302 (0-307-27530-2)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:Una sensación literaria y bestseller internacional presenta con perfecta autenticidad y exquisito lirismo las fieles confesiones de una de las geishas más famosas de Japón.
En Memorias de una geisha entramos a un mundo donde las apariencias son de suma importancia; donde la virginidad de una niña es subastada al mejor postor; donde las mujeres son entrenadas para seducir a los hombres más poderosos; y donde el amor es desdeñado como una mera ilusión. Es una obra de ficción única y triunfal al mismo tiempo romántica, erótica y de suspenso absolutamente inolvidable. [via]More editions of Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha:
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Mujercitas / Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0307349942 (0-307-34994-2)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mujercitas / Little Women'Book summary:Este es un libro que raro será encontrar una mujer que no lo haya leído, sea joven o mayor. Mujercitas es más que un clásico, que ha sido llevado al cine y a la TV en más de una ocasión y que narra las aventuras de las cuatro hijas de la familia March, Meg, Jo, Beth y Amy en un soberbio retrato de la vida americana, en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, con el que tuvo tanto éxito que publica la continuación en 1869. La obra tiene tintes autobiográficos de la autora, que se basó en sus padres, sus hermanas, sus amigos de Nueva-Inglaterra y de Europa. Las cuatro hermanas realizan un aprendizaje, a veces doloroso, a veces fascinante, de la vida y del amor. Van creciendo y abandonando, una a una, el hogar familiar para casarse y crear sus propias familias. Sólo se queda Jo, que quiere ser escritora. A pesar de la sensación que tiene de que ya ha terminado su tiempo de felicidad, sigue escribiendo y consigue publicar su primera obra. [via]
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Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Womenby Lily Patience MoyaISBN 0253286409 (0-253-28640-9)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Womenby Shula Marks, Lily Patience Moya, Mabel Palmer, Sibusisiwe MakhanyaISBN 0253348439 (0-253-34843-9)
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century Americaby Lillian FadermanISBN 0231074883 (0-231-07488-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, novels, medical literature, pop culture artifacts, and oral histories by lesbians of all ages and backgrounds, uncovering a narrative of uncommon depth and originality.
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Out to Work: The History of Wage-earning Women in the United Statesby Alice Kessler-HarrisISBN 0195157095 (0-19-515709-5)
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The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United Statesby Cathy N. Davidson, Elizabeth Ammons, Linda Wagner-MartinISBN 0195066081 (0-19-506608-1)
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Passionate Politics: Essays, 1968-1986by Charlotte BunchISBN 0312018045 (0-312-01804-5)
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Passionate Politics: Essays, 1968-1986 Feminist Theory in Actionby Charlotte BunchISBN 0312006675 (0-312-00667-5)
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Psychology of Women: Ongoing Debatesby Mary Roth WalshISBN 0300039662 (0-300-03966-2)
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Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspectiveby Amina WadudISBN 0195128362 (0-19-512836-2)
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Reflections on Gender and Scienceby Evelyn Fox KellerISBN 0300065957 (0-300-06595-7)
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156787334 (0-15-678733-4)
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In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister-a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create. [via]
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Simone De Beauvoir: A Life a Love Storyby Claude Francis, Fernande GontierISBN 0312023243 (0-312-02324-3)
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Serviceby Laura KaplanISBN 0226424219 (0-226-42421-9)
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Third World Women and the Politics of Feminismby Chandra T. Mohanty, Anna Russo, Lourdes TorresISBN 0253206324 (0-253-20632-4)
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Three Guineasby Virginia Woolf, Jane Marcus, Mark HusseyISBN 0156031639 (0-15-603163-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Guineas'Book summary:Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation.[via]
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Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellersby Jane RobinsonISBN 019280233X (0-19-280233-X)
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Why History Matters: Life and Thoughtby Gerda LernerISBN 0195122895 (0-19-512289-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why History Matters: Life and Thought'Book summary:For historian Gerda Lerner, the personal and the professional are inextricably linked. Recently retired from her position as a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Lerner has crafted a profound and powerful meditation on what history means to her, and why it should matter to us. The essays in Why History Matters strongly connect Lerner's Judaism and her dual roles as feminist and historian: "To be a Jew means to live history," she writes, while Judaism's divisions between the sexes--particularly its denial of full participation in synagogue to women--eventually led to her embrace of feminism and her pioneering work in the field of women's history.
The position of women and other oppressed groups is of paramount interest to Lerner, and the longest essay in this collection deals with her theories of patriarchy as the father of all discriminatory systems. Class and race are other issues that concern Lerner, and they crop up again here in her discussion of the differences between black and white women's views of feminism. Sex, class, and race--all the hot-flash points at work in today's society--are accounted for in Why History Matter. There are connections, Lerner argues, between the violence, poverty, racism, and sexism we see all around us and the attitudes and events of the past. She has spent her life tracing these causes and effects, encouraged by her belief that understanding the past ensures a better future. And that, Gerda Lerner insists, is why history matters. [via]
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Women and the Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Changeby Elizabeth FerneaISBN 0292755295 (0-292-75529-5)
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Women in Medieval Life: A Small Sound of the Trumpetby Margaret Wade LabargeISBN 0241118093 (0-241-11809-3)
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Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940by Shari BenstockISBN 0292790406 (0-292-79040-6)
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Women of the Renaissanceby Margaret L. KingISBN 0226436187 (0-226-43618-7)
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Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history, King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and unusual settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by most women of the dayas mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and workers. She turns then to that significant fraction of women in, and acted upon, by the church: nuns, uncloistered holy women, saints, heretics, reformers,and witches, devoting special attention to the social and economic independence monastic life afforded them. The lives of exceptional women, those warriors, queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who found some other place in society for their energies and strivings, are explored, with consideration given to the works and writings of those first protesting female subordination: the French Christine de Pizan, the Italian Modesta da Pozzo, the English Mary Astell.
Of interest to students of European history and women's studies, King's volume will also appeal to general readers seeking an informative, engaging entrance into the Renaissance period.More editions of Women of the Renaissance:
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A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Leonard WoolfISBN 015698380X (0-15-698380-X)
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Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur Golden, Pilar VazquezISBN 0307275310 (0-307-27531-0)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:Una sensación literaria y bestseller internacional presenta con perfecta autenticidad y exquisito lirismo las fieles confesiones de una de las geishas m!s famosas de Japón.
En Memorias de una geisha entramos a un mundo donde las apariencias son de suma importancia; donde la virginidad de una niña es subastada al mejor postor; donde las mujeres son entrenadas para seducir a los hombres más poderosos; y donde el amor es desdeado como una mera ilusión. Es una obra de ficción única y triunfal al mismo tiempo romántica, erótica y de suspenso absolutamente inolvidable. [via]More editions of Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha:
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