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An Angle of Vision by Lopez   An Angle of Vision
Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots

Edited by Lorraine M. López

Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home

6 x 9. 216 pgs. 2009
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978-0-472-07078-7    
978-0-472-05078-9    
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Manning the Margins by Seifert   Manning the Margins
Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France

Lewis C. Seifert

The first book-length study of writing, men, and masculinity in seventeenth-century France

6 x 9. 352 pgs. 2 B&W illustrations. 2009
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978-0-472-07058-9    
978-0-472-05058-1    
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Moisture of the Earth by Buss   Moisture of the Earth
Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist

Fran Leeper Buss, Editor

A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced

6 x 9. 248 pgs. 16 B&W photographs. 2009
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978-0-472-09587-2    
978-0-472-06587-5    
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What Do Gay Men Want? by Halperin   What Do Gay Men Want?
An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity

David M. Halperin

A crucial effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts

5 x 8.5. 176 pgs. 2007
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978-0-472-11622-5    
978-0-472-03365-2    
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Lost and Found by Lifton   Lost and Found
The Adoption Experience
Third Edition

Betty Jean Lifton

Explores the obstacles and issues that adoptees, orphans, and foster children face when they have been separated from a parent or denied the right to know their origins

5.5 x 8.5. 344 pgs. 2009
Paper     978-0-472-03328-7     $16.95T     Available
 
Framed by Miller   Framed
The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

By introducing us to the New Woman Criminal, Framed offers a profoundly different view of the fin de siècle British crime narrative

6 x 9. 296 pgs. 30 B&W illustrations. 2008
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978-0-472-07044-2    
978-0-472-05044-4    
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When Women Have Wings by Murdock   When Women Have Wings
Feminism and Development in Medellín, Colombia

Donna F. Murdock

A vivid and detailed ethnographic account of the problems of professionalization and feminism in a community center project in one of Medellín, Colombia's most embattled working class districts

6 x 9. 272 pgs. 9 B&W photographs, 1 table. 2008
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978-0-472-07035-0    
978-0-472-05035-2    
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Philadelphia Freedom by Kairys   Philadelphia Freedom
Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

David Kairys

6 x 9. 442 pgs. 8 B&W photographs. 2008
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978-0-472-11638-6    
978-0-472-03310-2    
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American Jewish Identity Politics by Moore   American Jewish Identity Politics

Deborah Dash Moore, editor

Explores changes among American Jews in their self-understanding during the last half of the twentieth century

6 x 9. 344 pgs. 11 B&W photograph and tables. 2008
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978-0-472-11648-5    
978-0-472-03288-4    
$80.00S    
$27.95S    
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Disability Theory by Siebers   Disability Theory

Tobin Siebers

Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies

6 x 9. 240 pgs. 2 illustrations, 2 B&W photographs. 2008
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978-0-472-07039-8    
978-0-472-05039-0    
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Best Sellers

Forged under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol by Buss   Forged under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol
The Life of Maria Elena Lucas

Edited and with an Introduction by Fran Leeper Buss

The compelling oral history of a remarkable woman's life and political struggle

6 x 9. 336 pgs. 10 photographs. 1993
Paper     978-0-472-06432-8     $17.95T     Available
 
My Body Politic by Linton   My Body Politic
A Memoir

Simi Linton

An irreverent memoir of one woman's personal and political journey from 1960s counterculture to disability activism

6 x 9. 256 pgs. 2005
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978-0-472-11539-6    
978-0-472-03236-5    
$25.95T    
$19.95S    
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The Unraveling Archive by Helle   The Unraveling Archive
Essays on Sylvia Plath

Edited by Anita Helle

Fresh perspectives that provide new readings of the life and work of one of our most celebrated poets

6 x 9. 298 pgs. 2 color illustrations, 12 B&W color illustrations. 2007
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978-0-472-09927-6    
978-0-472-06927-9    
$70.00S    
$24.95T    
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Waiting for the Call by Taylor   Waiting for the Call
From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom

Jacqueline Taylor

6 x 9. 232 pgs. 2007
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978-0-472-11594-5    
978-0-472-03238-9    
$54.50S    
$18.95T    
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What Do Gay Men Want? by Halperin   What Do Gay Men Want?
An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity

David M. Halperin

A crucial effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts

5 x 8.5. 176 pgs. 2007
Cloth    
Paper    
978-0-472-11622-5    
978-0-472-03365-2    
$22.95T    
$17.95T    
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The Woman Who Knew Too Much by Greene   The Woman Who Knew Too Much
Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation

Gayle Greene

The life story of the epidemiologist who discovered the harmful effects of fetal X rays and other radiation exposure

6 x 9. 360 pgs. 32 photographs. 1999
Paper     978-0-472-08783-9     $18.95S     Available
 

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Award-Winning Books

Jackie Ormes by Goldstein   Jackie Ormes
The First African American Woman Cartoonist

Nancy Goldstein

Named a Booklist Top 10 Art Book of 2008

Named a Best Book of 2008 by the Village Voice

Named an American Library Association Booklist Top 10 Biography of the Year

8.5 x 11. 240 pgs. 164 illustrations including 18 pages of color strip. 2008
Cloth     978-0-472-11624-9     $35.00T     Available
 
Justice, Gender, and Affirmative Action by Clayton   Justice, Gender, and Affirmative Action

Susan D. Clayton and Faye J. Crosby

Winner: Gustavus Myers Center for The Study of Human Rights in the United States' Outstanding Book

6 x 9. 168 pgs. 1993
Paper     978-0-472-06464-9     $21.95S     Available
 
Queering Mestizaje by Arrizon   Queering Mestizaje
Transculturation and Performance

Alicia Arrizón

Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2008 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

Co-winner of the 2007 Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies

6 x 9. 256 pgs. 29 illustrations. 2006
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978-0-472-09955-9    
978-0-472-06955-2    
$70.00S    
$29.95S    
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When Romeo Was a Woman by Merrill   When Romeo Was a Woman
Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators

Lisa Merrill

Winner: 2000 Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre

6 x 9. 344 pgs.7 drawings, 24 photographs. 1999
Paper     978-0-472-08749-5     $26.95S     Available
 

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