Gender Studies
New Releases
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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Philadelphia Freedom Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer David Kairys 6 x 9. 442 pgs. 8 B&W photographs. 2008
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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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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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Best Sellers
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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
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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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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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Waiting for the Call From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom Jacqueline Taylor 6 x 9. 232 pgs. 2007
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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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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
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Award-Winning Books
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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
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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
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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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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
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