Category: Gender Studies

This book explores women's desire for women as it is located in examples of twentieth-century British and American women's writing, including fiction, memoir, and poetry by such writers as Virginia Woolf, Vivian Gornick, Dorothy Allison, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marilyn Hacker, and Audre Lorde. Suzanne Juhasz discusses how literary writing functions to enact and negotiate a series of relationships between women: daughter-mother, mother-daughter, lesbian lover-lesbian lover, writer-reader, and reader-writer. She shows how writing is a component of interpersonal relationships and how relation...
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A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns

By: Bongiovanni, Archie,Jimerson, Tristan

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Limerence Press : June 2018

Seller ID: 464417

ISBN-13: 9781620104996

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A quick, easy and important educational comic guide to using gender-neutral pronouns. "A great, simple look at the importance of using correct pronouns; extremely accessible to those for whom gender-neutral language is a new concept." -- School Library Journal (starred review) Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic guide that explains what prono...
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A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns

By: Bongiovanni, Archie,Jimerson, Tristan

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Limerence Press : June 2018

Seller ID: 464428

ISBN-13: 9781620104996

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A quick, easy and important educational comic guide to using gender-neutral pronouns. "A great, simple look at the importance of using correct pronouns; extremely accessible to those for whom gender-neutral language is a new concept." -- School Library Journal (starred review) Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic guide that explains what prono...
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A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns

By: Bongiovanni, Archie,Jimerson, Tristan

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Limerence Press : June 2018

Seller ID: 471301

ISBN-13: 9781620104996

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A quick, easy and important educational comic guide to using gender-neutral pronouns. "A great, simple look at the importance of using correct pronouns; extremely accessible to those for whom gender-neutral language is a new concept." -- School Library Journal (starred review) Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic guide that explains what prono...
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A Room of One's Own

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Harvest Books : September 1989

Seller ID: 215044

ISBN-13: 9780156787338

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." 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, Woolf takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the w...
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A Room of One's Own

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Harvest Books : September 1989

Seller ID: 473073

ISBN-13: 9780156787338

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." 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, Woolf takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the w...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (Modern Library Classics)

By: Wollstonecraft, Mary

Price: $5.48

Publisher: Modern Library : June 2001

Seller ID: 320618

ISBN-13: 9780375757228

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends to women the Enlightenment principle of the rights of man, its argument remains as relevant today as it was for Woll-stonecraft's contemporaries. Mary Wollstonecraft was not the first writer to call for women to receive a real, challenging education, writes Katha Pollitt in the new Introduction. But she was the first to connect the education of women to the transformation of women's social positio...
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Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China

By: Ping, Wang

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Anchor : March 2002

Seller ID: 269285

ISBN-13: 9780385721363

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

When Wang Ping was nine years old, she secretly set about binding her feet with elastic bands. Footbinding had by then been outlawed in China, women's feet "liberated," but at that young age she desperately wanted the tiny feet her grandmother had-deformed and malodorous as they were. By first examining the root of her own girlhood desire, Wang unleashes a fascinating inquiry into a centuries-old custom.Aching for Beauty combines Wang's unique perspective and remarkable literary gifts in an award-winning exploration of the history and culture surrounding footbinding. In setting out to demystif...
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Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan : February 2004

Seller ID: 151481

ISBN-13: 9781403963963

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. What can they tell us about women in the Twent-first-century? What can they tell us about how popular culture depicts women? Do the characters escape traditional gender role expectations? Or do they adhere to sexual, racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes? The essays in Action Chicks provide fans with a new look at their favourite icons and their relationship to the ...
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Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

By: Zakaria, Rafia

Price: $15.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 2022

Seller ID: 453503

ISBN-13: 9781324035992

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: hooks, bell

Price: $36.95

Publisher: Routledge : October 2014

Seller ID: 464478

ISBN-13: 9781138821514

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf.

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: hooks, bell

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Routledge : October 2014

Seller ID: 464859

ISBN-13: 9781138821514

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf.

At My Father's Wedding: Reclaiming Our True Masculinity

By: Lee, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bantam : October 1991

Seller ID: 239073

ISBN-13: 9780553077308

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Back Rooms: Voices from the Illegal Abortion Era

By: Messer

Price: $19.98

Publisher: JMB Publications : 2019

Seller ID: 476883

ISBN-13: 9780961942946

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Back Rooms: Voices from the Illegal Abortion Era

By: Messer, Ellen, May, Kathryn E., E., May. Kathryn

Price: $21.99

Publisher: Prometheus Books : March 1994

Seller ID: 439563

ISBN-13: 9780879758769

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

2016 reprint
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Back Rooms: Voices from the Illegal Abortion Era

By: Messer, Ellen, May, Kathryn E., E., May. Kathryn

Price: $21.99

Publisher: Prometheus Books : March 1994

Seller ID: 438735

ISBN-13: 9780879758769

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

2016 reprint 2016 and 2019 publication
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

By: Faludi, Susan

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Anchor : October 1992

Seller ID: 395886

ISBN-13: 9780385425070

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is "as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The "Second Sex" and Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique,"" -- "Newsweek,"
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Bad Girls Throughout History

By: Shen, Ann

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Chronicle Books : September 2016

Seller ID: 476087

ISBN-13: 9781452153933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, delivers on both counts. Featuring 100 women who made history and made their mark on the world, it's a book you can be proud to display in your home. Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, women's rights activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer. Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Joan Jett, godmother of punk. The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book ...
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Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationships

By: Taylor, Jill McLean, Gilligan, Carol, Sullivan, Amy

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press : October 1997

Seller ID: 194999

ISBN-13: 9780674068803

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

More than any other psychologist, Carol Gilligan has helped us to hear girls' voices just when they seem to be blurring and fading or becoming disruptive during the passage into womanhood. When adolescent girls--once assured and resilient--silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed, and develop eating disorders or other psychological problems. But when adolescent girls remain outspoken it is often difficult for others to stay in relationship with them, leading girls to be excluded or labeled as troublemakers. If this is true in an affluent suburban sett...
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Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women

By: Traister, Rebecca

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Free Press : September 2010

Seller ID: 313449

ISBN-13: 9781439150283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

REBECCA TRAISTER, whose coverage of the 2008 presidential election for Salon confirmed her to be a gifted cultural observer, offers a startling appraisal of what the campaign meant for all of us. Though the election didn't give us our first woman president or vice president, the exhilarating campaign was nonetheless transformative for American women and for the nation. In Big Girls Don't Cry, her electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining first book, Traister tells a terrific story and makes sense of a moment in American history that changed the country's narrative in ways that no one anti...
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Black Looks: Race and Representation

By: hooks, bell

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Routledge : October 2014

Seller ID: 464482

ISBN-13: 9781138821552

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship--in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film--and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: "the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert." As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any other r...
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Bodily Discursions: Genders, Representations, Technologies (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)

By: Wilson, Deborah S.

Price: $5.98

Publisher: State University of New York Press : February 1997

Seller ID: 343864

ISBN-13: 9780791431887

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bodily Discursions offers a multiplicity of feminist perspectives on the body, especially the female body, from a variety of disciplines: literary history, social theory, art history, cultural studies, the history of rhetoric, film, and literary criticism among others. Subjects range from public punishment of outspoken women during the English Renaissance to current responses to the AIDS pandemic in the popular media. Contributors include Alice E. Adams, Susanmarie Harrington, Catherine Hobbs, Cynthia Huff, Cathy Peppers, Roberta Schreyer, Julie Shaffer, Torri L. Thompson, Angela Wall, Deborah...
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Born for Liberty

By: Evans, Sara

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Free Press : August 1997

Seller ID: 318469

ISBN-13: 9780684834986

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The most concise and comprehensive one-volume history of American women--from the indigenous women of the 16th-century wilderness to the dual-role career women and mothers of contemporary times--this book brings American womanhood to center stage, exploring the lives of pioneers and slaves, immigrants and factory workers, executives and homemakers.
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Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change (Contemporary Societies Series)

By: Lorber, Judith

Price: $7.99

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : May 2005

Seller ID: 442583

ISBN-13: 9780393973259

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Breaking the Bowls is part of the Contemporary Societies series.
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Called to Healing: Reflections on the Power of Earth's Stories in Women's Lives

By: Troy-Smith, Jean

Price: $27.98

Publisher: State University of New York Press : July 1996

Seller ID: 301688

ISBN-13: 9780791429761

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Women's paths to personal wholeness and self-healing are explored through an eco-feminist, reader-response analysis of four fictional narratives. Included in these are Mary Austin, Harriette Arnow, Ellen Galford, Ibis Gomez-Vega, Sally Carrighar.
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Celebration of Healing

By: Neal, Emily Gardiner

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Cowley Pubns : July 1992

Seller ID: 266192

ISBN-13: 9781561010288

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A few pages have highlighting.
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Chinese Women: A Thousand Pieces of Gold

By: White, Barbara-Sue

Price: $11.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : February 2004

Seller ID: 319520

ISBN-13: 9780195914870

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This anthology brings together scores of extracts by Chinese women and about Chinese women, ranging from the sixth century CE to the modern day, several of them never before published.
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Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Seal Press : July 2019

Seller ID: 247213

ISBN-13: 9781580057769

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen, including Black Lives Matter, transgender rights, and the activism of young undocumented students. Social media has also changed how feminism reaches young women of color, generating connections in all cor...
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Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 (Gender and American Culture)

By: Orleck, Annelise

Price: $9.98

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press : May 1995

Seller ID: 248141

ISBN-13: 9780807845110

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Common Sense and a Little Fire traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely had more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement. Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit teneme...
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Composing a Life

By: Bateson, Mary Catherine

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Grove Press : May 2001

Seller ID: 425555

ISBN-13: 9780802138040

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Mary Catherine Bateson has been called "one of the most original and important thinkers of our time" (Deborah Tannen). Grove Press is pleased to reissue Batesoh's deeply satisfying treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women. Using their personal stories as her framework, Dr. Bateson delves into the creative potential of the complex lives we live today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities. With balanced sympathy and a candid approach to what makes these women inspiring, examples of the newly fluid movement of adaptation -- their relatio...
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Compulsion to Create

By: Kavaler-Adler, Susan

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Other Press Professional : January 2000

Seller ID: 121267

ISBN-13: 9781892746597

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In psychobiographies of six famous women writers, the founder of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis analyzes the role of the idealized male muse (often the Oedipal father) in the creativity of Nin, Plath, Charlotte and Emily Brontd, Dickinson, and Sitwell. First publ
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Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

By: Kolbert, Kathryn,Kay, Julie F.

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Hachette Books : July 2021

Seller ID: 417393

ISBN-13: 9780306925634

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This definitive account of the battle for reproductive freedom includes a bold new strategy to safeguard our rights, from two lawyers at the forefront of the movement. Reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Roe v. Wade protected abortion rights and Planned Parenthood v. Casey unexpectedly preserved them. Yet in the following decades these rights have been gutted by restrictive state legislation, the appointment of hundreds of anti-abortion judges, and violence against abortion providers. Today, the ultra-conservative majority at the Supreme Court has activists, medical provi...
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Corporate Victimization Of Women

By: Szockyj, Elizabeth

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Northeastern : May 1996

Seller ID: 343872

ISBN-13: 9781555532604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Women are disproportionately victimized by corporations that knowingly violate their physical, psychological, legal, and economic rights for power and profit. This book proposes a theoretical framework for the study of corporate victimization of women and presents essays by experts in law, economics, and criminology that address injuries and discrimination sustained by women in the labor market and as consumers.
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Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women

By: Hansen, Joseph,Reed, Evelyn,Waters, Mary-Alice

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY) : March 1993

Seller ID: 293773

ISBN-13: 9780873486590

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

How big business promotes cosmetics to generate profits and perpetuate the inferior status of women. In her introduction, Mary-Alice Waters explains how the entry of millions of women into the workforce during and after World War II irreversibly changed U.S. society and laid the basis for the advances women have won through struggle over the last three decades.
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Crossing to Avalon

By: Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harpercollins Publisher : May 1994

Seller ID: 107258

ISBN-13: 9780062501127

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Daughters of the Goddess: The Women Saints of India

By: Johnsen, Linda

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Yes International Publishers : April 1994

Seller ID: 239347

ISBN-13: 9780936663098

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book takes us along on a search for the feminine face of God. We travel with Linda Johnsen for a fascinating investigation of the great women saints of India who manifest the divine in their lives. Together with her we comb the scriptures, meet the holy ones, and are led, step by step, to sit in awe at the feet of six remarkable, contemporary women.
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Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood

By: Wolf, Linda,Hughes, Wind K.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: New Society Publishers : July 1998

Seller ID: 438494

ISBN-13: 9780865713772

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Twenty-one young women share life lessons, coming-of-age stories, and interviews with the remarkable women who influenced their growth.
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DEADLY PERSUASION: Why Women And Girls Must Fight The Addictive Power Of Advertising

By: Kilbourne, Jean

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Free Press : November 1999

Seller ID: 318475

ISBN-13: 9780684865997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Discusses the advertising establishment, revealing what advertisers know about human nature and how they exploit it to make a profit.
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Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America

By: Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 1987

Seller ID: 318470

ISBN-13: 9780195040395

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it examines the dramatic changes in male-female relations, family structure, sex, social custom, and ritual that occurred as colonial America was transformed by rapid industrialization. Included are two now classic essays on gender relations in 19th-century America, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Ninetee...
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