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Helen Keller
[Paperback 2011]
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Helen Keller's triumph over her blindness and deafness has become one of the most inspiring stories of our time. Here, in a book first published when she was young woman, is Helen Keller's own story--complex, poignant, and filled with love. Revised reissue. Recounting her triumph over deafness and blindness and... more
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Ann Shankar ,
Jenny Housego
[Paperback 2006]
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Breaks new ground in exploring this fascinating village tradition.... more
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Mary Wollstonecraft ,
Miriam Brody
[Paperback 2004]
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First published in 1792, this book was written in a spirit of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. Her book is both a sustained argument for emancipation and an... more
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Smith Davies Publishing
[Hardbound 2006]
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Sam Wasson
[Hardcover 2010]
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"Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M." is the first-ever complete account of the making of the classic film "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey--dainty, immaculate--is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents... more
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Claire Eustance ,
Joan Ryan ,
Laura Ugolini
[Paperback 2000]
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The history of British suffrage is diverse and contradictory. By examining both traditional and recent writings on suffrage, this compelling new volume takes a closer look at the motives -- and outcomes -- for British women's campaign to vote during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The authors compare how... more
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Darshan Singh Tatla
[Paperback 1998]
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The Sikh Diaspora is an impressive, probing, and original examination of the migrant Sikh population. Exploring the cultural, economic, and social linkages between overseas Sikh communities and the Punjab, Darshan Singh Tatla focuses on issues such as the politics of homeland, the dynamics of ethnic and political bonds, and the... more
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Beth Baron
[Paperback 1997]
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Between 1892 and 1920 nearly thirty Arabic periodicals by, for, and about women were produced in Egypt for circulation throughout the Arab world. In this book, historian Beth Baron presents the first sustained study of this remarkable material, setting it in the context of the dramatic social transformation of the... more
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Carrie Tarr ,
Brigitte Rollet
[Paperback 2001]
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Women's film-making in France is a source of both delight and despair. On the one hand, the numbers are impressive--during the period in question, over 250 feature-length films were made by over 100 women directors in France. On the other hand, despite the heritage of French feminism, French women directors... more
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Jennifer Scanlon
[Hardcover 1999]
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The history of the second wave of feminism in the United States demonstrates the potential for both serious social change and seemingly intractable divisions among women. Race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and religion have all been dividing influences among women, shaping their various perspectives on and relations to the... more
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Nancy A Hewitt
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F Graeme Chalmers
[Hardcover 1998]
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A historical perspective on current issues, such as gender and class, is applied to art education and rendered through the study of two specific institutions, the Female School of Design in London and the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. Sweeping generalizations are avoided as women's history, intertwined with men's,... more
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Anna L Harvey ,
Randall Calvert ,
Thrainn Eggertsson
[Paperback 1998]
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This book explains why the increasing importance of women's votes throughout the 1920s did not imply increasing success for the lobbying efforts of women's organisations. This book explores why the increasing importance of women's votes in the 1920s did NOT lead to increasing success for the lobbying efforts of women's... more
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Anna Briggs Bentley ,
Emily Foster ,
Rita Kohn
[Hardcover 2003]
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In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the... more
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R M Douglas
[Hardcover 1999]
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The Women Police Service was unique as a feminist organization dedicated to the supervision and control of women themselves. Formed in 1914 by middle-class veterans of the militant suffrage campaign in Britain, at odds throughout its history with both the authorities and mainstream feminist organizations and frequently operating in defiance... more
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Anthony Fletcher
[Paperback 1999]
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Men and women in early modern England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy-the social and cultural dominance of the male-has long been a fundamental feature of western civilization yet has only recently begun to be systematically investigated by historians. This book is... more
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Bonnie S Anderson ,
Judith P Zinsser
[Paperback 1999]
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Carol Bleser
[Paperback 1992]
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Miriam Formanek Brunell
[Paperback 1998]
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In "Made to Play House, " Miriam Formanek-Brunell traces the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century dolls and explores the origins of the American toy industry's remarkably successful efforts to promote self fulfillment through maternity and materialism. She tells the fascinating story of how inventors, producers, entrepreneurs--many of whom were women--and... more
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Diane Negra
[Paperback 2001]
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Off-White Hollywood investigates how the 'ethnicity' of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation building. Negra focuses on key stars of the silent - Colleen Moore and Pola Negri - classical - Sonja Henie and Hedy Lamarr - and post-classical eras... more
