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The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age
Oxford University Press 1994; US$ 34.99Explores the social history of Europe and Colonial America from the onset of the Black Death to the beginning of the Industrial Age, shedding light on the similarities and differences between families of the past and those of today. more...
When Women Lead
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 49.99Until recently, the study of legislative leadership has been the study of men. Scholars have taught students that legislative leadership is transactional, a kind of competitive bargaining procedure to broker particular interests. When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures brings to light the important contributions that women as... more...
Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415-1815
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 84.99Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415-1815 more...
Loose Women, Lecherous Men
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 59.99Linda LeMoncheck introduces a new way of thinking and talking about women's sexual pleasures, preferences, and desires. Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, she discusses methods for mediating the tensions among apparently irreconcilable feminist perspectives on women's sexuality and shows how a feminist epistemology and ethic can advance... more...
Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 24.95Why has the integration of women into Congress been so slow? Why are there so many more Democratic women in Congress than Republican? This is a book on women in US politics, with key data from primary and general election for House and Senate since 1956. It is meant for students who need a guide to the subject. more...
Slowing Down to the Speed of Love
McGraw-Hill 2003; US$ 19.95From the coauthor of the international bestseller Slowing Down to the Speed of Life. ''I believe this book has the capacity to touch something inside youdeep enough to help you make significant, positive changes in your life.''--from the Foreword by Richard Carlson, author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff. Bestselling author Joseph Bailey shows... more...
Age Matters
CRC Press 2006; US$ 34.95This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power relations interface with race and ethnicity, class... more...
Female Prostitution in Costa Rica
CRC Press 2006; US$ 95.00This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of the coffee producing highlands due to differential economic,... more...
Count the Ways
McGraw-Hill 2001; US$ 19.95In the fascinating Count the Ways, award-winning journalist Paul Aron tells the true stories of 25 of the greatest loves of our times. Here are Woodrow and Edith Wilson, for whom love was her path to power . . . and Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, for whom love meant giving up his throne. Here are Christopher and Dana Reeve, whose love inspired him... more...
The Womanist Reader
Routledge 2006; US$ 33.95Comprehensive in its coverage, The Womanist Reader is the first volume to anthologize the major works of womanist scholarship. Charting the course of womanist theory from its genesis as Alice Walker's African-American feminism, through Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi's African womanism and Clenora Hudson-Weems' Africana womanism, to its present-day expression... more...









