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Pole dancing, empowerment and embodiment Pole dancing, empowerment and embodiment Samantha Holland "This book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and gender, and age and fitness. In particular, the book… OL15027318W
Resistance Behind Bars Resistance Behind Bars Victoria Law In 1974, women imprisoned at New York's maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off… OL15673260W
Transfeminist perspectives in and beyond gender studies Transfeminist perspectives in and beyond gender studies Anne Enke If feminist studies and transgender studies are so intimately connected, why are they not more deeply integrated? Offering multidisciplinary models for this assimilation, the vibrant essays in Transf… OL16240014W
Women change the world Women change the world Michelle Patterson "Women Change the World is a collection of world-changing women-from actresses, recording artists, and writers to businesswomen and other high-profile female professionals-on women's unique contribut… OL17887926W
Taishō chic Taishō chic Sharon Minichiello,Kendall H. Brown,Sharon A. Minichiello "Catalogue entries on popular songbooks, kimono, and decorative arts further investigate the potent relations between styles and ideologies imported from the West and those newly established as Japan… OL18312098W
Gutsy girls Gutsy girls Tina Schwager,Michele Schuerger Twenty-five young women share their adventures in such activities as skydiving, building homes, and mountain climbing, demonstrating the value of courage, commitment, and a positive attitude. OL1838128W
Mother, daughter, sister, bride Mother, daughter, sister, bride Joanne B. Eicher,Lisa Ling Celebrates the defining connections among women and honors their differences. Each chapter reveals the actions through which a woman connects with herself, with her family, with members of her commun… OL19957245W
The disappearing L The disappearing L Bonnie J. Morris "LGBT Americans now enjoy the right to marry-- but what will we remember about the vibrant cultural spaces that lesbian activists created in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s? Most are vanishing from the calen… OL20045143W
How to ruin your love life How to ruin your love life Ben Stein Television personality and former White House speechwriterBen Stein presents brief "advice" essays on forty-four relationship killers such as pointing out a lover's imperfections in public, making fu… OL20427724W
Life on the edge Life on the edge Judy Horacek From condoms to neutrons, oil slicks to T-shirts, and revolution to odd socks, this collection of insightful cartoons from a leading Australian cartoonist confronts an array of hilarious situations w… OL2232250W
Ecrire l'histoire des femmes Ecrire l'histoire des femmes Françoise Thébaud 227 p. ; 21 cm OL2259726W
DotCom divas DotCom divas Patricia B. Seybold,Elizabeth Carlassare In Dotcom Divas, prepare to meet some of the most talented, energetic, and visionary Internet entrepreneurs who ever plunged into the e-business revolution. And, oh, by the way -- they're all women. … OL282091W
Writing a woman's life Writing a woman's life Carolyn G. Heilbrun Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made i… OL2925380W
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics Estelle B. Freedman "One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B. Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. Over the past thi… OL2980578W
Coalmining women Coalmining women Angela V. John A history of women in the coal mines of Great Britain. OL3487034W
Black chicks talking Black chicks talking Leah Purcell Nine young Aboriginal women, successful in a variety of professions, tell their stories to Leah Purcell, herself a singer, songwriter, actor, choreographer and director. Some have achieved success in… OL6011691W
Wings, women, and war Wings, women, and war Reina Pennington,John Erickson The Soviet Union was the first nation to allow women pilots to fly combat missions. During World War II the Red Air Force formed three all-female units -- grouped into separate fighter, dive bomber, … OL6208443W
Livia Livia Anthony A. Barrett "Livia (58 B.C. - A.D. 29) - wife of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius - wielded power at the center of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been po… OL8270609W
Woman's Identity and the Qur'an Woman's Identity and the Qur'an Nimat, Hafez Barazangi "Readers of this work will learn that the Qur'an speaks to men and women with one voice, that men and women are equal when it comes to the worship of God. Thus, the male-dominated practices of severa… OL8497118W
Public Man, Private Woman Public Man, Private Woman Jean Bethke Elshtain Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world—the political sphere domi… OL891981W
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