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American Muslim women
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Jamillah Ashira Karim |
"Focusing on women, who sometimes move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaced and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice, this ethnographic study of African American and … |
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I go to America
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Joy K. Lintelman |
"Near the end of her life, Mina Anderson wrote a lively, intimate memoir, a piece so interesting and informative that renowned Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg used it to shape the central female char… |
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Disorderly conduct
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Carroll Smith-Rosenberg |
Essays look at feminist history, female friendships, Davy Crockett, sex roles, the feminine cycle, hysteria, abortion, and androgyny in nineteenth-century America. |
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The Necklace
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Cheryl Jarvis |
The true story of thirteen women who took a risk on an expensive diamond necklace and, in the process, changed not only themselves but a community.Four years ago, in Ventura, California, Jonell McLai… |
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Shattered Dreams, Broken Promises
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Michael Viner |
Producer and author Michael Viner traveled throughout Eastern Europe to interview women of all ages and circumstances who say they are willing do anything to get to America. He has also interviewed w… |
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Long time passing
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Susan Galleymore |
"In this remarkable portrait of what it means to be a mother in time of war, Susan Galleymore tells of her unusual step of traveling to Iraq to visit her son on a military base." "What she found ther… |
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Opening windows onto hidden lives
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Julie N. Zimmerman |
"Examines the embeddedness of rural and farm women's lives in rural sociological research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life (1919-1953). Explores how early rural soci… |
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The girls from Ames
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Jeffrey Zaslow |
As children, they formed a special bond, growing up in the small town of Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eight different states, yet they managed to maintain an extraordinary friendship tha… |
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Women and social change in America
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Gerhard Falk |
"Citing "the pill" as the principal catalyst for the sexual revolution and the subsequent gender revolution which continues today, the book examines the ascent of American women in the 21st century a… |
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Women of the Republic
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Linda K. Kerber |
This book is renowned as one of the earliest works to address the role of women in the American Revolution. It is seen as an introductory text to the "herstories" published by American women's histor… |
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How we get free
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Javier Sáez del Álamo,Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |
The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1… |
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Nasty women
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Kate Harding,Samhita Mukhopadhyay |
"In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, there was shock, outrage, and, for some, satisfaction. When 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and 94 percent of black women voted f… |
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Assault and flattery
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Katie Pavlich |
"In the vein of fellow female pugilists Ann Coulter and Michele Malkin, [Pavlich explores what she sees as] the Democratic stance toward women on every major current issue and in every liberal strong… |
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All the lives I want
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Alana Massey |
"From columnist and critic Alana Massey, a collection of essays examining the intersection of the personal with pop culture through the lives of pivotal female figures--from Sylvia Plath to Britney S… |
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Alabama Women
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Lisa Lindquist Dorr,Christopher D. Haveman,Susan Ashmore,Susan Ashmore,Susan E. Reynolds |
1 online resource : |
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Civil War women
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Barbara Brackman |
9 projects adapted from period quilts. Excellent reference book for Civil War re-enactors. |
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We are our mothers' daughters
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Cokie Roberts |
In this tenth-anniversary edition of We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts once again examines the nature of women's roles through the revealing lens of her pers… |
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Under attack, fighting back
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Mimi Abramovitz |
In this short, eye-opening book, Mimi Abramovitz describes the heartless assault on impoverished single mothers in the name of "ending welfare dependency." Outlining the history of Aid to Families wi… |
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Southern discomfort
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Nancy A. Hewitt |
xiv, 345 p., [10] p. of plates : 24 cm |
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Flapper
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Joshua Zeitz |
Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necke… |
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