Women's Culture | Women's Studies - Interest
Oct.20.2008
Why do so many women feel obliged to put other people's needs first, even when they don't want to? The self-sacrificing impulse comes from women's history, not their nature. Drawing on conversations with experts, extensive research, and a diverse group of women, this book examines the dichotomy...
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Jul.27.2008
Gifts From the Child Within brings a refreshing approach to guiding its reader to understanding the initial or underlying basis to their emotional suffering due to past childhood trauma. This recovery book is geared toward both professional and layperson. Its pages are filled with offerings from...
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Jul.07.2008
Very sensitive, the subject of feminism to me. Mostly because it's so misunderstood, when in fact it was founded as a means to achieve basic citizenship rights, though the name hardly did it justice.
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May.05.2008
When women describe growing up, their memories of childhood and adolescence are a rich blend of joy, pain, and discovery. Girls Like Us celebrates these special coming-of-age moments-as expressed through the words of over 40 prominent women of this century. Based on both original and published...
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Apr.20.2008
Gerald and Sue Glasco wanted to farm and rear their children in the country. Leaving a farm management job at Columbiana Ranch near Eldred, Illinois, they bought a 75-acre farm in partnership with Gerald's brother Keith and wife Barbara in Southern Illinois and rented another. Their big old farm...
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Apr.15.2008
They had their whole lives to look forward to if only their husbands could survive Vietnam.
In the spring of 1970 - right after the Kent State National Guard shootings and President Nixon's two-month incursion into Cambodia - four newly married young women come together at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, when...
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Apr.07.2008
Nothing But Red is the anthology of literary and visual arts inspired by the impassioned plea of Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon in response to the dishonor killing of 17-year-old Du’a Khalil Aswad. Sales of the anthology benefit the international human rights organization Equality Now...
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Mar.19.2008
Dichos: Spanish sayings or proverbs
Advice is one of the most valuable gifts a mother can give to her daughter. Cristina Pérez turns to her mother's wisdom every day by reflecting on the dichos she taught her. Here Cristina shares those that have most powerfully influenced her life and translates...
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Mar.10.2008
Before Dita Von Teese ever splashed around in an oversized martini glass, before Madonna ever donned her cone bra for the “Blond Ambition” tour, even before Norma Jean Mortensen became Marilyn Monroe, there was Lili St. Cyr. This glamorous, platinum blond queen of burlesque influenced these 20th...
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