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Kassem: Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory
Book, March, 10 2011
Palestinian Women is the first book to examine and document the experiences and the historical narrative of ordinary Palestinian women who witnessed the events of 1948 and became involuntary citizens of the State of Israel.
Jensen: Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
Book, August, 14 2010
Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastatin...
Abramovitz: Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
Book, August, 11 2010
This critical historical analysis of U.S. social welfare policy argues that the "feminization of poverty" is not a recent development but dates back to colonial times.
Rowbotham: Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
Book, August, 11 2010
Powerful presentation of feminist theory and analysis...
Rowbotham: Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century
Book, August, 11 2010
As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham's A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States is a monumental study--scholarly, readable, well-illustrated, well-indexed--of Western women's experience in the 20th century.
Ehrenreich: For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women
Book, August, 11 2010
A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
Weinbaum: The Curious Courtship of Women's Liberation and Socialism
Book, August, 11 2010
A classic text...
Hooks: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Book, August, 11 2010
In this South End Press classic, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women's liberation.
Shiva: Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development
Book, August, 10 2010
In this pioneering work, Vandana Shiva looks at the history of development and progress, stripping away the neutral language of science to reveal third-world development policy as the global twin of the industrial revolution.
Spannos: Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century
Book, February, 12 2008
Instead of simply declaring "another world is possible," the writers in this collection engage with what that world would look like, how it would function, and how our commitment to just outcomes is related to the sort of institutions we maintain....
Ehrenreich: Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Glass Mountain Pamphlet)
Book, October, 12 2007
In this follow-up to Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Barbara Ehrenrich and Deidre English look at the evolution of the medical view of the female sex and how it has been used to reinforce the social view of women.
Sargent: Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism
Book, October, 12 2007
The lead article, by Heidi Hartmann...
Bronski: Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility
Book, October, 12 2007
From Walt Whitman to Boy George, gay culture has profoundly shaped American society.
Bronski: The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom
Book, October, 12 2007
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