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Just as she helped launch the rediscovery of literary texts by American women writers Nina Baym now uncovers the work of history performed by over 150 writers in over 350 texts. Here she explores a world of important writing unknown even to most... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers examines the lives of Latin American women who entered factory labor in increasing numbers in the early part of the twentieth century. Emphasizing the integration of traditional labor history... more | $6.39 $5.17 FREE shipping go to store |
Fried Bologna : More Than An Anomaly (Paperback) Fried Bologna is the story of LaTrea Campbell a young African American woman who wants to continue her adult education and finds herself enrolled full time at a university away from the home she has lived in until the age of 32. As she begins her... more | go to store |
Wrongs of Passage is about the breakdown of common sense civility and leadership in major areas of American college life. What forces young men and women to accept inhuman degrading rituals in order to belong to a social club sorority or fraternity?... more | $6.05 $5.11 FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Sex Expression and American Women Writers 1860-1940 Paperback CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more | FREE shipping go to store |
In this study of rescue homes for women in the American West Pascoe explores the relationships between women reformers and their male opponents and between the reformers and the women they sought to reform (Chinese immigrants Mormon polygamous wives... more | $8.74 $5.17 FREE shipping go to store |
Alarms sound at Boston s Beth Israel hospital as an older woman suffers a heart attack - a woman with pervasive end-stage cancer. She has been in a coma for days and there is no chance that she will emerge from it - much less live for very long.... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The black man suffering at the hands of whites the white woman sexually threatened by the black man. Both images have long been burned into the American conscience through popular entertainment and today they exert a powerful and disturbing... more | FREE shipping go to store |
CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more | $15.71 $7.20 FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Rosie s Mom : Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War 9781555535353 This book restores to history the lives of American women involved in war work during World War I. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Journeys in New Worlds : Early American Women s Narratives 9780299125844 Four early American women tell their own stories: Mary Rowlandson on her capture by Indians in 1676 Boston businesswoman Sarah Kemble Knight on her travels in New England Elizabeth Ashbridge on her personal odyssey from indentured servant to Quaker... more | $5.80 $5.16 FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Intimate Reading: The Contemporary Women s Memoir (Paperback) 0815606850 9780815606857 9780815606857. Pre-owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 256. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Writing American Women. An innovative study of the contemporary memoir blending autobiography and literary analysis... more | $5.77 $5.15 FREE shipping go to store |
In Glorying in Tribulation Stetson presents a new dimension of Sojourner Truth s character. Much of the information regarding this oft-quoted African American woman is either the stuff of legend or is in dispute. This important new biography takes... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston (Hardcover) Plant s study is sorely needed at this point in the evolving critical assessment of Hurston. It is a paradigm for the study of individual African American women writers. -- Alice Deck University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In a ground-breaking... more | $41.08 $35.37 FREE shipping go to store |
Oberon Modern Plays: The Niceties (Paperback) At an elite East Coast university an ambitious young black student and her esteemed white professor meet to discuss a paper the college junior is writing about the American Revolution. They re both liberal. They re both women. They re both... more | go to store |
Pre-Owned Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (Hardcover) 155849250X 9781558492509 An enjoyable excursion bringing together history cookery narrative women s studies and biography/autobiography. An excellent beginning for in-depth research or introduction to the field of women s studies and American studies. more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned The Cult of Thinness (Paperback) 0195178785 9780195178784 Whether they are rich or poor liberal or conservative religious or atheist thriving or stagnant most American women have one thing in common--they want to be thin--or thinner. And they are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to get that way even... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother s and grandmother s eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled that of... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The book deals primarily with the role of women physicians in American society from the first 19th century figures to the present day. Morantz-Sanchez discusses the reasons for the lack of women doctors throughout the 20th Century until the 1960s... more | FREE shipping go to store |
From Out of the Shadows was the first full study of Mexican-American women in the twentieth century. Beginning with the first wave of Mexican women crossing the border early in the century historian Vicki L. Ruiz reveals the struggles they have... more | $31.38 $14.74 FREE shipping go to store |
A leading authority in the field here provides the first synthetic and comprehensive history of women in American higher education in over fifty years. Essential reading for feminists and educators appealing to general readers as well this study... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Vincent Millay * Marianne Moore * Ruth Moore * Sena Jeter Naslund * Gloria Naylor * Mary Oliver * Elizabeth Stuart Phelps * E. Annie Proulx * May Sarton * Elizabeth Spencer * Harriet Beecher Stowe * May Swenson * Sara Teasdale * Celia Thaxter... more | $8.83 $4.50 FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Dark Alliance (Mass Market Paperback) 0373643705 9780373643707 From the lazy heat of Miami to the steamy Colombian jungles Mack Bolan is on the trail of a missing American journalist. The woman was close to exposing the key players in a dangerous drug cartel and Bolan figures they snatched her to protect their... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Tuskegee University Cemetery Stories chronicles the important contributions of those whose last home on this earth is the Tuskegee University Cemetery--those many men and women who diligently built on the foundation laid by Tuskegee founders Lewis... more | $17.95 $16.52 FREE shipping go to store |
Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it s terrible--and such small portions Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts or they... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History Paperback - USED CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Dear Miye: Letters Home from Japan 1939-1946 (Paperback) 0804729670 9780804729673 These letters tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who along with over 10 000 other Japanese Americans was stranded in Japan during World War II. more | FREE shipping go to store |
In this prize-winning study Thomas Dublin explores in carefully researched detail the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes and traces the strong community... more | FREE shipping go to store |
In this study of late nineteenth-century moral reform Peggy Pascoe examines four specific cases--a home for Chinese prostitutes in San Francisco California; a home for polygamous Mormon women in Salt Lake City Utah; a home for unmarried mothers in... more | FREE shipping go to store |
In 1993 white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town after spending months working to promote democracy and women s rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated... more | $6.47 $4.50 FREE shipping go to store |
Rites and Passages : The Experience of American Whaling 1830-1870 9780521484480 Used / Pre-owned This book uses the personal testimony of over 200 American whalemen to illuminate the social history of deepwater sailing in the mid-1800s. Discussions of sailors before the mast of shipmasters aft of seafaring ritual and of women in shipboard... more | $6.31 $5.80 FREE shipping go to store |
How the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations and carved a space for women in America America s first First Ladies--Martha Washington Abigail Adams and Dolley Madison--had the challenging task of playing a pivotal role... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism: The Woman and the City 1800-1860 by Berg Barbara J. more | FREE shipping go to store |
Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago Myne Owne Ground has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history some men and women who arrived in... more | $6.92 $5.15 FREE shipping go to store |
Julia Peterkin revolutionized American literature by writing seriously about the lives of plain black farming people. In five bold lyrical books she pushed the bounds of realism to earn the startled praise of such intellectuals and literary artists... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Sor Juana s Second Dream (Hardcover) 0826320910 9780826320919 This bold novel unravels the mystery and complexity of the woman Carlos Fuentes calls the first great Latin American poet. Sor Juana In s de la Cruz (1648-1695) poet playwright rhetorician and musician is often equated with Sappho the lesbian poet... more | $7.95 $6.85 FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Speaking of Soap Operas (Paperback) 0807841293 9780807841297 From Ma Perkins and One Man s Family in the 1930s to All My Children in the 1980s the soap opera has capture the imagination of millions of American men and women of all ages. In Speaking of Soap Operas Robert Allen undertakes a reexamination of the... more | $6.46 $5.23 FREE shipping go to store |
A small group of black and white American women who banded together in the 1830s and 1840s to remedy the evils of slavery and racism the antislavery females included many who ultimately struggled for equal rights for women as well. Organizing... more | FREE shipping go to store |
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