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Pre-Owned American Women Writers and the Work of History 1790-1860 : Styles of Affiliation 9780813521435

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

The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box 0822319969 (Paperback - Used)

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

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

Pre-Owned Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities Sororities Hazing and Binge Drinking (Paperback) 025321498X 9780253214980

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

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

Pre-Owned Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West 1874-1939 (Hardcover) 0195060083 9780195060089

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

Drawing the Line: Life Death and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital (Paperback - Used) 1566391490 9781566391498

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

Pre-Owned Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson (Paperback) 069110283X 9780691102832

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

Pre-Owned Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?: American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century 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

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

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

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

Pre-Owned Glorying in Tribulation: The Life Work of Sojourner Truth (Hardcover) 0870133373 9780870133374

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

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

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

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

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

Pre-Owned Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women (Paperback) 0816513295 9780816513291

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

Pre-Owned Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine (Paperback) 0195049853 9780195049855

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

Pre-Owned From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover) 0195374789 9780195374780

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

Pre-Owned In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (Paperback) 0300036396 9780300036398

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

Pre-Owned Shorewords: A Collection of American Women s Coastal Writings (Paperback) 0813922348 9780813922348

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

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

Tuskegee University Cemetery Stories: The Lives That Built a Great American Educational Institution (Paperback)

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

Pre-Owned Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding (Hardcover) 0691120420 9780691120423

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

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

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

Pre-Owned Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell Massachusetts 1826-1860 (Paperback) 0231041675 9780231041676

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

Pre-Owned Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West 1874-1939 (Paperback) 0195084306 9780195084306

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

Amy Biehl s Last Home : A Bright Life a Tragic Death and a Journey of Reconciliation in South Africa 9780821423219 Used / Pre-owned

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

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

Pre-Owned First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington Abigail Adams Dolley Madison and the Creation of an Iconic American Role (Hardcover) 147988653X 9781479886531

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

Pre-Owned The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism: The Woman and the City 1800-1860 (Paperback) 0195027043 9780195027044

The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism: The Woman and the City 1800-1860 by Berg Barbara J. more

Pre-Owned Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia s Eastern Shore 1640-1676 (Paperback) 0195032063 9780195032062

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

Pre-Owned A Devil and a Good Woman Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin (Paperback) 082033250X 9780820332505

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

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

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

Pre-Owned The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women s Political Culture in Antebellum America (Paperback) 0801480116 9780801480119

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