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    Women's Rights in the United States: A Documentary History » Read Now

    by Winston E. Langley, Vivian C. Fox. 400 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    The passion, pain, victories, and disappointments of the struggle for women's social, political, legal, economic, and educational rights in America from colonial times through 1993 are dramatized in this comprehensive documentary history. A rich panoply of voices and viewpoints, from feminists of...
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    Women's Folklore, Women's Culture » Read Now

    by Rosan A. Jordan, Susan J. Kalcik. 280 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...womens folklore, however, we are finding that our studies also yield new insights into the realm of mens...category. Farrer 1975a:xv-xvi Folklore studies, then, like...
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    Women's History and Ancient History » Read Now

    by Sarah B. Pomeroy. 336 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Hanson Continuity and Change: Three Case Studies in Hippocratic Gynecological Therapy...B. Skinner offer close and sympathetic studies of the relationships between women...
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    The Worth of Women's Work: A Qualitative Synthesis » Read Now

    by Anne Statham, Eleanor M. Miller, Hans O. Mauksch. 302 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...University of Wisconsin Parkside Womens Studies Program Teresa Peck, Coordinator...of course, the respondents in these studies, who shared so willingly of their lives...as...
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    Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community through Women's Studies » Read Now

    by Jean Fox O'Barr. 302 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...INSTITUTIONS AND COMMUNITY THROUGH WOMENS STUDIES Jean Fox OBarr The University...institutions and community through womens studies / Jean Fox OBarr. p. cm...
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    Women's Movements in America: Their Successes, Disappointments, and Aspirations » Read Now

    by Rita J. Simon, Gloria Danziger. 184 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Examining the American woman's struggle for suffrage, legal and property rights, and equality in the economic, political, and social realms, this book describes the gradual evolution of an increasingly independent women's movement committed to pursuing women's issues on all fronts. Each topical...
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    The Impossibility of Women's Studies, in Differences » Read Now

    by Wendy Brown. 23 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...BROWN The Impossibility of Womens Studies There is today enough retrospective...harangue concerning the field of womens studies to raise the question of whether dusk...so...
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    Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader » Read Now

    by Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Christina Gilmartin, Robin Lydenberg. 388 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    As feminist scholarship has developed, it has become increasingly clear that the practice of feminist research is interdisciplinary. Yet there are very few books in the social sciences and humanities that address the methodological and theoretical issues raised in doing feminist research from an...
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    Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind » Read Now

    by Nancy Rule Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Mary Field Belenky. 288 pgs.

    Despite the progress of the women's movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. Based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, this volume explains why they feel this way.
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    Knowledge, Difference, and Power: Essays Inspired by Women's Ways of Knowing » Read Now

    by Nancy Rule Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Mary Field Belenky. 484 pgs.

    ...5 Womens Ways of Knowing in Womens Studies, Feminist Pedagogies, and Feminist Theory...find in the psychological and womens studies literature. Our speculations and...
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    Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education » Read Now

    by Martha C. Nussbaum. 336 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Philosopher and classicist Martha C. Nussbaum takes up the challenge of conservative critics of academe to argue persuasively that sustained...
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    Unruly Knowledge: Women's Studies and the Problem of Disciplinarity, in NWSA Journal » Read Now

    by Marilyn J. Boxer. 11 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Unruly Knowledge: Womens Studies and the Problem of Disciplinarity...BOXER From its beginnings, Womens Studies has faced challenges due to use of...multiplicity of...
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    Women's Studies and Men's Studies: Friends or Foes?, in The Journal of Men's Studies » Read Now

    by Mark J. Justad. 6 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...Womens Studies and Mens Studies: Friends or Foes? by MARK J. JUSTAD First, let me share...confessions. One, I am unabashedly profeminist in my approach to mens studies, or...
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    Hidden in Plain View: African American Women, Radical Feminism, and the Origins of Women's Studies Programs, 1967-1974, in The Journal of African American History » Read Now

    by V. P. Franklin. 9 pgs.

    ...women, radical feminism, and the origins of Womens Studies programs, 1967-1974. by V.P. Franklin...multidisciplinary programs and departments in Black Studies, Womens...
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    Feminist Ruptures in Women's Studies and American Studies, in American Studies International » Read Now

    by Ann R. Cacoullos. 6 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...Feminist Ruptures in Womens Studies and American Studies. by Ann R. Cacoullos Wittgenstein is supposed...America invites a similar kind of question: "Can one do Womens...
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    Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies: Expectations and Strategies » Read Now

    by Barbara Scott Winkler, Carolyn DiPalma. 276 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    This edited collection addresses the institutional context and social issues in which teaching the women's studies introductory course is embedded and provides readers with practical classroom strategies to meet the challenges raised. The collection serves as a resource and preparatory text for all...

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