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1.

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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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 diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds to opposition leaders, make this an important resource for research and student debate on landmark issues of social and political justice. Letters, personal narratives, policy statements, laws, court decisions, and even poetry are featured in the collection. Organized into five chronological periods, the 125 documents included here integrate the dynamics of the movement into the historical period in which they were written. Each period and each document is preceded by an explanatory introduction that puts it in historical context. The collection provides many documents not found elsewhere and shows that the struggle for women's rights is a process that is still continuing as we approach the 21st century.
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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.

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...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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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 section provides historical analysis and rich documentation drawn from legal statutes and judicial decisions, demographic data, and public opinion polls, as well as biographies and other narrative accounts.
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The Impossibility of Women's Studies, in Differences » Read Now
by Wendy Brown. 23 pgs.

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...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.

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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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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 interdisciplinary perspective. This collection is an ideal text for courses in research methods and in women's studies in a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines. A distinct feature of this volume is its interdisciplinary and global orientation. The collection is organized around key issues in feminist theory and empirical research as they have been impacted by post-structuralist dialogue. Several essays address the tensions between disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge building, exposing male biases embedded in disciplinary paradigms. Other essays deal with the politics of identity and experience, presented not as innate and unproblematic, but as constituted by discourse, representation, and the effects of power. Responding to the inadequacy of essentializing modes of feminist thought, some scholars focus on the complex terrain in which difference is used as a tool of oppression and of resistance both inside and outside feminist praxis. The gender dynamics of power and resistance are taken up by several critics whose research encourages the development of a feminist scholarly methodology focused on women's subjective experiences and the ways in which relations of power are mediated. Visual and discursive representations of the female body constitute another major focus of the volume, especially as related to the imposition of compulsory heterosexuality and reproductive norms. The volume concludes with a set of essays which present the reader with some methodological and political dilemmas feminists encounter as they expose the underlying ideological distortions in existing social policies.
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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.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

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.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...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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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 reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the most vital and invigorating force in higher education.
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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.

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...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.

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...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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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 teachers of the course including experienced teachers, less experienced teachers, new faculty, and graduate student teaching assistants. The collection will also be of interest to educational scholars of feminist and progressive pedagogies and all teachers interested in innovative practices.
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