Across Many Mountains: The Extraordinary Story of Three Generations of Women in Tibet
Yangzom Brauen and Katy Derbyshire
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Kusang never thought she would leave Tibet. Growing up in a remote mountain village, she married a...
Active Bodies: A History of Women's Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America
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During the twentieth century, opportunities for exercise and sports grew significantly for girls and...
Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
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Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating...
Ageless Women, Timeless Wisdom: Witty, Wicked, and Wise Reflections on Well-Lived Lives
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Throughout history, the image of "wisdom" is exclusively portrayed by men: God, Socrates, Confucius,...
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
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The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the...
Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing About Prison in Nineteenth-Century England
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In this lively study of the development and transformation of voices of female offenders in...
Indie Reframed: Women's Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema
Linda Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber
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This ground-breaking collection, the first sustained examination of the work of female practitioners...
International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History
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The United Nations declared 1975 the International Women's Year, a time to focus on the issues...
It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
Tracy Crow, Jerri Bell and Kayla Williams
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This inspiring anthology it the first to convey the noteworthy experiences and contributions of...
Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920-1970
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Stefani redefines the proverbial 'southern lady' with a close look at over fifty white, anti-racist...