Product Description: American historians survey the key works and themes in the scholarship of the last three decades. This revised and expanded edition includes three new essays on intellectual history, the history of the West, and the histories of the family. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text explores what it means for women to be teachers in America. It uses several different perspectives, including historical antecedents as seen through various types of non-fiction sources about 19th-century women teachers, and fiction sources about these teachers in the mid-20th century...read more

Product Description: Katie King examines the development of U.S. feminist theory, tracing its inception, rocky development, and internecine struggles. She argues that the subject matter of women’s studies is cultural studies."This book should definitively alter the map of contemporary feminist theory in the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The discussion in this study of the relations betwen men and women is launched from a crucial premise: that the struggle for equal rights for women has reached a point where collaboration rather than confrontation between the sexes is necessary for continued progress...read more

Product Description: The energy spent on all sides of debates about women’s separatism demonstrates the vitality of separatism as an important issue. Excited by the prospect that changes in their personal lives could reverberate through the nation, many women have organized rural communes and urban business collectives, putting ideas into practice...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume address questions exploring the nature of education in the nineteenth century. Literacy has been called a double-edged sword because it can be used for both social control and social reform. During the nineteenth century it became a key element in the social transformation to Victorian culture with its cult of true womanhood advocating piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness...read more

Product Description: How likely is feminist research to promote change in society? Are some research methods more successful at promoting change than others? Contributors to this volume discuss principles of feminist inquiry, providing examples from their own experience and evaluating research practices for their potential to promote social change...read more

Gathers articles, book reviews, and essays in which the feminist scholar expounds on sex, politics, Hilary Clinton, gun control, freedom of speech, and scholarly language abuse

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Product Description: This text provides a qualitative inquiry into the politics and practice of feminist teaching. It weaves together theoretical feminist writings with the lives of feminist, women teachers, revealing a complex interplay among feminist identity and the organization of the high school and university...read more

Product Description: Since the 1960's, academic and activist women have been challenging the conventional wisdom about political life and the study of politics. This book provides a comprehensive critical history of the changing research on politics and the changing nature of the political science discipline...read more

Without Apology illuminates the politics and artistic practices of Andrea Dworkin, arguably one of the most daring, innovative, and controversial feminists in the United States. Coauthor of civil rights antipornography laws, life-long political activist, and international lecturer and consultant on issues of sexual violence and exploitation, Dworkin has a prolific and distinguished writing career. She has published thirteen books of fiction and nonfiction, and her work has been translated into twelve languages.This is the first-ever book-length analysis of Dworkin’s feminist politics and the first critical analysis to examine her controversial political ideas in light of the literary dimensions of her prose. Cindy Jenefsky, with Ann Russo, looks at Dworkin’s major nonfiction works—including Woman Hating, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, and Intercourse—in terms of the rhetorical dynamics animating her political ideas. Also included within this analysis are Jenefsky’s lengthy interviews with Dworkin, which focus on her identity as an artist and on the artistic principles guiding her work.The result is a novel reinterpretation of Dworkin’s politics and a brilliantly clear analysis of the political nature of artistic practice for readers interested in literary and rhetorical criticism, feminist theory and activism, the volatile debates over pornography and civil rights, and the relationship between contemporary sexual practices and male power systems. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In universities and colleges across the country, feminists are debating their histories and future legacies. Some older, second wave feminists accuse younger ones of being overly theoretical, insufficiently political, and not grateful enough to previous generations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Fantasy Factory reveals the ways phone sex operators and callers negotiate the shifting borders between desire and disgust, fantasy and reality, and deception and belief. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reclaiming the female body, which historically has been defined and controlled by male scientists, physicians, psychiatrists, and theologians, is one of the most significant agendas of feminist theory. According to Castelnuovo and Guthrie, male control and oppression of female bodies is ultimately rooted in the threat of male violence, whether battering or rape, sexual harassment or the negative stereotyping of physically powerful women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: ...a volume of the Focus on Women series, outlining a new vision for understanding older women and their place in society...reconceptualizes what growing older can mean to women.

Product Description: An adequate analysis of experiences and situations specific to women, especially mothering, requires consideration of women's difference. A focus on women's difference, however, jeopardizes feminism's claims of women's equal individualist subjectivity, and risks recuperating the inequality and oppression of women, especially the view that all women should be mothers, want to be mothers, and are most happy being mothers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Written in an engaging narrative style, this book contains reflections on the meanings of whiteness in racist contexts. By considering whiteness as it shapes and is infused by gender, class, sexuality, and culture, these philosophical investigations undermine racist hierarchies along with false naturalistic conceptions of the meanings of race and universalistic understandings of gender.Central to this project are questions about how it is that culture and the state create such a wide range of different people who understand themselves as white. The essays collected here discuss how one learns to be a good white Southern woman, what it means to pass as white, and whether there really is a dilemma that accompanies white privilege.At the heart of this collection are analyses of the relationships between the construction of whiteness and the realities of racism, and politics that hope for a connection between understanding racial formations and resisting racisms. (view table of contents)

Product Description: New Millennial Sexstyles questions the twin feminist orthodoxies that the 1960s sexual revolution failed women and that the sexual attitudes most prominent in current youth cultures are deplorably regressive. Comparing the American sexscape she inhabits to the vision of contemporary culture produced by feminist theorists, Carol Siegel considers whether the sexual revolution may have succeeded, but in ways not recognized by current academic studies of gender and sexuality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)