Women's Studies
"Misconceptions"Truth, Lies and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
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Every year, millions of women have their lives turned inside out by the experience of pregnancy. This book takes a critical look at the powerful vested interests in the pregnancy business and at the social message coming at women: an amalgam of sentimentality, psychologically dangerous half-truths and conflicting ideologies. New ed. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 198 x 130 mm. Weight: 204g.
Author: Wolf, Naomi
ISBN: 0099274167
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Women's Studies
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"Promiscuities"A Secret History of Female Desire
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Explores and celebrates the phenomenon of female sexuality - empirically, imaginatively, anatomically and personally. Following a group of four girls (including her younger self) as they come of age in the 70s, Wolfe shows how our culture tries to shape and confine women's desire. New ed. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 219g.
Author: Wolf, Naomi
ISBN: 0099205912
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Women's Studies
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"The Political Geographies of Pregnancy"
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Offers an analysis of the ways modern reproductive politics are shaped by long-standing debates on abortion and adoption, surrogacy arrangements, reproductive technologies, medical surveillance, and the mapping of the human genome. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 219 x 143 mm. Weight: 347g.
Author: Woliver, Laura
ISBN: 0252075978
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Women's Studies
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"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
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"Penguin Great Ideas" series; Mary Wollstoncraft's passionate declaration of female independence shattered the stereotype of docile, decorative womanhood, anticipated a new era of equality and established her as the founder of modern feminism. Rev ed. Paperback, 144 pages. Weight: 93g.
Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
ISBN: 0141018917
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Women's Studies
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"Why Women Wear What They Wear"
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"Materializing Culture" series; Presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. This book uses real women's lives and clothing decisions-observed and discussed at the moment of getting dressed - to illustrate theories of clothing, the body, and identity. It provides students of anthropology and fashion with a fresh perspective on the social issues and constraints. With illustrations. Paperback, 178 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 309g.
Author: Woodward, Sophie
ISBN: 1845206991
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Women's Studies
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"The Good Women of China"Hidden Voices
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Talks about love, about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. This work features women who are strong, strikingly resourceful characters and who offer unforgettable insights into Chinese women's lives. New ed. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 197 x 130 mm. Weight: 165g.
Author: Xinran
ISBN: 0099440784
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Women's Studies
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"Freud on Women"
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This collection contains Freud's most significant statements on women, taken from letters as well as published work, presenting an accessible view of his own struggle for understanding and coherence. The author untangles the arguments relating to his ideas on women and broader theory. New ed. Paperback, 384 pages. Size: 198 x 126 mm. Weight: 300g.
Author: Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth (Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research)
ISBN: 0099443538
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Women's Studies
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"Justice and the Politics of Difference"
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Challenges the philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. This book critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. It also defines concepts of domination and oppression to cover issues eluding the distributive model. With ill.. Paperback, 294 pages. Size: 234 x 163 mm. Weight: 426g.
Author: Young, Iris Marion
ISBN: 0691023158
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 1990 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Women's Studies
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"On Female Body Experience"Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays
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"Studies in Feminist Philosophy Series" series; Questions of embodiment have become central to feminist theory, challenging the prevailing notion of disembodied reason in epistemology and criticizing modern political theory for separating human facts of death, birth, need, sex. This work includes a collection of articles on the female body experience among others. With 1 halftone. Paperback, 188 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 279g.
Author: Young, Iris Marion
ISBN: 0195161939
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2004 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Women's Studies
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