| 1. |  | Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
from Random House
Customer Review:
There have been several struggles in civil rights in the USA. Women suffrage, African American civil rights, and finally the Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Bisexual cause.
Yoshino, a law professor at Yale and a gay, Asian-American man, masterfully melds autobiography and legal scholarship in... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective
from McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Price: $69.97
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Fast, easy delivery. Recieved my purchase very quickly and was amazed by how early I had recieved it. Very good seller! =) | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Justice, Gender, And The Family
from Basic Books
Price: $19.00
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A great thought provoking and stimulating work of deconstructing the division of labor between the sexes. Includes sound arguments and should be a required text in college to expose more individuals to the harmful effects of inequality on women, children, and men. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture)
from The University of North Carolina Press
Price: $21.55
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The influence of sex on gender is often mistakenly emphasized to the extent where sex and gender are seen as synonyms. Historian Glenda Gilmore challenges this aberration by re-examining the formative years of Jim Crow in North Carolina through the lens of middle-class African American Women.... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | The Politics of the Veil (The Public Square)
from Princeton University Press
Price: $19.96
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Joan W. Scott's book on the headscarf controversies (*affaires des foulards*) in France over the past two decades is one of the best works of social theory that I have read in recent years. In clear, accessible prose, Scott lays out an incisive analysis of the government's and its critics' positions... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 6. | ![]() | Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America
from Simon & Schuster
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This book is a must-read to anyone in the evangelical church that continues to struggle with homosexuality. I think it would be helpful to straight people (especially in church) who are trying to understand a loved one who is gay. I wish I'd found it earlier in my life. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
from Everyman's Library
Price: $15.00
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A historic tract that lives up to its reputation.
It's hard to think that one would read any regency romances without also reading this book. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics [Updated Edition]
from University of California Press
Price: $18.97
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Enloe's book is fascinating and I enjoyed reading it. Unlike some other feminist authors, she uses concrete examples based in reality and includes entertaining (and relevant) vignettes. A few times, she ventures a bit too far into the vast abyss of hyper-feminism (one example: drawing direct... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory
from Routledge
Price: $36.00
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This superb collection of seminal texts from the so-called "second wave" of feminism is perhpas the best introduction to feminist thought I've come across. From Simone DeBeauvoir's famous statement "one is not born a woman..." to Gayatri Spivak's ruminations on "strategic essentialism" and Third... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
from Oxford University Press, USA
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