feminism

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feminism

Understanding women's rights

2012
Traces the history of women's rights, examines seminal precedents and related ideological debates, and discusses interpretations of laws.

Big girls don't cry

the election that changed everything for American women
2010
A social commentary on the emergence of women, power, and feminism took center stage during the 2008 presidential campaign.

The essential feminist reader

2007
A collection of sixty-four essays covering topics related to feminism written by English and American thinkers including Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, Margaret Sanger, Sojourner Truth, and Virginia Woolf.

Women's rights

people and perspectives
2010
A collection of twelve essays reveals how people from all parts of American society were affected by women's rights, including Native Americans, female reformers, school girls, feminists, and others.

Ms. and the material girls

perceptions of women from the 1970s through the 1990s
2008
Presents examples of women's representations in magazines and other media during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and discusses changes in the ways women perceived themselves over the course of these decades.

Daughters of Eve

1990
A high school teacher uses the guise of feminist philosophy to manipulate the lives of a group of girls, with chilling results.

The death of feminism

what's next in the struggle for women's freedom
2005
Argues that feminism has lost the power to improve the lives and opportunities of women around the world, focusing on Islamic gender apartheid in the Islamic world and calling for a new feminism that requires independent, not group, thought.

Blue jean

what young women are thinking, saying, and doing
2001
Presents stories and articles, originally published in "blue jean magazine," in which young women discuss body image, confidence, ethnicity and racism, and other topics relevant to their lives.

Women's rights

2002
A collection of historic speeches from various sources which address the issues surrounding women's rights in the United States.

Moving the mountain

the women's movement in America since 1960
1991

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