Women & Gender Studies
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![]() Victim No MoreWomen's Resistance to Law, Culture and Power |
This book challenges the idea that women are simply victims. It celebrates women’s resistance. It explores the moments beyond victimization. It argues that women do not stay crushed and … | Ellen Faulkner; Gayle MacDonald | 224 | 2009 | View |
![]() Victim or Aggressor?Typecasting Muslim Women for their Attire |
Natasha Bakht | 5 | 2011 | $0.50 Add | |
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From ![]() Violence against Indigenous Women and Dramatic Subversion |
The first chapter of Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada articulates the purpose of the book in light of continued violence against Indigenous women and girls, to demonstrate the links … | Sarah Mackenzie | 29 | 2020 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! VolunteersPart 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Volunteers Nash explores why people volunteer and the role they play in elections. The chapter explores the motives for volunteering, where to find volunteers, who can be a volunteer, … | Peggy Nash | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Wages against Housework1975 From: Revolution at Point Zero |
The essays in part 1 of the book explore the theoretical foundations of the politicization of housework. These essays explore the wages against housework movement, the transactional nature of … | Silvia Federici | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
![]() Walking Away from HateOur Journey through Extremism |
As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance she craved, the doctrine of white … | Jeanette Manning; Lauren Manning | 240 | 2021 | View |
![]() “Walking the Hyphen”Discourses of Immigration and Gendered Racism |
Yasmin Jiwani | 6 | 2011 | $0.60 Add | |
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From ![]() Wanting a Child versus Human DignityFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
The author critiques the for-profit contract based model of surrogacy and looks at the implications of this model. She touches on concepts of medical ethics, individualism, social infertility, … | Maria De Koninck | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() War, Globalization, and Reproduction2000 From: Revolution at Point Zero |
The essays in part 2 of the book explore the patriarchal foundations that the global economy is built on. The essays in this section cover topics including the International Women’s … | Silvia Federici | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() LGBTQ2S Parenting: Some MilestonesFrom: Any Other Way |
A brief timeline of landmark legal decisions and milestones that allowed queer and trans people to claim their sexual identities while maintaining their right to parent. | Rachel Epstein | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() We Have Seen Other Countries and Have Another Culture: Migrant Domestic Workers and the International Production and Circulation of Feminist Knowledge and Organization2016 From: Revolution at Point Zero |
The essays in part 3 of the book explore the modern female experience from a variety of perspectives. These include individuals involved in elder care, migrant domestic workers and subsistence farmers. | Silvia Federici | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() We, Women, are out there, fishingFrom: Changing Tides |
Mildred Skinner | 3 | 2005 | $0.30 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! We’re Desperateto breed or not to breed? From: Bleed |
In this chapter, Lindeman examines how reproductive health is impacted by the financially lucrative pharmaceutical industry. She recounts the non-consensual drug trials, mass-sterilizations, and … | Tracey Lindeman | 44 | 2023 | $4.40 Add |
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From ![]() We’re Not Taking Care of Our Mothers |
This chapter focuses on a woman whose husband has frequented sex workers. She believes that far from being "bored at home," men turn to sex workers because their wives are exhausted … | Kerri Cull | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
![]() We’re Talking Vulva! |
Shawna Dempsey | 2 | 2011 | $0.20 Add | |
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From ![]() We’ve got a long way to go, baby: Confronting the dangerous myth that we’ve made itFrom: F-Bomb |
In this chapter, the author confronts the dangerous 21st century myth that the push for gender equality has been a success and that the struggle is over. She argues that this is in no way the … | Lauren McKeon | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 Add |















