 | 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Women's History
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by Main Street Books
Paperback
(15 February, 2000)
(2 reviews) 
Customer Review: a great primer on women in history: 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Women in History is a great introdution to the importance women have played in history and the variety of their contributions.T |
 | A Century of Women: The Most Influential Events in Twentieth-Century Women's Histor
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by Citadel Trade
Hardcover
(01 February, 1999)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Delightful reading: This book is a delight to read, both for the breadth of events included and for the writing itself. Some events are clearly important - such as the founding of the ILGWU - others are less well-known, |
 | A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors : Special Strategies for
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by Betterway Books
Paperback
(01 March, 1998)
(8 reviews) 
Customer Review: Disappointing -- more facts, less speculation needed: While the first few chapters of this book are moderately helpful, much of the book seemed to be devoted to "imagining" what life would be like for female ancestors. |
 | A History of Women in America
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by Bantam
Paperback
(01 September, 1984)
(5 reviews) 
Customer Review: An Old Favorite: This book was required reading for my first Women Studies Course in college . I recommend it for any woman (or man) in our world who is looking for a general guide to women's history in the United States. |
 | A Piece of My Heart : The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam
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by Presidio Press
Paperback
(05 February, 1997)
(11 reviews)
Editorial Review: A decade after America pulled out of Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart- wrenching oral history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer andfilmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in CuChi and Da Nang. |
 | A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History
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by Westview Press
Paperback
(01 November, 1997)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Living History: A very well-presented portrait of not just women, but of Soviet/Russian history. This book reminded me somewhat of James Baldwin in an off-hand way in that the stories of average people are sometimes more compelling than those who usually find themselves in the history books. |
 | A World of Our Own
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by Watson-Guptill Publications
Hardcover
(01 October, 2000)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: More Than Information: The New York reviewer makes a good point but it's not ALL quotes.The book is also pretty informative about the career options open to women in the past and how they made use of them. |
 | Across an Untried Sea : Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and
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by Knopf
Hardcover
(17 October, 2000)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Unconventional Women: 'Across an Untried Sea' is an interesting, if scattered narrative of several women - both European and American -- who are revealed to have defied 19th C conventions both sexually and artistically. |
 | America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
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by William Morrow & Company
Hardcover
(23 September, 2003)
(19 reviews)
Editorial Review: Well researched and well written, America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines is a powerful and important book. Starting with Pocahontas and Eleanor Dare (the first female colonist), |
 | Ar'N't I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
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by W. W. Norton & Company
Paperback
(01 February, 1999)
(8 reviews) 
Customer Review: My Review: I have not yet read this book. It looks exciting and I hope I enjoy it. I am reading this book for a report in JROTC. |
 | Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War,
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by University of Massachusetts Press
Paperback
(01 September, 2000)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Facinating insight on a pivotal figure in American feminism: In a clear-eyed yet obviously compassionate examination of Betty Friedan, |
 | Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback
(01 July, 1999)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Great book!: Most historical books of this sort are amazingly dry; this one is not. Mr. Cressy has done a huge amount of research, |
 | Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female
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by Penguin Books
Paperback
(26 August, 2003)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: Some misinformation, but overall very good: I love the Guerilla Girls site and I love what they stand for. The new book about stereotypes of women is fun and informative. |
 | Black Women in Antiquity (Journal of African Civilizations ; V. 6)
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by Transaction Publishers
Paperback
(01 February, 1988)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: excellent book: THIS IS A WELL RESEARCHED AND VERY SCHOLARLY BOOK. IVAN VAN SERTIMA AS WELL AS THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS WORK HAVE PRODUCED MUCH INSIGHT ON AFRICAN WOMEN IN WORLD HITORY LIKE QUEEN NZINGA, |
 | BORN FOR LIBERTY
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by Free Press
Paperback
(22 August, 1997)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Solid rediting of first edition: This edition of the text is an improvement on the first edition in its movement away from the east-coast view of women's history and a move towards a more inclusive analysis. |
 | Bound Feet & Western Dress : A Memoir
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by Anchor
Paperback
(15 September, 1997)
(25 reviews)
Customer Review: Book Review: "Bound Feet & Western Dress" is about the life of a Chinese woman, Yu-i, and how she struggles to follow Western culture and modernise herself while still adhering to the Chinese custom of respect and submission. |
 | Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind
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by Speck Press
Paperback
(15 May, 2004)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: shocking, tantalizing and conquering ....: Reviewed by: John A. Mangarella for Small Spiral NotebookWhen author Michelle Baldwin found her way into Denver's Mercury Café to see her first burlesque show, |
 | Caliban and the Witch
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by Autonomedia
Paperback
(15 September, 2004)
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 | Civil War Women: Their Quilts ¥ Their Roles ¥ Activities for Re-Enactors
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by C&T Publishing
Paperback
(01 November, 2000)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: A treat: For an excellent review of this book, please see that of seasidewanderer (below). I agree wholeheartedly with his/her comments. |
 | Comfort Women
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by Columbia University Press
Paperback
(15 July, 2002)
(6 reviews) 
Customer Review: A scholarly work? No, it is not.: How can you call this book a scholarly work, when it fatally missed some of most important documents out to show the readers?W |
 | Cowgirls: Women of the Wild West
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by ZON International Publishing
Hardcover
(03 January, 2000)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: BEAUTIFUL BOOK !: Highly recommended! A perfect companion to Packing Iron and Cowboys. A real visual treat. Should be required reading in our schools. |
 | Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75 (American Culture Series)
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by University of Minnesota Press
Paperback
(01 January, 1990)
(1 reviews) 
Customer Review: Not accurate account from someone who was there: This book, the foundation of other writings about radical feminism of that time, |
 | Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir
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by ReganBooks
Hardcover
(22 May, 2001)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: "Dark City Dames": not pretty faces , but a triumph!: "Dark City Dames": The Wicked Women of Film Noir is a fascinating book about some extraordinary screen actresses from the "good old days" of Hollywood. |
 | Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90
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by University of Illinois Press
Paperback
(01 August, 1987)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A Solid Academic Piece: Having just read this book for an upcoming graduate level women's history course I can highly recommend it for students and others.F |
 | Daughters of the Church
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by Zondervan Publishing Company
Paperback
(17 September, 1987)
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 | Dear Miye: Letters Home from Japan, 1939-1946
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by Stanford University Press
Paperback
(01 February, 1997)
(2 reviews) 
Customer Review: An Important Addition to the Field of Asian American History: This tightly edited volume of Mary Tomita's letters is an important and very necessary addition to the field of Asian American Studies. |
 | Eat My Words : Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
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by Palgrave Macmillan
Hardcover
(09 February, 2002)
(2 reviews)
Editorial Review: Beyond their recipes, what can cookbooks tell us? Much, says Janet Theophano, whose Eat My Words explores women's history as revealed by the cookbooks they wrote, used, or in many cases created, and through recipes, |
 | Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (Americans and the California
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback
(01 July, 2003)
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 | Faith and Feminism : A Holy Alliance
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by Atria
Paperback
(20 July, 2004)
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 | Feminist Methods in Social Research
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback
(01 April, 1992)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: All Together All At Once: Reinharz' book doesn't only study feminism and social research yet it presents many ideas and voices within her book on various research topics and discussions. |
 | First Generations : Women in Colonial America
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by Hill and Wang
Paperback
(01 July, 1997)
(2 reviews)
Editorial Review: This study of American women in the 17th and 18th centuries by historian Carol Berkin gives close attention to the lives of several women like Mary, who was brought to Virginia as a slave in 1622. She married another African, |
 | Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman
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by Perennial
Paperback
(03 July, 2001)
(10 reviews)
Customer Review: A Great Clipper Ship book!: This book is about the Clipper Ship FLYING CLOUD and her record breaking voyage between New York and San Francisco in 1851, |
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