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“vilma e ortiz”

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  • Challenging Fronteras

    Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.

    Edited by Mary Romero, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Vilma Ortiz ...
    Challenging Fronteras reflects an important new wave of research that moves beyond sweeping generalizations that treat Latinos as a monolithic cultural group. This anthology focuses on the diversity of Latino experiences by providing historical specificity and cutting-edge research that employs the conceptual and analytical tools of social science. Contributors, selected from leading researchers ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Perioperative Anesthetic Care of the Obese Patient

    Edited by Vilma E. Ortiz, Jeanine Wiener-Kronish ...
    The only available resource to provide cutting-edge, in-depth coverage of the links between obesity and anesthesia in surgery, the reader-friendly Handbook of Perioperative Anesthesia: Complications and Challenges of the Obese Patient guides the practicing anesthesiologist through each stage of surgery for the obese patient. This clinically relevant text thoroughly illustrates the unique ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

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  • Feminism Is for Everybody

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  • Why I Am Not a Feminist

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  • Feminist Theory

    From Margin to Center

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    When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist ... Read more

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  • Do It Like a Woman

    ... and Change the World

    by Caroline Criado-Perez ...
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  • Women and Jewish Law

    The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today

    by Rachel Biale ...
    How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special concern to women. Combining a historical overview with a thoughtful feminist critique, this ... Read more

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  • Glamour

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  • Radical Happiness

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