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  • Thorstein Veblen

    Victorian Firebrand

    by Henry Jorgensen, Elizabeth Jorgensen ...
    A definitive biography of the man who coined the expression "conspicuous consumption". Based on newly released archival sources, this book sets the facts straight on more than 60 years of myths and misinformation concerning the highly regarded economist and sociologist. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

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    Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent work of women's history tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century.In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over four hundred years. As she traces the role of ... Read more

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  • The Yellow Wallpaper (Mobi Classics)

    by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman ...
    The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

    by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ...
    From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history." Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs. Ulrich explains how that ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
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    Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the colonial legacy—has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • To Believe in Women

    What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History

    by Lillian Faderman ...
    A unique and "often quite moving" look at gay women's role in US history ( The Washington Post).In this "essential and impassioned addition to American history," the three-time Lambda Literary Award winner and author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers focuses on a select group of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century lesbians who were in the forefront of the battle to procure the rights and ... Read more

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  • The Mansion of Happiness

    A History of Life and Death

    by Jill Lepore ...
    Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why any history of ideas about life and death ... Read more

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  • But Some of Us Are Brave

    Black Women's Studies

    by Brittney C. Cooper ...
    Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism.Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists, teachers, and writers, such as the Combahee River Collective and Alice Walker, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Bravechallenges the absence of Black feminist thought in ... Read more

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  • Breadwinning Daughters

    Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939

    by Katrina Srigley ...
    As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley ... Read more

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  • Harvard's Secret Court

    The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals

    by William Wright ...
    **"As mesmerizing as it is appalling." -- The Boston GlobeHarvard's Secret Court reveals the controversial true story of an appalling scandal at Harvard University, when a group of deans and scholars attempted to expel a group of students for their sexuality.**In 2002, a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled "Secret Court Files, 1920." The mystery he uncovered ... Read more

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  • Cheap Amusements

    by Kathy Peiss ...
    What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amusements is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for entertainment expenses.Kathy Peiss follows working women into saloons, dance halls, Coney Island amusement parks, ... Read more

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  • Inventing Herself

    Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage

    by Elaine Showalter ...
    Sure to take its place alongside the literary landmarks of modern feminism, Elaine Showalter's brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of feminist intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the present.With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of women who possess a boundless determination to ... Read more

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