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Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (Link requires valid access to JSTOR database)Abu-Lughod, Lila Lila Abu-Lughod spent two years conducting fieldwork among the Awlad ‘Ali people of Egypt, studying gender relations and the poetry through which women and men express personal feelings. Abu-Lughod reveals how poetry and sentiment are used to maintain a system of social hierarchy. 
My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the of Struggle for Ex-slave ReparationsBerry, Mary Frances Mary Francis Berry resurrects the much forgotten story of Callie House, a pioneer activist who started the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association. House’s powerful movement sought African-American pensions based on those offered Union soldiers, giving hope to destitute ex-slaves and frightening the U.S. government officials and southern Jim Crow legislatures. 
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation SouthCamp, Staphanie M.H. Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, Camp extends our recognition of slave resistance, revealing an important and hidden culture of opposition created by enslaved women’s acts of everyday resistance. These acts fomented the more visible resistance of men in running away and slave revolts. 
Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and HopeEber, Christine and Christine Kovic Eber and Kovic present the concerns, visions and struggles of women in Chiapas, Mexico in the context of the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). The book is organized around three issues that have taken center stage in women's recent struggles; structural violence and armed conflict, religion and empowerment, and women's organization. Relying not only on scholarly articles from experts in the field, the editors also include first person accounts in the form of narratives, poetry, song lyrics and a short play. 
Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970Carey Jr., David Drawing on years of research among the Maya, the author gives Mayan women a platform to discuss their views on education, migrant labor, work in the home, female leadership, and globalization. These oral histories present an ideal opportunity to understand indigenous women's approach to history, the apparent contradictions in gender roles in Mayan communities, and provide a distinct conceptual framework for analyzing Guatemalan, Mayan, and Latin American history. 
Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the AndesgCanessa, Andrew ed. Contributors to this book examine the ways in which numerous identities - racial, generational, ethnic, regional, national, gender, and sexual - are both mutually informing and contradictory among subaltern Andean people who are more likely to claim an allegiance to a nation than ever before. 
Women with Altitude: Challenging the Adirondack High Peaks in winterWhite, Carol Stone Women with Altitude is written in chilling detail by twenty-nine women who reached the summits of all 46 Adirondack High Peaks in solar winter. The book discusses the stories of The Forty-Sixers and winter hiking in the High Peaks; as well as, the biographies, and photos of each hiker and a fascinating glimpse into the lives of this rare breed. 
Pornography, Sex, and FeminismSoble, Alan Soble disagrees with feminists who argue that pornography objectifies and degrades women. He considers the feminist stance as "meddling interference with the motives and choices and lives of people" and equates it with totalitarianism and fascism. He sees critics of pornography as displaying a lack of empathy in failing to acknowledge the different perspectives of viewers of pornography, and he suggests that their arguments are based not on objective empirical research, but on political motives. 
Encyclopedia of Women’s AutobiographyBoynton, Victoria and Jo Malin, eds. The Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography is international in scope and includes a good mix of entries for authors, specific autobiographies, genres/styles, nationalities or ethnicities, and key terms. The 190 signed entries are well written and long enough to provide a good introduction to each topic. Bibliographies at the end of each entry list primary and secondary sources. 
Their Right to Speak: Women’s Activism in the Indian and Slave DebatesPortnoy, Alisse When Alisse Portnoy recovered petitions from the early 1830s that nearly 1,500 women sent to the U.S. Congress to protest the forced removal of Native Americans in the South, she found the first instance of women's national, collective political activism in American history. Portnoy links antebellum Indian removal debates with crucial, simultaneous debates about the abolition of slavery and African colonization--revealing ways European American women negotiated prohibitions to make their voices heard. 
The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Volume IV, When Clowns Make Laws for Queens 1880 to 1887Gordon, Ann D., ed. When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880 to 1887 is the fourth of six planned volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. This volume illustrates through letters, articles, speeches, and diary entries, the frustration of these years. Suffragists not only lost federal and state campaigns for partial and full voting rights, but also endured an invigorated opposition. In spite of these challenges, Stanton and Anthony continued to pursue their life's work. 
Learning to Stand & Speak: Women, Education and Public Life in America’s RepublicKelley, Mary Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the lived reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, Mary Kelley measures the significant transformation in individual and social identities fostered by female academies and seminaries. Constituted in a curriculum that matched the course of study at male colleges, women's liberal learning, Kelley argues, played a key role in one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation's history: the movement of women into public life. 
American Women in the Nineties: Today’s Critical IssuesMatteo, Sherri This timely volume explores the issues most crucial to American women in the final decade of the twentieth century and suggests possible avenues in the quest for solutions. “This book challenges us to be willing to risk thinking about justice, about how a representative democracy excludes the majority of its population from leadership, and about the intertwining of sex and power." —Affilia 
The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965Murray, Sylvie. The experience of Queens suburbanites profoundly challenges our image of postwar middle-class life. It forces us to discard old stereotypes and to begin the process of understanding their political views. "A convincing revisionist account of the roles of US women in the two decades after WW II. . . . A very interesting rereading of a standard stereotype."—Choice 
Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World SlaveryMorgan, Jennifer L. How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified—and was exploited by slave owners as well as slaves. "Morgan's highly original study transforms our understanding of the fundamental assumptions behind slavery in the Americas."—Kathleen M. Brown, University of Pennsylvania 
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the MoviesHaskell, Molly For this edition of her classic study of the feminine role in film, Molly Haskell has written a new chapter addressing recent developments in the appearance and perception of women in the movies. “An incisive, exceedingly thoughtful look at the distorted lens through which Hollywood has historically viewed women. It is a valuable contribution not just of film criticism but to a society in which the vital role of women is just beginning to emerge." —Christian Science Monitor 
Reconsidering the BluestockingsPohl, Nicole and Betty A. Schellenberg “Building upon Sylvia Harcstark Myers' 1990 The Bluestocking Circle, Pohl and Schellenberg seek to complicate scholarly understanding of the Bluestockings' place in eighteenth-century England. The editors accomplish this goal, for reading the essays together creates nuances that might otherwise be lost if one were to read them out of context from the others. . . . By packaging several perspectives together, Reconsidering the Bluestockings creates a more thorough context for future scholarship. The book is, in short, the most valuable kind of scholarship: it provokes questions rather than answers them.” --New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 
With All our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of AfghanistanBrodsky, Anne E. With All Our Strength is the inside story of this women-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, the first writer given in-depth access to visit and interview their members and operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, shines light on the gruesome, often tragic, lives of Afghan women under some of the most brutal sexist oppression in the world. 
Equity and Gender: The Comparable Worth DebatePaul, Ellen Frankel. Comparable worth - the idea that women ought to be paid the same wages as men performing comparable although not the same jobs- has generated a firestorm of controversy…Paul attempts to resolve this deeply divisive debate in terms of larger philosophical underpinnings. To do so, she develops a sophisticated analysis of the American economic marketplace as well as the general marketplace of ideas. 
The F-Word: A Video about FeminismJarmal, Marcia and Erin Gallagher “A dynamic and engaging piece and an important step toward rekindling discussions of feminism as we move toward the 21st century.” -Angela Davies |