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The Lesbian History Sourcebook by Alison Oram (Paperback - Routledge)
 

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The Lesbian History Sourcebook by Alison Oram (Paperback - Routledge)

Covering a 100 year period, this book looks at women who loved other women, had sex with other women, who cross-dressed and who resisted heterosexuality. It is a search for lesbianism in the past, centering on women's sexual practices and feelings and their deviance from gender role norms of femininity.
Lesbian History is based on original and contemporary sources, both private and those of public concern including legal cases and journalism. They range from official government publications, professional journals and newspapers to fiction, poetry, personal papers and ephemera. Here is an essential overview of lesbians in history from the end of the nineteenth century through the 1970s when the women's liberation movement began to take hold Lesbian History is a welcome resource that fills the gap in the existing literature.

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The Inmate Prison Experience by Craig Hemmens (Paperback - Illustrated)
 

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The Inmate Prison Experience by Craig Hemmens (Paperback - Illustrated)

This book deals with a subject that is most timely-the United States today incarcerates more people than any other industrialized country in the world. The incarceration rate is growing rapidly, and minorities are disproportionately represented among correctional populations. This book provides a comprehensive examination of who the inmates are and what prison does to them, and places it in a historical context with the use of both recent and older research on the subject.

This collection of articles deals with one component of corrections-the inmate prison experience. By "inmate prison experience" the authors mean the impact of prison on inmates. How does living in prison affect people? This book is intended to serve as a reader for courses in corrections. It is comprised of selected articles, all of which focus on how inmates adjust to prison, and the factors, which influence this adjustment.

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The Chiron Dictionary of Greek & Roman Mythology by Elizabeth Burr (Paperback - Chiron Pubns)
 

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The Chiron Dictionary of Greek & Roman Mythology by Elizabeth Burr (Paperback - Chiron Pubns)
A new pocket guide on the Classical pantheon. "This resource is easy to read and provides a general interpretation of classical mythology". -- Choice

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The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer (Hardcover - Random House Inc)
 

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The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer (Hardcover - Random House Inc)
Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor.

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Cultural Anthropology by Conrad Phillip Kottak (Paperback - McGraw-Hill Humanities Social)
 

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Cultural Anthropology by Conrad Phillip Kottak (Paperback - McGraw-Hill Humanities Social)
The new edition of Kottak's best selling text for cultural anthropology emphasizes anthropology's integrated and comparative nature with "Bringing It All Together" essays that show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive feature, "Understanding Ourselves," illustrates the relevance of anthropological facts and theories to students' everyday lives. In addition, every new copy of the eleventh edition is packaged free with a new student CD-ROM as well as PowerWeb!

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Sex and Sensibility by Arlene Stein (Paperback - Univ of California Pr on Demand)
 

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Sex and Sensibility by Arlene Stein (Paperback - Univ of California Pr on Demand)
In the first book to analyze shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Arlene Stein contributes an important chapter to the study of the women's movement and offers a revealing portrait of the exchange between a radical generation of feminists and its successors. Tracing the evolution of the lesbian movement from the bar scene to the growth of alternative families, Stein illustrates how a generation of women transformed the woman-centered ideals of feminism into a culture and a lifestyle. Sex and Sensibility relates the development of a "queer" sensibility in the 1990s to the foundation laid by the gay rights and feminist movements a generation earlier. Beginning with the stories of thirty women who came of age at the climax of the 70s women's movement-many of whom defined lesbianism as a form of resistance to dominant gender and sexual norms -- Stein explores the complex issues of identity that these women confronted as they discovered who they were and defined themselves in relation to their communities and to society at large. Sex and Sensibility ends with interviews of ten younger women, members of the post-feminist generation who have made it a fashion to dismiss lesbian feminism as overly idealistic and reductive. Enmeshed in Stein's compelling and personal narrative are coming-out experiences, questions of separatism, work, desire, children, and family. Stein considers the multiple identities of women of color and the experiences of intermittent and "ex" lesbians. Was the lesbian feminist experiment a success? What has become of these ideas and the women who held them? In answering these questions, Stein illustrates the lasting andprofound effect that the lesbian feminist movement had, and continues to have, on contemporary women's definitions of sexual identity.

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The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (Hardcover - New World Library)
 

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The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (Hardcover - New World Library)
A new expanded edition of the classic work on comparative mythology amasses the characteristics exemplified by mythological heroes and religious leaders of all centuries and cultures into a unified whole as it outlines the Hero's Journey as a universal motif of adventure running through all of the world's mythic traditions. 35,000 first printing.

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A History of Gender in America by Sylvia D. Hoffert (Paperback - Illustrated)
 

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A History of Gender in America by Sylvia D. Hoffert (Paperback - Illustrated)

A History of Gender in America introduces students to the concept of gender and the way that ideas about masculinity and femininity have been defined and contested from the colonial period through the twentieth century in the United States. It allows students to reflectively analyze and develop a sophisticated and complex picture not only of how men and women in the past have constructed their personal identities and conducted their lives, but also how the power to do so has been negotiated and distributed.

Combining introductory essays that survey the literature on the history of gender, as well as documents, articles, study questions, and bibliographies, a mixture of chronological and topical chapters offers teachers the material they need to explore with their students such questions as:

  • How does gender contribute to the way historical knowledge is organized and presented?
  • What factors have been most important in determining how gender is constructed in any particular period in American history?
  • Whose interests do gender conventions serve?
  • What causes ideas about gender to change?
  • How do those changes take place?
  • What are the results of those changes?
  • What influence do factors like race, class, ethnicity, sexual preference, and geographical location have on the construction of gender?
  • How do men and women solve problems in their everyday lives using culturally constructed notions of gender?

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The Perfect Poison by Jayne Ann Krentz (Hardcover - Putnam Pub Group)
 

The Perfect Poison by Jayne Ann Krentz (...

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The Perfect Poison by Jayne Ann Krentz (Hardcover - Putnam Pub Group)
Consulting on the investigation into a lord's murder, botanist Lucinda Bromley realizes that a poison can be traced back to her, prompting her to hire fellow Arcane Society member Caleb Jones to keep her name out of the investigation and to find the murderer, in a historical, romantic mystery, that has a dark conspiracy at its heart.

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