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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
by John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman The first full length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offers trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans, from colonial times to today. D'Emilio and Freedman give us a deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramatically influenced politics and culture throughout our history. |
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Killing the Black Body : Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
by Dorothy Roberts Dorothy Roberts' passionate and well-documented book looks at a less-talked about side of the battle for reproductive rights: the history of the social and governmental control of African American women's bodies. |
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Listen Up 2 Ed: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation
by Barbara Findlen, Editor This lively anthology counters the notion that feminism is on the wane. Findlen, managing editor of Ms. magazine, offers a collection of essays by young feminists, part of a generation that wrestles with a broad range of issues from race and sexual orientation to maternity. |
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Mobilizing Resentment : CONSERVATIVE RESURGENCE FROM THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY TO THE PROMISE KEEPERS
by Jean Hardisty In this provocative book, Jean Hardisty details the formation of right-wing movements in opposition to the struggle for expansion of rights for women, people of color, and lesbians and gays. |
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Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions (Sacred Energies Series)
by Daniel C. Maguire In Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions, ethics professor Daniel Maguire argues that "although many people believe that contraception is forbidden by their religion... the world's religions are open to family planning, including contraception and also abortion as a backup when necessary." |
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The Commercialization of Intimate Life : Notes from Home and Work
by Arlie Russell Hothschild Hothschild's influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market transactions--indeed, American life itself. |
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Wrestling With Angels : What Genesis Teaches Us About Our Spiritual Identity, Sexuality and PersonalRelationships
by Naomi H. Rosenblatt and Joshua Horwitz The authors retell and interpret the multigenerational saga of the first family of the Bible, showing how their all-too-human struggles are decidedly relevant to the issues confronting us today. |