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SOCIAL SCIENCE:

First Lady of the Confederacy: Joan E. Cashin; When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin offers the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. In this path-breaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

The Gender of Modernity: Rita Felski; In an innovative exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity and calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either demonized the modern as inherently patriarchal, or else assumed a simple opposition between men's and women's experiences of the modern world.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995

Hermeneutics and Honor: Asma Afsaruddin, Editor; Foreword by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good; Women's traversal of public space in Islamic/ate societies and the ensuing process of negotiating gendered identities are the central concerns of this collection of essays. Elaborate cultural codes of honor and traditional, masculinist interpretations of scripture have reinforced the public-private polarity and restricted Muslim women's access to the public realm as conventionally defined. The distinguished contributors to this volume provide insight into how women from different social strata and historical periods in various Islamic/ate societies have creatively engaged with these limitations upon their behavior.; Paperback 2000

Only Paradoxes to Offer: Joan W. Scott; When feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy, they faced an impossible choice. On the one hand, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. On the other hand, by the fact that they acted on behalf of women, they introduced the very idea of difference they sought to eliminate. This paradox was the constitutive condition of the long struggle by women to gain the right of citizenship. In this book the award-winning historian Joan Wallach Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox of sexual difference.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997

Only Words: Catharine A. MacKinnon; MacKinnon contends that pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and racial hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Sexuality and Feminism in Shelley: Nathaniel Brown; More than a literary study, this book is an analysis of sexual attitudes and practices in the Romantic period, and a contribution to the history and theory of feminism. In exploring the many aspects of his subject, Brown compares Shelley with his contemporaries, particularly Byron, and draws upon extensive research into the laws, ideas, and practices of the period.; Hardcover 1979

Woman Suffrage and The Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920: Suzanne Marilley; Suzanne Marilley examines how woman suffragists introduced liberal feminist dissent into an emerging national movement against absolute power in the forms of patriarchy, church administrations, slavery, and false dogmas. In their struggle, these women developed three types of liberal arguments, each predominant during a different phase of the movement.; Hardcover 1997

Women's Lives, Men's Laws: Catharine A. MacKinnon; In the past twenty-five years, no one has been more instrumental than MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. This collection, the first since MacKinnon's celebrated Feminism Unmodified appeared in 1987, brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, defining her clear, coherent, consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007