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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

by Dave Von Drehle

On a beautiful spring day, March 25, 1911, workers were preparing to leave the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village when a fire started. Within minutes it consumed the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside. The final toll was 146—123 of them women. It was the worst disaster in New York City history until September 11,... (more)

The Price of Motherhood: An article from: Women & Environments International Magazine

The Price of Motherhood: An article from: Women & Environments International Magazine

by Ann Crittenden

In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Second Shift , this provocative book shows how mothers are systematically disadvantaged and made dependent by a society that exploits those who perform its most critical work. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and the most current research in economics, history, child development, and law, Ann Crittenden proves that although women have been liberated, mothers... (more)

Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women

by Alexa Albert

When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study as the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result. Having worked with homeless prostitutes in Times Square, Albert was intimate with human devastation cause by the sex trade, and curious to see if Nevada’s brothels offered a less... (more)

Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918

Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918

by Jeffrey D. Nichols

This book reveals insights into the complex history of prostitution in Salt Lake City. After the transcontinental railroad opened Utah to large-scale emigration and market capitalism, hundreds of women in Salt Lake City began to sell sex for a living and a few earned small fortunes. Some of the city's best-known businessmen and politicians developed a financial stake in brothels and prostitution, which was... (more)

The Straight Mind

by Monique Wittig

These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig.

Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism

Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism

Since the early twentieth century, women's aspirations have taken a variety of forms in Protestant churches, shaped by such forces as feminism, secularization, social activism, and the professionalization of religious work. Giving voice to a broad range of Protestant women, this landmark volume launches a stimulating investigation into the story of women and religion in the twentieth century. These smart, vigorous... (more)

The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South

The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South

by Catherine Clinton

When Europeans settled in the early South, they quarreled over many things--but few imbroglios were so fierce as battles over land. Landowners wrangled bitterly over boundaries with neighbors and contested areas became known as "the devil's lane." Violence and bloodshed were but some of the consequences to befall those who ventured into these disputed territories. The Devil's Lane highlights important new work... (more)

Gender Equity: An Integrated Theory of Stability and Change (SAGE Library of Social Research)Janet Saltzman Chafetz

Gender Equity: An Integrated Theory of Stability and Change (SAGE Library of Social Research)

by Janet Saltzman Chafetz

Chafetz addresses two fundamental questions for feminist sociologists: how to explain the maintenance and reproduction of gender inequality and how to explain changes in the level of inequality? A number of theories have been developed to explain gender inequality but have focussed either on the micro-level of individual interaction or on the macro-level looking at societal and institutional factors. In this... (more)

Wars Dirty Secret: Rape, Prostitution, and Other Crimes Against Women

Wars Dirty Secret: Rape, Prostitution, and Other Crimes Against Women

Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War

Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War

by Catherine Clinton

Over a decade ago, the publication of Divided Houses ushered in a new field of scholarship on gender and the Civil War. Following in its wake, Battle Scars showcases insights from award-winning historians as well as emerging scholars. This volume depicts the ways in which gender, race, nationalism, religion, literary culture, sexual mores, and even epidemiology underwent radical transformations from when... (more)

Rise Gonna Rise : A Portrait of Southern Textile WorkersMimi Conway

Rise Gonna Rise : A Portrait of Southern Textile Workers

by Mimi Conway

The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide

The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide

by K. David Goss

Part of the enduring fascination of the Salem witch trials is the fact that, to date, no one theory has been able to fully explain the events that ravaged Salem in 1692. Countless causes, from ergot-infected rye to actual demonic posession, have been offered to explain why the accusations and erratic behavior of seven village girls left hundreds accused, over 20 dead, and the townspeople of eastern Massachusetts... (more)

The Prostitution of Sexuality

by Kathleen Barry

In 1979, Kathleen Barry's landmark book, Female Sexual Slavery, pulled back the curtain on a world of abuse prostitution that shocked the world. Documenting in devastating detail the lives of street prostitutes and the international traffic in women, Barry's work was called powerful and compassionate by Adrienne Rich and a courageous and crusading book that should be read everywhere by Gloria Steinem. The Los... (more)

Hospital With a Heart: Women Doctors and the Paradox of Separatism at the New England Hospital, 1862-1969Virginia Drachman

Hospital With a Heart: Women Doctors and the Paradox of Separatism at the New England Hospital, 1862-1969

by Virginia G. Drachman

American Sexual Politics : Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil WarJohn C. (editor); Tantillo, Maura S. (editor) Fout

American Sexual Politics : Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil War

by John C. (editor); Tantillo, Maura S. (editor) Fout

No Time for WomenCharmian Kenner

No Time for Women

by Charmian Kenner

E. Sylvia Pankhurst, Portrait of a RadicalPatricia W. Romero

E. Sylvia Pankhurst, Portrait of a Radical

by Patricia W. Romero

The Deep Divide: Why American Women Resist EqualitySherrye Henry

The Deep Divide: Why American Women Resist Equality

by Sherrye Henry

PRISONERS OF MEN'S DREAMS: STRIKING OUT FOR A NEW FEMININE FUTURESuzanne Gordon

PRISONERS OF MEN'S DREAMS: STRIKING OUT FOR A NEW FEMININE FUTURE

by Suzanne Gordon

The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed

The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed

by Sue Vilhauer Rosser

In The Science Glass Ceiling, Sue Rosser chronicles the plight of women faculty across the country. Noting difficulties, double standards, and backlash that they routinely face. Rosser interviewed some of the country's best female scientists about their research, love of science, and routing barriers faced. She offers suggestions and solutions for changing the science and technology culture at universities in... (more)

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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

by Dave Von Drehle

The Price of Motherhood: An article from: Women & Environments International Magazine

by Ann Crittenden

Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women

by Alexa Albert

Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918

by Jeffrey D. Nichols

The Straight Mind

by Monique Wittig

Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism

The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South

by Catherine Clinton

Gender Equity: An Integrated Theory of Stability and Change (SAGE Library of Social Research)

by Janet Saltzman Chafetz

Wars Dirty Secret: Rape, Prostitution, and Other Crimes Against Women

Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War

by Catherine Clinton

Rise Gonna Rise : A Portrait of Southern Textile Workers

by Mimi Conway

The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide

by K. David Goss

The Prostitution of Sexuality

by Kathleen Barry

Hospital With a Heart: Women Doctors and the Paradox of Separatism at the New England Hospital, 1862-1969

by Virginia G. Drachman

American Sexual Politics : Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil War

by John C. (editor); Tantillo, Maura S. (editor) Fout

No Time for Women

by Charmian Kenner

E. Sylvia Pankhurst, Portrait of a Radical

by Patricia W. Romero

The Deep Divide: Why American Women Resist Equality

by Sherrye Henry

PRISONERS OF MEN'S DREAMS: STRIKING OUT FOR A NEW FEMININE FUTURE

by Suzanne Gordon

The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed

by Sue Vilhauer Rosser