History Books


Beyond Women's Empowerment in Africa: Exploring Dislocation and Agency Best Price: $66.95 This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women?s knowledge...	Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction Best Price: $71.38 This book provides the first full-length study of Jean Genet's homoerotic writing but...	Gender: A Genealogy of an Idea Best Price: $72.21 Gender stands as one of the great conceptual devices of the twentieth century. It has becomes...	Letters between Forster and Isherwood on Homosexuality and Literature Best Price: $57.95 The correspondence between E. M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood is a fascinating record of...	The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782 Best Price: $89.62 Nancy K. Miller is best known for The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English...



A Future for Astyanax Best Price: $278.48	The Lesbian Postmodern Best Price: $77.00 I bought this book because Tee Corinne in her anthology of short stories "Courting...	Days of Masquerade Best Price: $10.00 Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived...	Romantic Genius Best Price: $23.00 Surprisingly little has been written about homosexuality in British Romantic writing, and,...	From Partners to Parents Best Price: $16.75 As an intellectual divorced father, I have long searched for that one book that gave the...



A Century of Change-- What's Next? (The American Woman Series) Best Price: $3.56 This is the seventh volume of the biannual series documenting the social, reconomic, and...	Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History and the Politics of Gender "Rewriting the Victorians" is a collection of essays both feminist and historical...	Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives Best Price: $35.89 One of the most important contributions to this multi-cultural anthropological anthology is:...	Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy Best Price: $29.96 Traditional accounts of the feminist history of philosophy have viewed reason as associated with...	Black British Feminism: A Reader Best Price: $35.14 Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist...

Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety Best Price: $17.77 Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite,"...	Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (Thinking Gender) Best Price: $6.96 Embattled Eros is a sophisticated analysis of the major dynamics and patterns of the...	Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics and the University Best Price: $76.69 Combining historical and political analysis with autobiography and memoir, "Making...	My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years Best Price: $6.12 Schulman is right. This is American History. And since it's not in the textbooks, someone...	From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother (Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender) Best Price: $11.95 Explores the cultural history of what underlies popular conceptions of "proper" mothering

A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster Best Price: $6.95 A New York Times Book Review Editors? Choice Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld...	Women's History: A Guide to Sources at Hagley Museum and Library (Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies) Best Price: $12.50 Traditionally, scholars have used Hagley to study the history of business and technology, but in...	Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate Over War, 1895-1919 (Contributions in Women's Studies) Best Price: $77.95 Kuhlman explores the reasons so many antiwar progressive reformers ended up forming the most...	Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity: An Ethnography of Men's Filmgoing in India (Controversies in Science) Best Price: $115.00 Of the Indian Americans with whom I attended high school, only the women watched Indian films. ...	Women's Roles in Twentieth-Century America (Women's Roles in American History) Best Price: $39.99 The twentieth century was a time of great transformation in the roles of American women. Women...

Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) Best Price: $8.50 From the suffrage movement to the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War, women have...	Women and Farming Best Price: $145.11 Women and Farming: Property and Power looks at women on family farms. It argues that farming...	Sex and Subjection: Attitudes to Women in Early Modern Society Best Price: $148.62 Fascinating topic, well-researched and academic in style, yet accessible to anyone with an...	The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up Best Price: $4.00 If you think Andrew (Andy) Tobias does too much name-dropping and pumping up the Ivy League, ...	Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909 Best Price: $19.98 Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the...

Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920 Best Price: $23.00	Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality Best Price: $20.21 Like the increased visibility and rush to study 'whiteness' in the wake of critical race...	Rights, Not Roses: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80 (The Working Class in American History) Best Price: $16.99 Although the most visible banners of feminism were carried by educated, white-collar,...	Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity Best Price: $22.00 Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences,...	The Edge of Change: Women in the Twenty-First-Century Press Best Price: $21.07 In this book, the nation's leading female newspaper journalists, editors, and executives...

Refiguring Modernism, Volume 1: Women of 1928 Best Price: $14.95 "... an invaluable aid to the reconfiguration of literary modernism and of the history of...	Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 Best Price: $15.94 Dr. Moitt knows his stuff. He takes it very seriously. This was one of our texts for his class...	American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture Best Price: $7.87 Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time...	Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader Best Price: $28.46 Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India...	Engendering Citizenship in Egypt Best Price: $21.96 You should all go out and buy this book, or sit in your office and buy it online if you want. ...

Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform Best Price: $32.96 I learned a lot from this book. Murphy shows how American politics became so suffused with...	Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform Best Price: $21.97 In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming...	One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression Best Price: $29.94 Lorena Hickok, special investigator for Harry Hopkins, traveled the country reporting on the...	Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center Best Price: $19.99	Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930

Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96 (Women in American History) Best Price: $42.54	Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925 Best Price: $29.75 The debate over the "new" immigrants - primarily from southern and eastern Europe -...	Voting the Gender Gap Best Price: $61.97 This book concentrates on the gender gap in voting--the difference in the proportion of women...	Fanny Wright: Rebel in America Best Price: $17.99 Fanny Wright, who was born in Scotland in 1795 and came to the United States in 1818, was a...	A Century of Change-- What's Next? (The American Woman Series) Best Price: $3.56 This is the seventh volume of the biannual series documenting the social, reconomic, and...

Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History and the Politics of Gender "Rewriting the Victorians" is a collection of essays both feminist and historical...	Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives Best Price: $35.89 One of the most important contributions to this multi-cultural anthropological anthology is:...	Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy Best Price: $29.96 Traditional accounts of the feminist history of philosophy have viewed reason as associated with...	Black British Feminism: A Reader Best Price: $35.14 Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist...	Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety Best Price: $17.77 Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite,"...

Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (Thinking Gender) Best Price: $6.96 Embattled Eros is a sophisticated analysis of the major dynamics and patterns of the...	Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics and the University Best Price: $76.69 Combining historical and political analysis with autobiography and memoir, "Making...	My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years Best Price: $6.12 Schulman is right. This is American History. And since it's not in the textbooks, someone...	From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother (Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender) Best Price: $11.95 Explores the cultural history of what underlies popular conceptions of "proper" mothering	In Praise of Black Women, Volume 1: Ancient African Queens Best Price: $47.00 "In Praise of Black Women" is a gorgeously illustrated volume relating the...

The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: The English Phallus Best Price: $65.00 Taking on nothing less than the formation of modern genders and sexualities, Thomas A. King...	Women Medievalists and the Academy Best Price: $68.04 This beautiful, fat book contains informative and inspiring biographical sketches of women...	In Her own Words: Oral histories of Women Physicians Best Price: $49.95	Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays Best Price: $17.95 For those interested in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his family, this book gives a glimpse into...	Bisexuality in the Ancient World Best Price: $11.35 First the problems. When a scholar uses such a wide range of sources, it is inevidentual that...

Yale French Studies, Number 90: Same Sex/Different Text? Gay and Lesbian Writing in French (Yale French Studies Series) Best Price: $1.07	My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin Best Price: $8.31 This succinct, extremely well written slice of autobiography and history is valuable to those...	Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in 17th-Century England Best Price: $40.52 This is a great social history of women in 17th century England. The author writes in a way...	To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity Best Price: $10.95 Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their...	The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries) Best Price: $60.15 In this landmark case study, historian Rhonda Y. Williams redefines postwar urban history by...

Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran Best Price: $16.04 While Iranian women have most frequently been viewed through the politics of veiling, ...	Roman Homosexuality: Second Edition Best Price: $16.04 I first discovered this gem in my school's library. Intrigued by the cover and the great...	Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History Best Price: $12.77 The fourth edition of Rethinking Canada is representative of the most interesting work done in...	A Comparison Between Women and Men: Tarabai Shinde and the critique of gender relations in colonial India Best Price: $15.92 First published in 1882, Tarabai Shinde's A Comparison between Women and Men is an...	From Independence Towards Freedom: Indian Women since 1947 (Discovery (Oxford)) Best Price: $135.27 The twelve essays in this volume critically examine the relationship between the Indian nation...

Five Women of Sennar: Culture and Change in Central Sudan (Oxford Studies in African Affairs) Recent political, economic, and ecological disasters have brought drastic changes to Sudan, the...	Feminism and Renaissance Studies (Oxford Readings in Feminism) Best Price: $199.00 This collection brings together essays by well-known feminist scholars from the wide range of...	They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush Best Price: $45.00 As a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, I found tremendous value in "They Saw The...	Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909 Best Price: $19.98 Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the...	Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920 Best Price: $23.00

Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality Best Price: $20.21 Like the increased visibility and rush to study 'whiteness' in the wake of critical race...	Rights, Not Roses: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80 (The Working Class in American History) Best Price: $16.99 Although the most visible banners of feminism were carried by educated, white-collar,...	Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity Best Price: $22.00 Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences,...	The Edge of Change: Women in the Twenty-First-Century Press Best Price: $21.07 In this book, the nation's leading female newspaper journalists, editors, and executives...	Refiguring Modernism, Volume 1: Women of 1928 Best Price: $14.95 "... an invaluable aid to the reconfiguration of literary modernism and of the history of...

Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 Best Price: $15.94 Dr. Moitt knows his stuff. He takes it very seriously. This was one of our texts for his class...	American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture Best Price: $7.87 Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time...	Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader Best Price: $28.46 Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India...	Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages Best Price: $17.99 Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life-styles, the...	Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Best Price: $23.70 According to John Boswell's book, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, the...

The Constitutional Underclass: Gays, Lesbians, and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection Best Price: $6.00 When the Supreme Court struck down Colorado's Amendment 2?which would have nullified all...	The Invention of Heterosexuality Best Price: $14.46 ?Heterosexuality,? assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely...	Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave Best Price: $17.66 Throughout the 1970s and ?80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about...	Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America Best Price: $20.00 The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In...	Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics Best Price: $22.25 From the 1969 rebellion at Stonewall to recent battles over same-sex marriage, Gay Liberation in...

Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility (Population and Development (Chicago, Ill.).) Best Price: $35.97 After decades of tremendous growth, Kinshasa-capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-is...	Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives Best Price: $93.79 This new volume of essays examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality. Why...	Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. Best Price: $26.05 Winner of the 2008 National Women's Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa prize! ...

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