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Women's Studies



link to catalog page ADDAMS, The Long Road of Woman's Memory Author: Jane Addams
Pub Date: November

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link to catalog page HALL, Professions

Professions

Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies

Author: Edited by Donald E. Hall
Pub Date: 2001

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link to catalog page TAX, The Rising of the Women

The Rising of the Women

Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917

Author: Meredith Tax
Pub Date: 2001

A meticulously researched and brilliantly nuanced examination of the rise of feminism and its relationship with union and labor movements.   learn more...

link to catalog page TAX, Rivington Street Author: Meredith Tax
Pub Date: 2001

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link to catalog page FERBER, Roast Beef, Medium

Roast Beef, Medium

The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney

Author: Edna Ferber
Pub Date: 2001

The adventures of Emma McChesney: smart, savvy, stylish, divorced mother, and Midwest traveling sales representative for T. A. Buck's Featherloom skirts and petticoats. (UofI’s paperback reprint of Ferber’s So Big has sold close to 7000 copies!)   learn more...

link to catalog page QUINN, Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans Author: D. Michael Quinn
Pub Date: July 2001

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link to catalog page EPSTEIN, Shaping Losses

Shaping Losses

Cultural Memory and the Holocaust

Author: Edited by Julia Epstein and Lori Hope Lefkovitz
Pub Date: May 2001

Looking at works of art as well as family relationships, Shaping Losses explores how traumatic loss shapes personal and cultural identity.   learn more...

link to catalog page LECOMPTE, Cowgirls of the Rodeo

Cowgirls of the Rodeo

Pioneer Professional Athletes

Author: Mary Lou LeCompte
Pub Date: 2000

Using biographies to describe women’s transformation from serious rodeo athletes to beauty queens and their successful struggle to regain their place--and respect--as the competitive athletes they are today   learn more...

link to catalog page LEE, For Freedom's Sake

For Freedom's Sake

The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

Author: Chana Kai Lee
Pub Date: July 2000

The fascinating story of a childhood sharecropper who fought against racial injustice and classism within her own race to rise to national prominence in the civil rights movement   learn more...

link to catalog page BUTLER, Gendered Justice in the American West

Gendered Justice in the American West

Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries

Author: Anne M. Butler
Pub Date: 2000

This is the first book to deal in depth with the ugly realities that made life in prison even more difficult for women in the American West, revealing neglected and forgotten lives and for the first time adding their voices and experiences to the saga of the American West.   learn more...

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