Women in 1974

Women in 1974
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Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951002815370D
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Synopsis Women in 1974 by : Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women (U.S.)

Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993

Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993
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Publisher : Women's Graphics
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105005131334
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Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Feminist Chronicles, 1953-1993 by : Toni Carabillo

Published by Women's Graphics, 1126 Hi Point Street, Los Angeles, CA 90035. A chronology of the feminist movement over 40 years. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Feminine Mystique

The Feminine Mystique
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Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 014013655X
ISBN-13 : 9780140136555
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis The Feminine Mystique by : Betty Friedan

This novel was the major inspiration for the Women's Movement and continues to be a powerful and illuminating analysis of the position of women in Western society___

Woman, Culture, and Society

Woman, Culture, and Society
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 0804708517
ISBN-13 : 9780804708517
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Woman, Culture, and Society by : Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo

Female anthropologists scan patterns and changes in women's roles in various social systems

Programmed Inequality

Programmed Inequality
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780262535182
ISBN-13 : 0262535181
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Programmed Inequality by : Mar Hicks

This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation’s inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Mar Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government’s systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation’s largest computer user—the civil service and sprawling public sector—to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century.

Woman Hating

Woman Hating
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Publisher : Picador
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781250359285
ISBN-13 : 1250359287
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Woman Hating by : Andrea Dworkin

Reissued with a bold, modern package, Andrea Dworkin’s debut book Woman Hating argues that a deep-rooted hatred of women in history, art, politics, and beyond has reigned—and influenced and formed culture—for centuries. A classic work in the canon of radical feminist thinking, Andrea Dworkin’s 1974 debut Woman Hating is a stunning exploration of how women, and the idea of women, have been treated through the centuries. From fairy tales to erotic novels to medieval witch burnings, Dworkin uncovers the ways in which a rhetoric of hate and violence against women has been historically normalized, leading to a history of degradation, mutilation, and even killing.

Gender and Elections

Gender and Elections
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781107729247
ISBN-13 : 1107729246
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Gender and Elections by : Susan J. Carroll

The third edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, and multifaceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2012 elections. This timely yet enduring volume strikes a balance between highlighting the most important developments for women as voters and candidates in the 2012 elections and providing a more long-term, in-depth analysis of the ways that gender has helped shape the contours and outcomes of electoral politics in the United States. Individual chapters demonstrate the importance of gender in understanding and interpreting presidential elections, presidential and vice-presidential candidacies, voter participation and turnout, voting choices, congressional elections, the political involvement of Latinas, the participation of African American women, the support of political parties and women's organizations, candidate communications with voters, and state elections. Without question, Gender and Elections is the most comprehensive, reliable, and trustworthy resource on the role of gender in US electoral politics.

See Red Women's Workshop

See Red Women's Workshop
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Total Pages : 167
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ISBN-10 : 1909829072
ISBN-13 : 9781909829077
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis See Red Women's Workshop by : Prue Stevenson

A feminist silkscreen poster collective founded in London in 1974 by three former art students, the See Red Women's Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives. Women from different backgrounds came together to make posters and calendars that tackled issues of sexuality, identity and oppression. With humor and bold, colorful graphics, See Red expressed the personal experiences of women as well as their role in wider struggles for change.

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art
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Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9780870706608
ISBN-13 : 0870706608
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art by : Alexandra Schwartz

This text examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.

Sexual Politics

Sexual Politics
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : 9780231541725
ISBN-13 : 0231541724
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Sexual Politics by : Kate Millett

A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. This new edition features the scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon and the New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to challenging the complacency that sidelines feminism.