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These volumes present an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. With six volumes covering 2500 years, this is the most authoritative history available of women in Western cultures. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: the Life Cycle; Bodies and Sexuality; Religion and Popular Beliefs; Medicine and Disease; Public and Private Worlds; Education and Work; Power; and Artistic Representation. This means readers can either...
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"Locating information on women is difficult and the editors have done a fine job assembling and publishing information extant on individual women from many nations both living and dead. Because in some cases only birth, marriage, children, and death dates are known, the 10,000 articles vary in length according to the subject. If you haven't been able to answer reference questions on women, you need this set."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American...
10) Time to Live
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Whether they are French, Japanese, Russian, Chinese Indian, Brazilian, Tunisian ... their individual life stories - personal or professional - are an indicator of the progress that has been achieved in just one generation. So, how to grab these new opportunities and carve out a new place in society? How to have a rewarding career and not sacrifice personal aspirations in a world that is not quite ready yet to accept this new place women have claimed?...
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In seeking to explain his opinions on a timeless subject;the relations between the sexes;John Stuart Mill admits that he has undertaken an arduous task. For "there are so many causes tending to make the feelings connected with this subject the most intense and most deeply-rooted of all those which gather round and protect old institutions and customs, that we need not wonder to find them as yet less undermined and loosened than any of the rest by...
12) Time to Work
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Whether they are French, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, or Tunisian, their individual life stories are an indicator of progress achieved in just one generation. This documentary explores how women are grabbing new opportunities and carving out a new place in society, and pursuing rewarding careers without sacrificing personal aspirations in a world that is not quite ready to accept women's new role.
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The matriarchy is one of the most hotly contested issues between contending schools in anthropology. This book affirms that the maternal clan system was the original form of social organization and explains why. It also traces its development and the causes of its downfall. Evelyn Reed takes us on an expedition through prehistory from cannibalism to culture--and uncovers the world of the ancient matriarchy. Tracing the origins of the "incest taboo,"...
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"Following the triumphant success of her A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman has turned her formidable gifts to that greatest gift of all - the elusive, eternal, and endlessly interesting matter of love." "The result is pure Ackerman: a splendid, serious, scientific, poetic, playful, and lyrical "tour d'horizon" of love's many forms and faces." "Ackerman draws on a variety of sources, both classical and from her immediate experience. The...
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