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A original investigation our conceptions of femininity.

"Athletic Strength for Women is the first training manual to address the specific physiological, biomechanical, and anatomical needs of female athletes. More than 120 targeted exercises and drills are provided to improve: throwing, striking, swinging, and other upper-body skills; starting, stopping, jumping, cutting, turning, pivoting, and other lower-body maneuvers; and overall power and speed." "In-season, off-season, and preseason programs are...

"A Studio of Her Own tells the interwoven stories of some forty women artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exploring, in the author's words, "both the individual lives and talents of Boston women artists and the integrated relationships that enabled many of them to excel."" "No one category or medium can encompass these careers, which range from the paintings of Ellen Day Hale and the sculptures of Katharine Lane Weems to the photographs...

Archaeologist Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias--to basket bearers and handmaidens. Along the way, she challenges long-held beliefs to show that priestesses played far more significant public roles in ancient...

Readers will be entertained by "Advertising to the American Woman". This is a lavishly illustrated survey of how the mass production of consumer goods, the development of the advertising industry, and the evolution of women's roles in society inextricably progressed through the twentieth century. The author focuses on the marketing perspective of the topic rather than on the marketing perspective of the consumer's point of view. Inevitably, a number...

Publisher's description: Tracing the history of feminism in Japan from the end of the nineteenth century to the present, Vera Mackie offers a fascinating account of those who rebelled against convention in the dissemination of ideas which challenged accepted ways of thinking about women, men and society. This carefully documented analysis is for students of feminism and related areas where nothing comparable is currently available.

Focuses on the efforts toward reforming women's dress that took place in Europe and America during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth.

An exploration of the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York, this text argues for a reconsideration of the position of women in the bourgeois elite in 19th-century America.