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When her husband drops her for a younger woman, Molly Redwine of Atlanta--mother of two adult children and a woman accustomed to comfort--thinks it is the end of the world. But as she recuperates in Martha's Vineyard, Molly discovers other reasons for living--lots of people need her--and gradually she regains confidence and happiness.

A woman travels around the world to interview 15 different women from 15 different countries. As the women open up on topics ranging from love to religion to nationalism, this documentary paints a vivid portrait of the diversity of the female experience.

Examines the love lives of twenty-something American women in the San Francisco Bay Area, revealing that young women have more opportunities and information than previous generations, but that unsatisfying sex and relationships tend to stem from sexual freedom.

"'What the women I write about have in common is that they are all rebels with a cause, and I see myself represented in their mirror,' asserts Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Looking back across a career in which she has written novels, poems, and scholarly works about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, la Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, the murdered women of Juárez, the Salem witches, and Chicana lesbian feminists, Gaspar de Alba realized that what links these historically...

"Barbara Weir Huber explores the myth of Psyche, interweaving research from such diverse disciplines as current feminist and educational theories, mythology, literature, psychology, and cultural anthropology. She offers an original, critical reinterpretation of the myth, highlighting the way it overtly portrays female experience in a patriarchal context while covertly affirming all aspects of female life." "In Transforming Psyche Huber shows that...

Describes what it means to be a woman at the turn of the twenty-first century and addresses a variety of issues women face in modern society.

"In today's image-conscious world, photography is one of the most powerful mediators of our sense of self. Exploring the ways in which female identity is constructed and mediated through the art of photography is the central theme of this fascinating, fully illustrated book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C." "This book features the work of two generations of artists whose portraiture,...

"Toward the end of the nineteenth century, as young women began entering college in greater numbers than ever before, physicians and social critics worried that campus life might pose great hazards to the female constitution and women's reproductive health. "A girl could study and learn," Dr. Edward Clarke warned in his widely read Sex in Education (1873), "but she could not do all this and retain uninjured health, and a future secure from neuralgia,...