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"Winner of the 1991 Canada-Japan Book Award, Canadian Historical Association"
Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for factory owners that in turn benefited the state, the labor of these women and girls enabled their tenant farming families...
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English
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Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarchy since Sister Rosetta Tharpe first played the guitar riffs that built rock-n-roll. The explosion of punk sent shockwaves of revolution to every girl who dreamed of being on stage. Punk godmothers Suzy Quatro, The Runaways, Patti Smith, Poison Ivy, Tina Weymouth, Debbie Harry, The Go-Gos, and Fanny's Millington sisters provided the template for thousands of girls and women throughout the...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 378 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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In Don't Call Me Princess, Peggy Orenstein's most resonant and important essays are available for the first time in collected form, updated with both an original introduction and personal reflections on each piece. Her takes on reproductive justice, the infertility industry, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms, pink ribbon fear-mongering and the complications of girl culture are not merely timelessthey have, like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
256 pages
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English
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"From the effects of fame on family and vice versa to motherhood and drugs, sex, and romance, Lisa Robinson has discussed every taboo topic with nearly every significant living female artist to pass through the pages of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Here, her interviews with and observations of fabulous female pop and rock stars, from Tina Turner and Alanis Morrissette to Rihanna, show how these powerhouse women, all with vastly different life experiences,...
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Katy Madison
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
Description
Something is rotten at the core of Fairland, Iowa. Over the years girls, women, have left never to return. Nothing is strange about people leaving a small rural town, but the truth is: none of them really left...but one *almost* got away. Although Daniel Thorton's wrongful conviction for killing his high school girlfriend is overturned, suspicions about him are ruining his life. He returns to sleepy Fairland to find the real murderer. His only hope...
6) It's A Girl
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (64 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called “gendercide". The war against girls is rooted in centuries-old tradition and sustained by deeply ingrained cultural dynamics which, in combination with government policies, accelerate the elimination of girls.....
7) Geek Girls
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
Nerdy women - the "hidden half" of fan culture - open up about their lives in the world of conventions, video games, and other rife-with-misogyny pop culture touchstones. While geek communities have recently risen to prominence, very little attention is paid to nerdy women. Filmmaker Gina Hara, struggling with her own geek identity, explores the issue with a cast of women who live geek life up to the hilt: A feminist geek blogger, a convention-trotting...
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Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This is the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent woman director in Hong Kong in the 1930s. A San Francisco native and open lesbian, her contribution to film history is sadly overlooked and her 11 feature films mostly lost. After the retirement of director Dorothy Arzner in 1943 and before Ida Lupino began directing in 1949, Eng was the only woman directing feature length films...
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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (97 p.)
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English
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"The world is changing, but are you changing with it? Now that dating has gone digital, is it still the same? Clearly not, the digital world is flooded with entirely new problems which rend many new relationships apart. Texting is one of those key areas that is so little understood in digital dating. Textappeal, has all the answers, not only what to avoid, but how to actually use this new medium to your greatest advantage. Any woman armed with this...
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