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Cover of Florence Hartley: The Ladies' Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness

Florence Hartley: The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness

Florence Hartley’s Ladies’ Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness was first published in the nineteenth century and is a timeless reference to the art of gracious living today. This comprehensive …

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Kittredge Cherry: Womansword

Thirty years after its first publication, Womansword remains a timely, provocative work on how words reflect female stereotypes in modern Japan. Short, lively essays offer linguistic, sociological, a …

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S. E. Grace: Hungry Ghosts

Neither fiction or non-fiction, yet both. Neither art or science, yet both. For every answer, there is a question. ‘Mac Gregor-Ganj returned to the bothy to find Naois missing. She found Alki Macha, …

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Deborah St. Hilaire: Divalution

A humorous yet poignant take on the issues and attitudes that encumber today’s women. ‘Divalution’ is full of quips and short stories based on the authors personal experiences and observations, some …

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Cordelia Fine: Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality—and Why Men Still Win at Work

A razor-sharp and quick-witted analysis of why we need a new approach to fixing the gender inequality embedded in work. Even in wealthy democratic countries, gender inequality in paid and unpaid work …

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Vicki Dabrowski: Austerity, Women and the Role of the State

Using interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, Dabrowski makes an invaluable contribution to the debates around the gendered politics of austerity in the UK. Exploring the symbiotic relationsh …

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Measuring Progress on Women’s Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship in the Philippines

This report analyzes how to untangle and simplify the complex product-specific rules of origin (PSRO) in free trade agreements in Asia and the Pacific and explores how technology can cut red tape and …

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Kemeshia Randle Swanson: Maverick Feminist

Winner of the 2024 Eudora Welty Prize Beginning with their forced introduction to American soil, Black women have relied on maverick-like characteristics to survive. And yet, these liberating qualiti …

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John A. Robertson: Children of Choice

Cloning, genetic screening, embryo freezing, in vitro fertilization, Norplant, RU486–these are the technologies revolutionizing our reproductive landscape. Through the lens of procreative liberty–m …

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Katherine J. Lehman: Those Girls

Long before Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, there was Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Every week, as Mary flung her beret into the air while the theme song proclaimed, “You’re gonna …