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  • My Seven Mothers

    Making a Family in the Danish Women's Movement

    by Pernille Ipsen ...
    Translated by Tiina Nunnally ...
    Seven women raise a child together while redefining their place in society at the beginning of the Women’s Movement in Denmark in the 1970sOn New Year’s Eve in Copenhagen in 1972, seven women had a child together: one gave birth and six others attended. They had met a year earlier at a feminist women’s camp on a small island and now, with about twenty other women’s liberationists, they occupied ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Daughters of the Trade

    Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast

    by Pernille Ipsen ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking women who had married Danish merchants and traders. Their marriage would have been familiar to Gold ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Daughters of the Trade

    Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast

    by Pernille Ipsen ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking women who had married Danish merchants and traders. Their marriage would have been familiar to Gold ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line

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    Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize for NonfictionA narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties, and "a clear-eyed and moving addition to the still-expanding record of lesbian lives" (Publishers Weekly).With warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who ... Read more

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  • Children of Fire

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    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    "Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost ... Read more

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  • Doing It

    Women Tell the Truth about Great Sex

    Edited by Karen Pickering ...
    Doing It is a bold, explicit and unapologetically feminist look at sex written by women with a great story to tell about a positive sexual encounter, relationship or development in their lives. This collection – memoir, essay, erotica, art – encourages honest discussions about pleasure and desire, and celebrates the diverse experiences of women having sex, loving sex, pursuing sex and taking ... Read more

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  • Blood and Money

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    The history of money and its violent and oppressive origins from slavery to war—by the author of Global Slump.In most accounts of the origins of money we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. But in this groundbreaking study, David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development as one of violence and human ... Read more

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  • The Guy's Guide to Feminism

    by Michael Kaufman, Michael Kimmel ...
    Written by and for men, the ultimate guide to becoming a strong male ally in the 21st centuryIn just one generation, age-old ideas about women have been swept aside . . . but what does that have to do with men? Authors Michael Kaufman and Michael Kimmel, two of the world's leading male advocates of gender equality, believe it has everything to do with them -- and that it's crucial to educate men ... Read more

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  • The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution

    Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic

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    **In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system.A New York Times Notable Book of 2017**For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable—and they designed governments ... Read more

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  • Any Other Way

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    Edited by Stephanie Chambers, Jane Farrow, Maureen FitzGerald, Ed Jackson, John Lorinc, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer ...
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