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The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice

By Suzanne Hall Vogel

These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing social change and economic uncertainty in contemporary Japan.

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Imagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles

By Sikivu Hutchinson

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Building a New Yemen: Recovery, Transition and the International Community

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When Couples Become Parents: The Creation of Gender in the Transition to Parenthood

By Bonnie Fox

When Couples Become Parents examines the ways in which divisions based on gender both evolve and are challenged by heterosexual couples from late pregnancy through early parenthood.

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Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

By Therese Grisham, Julie Grossman

Ida Lupino, Director shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers, one whose movies depicted the plights of postwar women and exposed the dark underside of American society. The authors show Lupino as a trailblazing feminist auteur who created a distinctive style in film and television that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic.

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Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

By Therese Grisham, Julie Grossman

Ida Lupino, Director shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers, one whose movies depicted the plights of postwar women and exposed the dark underside of American society. The authors show Lupino as a trailblazing feminist auteur who created a distinctive style in film and television that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic.

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Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

By Deborah Kennedy

Poetic Sisters explores the personal and literary connections among five eighteenth-century women poets. Anchored in the work of Anne Finch, author of "A Nocturnal Reverie," this book explores a female literary network, and emphasizes the range and extent of these writers' poe...

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Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790

By Nicolle Jordan

Prolific Ground investigates landownership as a crucial factor in the emergence of British women's independence during the long eighteenth century. Staking a claim to the nation's investment in land, women writers acquired a socio-political authority that otherwise eluded them. The landscapes that emerge in their writing testify to the socio-political power of land in this era.

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Heaven Starts Here: What Now? An After Transition Guide

By Yasmeen Fatimah

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Alaska Transit: More Crime on the Alaska / Russia Border

By Richie Goldstein