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This inspiring, engagingly written book, with its personal approach and global scope, is the first to explore women's increasingly influential role in the wine industry, traditionally a very male-dominated domain. Women of Wine draws on …
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The book addresses issues concerning women who become pregnant and then get dumped because they refuse to have an abortion, and it also covers single motherhood from birth to the preschool years. It is a congratulatory book for women who have the …
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In the rural America of the past, a woman's reputation was sometimes made by her cherry pie - of her chocolate layer cake, or her biscuits. This work shows how cooking evolved during the 20th century as new challenges arose to replace the old.
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Community cookbooks were usually compiled by women and sold to raise money for charity. Contributors contend that the texts tell us much about the lives of those who wrote them. The volume is in three sections a historical overview essays about …
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Community cookbooks were usually compiled by women and sold to raise money for charity. Contributors contend that the texts tell us much about the lives of those who wrote them. The volume is in three sections a historical overview essays about …
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Combining feminist anthropology and theory with culinary history, Catherine Manton examines the place of food in women's history, with a particular emphasis on the life and changing roles of the American woman and her self-image. As Professor …
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This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home-birth movement of the …
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Litoff briefly reviews the history of American midwifery in the 20th century as an introduction to the carefully selected primary source material originally published in 1910. Litoff identifies in this source material the origins of the ongoing …
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The 1980s and 1990s have seen an unprecedented emphasis on global feminism, on the connectedness of women regardless of race, class, or geography. And yet, the status and position of women throughout the world remains enormously disparate. Even …
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Combining attention to lived experience with the critical tools of ethics, Karey Harwood explores why many women who use the tools of high-tech assisted reproduction tend to use them repeatedly, even when the results are unsuccessful. With a …
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The widely acclaimed author of DICK FOR A DAY showcases her razor-sharp knack for tart and provocative commentary in this unique compendium of stories, memories and reportage on the age-old practise of breast-feeding. While countless …
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From My Mother's Hands celebrates the positive roles mothers can play in the lives of daughters. In a collection of poignant memoirs crafted from interviews with thirty-three notable Texas women, Susie Kelly Flatau weaves a tapestry of intimate …
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In 2003 Wally Lamb--the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, 'She's Come Undone' and 'I Know This Much Is True'--published 'Couldn't Keep It to Myself,' a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the …
From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies
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In this book, feminist scholars shed new light on the history of food, cooking, and eating. In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have turned their attention to food to gain a better understanding of history, culture, economics, …
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Every year, millions of women have their lives turned inside out by the experience of pregnancy. This book takes a critical look at the powerful vested interests in the pregnancy business and at the social message coming at women: an amalgam of …
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Comprehensive, hands-on, and conversationally written, this book is a user-friendly and entertaining guide to ordering, buying, and collecting wine, from a trailblazing wine expert.
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Offers a fresh look at food and cooking as more than the makings of a meal. Including memories of Latina, Geechee, Chinese and Indian kitchens, this book reveals the necessary from the painful struggles to overcome an eating disorder, to the …
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In this compelling and highly-praised book, best selling author Colette Dowling shows how girls are weaned from the use of their bodies even before they begin school. By adolescence, girls' strength and aerobic powers start to decline - unless …
A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove
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Filled with classic recipes and inspirational stories, 'A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove' will make you think twice about the food on your plate. Here is the first book to recount how American women have gathered, cooked, and prepared food for …
Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England
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Women brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London-as well as in many towns and villages-were male, not female. Drawing on a wide variety of sources-…
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This is more than a cookbook, it also contains the touching life stories of 68 grandmothers, along with their favorite recipes for family foods. Photos.
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In 'The Cult of Thinness', Sharlene Hesse-Biber builds on interviews with young women about their weight and body image and connects women's eating patterns to images in popular culture. Linking eating disorders to contemporary social, cultural, …
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Feasts and Friends is an inspiring collection of recipes, ideas and cooking tips that originated in the exotic kitchens of Afghanistan, Brazil, Vietnam, Liberia, Iraq, El Salvador, Iran and Sudan. The idea for the book came out of Women Together, …
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Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, Feeding Desire analyses the meanings of women's fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial social need to manage sexuality. By demonstrating how a …
Female Fertility and the Body-Fat Connection
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In this culmination of decades of research, Rose E. Frisch's Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection explains how, in women, each milestone of the reproductive life span - including puberty, fertility, and menopause - is influenced by food …
Dialogue on the Infinity of Love
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First published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual …
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They hate their thighs. They binge and purge. They want a perfect body. These are the American girls we've heard about in report after report - surveys telling us that half of all teen-aged girls are dieting at any given time, and suggesting that …
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The delicious life of one of the most beloved figures in twentiethcentury American cultureasoon to be played by Meryl Streep in a major motion picture With a swoping voice, an irrepressible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ush
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What does an image of a pregnant woman mean? Pregnant with meaning but resistant to interpretation, photos of pregnant bodies rarely appear in public. When they do, they viscerally challenge society's perception of women, sex, and reproduction. …
Praying Through Your Pregnancy
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Shows a mother what is happening with the baby's development that week and the power prayer can have on their development. Readers learn how to reduce stress and anxiety by looking to the Creator and placing their trust and confidence in Him.