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          Recent Books in Women’s Rights and Women’s History

          03/08/2007 | | Anthropology, Current Affairs, European & World History, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Human Rights & Law, Literature & Cultural Studies, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Religious Studies

          To mark International Women’s Day, here’s a list of our recent books on women’s rights and women’s history.


          Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives


          Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Editor

          Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England

          Sandy Bardsley


          History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism

          Judith M. Bennett


          The Education of Jane Addams


          Victoria Bissell Brown


          Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future


          Pamela L. Geller and Miranda K. Stockett, Editors. Foreword by Louise Lamphere


          The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century


          Fiona J. Griffiths


          Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints’ Lives in Late Medieval England


          Catherine Sanok

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