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A Brief History of Feminism
ISBN: 9780262548670
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others.
A Woman's Right to Know
Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780262544399
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life.
Inventing the Working Parent
Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain
ISBN: 9780262546102
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
The first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century—and how the concepts of “family-friendly” work culture and “work–life balance” came to be.
Dressing Up
The Women Who Influenced French Fashion
ISBN: 9780262045841
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
How wealthy American women—as consumers and as influencers—helped shape French couture of the late nineteenth century; lavishly illustrated.
The Broadcast 41
Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist
ISBN: 9781912685424
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2020
How forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.”
Queens of Code
Inspiring True Stories from NSA's Computing Women
ISBN: 9780262049474
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 30, -0001
The stories of America's unsung computing women, brought out of the shadows and into their rightful place in the history of technology.
A Brief History of Feminism
ISBN: 9780262548670
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others.
A Woman's Right to Know
Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780262544399
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life.
Inventing the Working Parent
Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain
ISBN: 9780262546102
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
The first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century—and how the concepts of “family-friendly” work culture and “work–life balance” came to be.
Dressing Up
The Women Who Influenced French Fashion
ISBN: 9780262045841
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 2021
How wealthy American women—as consumers and as influencers—helped shape French couture of the late nineteenth century; lavishly illustrated.
The Broadcast 41
Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist
ISBN: 9781912685424
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2020
How forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.”
Queens of Code
Inspiring True Stories from NSA's Computing Women
ISBN: 9780262049474
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 30, -0001
The stories of America's unsung computing women, brought out of the shadows and into their rightful place in the history of technology.