Structural Violence: Hidden Brutality in the Lives of Women 1438443455, 9781438443454

Hard Lives, Mean Streets : Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women [1 ed.] 9781555537326, 9781555537258

Although homelessness is a serious social problem in the United States, there is little direct information about the act

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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive 9780812293005

Vividly recounting the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confi

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Blood Sisters: The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses 9780007309306, 9780007309320

The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived throug

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A deafening silence: Hidden violence against women and children 9781847422880

This book is born of a contradiction: on the one hand, there has been a genuine advance in the awareness of violence aga

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Hidden Treasures: Lives of First-Generation Korean Women in Japan [Paperback ed.] 0742535959, 9780742535954

Table of contents : Preface ix Introduction: On Korean Women in Japan: Past and Present xiii Sonia Ryang Prologue: In Se

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Lives of Others Discover the Hidden Lives of Some of Our Favorite Atria Authors, The: Issue

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The Lives of Tudor Women 1784081752, 9781784081751

The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this

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The Lives of Amish Women 1421438704, 9781421438702

Presenting a challenge to popular stereotypes, this book is an intimate exploration of the religiously defined roles of

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The Private Lives of Women in Persian Egypt 9781575068589

The Elephantine texts have been variously studied, mainly with respect to their impact on Jewish history. But these text

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Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers 9781529400953

Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tang

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