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  • WOMEN AND AGING
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / RUTH R THONE
    In our youth-oriented, patriarchal society, aging and older women often find themselves either ignored, pitied, or feared. Women and Aging is a valuable guide to help women break through the negative stereotypes of old age and find personal fulfillment through the stages of maturity. Full of warmth and support, Women and Aging strongly enables women to take and remain in contro...

    $499.00

  • A WOMAN'S ODYSSEY INTO AFRICA
    HANNY LIGHTFOOT KLEIN / ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM
    Here is the intriguing story of one woman’s mid-life flight from her stultified, middle-class, psychologically crippling, and unfulfilled existence into a world of high adventure, danger, hardship, and endurance, which ultimately leads her to autonomy and recognition. In her new book, A Woman’s Odyssey Into Africa, Hanny Lightfoot-Klein chronicles three year-long solo backpacki...

    $659.00

  • OVERCOMING FEAR OF FAT
    ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / LAURA BROWN
    Here is an enlightening new volume that presents an integration of anti-fat-oppressive attitudes into the work of feminist therapy. Overcoming Fear of Fat is unique among professional work in the area of women and fat in that it does not approach size as the problem; rather it approaches prejudice against fat as the problem. Although for nearly a decade, fat activists have been...

    $539.00

  • PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR FEMINIST THERAPISTS
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM
    Here is a unique collection of personal memoirs from feminist therapists which provides a revealing look at their professional training experiences. This superb volume offers a rare glimpse at the struggles of these women, both as therapists and feminists, as they continue to develop professionally while maintaining their own identities. These candid accounts clearly recount th...

    $659.00

  • LOVE MATTERS
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / LINDA SUTTON
    Love Matters: A Book of Lesbian Romance and Relationships is a collection of advice columns and personal reflections that will help lesbian couples validate and appreciate their unique relationships. With excerpts taken from the author’s “Love Matters” column in the lesbian newspaper New Phazes, this book explores real-life questions and issues that lesbians have about dating, ...

    $659.00

  • LEARNING FROM OUR MISTAKES
    ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / MARCIA HILL
    If you’re a long-time veteran of feminist therapy or someone just starting out, you’ll find a helpful, reliable list of “dos” and “don’ts” in Learning from Our Mistakes: Difficulties and Failures in Feminist Therapy. Frank and honest in tone, makeup, and style, this one-of-a-kind publication looks at the failures and roadblocks that have hampered feminist therapists in the past...

    $539.00

  • FAT - A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH?
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / RUTH R THONE
    Despite the gains of the women’s movement, women are still judged by what they look like--and men, by what they do. Fat--A Fate Worse Than Death? offers hardy resistance to the narrow, random, and irrational appearance standards set for American women through an approach that is personal, eclectic, courageous, and funny. If you are interested in giving up your diet, throwing ou...

    $659.00

  • LESBIAN COMMUNITIES
    ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / PENNY SABLOVE
    I had just witnessed women who shingled their own roofs, drove eighteen-wheeler trucks, and built their own housesas well as kept them clean and cooked a damn good meal. On women’s land I am a first-class citizen, I’m treated as an equal. I now see the world with righteous anger and hope. Living in womyn’s community has provided that lens for me. Elizabeth Sturrus, third wave f...

    $1,599.00

  • LESBIAN EX-LOVERS
    ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / JACQUELINE WEINSTOCK
    We have earned a certain place in each other’s lives, and in the best of times we can rest on what we have made together. Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships examines the need for the development of better understanding and more critical analysis of lesbian ex-lover relationships. This eye-opening look into the minds and hearts of women offers personal insight...

    $1,279.00

  • ANOREXIA NERVOSA AND RECOVERY
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / KARLY WAY SCHRAMM
    Through the voices of twenty-one women, Karen Way presents the most objective, complete, and compassionate picture of what anorexia nervosa is about and, more importantly, of the complex individual variables and obstacles in the journey to recovery. From the premise that anorexia nervosa is an addiction--an obsession controlling all aspects of an individual’s life--and that com...

    $979.00

  • FACES OF WOMEN AND AGING
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / NANCY C DAVIS
    Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old women in a society that values women mainly as sexual partners or producers of children. Old women are often seen as poor, powerless, and pitiful in our sexist and youth-oriented society. The truth is that women age much more succ...

    $1,299.00

  • CELEBRATING THE LIVES OF JEWISH WOMEN
    RACHEL J SIEGEL / ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM
    Jewish women of all ages and backgrounds come together in Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women to explore and rejoice in what they have in common--their heritage. They reveal in striking personal stories how their Jewishness has shaped their identities and informed their experiences in innumerable, meaningful ways. Survivors, witnesses, defenders, innovators, and healers, thes...

    $859.00

  • FEMINIST FOREMOTHERS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES, PSYCHOLOGY, AND MENTAL HEALTH
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / PHYLLIS CHESLER
    Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy, feminist psychology, and women’s mental health as they exist today. The 48 women sh...

    $1,199.00

  • TREATING WOMEN'S FEAR OF FAILURE
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM
    This new book looks at an important issue--the emotional impact of success upon women--at a time when opportunities are more available to them than ever before. Using research, clinical experience, and personal anecdotes, the contributors examine the timely issues of women and worry, women's sense of their own entitlement, fear of success and fear of failure, and women's impost...

    $579.00

  • WILDERNESS THERAPY FOR WOMEN
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / EVE M TALLMAN
    Wilderness Therapy for Women offers women risktaking adventure activities in the outdoors as an alternative to traditional therapy. The contributing authors illustrate the empowerment, confidence, and self-esteem women can derive from adventure and experiential activities. This is the first book of its kind devoted to the symbolic value of wilderness accomplishments to women’s ...

    $1,099.00

  • COUPLES THERAPY
    ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / MARCIA HILL
    How can you provide effective, meaningful therapy to couples with whom you have little or nothing in common? Couples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives addresses some of the inadequacies, omissions, and assumptions in traditional couples therapy to help you face the issues of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation in helping couples today. In this book, you'll uncover perspectives...

    $399.00

  • WOMEN AND AIDS
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / LINDA K FULLER / NANCY ROTH
    For many women, the advice “Use a condom!” is not enough to help protect them from HIV infection. As Women and AIDS reveals, “negotiating” safer sex practices is a very complex issue for women who are involved in relationships where they do not enjoy physical, social, or economic equality. The book’s authors maintain that the key to curbing the spread of HIV and to caring for t...

    $999.00

  • CLASSICS IN LESBIAN STUDIES
    ESTHER D ROTHBLUM
    Classics in Lesbian Studies takes a major step in giving the lesbian experience its own unique voice within scholarship and the larger world society. Thus, it is devoted exclusively to the lesbian experience and serves as a vehicle for the promotion of scholarship and commentary on lesbianism from an international perspective. Not only does it ensure that “classic” pieces are n...

    $1,139.00

  • REFUGEE WOMEN AND THEIR MENTAL HEALTH
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / OLIVA M ESPIN
    Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women, yet most of the existent literature does not focus on this group as women. Most of the literature focuses on political, economic, and social issues with very little reference to the mental health implications of the refugees’exper...

    $1,659.00

  • BREASTS
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM
    Breasts: The Women‘s Perspective on an American Obsession describes and explores our national breast fetish, which is defined as a culturally constructed obsession that is deeply interwoven with beauty standards, breastfeeding practices, and sexuality. By tracing the complex history of this erotic fascination and discovering how it affects men‘s an ...

    $1,239.00

  • FOUNDATIONS FOR A FEMINIST RESTRUCTURING OF THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
    MICHELE PALUDI / GERTRUDE A STEUERNAGEL / ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM
    Here is a useful and illustrative guide for those interested in the impact of feminist scholarship on traditional academic disciplines. This important book explores the changes that have taken place in the academic world as a result of feminist approaches to scholarship, including issues of staffing, organization, administration, recruitment, stude ...

    $699.00

  • EVERYDAY MUTINIES
    ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / NANETTE GARTRELL
    Who are the women who struggled to form lesbian communities--and how did they fund their activism? In Everyday Mutinies: Funding Lesbian Activism, two dozen lesbians--including well-known activists such as Martina Navratilova, Alison Bechdel, Dee Mosbacher, and Jewelle Gomez--tell the stories of their activism, with an emphasis on how they support themselves and fund their poli...

    $699.00

  • MENOPAUSE, ME AND YOU
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / ANN M VODA
    Menopause, Me and You will help you put menopause in proper perspective--as a normal and natural developmental process in the lives of women, not as a disorder or state that causes disease. This informative book gives you self-monitoring tools for collecting information and monitoring changes in your body during menopause. These tools will also help you understand the dynamics ...

    $1,139.00

  • LESBIAN STEP FAMILIES
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / JANET M WRIGHT
    Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families’definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for counselors and lesbian step families for creating healthy, functioning family struc...

    $1,099.00

  • WOMEN AND SEX THERAPY
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM
    Outstanding feminist scholars present seldom discussed women’s views of sexuality. In the past, there has been little feminist discussion among sexuality professionals and between feminist therapists and sex therapists. The valuable ideas expressed by the contributors to this book are aimed at increasing the possibilities for all therapists and counselors to discuss with their ...

    $979.00

  • WOMEN'S WORK
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / DONNA M ASHCRAFT
    While most women’s studies texts function “topically” as “readings” for courses and general use, Women’s Work: A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women takes a broad spectrum of women’s disciplines--psychological, artistic, religious, and philosophical--and gives you a diverse, interdisciplinary view of this important and ever-expanding field of study in one accessible volume...

    $1,299.00

  • WOMEN'S CONFLICTS ABOUT EATING AND SEXUALITY
    ELLEN COLE / ESTHER D ROTHBLUM / LILLIE WEISS / ROSALYN MEADOW
    Women’s Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality explores the strong relationships food and sex have represented to women over the years. No other book has spelled out so clearly the parallels between sex and eating nor integrated the relationship of these to women’s basic need to be loved. Today’s dilemma for women--be fat or go hungry--and the endless variations and unsatisfying ...

    $659.00