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  • Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England

    by Mrs Joan Perkin, Joan Perkin ...
    The 'bonds of matrimony' describes with cruel precision the social and political status of married women in the nineteenth century. Women of all classes had only the most limited rights of possession in their own bodies and property yet, as this remarkable book shows, women of all classes found room to manoeuvre within the narrow limits imposed on them. Upper-class women frequently circumvented ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Sun, Sex, and Gold

    Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean

    by Jessica Tomiko Anders, Christel Antonius-Smits, Shirley Campbell, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Nadine Fernandez, Ranya Ghuma, Jacqueline Martis, Laura Mayorga, Cynthia Mellon, Patricia Mohammed, Beverley Mullings, Althea Perkins, Joan Phillips, A Kathleen Ragsdale, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, Pilar Velasquez, Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Case Analyses for Abnormal Psychology

    Learning to Look Beyond the Symptoms

    by Randall E. Osborne, Joan Esterline Lafuze, David V. Perkins ...
    Case Analyses for Abnormal Psychology, Second Edition uses case studies to explore the etiology, biology, and dynamics of psychiatric disorders in the DSM-5. Readers will learn about the new classifications and treatments for disorders while simultaneously reading the personal history of each consumer both before and during the development of each case. Every case ends with a section on the ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

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  • Inconvenient People

    Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

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    Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Love.The nineteenth century saw repeated panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums. With the rise of the 'mad-doctor' profession, English liberty seemed to be threatened by a new generation of medical men willing to incarcerate ... Read more

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  • The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide

    Everything You Need to Know About Living with BPD

    by Alexander L. Chapman, PhD, RPsych, Kim L. Gratz, PhD ...
    If you or someone you love is struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you need up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information on the problems you’re facing and where you can turn for help. But where do you look? Much of the professional literature on BPD is too technical and confusing to be of much help. And searching the Internet for accurate information can be treacherous, with ... Read more

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  • Changing Minds

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    by Dr Mark Cross, Dr Catherine Hanrahan ...
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    A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers

    by Chelsea Lowe, Bruce M. Cohen ...
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  • Family Secrets

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  • Behind Closed Doors

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    From the award-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England.In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her ... Read more

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  • Women's Lives

    Researching Women's Social History, 1800–1939

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