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  • Corsica Travel Guide - What To See & Do

    by Thomas Connelly ...
    Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Corsica, the French island in the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of France and west of Italy. Corsica was "often conquered, never subdued" and has been successively Pisan and Genovese but has been French since 1768 and it enjoys a special constitutional status. A mountain in the sea, Corsica is also called the island of beauty. The diversity of its ... Read more

    $3.67 CAD

  • The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era

    by Mark Thomas Connelly ...
    During the opening decades of the twentieth century, highly visible red-light districts occupied entire sections of many American cities. Prostitution, still euphemistically referred to as the “social evil,” became one of the dominant social issues of the progressive era.Mark Thomas Connelly places the response to prostitution during those years within its complete social and cultural context. He ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • To Believe in Women

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  • Liberty and Sexuality

    The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade

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    Pulitzer Prize–winning author David J. Garrow's stirring and essential history of the politics of abortion and America's battle for the right to chooseIn 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and more than forty years later the issue continues to spark controversy and divisiveness. But behind this historic legal case lie the battles women fought ... Read more

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  • The Feminist Promise

    1792 to the Present

    by Christine Stansell ...
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  • Separation of Church and State: What the Founders Meant

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    This book is very timely for one of the most frequently debated issues in America: the separation of church and state. Where did this phrase originate? Was it always meant to prohibit expressions of religious faith in public settings as many claim today? Learn the answers to these questions and discover the Founding Fathers own words and intents in this book! With all these resources, you will be ... Read more

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  • In Reckless Hands

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  • Sex and the Constitution

    Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century

    by Geoffrey R. Stone ...
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  • Woman of Valor

    Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

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  • The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice

    Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present

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