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1. Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories

   Acts of Love and Courage

   By Rachel J Siegel, Ellen Cole, Susan Steinberg Oren

   Winner of the Women in Psychology Jewish Caucus Award for 2000!Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage contains touching and personal essays written by contemporary Jewish mothers from different parts of the globe. Their stories reveal the choices that Jewish mothers make in our...

   Published May 2nd 2000 by Routledge
2. Love Matters

   A Book of Lesbian Romance and Relationships

   By 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...

   Published February 21st 1999 by Routledge
3. Women's Work

   A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women

   By 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...

   Published August 23rd 1998 by Routledge
4. Lesbian Step Families

   An Ethnography of Love

   By 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...

   Published August 10th 1998 by Routledge
5. Breasts

   The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession

   By 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...

   Published June 3rd 1998 by Routledge
6. A Menopausal Memoir

   Letters from Another Climate

   By Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Anne C Herrmann

   The only extended, first-person narrative about menopause, A Menopausal Memoir: Letters from Another Climate explores the connection between menopause, mourning, and memory through nine fictional letters written to different addressees. The letters explain the author’s own experience of having a...

   Published January 20th 1998 by Routledge
7. Women and AIDS

   Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation

   By 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...

   Published December 1st 1997 by Routledge
8. Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women

   Patterns in a Feminist Sampler

   By 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...

   Published September 11th 1997 by Routledge
9. Fat¿A Fate Worse Than Death?

   Women, Weight, and Appearance

   By 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,...

   Published August 11th 1997 by Routledge
10. Menopause, Me and You

    The Sound of Women Pausing

    By 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...

    Published June 17th 1997 by Routledge