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Creating a Caring Economy: (Spanish version below) 
Nora Castaneda and the Women's Development Bank of Venezuela
2006, Edited by Nina Lopez of the Global Women's Strike which coordinated the 2004/2005 US & European tours of Nora Castenada.  Book contains excerpts from the tour. More Review
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Creando una Economia Solidaria: 
2006, Nora Castenada y el Banco de Desarrollo de la Mujer de Venezuela
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    ISBN: 0-9544372-0-9

The Milk of Human Kindness:  Defending breastfeeding from the global market & the AIDS industry 
2002, Solveig Francis, Selma James, Phoebe Jones Schellenberg & Nina Lopez-Jones
"This book will change your life" Midwifery Matters, 2003.
Mothers and their supporters continue to be in a life-and-death struggle with the global market's milk formula.  Millions of infants, overwhelmingly in the South, die each year because they are not breastfed. Yet it is HIV and AIDS, the latest excuse for promoting breast milk substitutes, which (like war) attracts massive funding, rather than food security for nursing mothers.
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ISBN: 0-9517775-8-0

Some Mother's Daughter The hidden movement of prostitute women against violence
1999, International Prostitutes Collective
Violence against sex workers is built into the law and its enforcement.  As the government reviewed sexual offences, prostitute women in the US and UK published their proposals to make all women safer.  Women's demands on rape, trafficking and other violence are spelled out in this account of prostitutes' resistance.
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A Chronology of Injustice The case for Winston Silcott's conviction to be overturned 
1998, Compiled by Legal Action for Women, London, England  
Winston Silcott was wrongly convicted of killing a policeman.  This riveting chronology of events explains why, after 12 years in prison, the police and media are witch-hunting him still.  more
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Prostitute Women and AIDSResisting the Virus of Repression, revised 1992, ed. Nina Lopez-Jones for the English Collective of Prostitutes, with an introduction by the US PROStitutes Collective.  
The first AIDS book from prostitute women's point of view.  It challenges government policies and the profiteering of drug companies.
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Policing the Bedroom and how to refuse it
1991, Wages Due Lesbians
The case against government censorship and prohibition of lesbian and gay people.  Includes the movement against Section 28.
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Ask Any Woman: A London Inquiry into Rape and Sexual Assault Report of the Women's Safety Survey conducted by Women Against Rape 1985, Ruth E. Hall
Groundbreaking information and analysis of  women's experience of rape and other violence.  First-ever figures on racist sexual assault.
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Black Women and the Peace Movement
1984, Wilmette Brown
For everyone who wants to break out of the ghettos which have kept the women's peace movement and the Black women's movement apart. A manual for grassroots women of different races to organize together.
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The Ladies and the Mammies Jane Austen and Jean Rhys
1983, Selma James
Connects two great women writers whose context was the ladies' resistance in the Great Houses of England and of colonial slavery. Based on a 1979 talk at the Cheltenham (England) Literary Festival.
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Strangers and Sisters
Women, Race & Immigration
Edited with an introduction by Selma James,1985
The voices of grassroots women from 38 countries at the first-ever conference in Britain of immigrant women (1982).
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Black Women: Bringing It All Back Home
2nd edn 1987, Margaret Prescod
From Barbados to Brooklyn, from Jamaica to England, two accounts of girlhood in the Caribbean, the upheaval of leaving and the conflicts of being an immigrant.
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The Rapist Who Pays the Rent
Women's case for changing the Law on Rape
2nd edn 1984, R. Hall, S. James, J. Kertesz
Led to the historic decision that recognized rape in marriage as a crime in England and Wales.
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Prostitutes: Our Life
ed. Claude Jaget, 1980
1975: Prostitutes in France go on strike and occupy churches all over the country. Six women tell their stories and answer the questions everyone asks. "All the more moving for being neither sentimentalized nor glamorized."  Sunday Times
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The Disinherited Family
Eleanor Rathbone, (first pubd. 1924)
Introductory essay Spokeswoman for a movement, by Suzie Fleming, 1986
A classic in the campaign for the payment of mothers. Family allowance, paid to women in Britain since 1946, was one result of its publication.
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All Work and No Pay Women, Housework, and the Wages Due
1975, Power of Women Collective, 
ed. Wendy Edmund and Suzie Fleming
An anthology of writings and speeches from six countries.
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The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James
A classic of the international women's movement, this book established that housework, which produces all the workers of the world, is the basic ingredient of every economy, and that the housewife is a working woman.
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Mary Seacole voted the greatest Black Briton

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in many lands
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"A fascinating account of a Black Victorian woman who seldom allowed the social restrictions of her day to stand in the way of her personal freedom." The Guardian

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A significant figure in the Crimean War, Mary Seacole deserves to stand beside Florence Nightingale, but is seldom mentioned.  Born into Jamaican slave society, she chronicles her extensive travels. Business woman, traveller, gold prospector, writer, nurse, she led a varied and exciting life.  Originally published in 1857.  In 2004 she was voted the greatest Black Briton. 

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