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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
The 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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ISBN: 0-9517775-7-2

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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ISBN: 0-9517775-2-1

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, and other 
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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, 1985
Edited with an introduction by Selma James
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 recognised 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 sentimentalised 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
Power of Women Collective, 1975
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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