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Gender Studies

New Arrivals $39.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Transformative Research and Evaluation Donna M. Mertens $17.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire Judith Thurman $47.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Stirring the Pot: Views of the Kitchen and Domesticity in the Fiction of Southern Women Laura Sloan Patterson $15.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Female Eunuch (P.S.) Germaine Greer $16.95 Hardcover add to wishlist The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir Patricia Harman $18.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist From Out of the Shadows 10TH Edition Vicki Ruiz $24.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Origin of the World: Science and Fiction of the Vagina Jelto Drenth $19.95 Hardcover add to wishlist The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine Matthew Fox $15.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Invisible Trade II: Secret Lives and Sexual Intrigue in Singapore Gerrie Lim $53.50 Hardcover add to wishlist Bright Epoch: Women & Coeducation in the American West (Women in the West) Andrea G. Radke-moss $13.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist On the Subjection of Women (On) John Stuart Mill $18.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War Virginia Nicholson Womens Studies The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer Powells.com Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more) Your Price $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Sale Books Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy by Rachel Simmons Publisher Comments The national bestseller Odd Girl Out exposed a hidden culture of cruelty that had always been quietly endured by American girls. As Rachel Simmons toured the country, these girls found their voices and spoke to her about their pain. They wanted to talk... (read more) Your Price $13.00 (New - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments A world-renowned activist and feminist pulls no punches in her efforts to reform Islam in this international bestseller, available for the first time in English.... (read more) Your Price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) Browse more featured Used titles Sex Industry Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody Publisher Comments Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's "The Late Show" to be the pick of "Dave's Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Gay Studies Revenge of the Paste Eaters: Memoirs of a Misfit by Cheryl Peck Publisher Comments The author of "Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs" is back with a funny and poignant new collection of personal stories about growing up a misfit.... (read more) Your Price $5.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Featured Titles Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama by Garen Eileen Thomas Publisher Comments In third grade, Barack Obama wrote an essay titled, “I Want to Become President”—and he is, to this day, determined to show the world that, yes, he can. Born in the U.S.A., the son of an African father and an American mother, a boy who... (read more) Your Price $4.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Mens Studies The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life by Kevin Powell Publisher Comments The Black Male Handbook is a collection of essays for Black males on surviving, living, and winning. Kevin Powell taps into the social and political climate rising in the Black community, particularly as it relates to Black males. This is a must-have... (read more) Your Price $15.00 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Violence Lucky by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of 18 is a story that takes hold and won't let go.... (read more) Your Price $5.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies General The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments Chapter One Journey into a Lost World: The Beginnings of Civilization Preserved in a cave sanctuary for over twenty thousand years, a female figure speaks to us about the minds of our early Western ancestors. She is small and carved out of stone: one of... (read more) Your Price $5.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Body Issues The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Synopsis "Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy." --People A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Transgender I'm Looking through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir by Jennifer Finney Boylan Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of She's Not There comes another buoyant, unforgettable memoir — I'm Looking Through You is about growing up in a haunted house...and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in our hearts. For Jennifer Boylan... (read more) Your Price $16.50 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Reproductive Rights Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood by Kristin Luker Publisher Comments In this important study of the abortion controversy in the United States, Kristin Luker examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. She draws data from twenty years of public documents and newspaper accounts, as well... (read more) Your Price $9.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies

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