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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
by Cathi Hanauer

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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)
 
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World Feminism

Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening... (read more)
 
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History

Warrior Queens Boadicaes Chariot
by Antonia Fraser

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From Boadicea to Isabella of Spain, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher, this book analyzes the warrior queens, the women in history whose courage is contrasted with the weaknesses of the males around them.... (read more)
 
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Sex and Power

Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
by Alexandra Robbins

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Alexandra Robbins was puzzled when her eighteen-year-old sister announced that she planned to rush one of her college??'s many sororities. Wanting to find out if the clich?? stereotypes about sorority girls were actually true, Robbins went undercover in... (read more)
 
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Sex Industry

Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
by Diablo Cody

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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)
 
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Oversized Books

Wise Women: A Celebration of Their Insights, Courage, and Beauty
by Joyce Tenneson

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In ancient times older women were the keepers of primal mysteries and were revered for their special wisdom: today there is a feeling that our culture is reawakening to the power of our elders. Joyce Tenneson presents 80 portraits ofwomen aged 65 to 100,... (read more)
 
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Body Image

Appetites: Why Women Want
by Caroline Knapp

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What do women want? Did Freud have any idea how difficult that question would become for women to answer? In "Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts that question and boldly reframes it, asking, instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she... (read more)
 
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1800 to 1920

Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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This seriously funny book portraying a classic Utopia based upon feminist and socialist ideals is a landmark feminist book. Reissue.... (read more)
 
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Family

Baby Love : Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence (07 Edition)
by Rebecca Walker

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From the international bestselling author of Black, White, and Jewish comes a wonderfully insightful (Associated Press) book that's destined to become a motherhood classic. Now in trade. Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Walker was... (read more)
 
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Collected Letters Collected Letters
by Mary Wollstonecraft

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An intimate and personal glimpse into the private life of one of history's most passionate and influential women. Now in Penguin Classics.... (read more)
 
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America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
by Gail Collins

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From the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs, America's Womentells the story of how women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female... (read more)
 
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Peace and War

The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier
by Laura Leedy Gansler

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Resurrecting a lost hero of the Civil War, The Mysterious Private Thompson tells the remarkable story of one heroic woman who defied convention in nineteenth-century America to live, work, and defend her country at a time of war, when most women were... (read more)
 
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Reproductive Rights

This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
by Susan Wicklund and Alan Kesselheim

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One doctor's raw and riveting memoir, contrasting the headline-grabbing political rhetoric with the contours of her life, and the lives of her patients. In This Common Secret Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career... (read more)
 
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Work

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by Terry Ryan

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated... (read more)
 
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Math Science and Technology

Women in Science: A Social and Cultural History
by Ruth Watts

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The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science. Women in Science includes a detailed survey of the history behind the popular subject and engages the reader... (read more)
 
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Reference

Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
by Charlotte S Waisman

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Her Story is a vivid documentation of the breadth and diversity of American women's achievements throughout U.S. history. This one-of-a-kind illustrated timeline highlights the awesome, varied, and often unrecognized contributions of American women since... (read more)
 
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Girls' Night Out: Celebrating Women's Groups Across America
by Tamara Kreinin

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"This is my family away from family." "We have supported each other through huge life transitions." "This group has turned me on to more interesting things in this world, in this life, than anyone else." These are the... (read more)
 
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