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 $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments The author of The Caged Virgin recounts the story of her life, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia and escape from a forced marriage to her efforts to promote women's rights while surviving numerous threats to her safety. 75,000 first... (read more) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Brilliantly persuasive, this is an exploration of the phenomenon of the violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement. "A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom"... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Judith Butler Publisher Comments Undoing Gender deepens issues introduced by Butler's earlier scholarship: the materiality of the body, the meaning and instrument of human agency, the relation between power and the psyche or power and the body, psychic triangulation and the incest taboo,... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your Price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Alexandra Robbins Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Sara M Evans Publisher Comments The most concise and comprehensive one-volume history of American women--from the indigenous women of the 16th-century wilderness to the dual-role career women and mothers of contemporary times--this book brings American womanhood to center stage... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments This second edition offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976, providing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document in English.... (read more) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Carol A Ortlip Publisher Comments Five sisters play on the cliffs of the Palisades in 1960s Fort Lee, New Jersey. Before them, the glimmering expanse of mythic Manhattan. Behind them, their enchanted world of wind and flower gardens, their home. In this lyrical and moving memoir, eldest... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Triece Publisher Comments On the Picket Line uncovers the voices of working-class women, particularly those active in the Communist Party, U.S.A., in order to examine how these individuals confronted the tensions between their roles as workers, wives, mothers, and consumers... (read more) Your Price $25.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Melody Rose Book News Annotation Finding that her students readily defend various positions on the abortion controversy, but rarely know what the actual status of abortion policy is, Rose (political science, Portland State U., Oregon) sets out the current policy--arguing that... (read more) Your Price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Donna Nebenzahl Publisher Comments For close to ten years, two women-one armed with a camera, the other with a pencil (and later a laptop), traveled around the world to document the inspiring work of women activists. In every corner of the globe, they found women striving-sometimes... (read more) Your Price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Elizabeth M. Norman Publisher Comments Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," here is the true, untold account of the first American women to prove their mettle under combat conditions. Later, during three years of brutal captivity at... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jane Margolis Publisher Comments The information technology revolution is transforming almost every aspect of society, but girls and women are largely out of the loop. Although women surf the Web in equal numbers to men and make a majority of online purchases, few are involved in the... (read more) Your Price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
Nature and Environmental Issues by Carol J Adams Synopsis "A thoughtful contribution to an evolving body of analysis and action". -- Ms. "An outstanding introduction to the issues and problems of ecofeminist spirituality... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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