Special Offers see all
More at Powell's
Find BooksRead the CityWin Free Books!PowellsBooks.news
Guests | May 6, 2013
1 comment
|
 Women's eNews Recommended ReadsReturn to http://www.womensenews.org
Women's eNews Bookshelf
Books 1 - 10 of 114 next » by Julie Zeilinger
Synopsis
List Price $16.00
Young women today have a bad reputation, and for good reason: Theyre sexting their classmates, they spend more time on FaceBook than they do in class, and their appetite for material possessions and reality TV is matched only by their overwhelming apathy... (read more) Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
Publisher Comments
Your Price $7.50
A powerful indictment from within of the current state of feminism, and a passionate call to arms From Lilith Fair to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the WNBA--everywhere you look, girl culture is clearly ascendant. Young women live by feminism's goals, yet... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Minky (edt) Worden
Publisher Comments
Your Price $25.95
“It’s a time of change in the world, with dictators toppling and new opportunities rising, but any revolution that doesn’t create equality for women will be incomplete. The time has come to realize the full potential of half the world... (read more) New - Trade Paper
by Madeleine M Kunin
Publisher Comments
List Price $17.95
Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s, but decades later, are U.S. women where they thought they'd be? The answer, it turns out, is a resounding no. Surely there have been gains. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of college... (read more) Your Price $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Staff Pick
List Price $28.95
In this thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book, Kristof and WuDunn reveal the cruel and maddening reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression. Half the Sky will stir feelings of admiration and discomfort, and hopefully sow the... (read more) Your Price $10.95 Used - Hardcover
by Barbara J. Berg
Publisher Comments
Your Price $24.95
The news in 2008 was that women had taken huge strides forward. Feminists decades-long struggle finally seemed to be paying off, not only in boardrooms, classrooms, and kitchens but also at the very top—in presidential politics. But what is the... (read more) New - Hardcover
by Caitlin Kelly
Publisher Comments
Your Price $6.95
A controversy that has divided America for decades. A decision more women must confront every day. In the long-standing and heated debate between gun-control advocates and supporters of the Second Amendment, the perspective of women has often been... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Caryl Rivers
Publisher Comments
List Price $28.00
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett are widely acclaimed for their analyses of women, men, and society. In The Truth About Girls and Boys, they tackle a new, troubling trend in the theorizing of gender: that the learning styles, brain development... (read more) Your Price $24.50 New - Hardcover
by Julie Shields
Publisher Comments
List Price $5.25
Typically, when a woman gets pregnant, she considers whether to give up or cut back on her career, or surrender her child to daycare or a nanny. Now families have other alternatives. Fathers can stay home, work flexibly, go part-time, or help out so stay-... (read more) Your Price $1.98 Used - Hardcover 
by Ann Crittenden
Publisher Comments
Your Price $5.95
In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Second Shift, this provocative book shows how mothers are systematically disadvantaged and made dependent by a society that exploits those who perform its most critical work. Drawing on hundreds of... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
|
|
|
|
|
Follow us on...
|
|
