by Ayaan Hirsi Ali  Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $15.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies 
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 $3.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Antonia Fraser Synopsis 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) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used 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 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 $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Joyce Tenneson Synopsis 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) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Anne Kingston Publisher Comments Delving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of contemporary wifehood, this book takes the reader on a journey into the wedding industrial complex. Anne Kingston looks at "wife backlash," and the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Caroline Knapp Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher Comments This seriously funny book portraying a classic Utopia based upon feminist and socialist ideals is a landmark feminist book. Reissue.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your Price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
by Susan Wicklund and Alan Kesselheim Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Constance Bowman Synopsis With a new epilogue. In 1943 two young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 bomber production line. First published in 1944, Slacks and Calluses is an on-the-spot account... (read more) Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Laura Leedy Gansler Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Charlotte S Waisman Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Ruth Watts Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $28.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Tamara Kreinin Publisher Comments "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) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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