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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.)
by Gail Collins
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America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and... ( read more)
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... ( read more)
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Natashas : Inside the New Global Sex Trade (03 Edition)
by Victor Malarek
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A blistering, eye-opening look at the horrific global phenomenon of sexual trafficking... This is 21st century slavery.... ( read more)
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
by Jessica Valenti
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The Purity Myth presents a revolutionary argument that girls and women are overly valued for their sexuality and offers solutions for a future without a damaging emphasis on virginity.... ( read more)
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Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
by Susan Bordo
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In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.... ( read more)
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Women & Media: A Critical Introduction
by Carolyn M. Byerly
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Women and Media is a thoughtful cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s.... ( read more)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked... ( read more)
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Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children
by Terri Casey
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Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children is a collection of interviews with 25 women who have chosen not to have children. In lively stories and vivid voices, these diverse narrators talk proudly of their contributions to their... ( read more)
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Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
by Camille Paglia
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From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the... ( read more)
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Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women
by Christine Whelan
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Argues against beliefs that professional women over the age of thirty are less desirable marital partners, drawing on statistical information to reassure women that they should enjoy their successful single years. 100,000 first printing.... ( read more)
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Interviews | July 4, 2009
By Jill Owens
 Luis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has been writing about the relationship between the United States and Mexico,...
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Book to Film | May 27, 2009
By Chris Bolton
Since Warner Bros. is splitting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into two parts, this summer's film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood...
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Review-a-Day | May 24, 2009
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The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq by Helen Benedict Reviewed by Amy Herdy Ms. Magazine This dramatic statement against...
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Review-a-Day | May 3, 2009
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti Reviewed by Laura M. Carpenter Ms. Magazine For...
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