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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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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)
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
by Gail Collins
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Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual sly wit and unfussy style (People). When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women... ( read more)
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Magic Gardens: The Memoirs of Viva Las Vegas
by Viva Las Vegas
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A Midwest preacher's daughter with a fabulous academic pedigree, Viva could have chosen any career, but chose to become a naked girl. This personalized tour of her milieu offers a unique perspective on a thriving industry that is largely condemned or... ( read more)
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
by Jane Latour
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against... ( read more)
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J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by John Stuart Mill
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Three of Mill's classic texts, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and the posthumous Chapters on Socialism are brought together in this edition.... ( read more)
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Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
by Mary Flanagan
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2003 Susan Koppelman Award given by the Joint Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture/American Culture. Most writing on cyberculture is dominated by two almost mutually exclusive visions: the heroic image of the male outlaw hacker and the utopian myth of a... ( read more)
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The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
by Michelle Goldberg
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In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism by the author of the New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming, Michelle Goldberg exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future... ( read more)
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The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity
by Kim Chernin
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Some five million American women suffer from eating disorders ranging from compulsive dieting to compulsive eating, anorexia, and bulimia. THE HUNGRY SELF explores the often troubled relationship between mothers and daughters and how daughters of all... ( read more)
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The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
by Christine Wiltz
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For the first time in paperback, Wiltz chronicles the life and times of Normal Wallace, who went from New Orleans streetwalker to madam in 1920. At her legendary house of prostitution, she entertained a steady stream of governors, gangsters, and movie... ( read more)
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Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
by Claudia Ro Pierpont
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With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who... ( read more)
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Powell's Q&A, Q&A | October 16, 2009
By Gail Collins
[My new book] starts in 1960 with a woman named Lois Rabinowitz, who was evicted from Manhattan traffic court for attempting to pay a parking ticket while wearing slacks. This was...
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