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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Feminist Studies $22.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism Alison Piepmeier $15.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life Lori D Ginzberg $16.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement Sally G. Mcmillen $58.95 New Hardcover add to wish list This Perversion Called Love: Reading Tanizaki, Feminist Theory, and Freud Margherita Long $81.50 New Trade Paper add to wish list Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism Alison Piepmeier $24.95 New Hardcover add to wish list What French Women Know: About Love, Sex, and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind Debra Ollivier Browse more New Arrivals in Feminist Studies World Feminism Browse more titles in Feminist Studies-World Feminism Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Staff Pick 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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.56 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Feminist Studies $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy Barbara Ehrenreich $16.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and Friendship Jeffrey Zaslow $11.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion Jennifer Saginor Browse recently arrived used titles in Feminist Studies General Browse more titles in Feminist Studies-General When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.59 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Sex Industry Browse more titles in Feminist Studies-Sex Industry Magic Gardens: The Memoirs of Viva Las Vegas by Viva Las Vegas Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list Work Browse more titles in Feminist Studies-Work Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) by Jane Latour Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list Oversized Books Browse more titles in Feminist Studies-Oversized Books Fearless Women: Midlife Portraits by Nancy Alspaugh Publisher Comments Ask some women their age, and they'll demur. Ask others, like Joni Mitchell or Cybill Shepherd, and they'll take up a sword. In this inspirational book, 50 women ranging in age from their 40s to their 60s-including movie and television personalities... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list 1800 to 1920 Browse more titles in Feminist Studies-1800 to 1920 J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by John Stuart Mill Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.50 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list Math Science and Technology Browse more titles in Feminist Studies-Math Science and Technology Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture by Mary Flanagan Publisher Comments 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) List Price $32.00 Your price: $7.63 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list Reproductive Rights Browse more titles in Feminist Studies-Reproductive Rights The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World by Michelle Goldberg Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list Sale Books Browse more titles in Feminist Studies-Sale Books The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list Used Books Browse more titles in Feminist Studies-Used Books Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? by Jane Gottesman Publisher Comments On playing fields and street corners, in backyards and gyms, the people in this arresting array of pictures are unselfconsciously exploring the physical and emotional pleasures of competition and play. Each image offers an affirming and satisfying answer... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list

Bestsellers Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins True North: A Memoir by Jill Ker Conway Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World by Jean Shinoda Bolen Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio and Betty Dodson Powell's Q&A, Q&A | October 16, 2009 Powell's Q&A: Gail Collins 1 comment 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... Continue » $19.59 Sale Hardcover add to wish list When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present Gail Collins

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