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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 $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments "This woman is a major hero of our time." —Richard Dawkins Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in Nomad,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Wollstonecraft Anthology by Janet M. Todd Publisher Comments "A Wollstonecraft Anthology" brings together Mary Wollstonecraft's well-known and lesser-known texts: "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, The French Revolution," her early education al writings, her letters to... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.65 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kissing the Hag by Emma Restall Orr Synopsis Kissing the Hag is a wonderfully intelligent, earthy, cosmic diary of the feminine life... this life-soaked book remains close to the fluids of body and soul... It's an obvious gift-book for women going through a life passage, but it could also be... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now by Lynn Peril Publisher Comments Peril combines women's history and popular culture--peppered with delightful examples of "femoribilia" from the turn of the 20th century through the 1970s--in an intelligent and witty study of the college girl, the first woman to take that socially... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio and Betty Dodson Publisher Comments An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India by John Stratto Hawley Publisher Comments Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to guard her family and clan for many... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty by Jean Zimmerman Publisher Comments The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, and promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate. Zimmerman deftly traces the astonishing rise of Margaret and the Philipse women who... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism by Jennife Baumgardner Publisher Comments From the authors of Manifesta, an activism handbook that illustrates how to truly make the personal political. Grassroots is an activism handbook for social justice. Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler Staff Pick Girl power, Riot Grrrl, first-, second-, or third-wave feminist — however you choose to label your gender-equality insistence, Bitch magazine has had you covered. To celebrate their ten year anniversary, Bitch has released this cultural compendium; a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Salvation: Black People and Love (Bell Hooks Love Trilogy) by bell hooks Publisher Comments Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, "Salvation" takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Elf Girl by Rev Jen Publisher Comments Meet Rev Jen. Patron saint of the uncool. Cheerleader for nonconformists, geeks, and oddballs the world over. From her tiny rent-controlled apartment on Manhattans hip Lower East Side, she holds court over a wacky cast of friends and lovers with an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments by Amanda Marcotte Publisher Comments For all of you humming "I Will Survive" while watching the political debacles gracing the evening news, when getting an earful from your Limbaugh-loving brother-in-law, or as you're ducking into the bathroom to avoid the date espousing the wisdom of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations by Adrienne Cecil Rich Publisher Comments "I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society's hopes, arrogance, and despair," Adrienne Rich writes. The essays in Arts of the Possible search for possibilities beyond a... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings by Miriam Schneir Publisher Comments Here are the essential historical writings of feminism. Many of these works, long out of print or forgotten in what Miriam Schneir describes as a male-dominated literary tradition, are finally brought out of obscurity and into the light of contemporary... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies (Refiguring American Music) by Nichole Rustin Publisher Comments In jazz circles, players and listeners with “big ears” hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Good Porn: A Woman's Guide by Erika Lust Synopsis Porn. Do you think of it as a dirty word, a taboo topic, something you associate with cheesy films with bad plots? Filmmaker and author Erika Lust is here to change all that. With the goal of making porn more accessible to women, Good Porn examines the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide by Stacey Edgar Publisher Comments “A heartening story of big dreams and small steps” --Pietra Rivoli, author of Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy “An engaging read, upbeat and inspiring.”--Kirkus "A beautiful example of what one woman can do to... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Why Feminism?: Gender, Psychology, Politics (Gender & Culture) by Lynne Segal Publisher Comments Segal surveys the impact of feminist thought and activism on contemporary culture. Three decades after the remarkable resurgence of feminism, both critics of the movement and feminists themselves hold sharply opposing views on the success or failures of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan Staff Pick Evelyn Ryan's family may have been one of the poorest in town, but her children did not go without the occasional taste of well-earned luxury. Their mother entered every contest imaginable (there were plenty in the '50s and '60s) and won everything from... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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