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Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann Publisher Comments Fat? Chunky? Less than svelte? So what! In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on Americas' biggest fearworse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weaponsour fear of fat.Statistics... (read more) List Price $15.99 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 $32.00 Your price: $5.65 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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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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Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments 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) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin Publisher Comments An acclaimed writer explores the interplay between the public tragedy of war and the daily struggles of our private lives the conflicts between truth and falsehood, secrecy and revelation, testimony and denial. A brilliant philosophical inquiry... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller-with over 91,000 copies in print-that takes you behind closed doors to see what really goes on in America's sororities. Ever wonder what sorority life is really like In Pledged, bestselling author Alexandra... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir Publisher Comments Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, and brilliantly introduced by Judith Thurman, Simone de Beauvoir's masterpiece weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to analyze the Western... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn G Heilbrun Publisher Comments In this modern classic, Carolyn G. Heilbrun builds an eloquent argument demonstrating that writers conform all too often to society's expectations of what women should be like at the expense of the truth of the female experience. Drawing on the careers... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.27 Sale - Trade Paper
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Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World by Leslie Simon Publisher Comments What do Amy Poehler, Bjork, Felicia Day, Martha Stewart, Miranda July, and Zooey Deschanel have in common? Theyre just a few of the amazing women proving that “geek” is no longer a four-letter word. In recent years, male geeks have taken the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by Deanne Blanton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-262) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival & Hope by Zainab Salbi Publisher Comments Zainab Salbi's media profile soared with her first book, Between Two Worlds, a memoir of growing up in Saddam Hussein's inner circle. She has been a guest on "Oprah," has been interviewed by Katie Couric, Al Franken, and George Stephanopoulos... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Norton Book of Womens Lives by Phyllis Rose Publisher Comments "This magnificent, handsome, handful of an anthology . . ."* includes sixty-one substantial selections from the twentieth-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. "As varied in humanity as in geography,"** the women... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin Publisher Comments Andrea Dworkin, once called Feminisms Malcolm X,” has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Woman's Inhumanity to Woman by Phyllis Chesler Publisher Comments Mans inhumanity to man”--the phrase is all too familiar. But until Phyllis Chesler's now-classic book, a profound silence prevailed about womans inhumanity to woman. Women's aggression may not take the same form as men's, but girls and women... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion by Izabella St James Publisher Comments When this beach bunny caught the eye of Hugh Hefner at an L.A. nightclub, Izabella St. James was looking for a fun break from studying for the bar. As the latest Girlfriend of the Playboy founder, her break” lasted two years, but life behind... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World by Paola Gianturco Publisher Comments Crafstwomen Changing the world. From the dollmakers of Turkey to the batik artists of Indonesia, women in developing economies provide for their families by creating and selling indigenous crafts which draw on cultural traditions.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness by Ariel Gore Publisher Comments CAN A WOMAN BE SMART, EMPOWERED, AND HAPPY ? Happiness has become a serious business. Where twentiethcentury psychology focused on depression and illness, in the new millennium scientists have begun focusing on “positive psychology”—... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Hardcover
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