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Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size
Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size
by Marilyn Wann
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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 fear—worse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weapons—our fear of fat.Statistics... (read more)

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A Wollstonecraft Anthology
A Wollstonecraft Anthology
by Janet M. Todd
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"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)

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Elf Girl
Elf Girl
by Rev Jen
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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)

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Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism
Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism
by Jennife Baumgardner
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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)

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Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
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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A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
by Susan Griffin
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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)

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Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
by Alexandra Robbins
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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)

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The Second Sex
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
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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)

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Writing a Woman's Life
Writing a Woman's Life
by Carolyn G Heilbrun
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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)

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Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World
Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World
by Leslie Simon
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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)

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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
by Deanne Blanton
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-262) and index.... (read more)

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The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival & Hope
The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival & Hope
by Zainab Salbi
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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)

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The Norton Book of Womens Lives
The Norton Book of Womens Lives
by Phyllis Rose
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"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)

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Intercourse
Intercourse
by Andrea Dworkin
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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)

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Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
by Phyllis Chesler
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“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)

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Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion
Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion
by Izabella St James
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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)

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In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World
In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World
by Paola Gianturco
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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)

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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, 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)

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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
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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Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness
Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness
by Ariel Gore
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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)

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