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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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Man down: Proof beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Women Are Better Cops, Drivers, Gamblers, Spies, World Leaders, Beer Tasters, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just about Everything Else by Dan Abrams Publisher Comments In a book chock full of trivia, the author argues that women are better than men in just about every way imaginable, from managing money to flying planes to living longer. 50,000 first printing.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth Publisher Comments Geneen Roth's masterwork, Women Food and God explores the relationship between how we eat and how we see ourselves in the world.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Unraveled by Maria Housden Publisher Comments As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans. Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick Publisher Comments In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Morning After by Cynthia Enloe Publisher Comments Cynthia Enloe's riveting new book looks at the end of the Cold War and places women at the center of international politics. Focusing on the relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe charts the changing... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Steven Petrow's Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners: The Definitive Guide to LGBT Life by Steven Petrow Publisher Comments Finally, the first big book of manners for the more than 15 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States and Canada and the people who love them, work with them, and live with them. Written by Steven Petrow, the go-to... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy Publisher Comments Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig -- the new brand of "empowered woman" who embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. In her groundbreaking book, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy argues that, if male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women... (read more) List Price $14.95 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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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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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America--A History by Lillian Faderman Publisher Comments This landmark work of lesbian history focuses on how certain late-nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women whose lives can be described as lesbian were in the forefront of the battle to secure the rights and privileges that large numbers of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity by Wendy Brown Publisher Comments "A compelling and original book which provides critical and much needed insight into the workings of contemporary American politics. There isn't anyone else doing this kind of work in political theory."--Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics by Jennife Baumgardner Publisher Comments “A necessary read for those looking to expand their understanding of both bisexuality and the contributions of Third Wave feminism.”—Rebecca Walker, Bookforum “Revealing, smart, titillating . . . Look Both Ways [cuts... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians by Lillian Faderman Publisher Comments The exhortation to "Go West!" has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels provided a special home and gave rise to one of the most influential gay cultures in the world. Drawing on... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation by Ellen Bravo Publisher Comments Enough about "breaking the glass ceiling." Here are blueprints for a redesign of the entire building, ground up, to benefit women and men — and even the bottom line. The feisty humor of Molly Ivins and the journalistic flair of Barbara... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.15 Sale - Trade Paper
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Red: Teenage Girls in America Write on What Fires Up Their Lives Today by Amy Goldwasser Publisher Comments "Unsparingly frank and perceptive" (Vanity Fair) personal essays by teenage girls. For every teen girl who thinks she's alone, and every adult who's dared to try to figure her out, comes this eye-opening collection in the spirit of New York Times... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cape Verdean Women and Globalization: The Politics of Gender, Culture, and Resistance by Katherine Carter Publisher Comments Offering valuable insights into social science methodology and practice, Cape Verde Women and Globalization employs critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to explore what Cape Verdeans have to say about womens lives in the era of twenty... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $55.00 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy by Carrie Pitzulo Publisher Comments For a lot of people, thoughts about the sexual politics of Playboy run along the lines of what Gloria Steinem reportedly once told Hugh Hefner: “A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.” Hefners magazine... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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