Warrior Queens Boadicaes Chariot
by Antonia Fraser


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From Boadicea to Isabella of Spain, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher, this book analyzes the warrior queens, the women in history whose courage is contrasted with the weaknesses of the males around them.... (read more)

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Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
by Betsy Prioleau


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In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of historyas greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the worldafrom such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to... (read more)

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America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
by Gail Collins


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From the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs, America's Womentells the story of how women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female... (read more)

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Why Women Should Rule the World
by Dee Dee Myers


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What would happen if women ruled the world? Everything could change, according to former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Politics would be more collegial. Businesses would be more productive. And communities would be healthier. Empowering... (read more)

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Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers
by Linda Lemoncheck


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Bringing together fifty-seven contemporary popular and scholarly selections, Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers clarifies and enriches readers' understanding of this complex and sensitive topic. Featuring a more comprehensive and in-depth treatment... (read more)

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Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut
by Emily White


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She might have reached puberty at an early age. (Or she might not have.) She might have been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. (Or she might not have.) She might have been different somehow — had a daring sense of style, seemed ethnically "... (read more)

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The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
by Christine Wiltz


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In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors... (read more)

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Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century
by Alexander Sanger


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Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, the argument between "pro-choicers" and "pro-lifers" has reached stalemate. Pro-choice arguments haven't persuaded a comfortable majority that legal abortion is vital to our society, nor addressed our moral qualms. Younger... (read more)

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Communion the Female Search for Love
by bell hooks


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Chapter Oneaging to love, loving to ageEvery day I talk to women about love and aging. It's an over-forty thing to do. The exciting news is this: Everyone agrees that aging is more fun than it has ever been before. It has its joys and delights. It also... (read more)

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Collected Letters
by Mary Wollstonecraft


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An intimate and personal glimpse into the private life of one of history's most passionate and influential women. Now in Penguin Classics.... (read more)

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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali




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Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali's profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the... (read more)

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Catfight: Rivalries Among Women--From Diets to Dating, from the Boardroom to the Delivery Room
by Leora Tanenbaum


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“ Catfight is an incisive exploration of a long-taboo subject-how and why women sabotage one another.”... (read more)

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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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Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory
by Constance Bowman


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With a new epilogue. In 1943 two young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 bomber production line. First published in 1944, Slacks and Calluses is an on-the-spot account... (read more)

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The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier
by Laura Leedy Gansler


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Resurrecting a lost hero of the Civil War, The Mysterious Private Thompson tells the remarkable story of one heroic woman who defied convention in nineteenth-century America to live, work, and defend her country at a time of war, when most women were... (read more)

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Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both
by Laura Sessions Stepp


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A Washington Post reporter evaluates the sexual experiences of three groups of young women who have responded to what the author terms America's increasingly sexualized culture by engaging in obligation-free intimate relationships rather than navigating... (read more)

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Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female
by Willa Shalit


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Sixty-seven original essays from celebrities and writers, including Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, JK Rowling, Julia Stiles, Maya Angelou, Glenn Close, Kate Spade, Helen Hunt, Zane, Patti LaBelle, Joyce Carol Oates, Lily Tomlin, and many more.& nbsp... (read more)

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What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
by Erica Jong


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Erica Jong's two rules of writing are never cut funny and keep the pages turning. And Jong delivers in these twenty-six essays, coupling frank and risqu stories about her own life with provocative pieces on her passion for politics, literature, Italy... (read more)

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