W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
by Michaele L. Ferguson and Lori Jo Marso


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"Making lasting feminist sense of the George W. Bush presidency--long after it's over--will be a crucial intellectual task. "W Stands for Women" is going to be essential reading as we all tackle this challenge."--Cynthia Enloe, author of "Globalization... (read more)

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The Fountain of Age
by Betty Friedan


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Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt--to... (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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Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America
by Laura Browder


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The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have interrupted the popular association of guns and masculinity, spurring debates about women's capabilities for violence as... (read more)

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Birth of the Chess Queen: A History
by Marilyn Yalom


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Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. In India, Persia, and the Arab lands, where the game was first played, a general, or vizier (chief counselor... (read more)

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Half-Life of a Zealot
by Swanee Hunt


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"Swanee Hunt is the woman behind the women, supporting their leadership throughout the world. Through them, she touches millions who will never have the privilege of browsing in a bookstore. This beautiful book tells why and how."--Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf,... (read more)

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Vindication :mary Wollstonecraft
by Lyndall Gordon


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The acclaimed biography of T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Henry James now turns to one of the greatest women of history.... (read more)

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Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Rule of Law #10: The Triumph of Venus: The Erotics of the Market
by Jeanne Lo Schroeder


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In this ambitious and innovative work, Professor Schroeder applies Hegelian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as classical mythologies, to argue for a reinterpretation of our understanding of economic markets.... (read more)

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A Mother's Place: Choosing Work and Family Without Guilt or Blame
by Susan Chira


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Chapter One The Drumbeat Small wonder that I felt besieged before and after I became a working mother. The headlines blared the bad news: "The Myth of Quality Time: How We're Cheating Our Kids," "Working Parents' Torment: Teens After School," "Can Your... (read more)

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The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir
by Emily R Grosholz


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This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir's thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of her most influential book, The Second Sex. A team of distinguished philosophers and... (read more)

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Feminism and History of Philosophy (Oxford Readings in Feminism)
by Genevieve Lloyd


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This new collection of essays by leading feminist critics highlights the fresh perspectives that feminism can offer to the discussion of past philosophers. Rather than defining itself through opposition to a "male" philosophical tradition, feminist... (read more)

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Girls Only: Sleepovers, Squabbles, Tuna Fish, and Other Facts of Family Life
by Alex Witchel


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Armed with simple family wisdom, Witchel does some soul-searching--and lots of shopping--with the ever present help of her wise (and occasionally exasperating) mother, Barbara, and her exasperating (and occasionally wise) sister, Phoebe.... (read more)

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Naked: The Life and Pornography of Michael Lucas
by Corey Taylor


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A no-hold-barred, authorized biography that delivers a fascinating and provocative portrait of gay porns hottest maverick star--featuring outrageous quotes and never-before-told personal stories about the industry he changed forever.... (read more)

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Women of Afghanistan
by Isabelle Delloye


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When the Taliban was ousted as the ruling party of Afghanistan, the iconic images of newfound freedom were those of men shaving their beards and women removing their veils. In Women of Afghanistan, French journalist Isabelle Delloye goes beyond the... (read more)

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Gender, Society & Development #3: Women's Information Services and Networks: A Global Source Book
by S J R Cummings


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Hundreds of women??'s information centers and archives, their activities as diverse as their geographies, are working to strengthen the position of women. They aim to empower women, give them a voice and keep women??'s history alive. By providing... (read more)

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Jane Adams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life
by Jean B Elshtain


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Jane Addams is synonymous in the American imagination with Hull-House, the legendary Chicago institution she founded, and from which she helped a generation of poor immigrants carve new lives for themselves in the midst of a desolate urban landscape. Yet... (read more)

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Women and Economics
by Charlotte Pe Gilman


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This classic of feminist theory relates the evolution of women's economic reliance on men and the system's deleterious effects on both sexes. A landmark treatise in the struggle for gender equality.... (read more)

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Caught in the Crisis: Women & the U. S. Economy Today
by Teresa Amott


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From reviews of the first edition (1993): "Fills a glaring gap in the available literature on the subject of women and the economy . . . in a form understandable to the general reader." --National Women's Studies Association Journal "A remarkably... (read more)

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