Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
by Diane Mapes


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Are single women happy individualists? Neurotic man-hunters? Crazed cat ladies? Are they confused, or content? Bitter, or better off? No one seems to know. The popular media gives us shoe shopaholics, ditzy desperados, wannabe brides forever making... (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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Hating Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex
by Shmuley Boteach


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For anyone who has ever wondered where our popular culture is taking us, "Hating Women" is at once an electrifying social commentary and a clarion call for change. In "Hating Women," Shmuley Boteach, the passionate social critic and relationship guru... (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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How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Sex, Virtue, and the Way We Live Now
by Cristina Page




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A pithy polemic bolstered by solid research, intellectual heft, and firsthand reporting, this is a book poised to change the debate over reproductive rights in this country wholesale. As activist and writer Cristina Page shows, the gains made by birth... (read more)

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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
by Susan Wicklund and Alan Kesselheim


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One doctor's raw and riveting memoir, contrasting the headline-grabbing political rhetoric with the contours of her life, and the lives of her patients. In This Common Secret Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career... (read more)

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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
by Ellen Chesler


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Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights. Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's... (read more)

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Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World
by Linda R. Hirshman


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When Linda R. Hirshman published an article called "Homeward Bound" in last December's American Prospect, she fully intended to reignite the dying embers of feminism's fire. But the ensuing maelstrom of criticism and applause from national op-ed... (read more)

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Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs
by Rosalind Barnett


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From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender... (read more)

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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
by Francine Prose




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In nine mini-biographies Prose finds the qualities in each woman that defines her as a muse. Elegantly written. Fascinatingly unique. Mark Ingraham, Powells... (read more)

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Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment (Turning Points)
by Eleanor Clift


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A high-profile journalist brings the women?s suffrage movement to life in this latest addition to the Turning Points series On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified and women in America finally won the right to... (read more)

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Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot
by Scarlot Harlot


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A declared feminist activist, Carol Leigh refers to herself as a life artist, an "autobiographical journalist ... using myself and my life as an example, employing the image of whore in order to reclaim female sexual symbolism." Scarlot Harlot, Leigh's... (read more)

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Unraveled
by Maria Housden


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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)

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Civil Wars: The Battle for Gay Marriage
by David Moats




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In the years since Vermont became the first state to legalize civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, the issue has grown from an item for state legislature agendas to one for national debate. But David Moats tells the intimate story behind the larger... (read more)

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Helping Battered Women: New Perspectives and Remedies
by Albert R Roberts


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Recent estimates indicate that as many as 8.7 million women are beaten in their homes each year. This is an alarming national statistic, but there is hope. This book examines both social work and criminal justice professional's methods of intervention on... (read more)

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Stripper's Guide to Looking Great Naked
by Jennifer Axen


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Strippers are the experts when it comes to getting naked?especially when the topic is looking your best while wearing the least. Authors Jennifer Axen and Leigh Phillips are "regular" women who interviewed hundreds of strippers to uncover the real-life... (read more)

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The Only Bush I Trust is My Own
by Periel Aschenbrand


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Periel Aschenbrand loathes Internet dating, Republicans, TV, junk food, and stockbrokers. She is twenty-eight years old, lives in New York and Los Angeles, accessorizes Dolce & Gabbana with a "F*ck Bush" necklace, and wakes up every morning to a double... (read more)

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Girlosophy: Real Girls' Stories
by Anthea Paul


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This vibrant collection features the stories of more than 30 real girls, from Australia to Brazil and from the United States to England, whom Paul encountered on her international travels. They share their different experiences, personal philosophies... (read more)

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