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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Brilliantly persuasive, this is an exploration of the phenomenon of the violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement. "A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom"... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-335) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History by Maura Spiegel Publisher Comments Introducing the chunky, obsessive book of Breasts. Using over 600 illustrations and photographs, The Breast Bookis about changing social mores and attitudes, from classical Greek statuary to the Victorian corset to Twiggy to Pamela Lee. The Breast Bookis... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp Publisher Comments The bestselling author of "Drinking: A Love Story" and "Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs" has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman's appetite--for food, for love, for work, and for pleasure--is shaped and constrained by... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Minding the Body by Patricia Foster Publisher Comments A mulitcultural anthology of fiction and non-fiction literary narratives which addresses the psychological and political aspects of a woman's body in today's culture. An important and much-needed book for women... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy by Stephen Gundle Publisher Comments Feminine beauty has been more associated with national cultural identity in Italy than in any other country. From the time of Dante and Petrarch, ideals of beauty have informed artists work. This intriguing and gloriously illustrated book investigates... (read more) List Price $50.95 Your price: $29.95 Used - Hardcover
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Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff Publisher Comments In this provocative, witty, and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, Nancy Etcoff skewers one of our culture's most enduring myths, that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior. Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chinstraps Nose Moulds & Corsets by Rosematy Hawthorne Publisher Comments For centuries, the seeds sown by advertising to beguile women have fallen on fertile ground. The sell has been soft-to create a feeling of promise. Then, as now, it has been essential to make the product unforgettable, superior, one that outshines all... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism by Linda M Scott Publisher Comments Fresh Lipstick shakes feminist fashion down to its Birkenstocks. Linda M. Scott wants to put an end to the belief that American women have to wear a colorless, shapeless uniform to achieve liberation and equality. A pointed attack on feminism's requisite... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Publisher Comments "Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy." --People A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Working Out in Japan-PB by Laura Spielvogel Publisher Comments Beer, ice cream, and socializing; thighs, abs, and pecs—Japanese fitness clubs combine entertainment and exercise, reflecting the Japanese concept of fitness as encompassing a zest for life as well as physical health. Through an engaging account of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West by Peter N Stearns Publisher Comments Fluctuations in the marketplace present formidable challenges to business and marketing. Globalization, accelerated social and demographic changes among customers, shifts in public policy, and rapid-fire technological advances have all made the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cunt Coloring Book by Tee Corinne Publisher Comments Over 3 dozen cunts of every size and description for you to color. Originally used for a sex education class. Crayons not included.... (read more) Your price: $8.95 New - Trade Paper
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Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity by Kathleen Lebesco Publisher Comments A provocative analysis of fatness as a cultural construct Viewed as both unhealthy and unattractive, fat people are widely represented in popular culture and in interpersonal interactions as revolting--as agents of abhorrence and disgust. Yet if we think... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Damage Control: Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies by Emma Forrest Publisher Comments Traditionally, women share their secrets with their hairdressers. But what about their manicurists, masseurs, chi gong teachers, and tattoo artists? In Damage Control, women wax poetic about the experts and gurus who help them love themselves, sharing... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us about Women's Lives by Rose Weitz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hope in a Jar the Making of Americas Bea by Kathy Peiss Publisher Comments How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a Victorian "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were called, become a multi-billion-dollar industry? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bodies: Big Ideas/Small Books by Susie Orbach Publisher Comments Esteemed Psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach diagnoses the crisis in our relationship to our bodies and points the way toward a process of healing. Throughout the Western world, people have come to believe that general dissatisfaction can be... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Body Wars: Making Peace with Women's Bodies: An Activist's Guide by Margo Maine Publisher Comments In this ground-breaking study, Margo Maine declares war on a culture that dismisses, devalues, and disempowers women by making them hate their own bodies. This book covers issues from dieting and weight prejudice to concepts of beauty and ageism to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women by Joseph Hansen Book News Annotation Hansen (1910-79) was editor of The Militant, the newspaper reflecting the views of the Socialist Workers party, in 1954 when a sharp debate erupted in its pages regarding how marketing cosmetics and fashions was linked to the oppression of women. Here... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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