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The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women by Elisabeth Badinter Publisher Comments In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhood Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover 
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The Secret Lives of Lawfully Wedded Wives: 25 Women Writers on Love, Infidelity, Sex Roles, Race, Kids, and More by Autumn Stephens Synopsis Some marriages are made in heaven, and others, quite frankly, are not. This anthology collects the private reflections of 25 well-known women writers, some of whom speak under the liberating cloak of anonymity. They reveal the truth about their marriages,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother by Shari L Thurer Publisher Comments This groundbreaking and irreverent history of motherhood is worth a hundred advice books for any mother who’s ever been made to feel guilty or frazzled by society’s impossible expectations. Analyzing data from the psychoanalyst’s couch... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mothers Who Think: Tales of Reallife Parenthood by Daphne Marneffe Publisher Comments From the editors of Salon.com's cutting edge Web site, "Mothers Who Think," comes "an anthology of smart and lovely essays" (Chicago Sun Times) -- provacative collection that challenges and changes our views of motherhood today. Anne Lamott, Jayne Anne... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fierce Attachments a Memoir by Vivian Gornick Publisher Comments The acclaimed memoirist's classic exploration of her relationship with her mother. A fine, unflinchingly honest book. -Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Augusta, Gone: A True Story by Martha Tod Dudman Publisher Comments The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her. True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence by Rebecca Walker Publisher Comments From the bestselling author hailed by "Time" magazine as one of the leaders of her generation comes an insightful memoir of pregnancy and her decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home by Arlie Hochschild Publisher Comments An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than twenty years after its original publication. More than twenty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life by Neil Gilbert Publisher Comments The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. ... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves by Camille Peri Publisher Comments The challenges facing mothers in the twenty-first century go well beyond tantrum control and potty training. Camille Peri and Kate Moses, the founding editors of Salon.com's "Mothers Who Think" column and the subsequent anthology of the same name, have... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What Is Marriage For? by E J Graff Publisher Comments With a New Foreword by Richard Goldstein, executive editor, The Village Voice Essential reading on same-sex marriage. -Evan Wolfson, Freedom to Marry Read this book if you want to understand the movement for same-sex marriage-and to counter those who... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Creating a Life: What Every Woman Needs to Know about Having a Baby and a Career by Sylvia Ann Hewlett Publisher Comments Featuring a new Introduction by the author, this is the book that touched off a national debate about how career women can start a family if they plan for it with the same intensity as they do for their careers.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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FBI Girl: How I Learned to Crack My Father's Code by Maura Conlon-McIvor Publisher Comments From an evocative new voice comes the touching childhood memoir of an Irish Catholic girl struggling to connect with her enigmatic FBI agent father. Young Maura Conlon's dad is a secret agent. And Maura knows what that means: chasing cars, jumping... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir by Anne Roiphe Publisher Comments In this captivating memoir, novelist Anne Roiphe shows us what it was really like to grow up rich and Jewish in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Revisiting the world of her childhood, Roiphe brings alive a cast of characters who are both difficult to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Girls' Night Out: Celebrating Women's Groups Across America by Tamara Kreinin Publisher Comments "This is my family away from family." "We have supported each other through huge life transitions." "This group has turned me on to more interesting things in this world, in this life, than anyone else." These are the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Mother My Self 20TH Anniversary Edition by Nancy Friday Publisher Comments When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970s no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom Publisher Comments Using the modern marriage as a focal point, studies how social, economic, and legal changes in the Judeo-Christian world has affected marriage and lives of women since ancient times, and speculates the future of wives.... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts by Fiona Giles Publisher Comments While countless breastfeeding guides crowd bookshelves, not one of them speaks to women with anything approaching bestselling author Fiona Giles's level of intimacy and vitality. In Fresh Milk, through a provocative collection of stories, memories, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Augusta, Gone: A True Story by Martha Tod Dudman Publisher Comments "I'm not telling you where I am. Don't try to find me." Remember Go Ask Alice? Augusta, Gone is the memoir Alice's mother never wrote. A single parent, Martha Tod Dudman is sure she is giving her two children the perfect life, sheltering them from the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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