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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti Synopsis The United States is obsessed with virginity — from the media to schools to government agencies. In The Purity Myth, Jessica Valenti argues that the countrys intense focus on chastity is damaging to young women. Through in-depth cultural and social... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Elf Girl by Rev Jen Publisher Comments Meet Rev Jen. Patron saint of the uncool. Cheerleader for nonconformists, geeks, and oddballs the world over. From her tiny rent-controlled apartment on Manhattans hip Lower East Side, she holds court over a wacky cast of friends and lovers with an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex & Power by Susan Estrich Publisher Comments Updated with a new introduction by the author. At the dawn of the 21st century, women in America are richer, more educated, and more powerful than before. So why is it, Estrich asks, that they account for a minuscule percentage of the nation's top... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism by Jodi Gold Publisher Comments Just Sex chronicles the movement to end all forms of sexual violence on campus and gives a voice not only to rape victims but also to reformed rape perpetrators.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin Publisher Comments Andrea Dworkin was the co-author, with Catharine A. MacKinnon, of civil rights legislation recognizing pornography as legally actionable sex discrimination. She wrote eleven books, including Pornography, Heartbreak, and Scapegoat. She died in April 2005... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Gender Responsible Leadership: Detecting Bias, Implementing Interventions by Cathar Van Nostrand Publisher Comments By combining sound feminist theory and group dynamic principles with information on how to be a leader in a nonhierarchical, consensus-oriented framework, this book offers a unique approach to leadership. It deals with such issues as: the way leaders... (read more) Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Her Way Young Women Remake the Sexual Re by Paula Kamen Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-267) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The lipstick proviso :women, sex & power in the real world by Karen Lehrman Publisher Comments A radical, provocative -- and wholly new -- redefinition of feminism for the twentieth-century by a writer hailed as the "sharpest" (The New York Times) of the new feminist thinkers.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 by Jane Gerhard Publisher Comments In the 1970s sex was what mattered most to feminists. Gerhard asks why issues of sex and female pleasure came to matter so much to these "second-wave feminists." She shows how the radical ideas put forward by this generation of American women was a... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & the Problem of Domination by Jessica Benjamin Publisher Comments Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why, indeed, do... (read more) List Price $20.40 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both by Laura Sessions Stepp Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II by Christina Simmons Publisher Comments Christina Simmons is Associate Professor of History at the University of Windsor. She is the co-editor of Passion and Power: Sexuality in History.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $32.33 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank Publisher Comments Why has an indefinable state of being commanded the attention and fascination of the human race since the dawn of time? In Virgin, Hanne Blank brings us a revolutionary, rich and entertaining survey of an astonishing untouched history. From the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sex Is Not a Natural ACT by Leonore Tiefer Publisher Comments Revisits and updates the centrality of the social construction of sexuality, especially in the age of Viagra, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the media saturation of sex. Leonore Tiefer is one of the foremost sexologists working in the United States... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self by Susan J Brison Publisher Comments "Susan Brison's Aftermath is a moving personal narrative of a harrowing experience. It is at the same time a thought-provoking philosophical reflection of broad interdisciplinary interest, particularly for the study of trauma and narrative. In both... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love for Sale : Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 (06 Edition) by Elizabeth Clement Publisher Comments "Persuasive. . . . Adds to the social history of New York literature." — Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "With rich examples relayed through an often sparkling narrative, this is a remarkable book." Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kill the Body, the Head Will Fall: A Closer Look at Women, Violence, and Aggression by Rene Denfeld Publisher Comments The outspoken, articulate, and brilliant author of The New Victorians debunks the persistent belief that women are inherently less aggressive and less violent than men and examines the concept of aggression in this myth-shattering, eye-opening work... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty (Sex, Love, and Psychology) by Marty Klein Publisher Comments President George W. Bush says that, "In our free society, people have the right to choose how they live their lives." But our government and the Religious Right are successfully: - censoring what you read, hear, and see; - limiting your access to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture by Lawrence Kramer Publisher Comments After the Lovedeath is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to the their nineteenth-century sources. He draws on the music... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America by Laura Browder Publisher Comments "Deftly explores one facet of the relationship between women and guns in American history: that most manifest in literary expression and advertising." — Pacific Northwest Quarterly "Browder's book is far-ranging. It is filled with provocative... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.98 Used - Hardcover
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