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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage) by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Staff Pick In this thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book, Kristof and WuDunn reveal the cruel and maddening reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression. Half the Sky will stir feelings of admiration and discomfort, and hopefully sow the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Staff Pick In this thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book, Kristof and WuDunn reveal the cruel and maddening reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression. Half the Sky will stir feelings of admiration and discomfort, and hopefully sow the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph by Aimee Molloy Publisher Comments The story of how one of the "most powerful women in women's rights" (Forbes)is paving the way to a world with human dignity for all. However Long the Night is the extraordinary story of one woman's determination to create a movement toward change, and a... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Elisa Burgos Debray Publisher Comments Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Theory Out of Bounds #18: Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval Publisher Comments In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments We all have dreams things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi?s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Staff Pick Ali's memoir Infidel reveals an extraordinary woman who survived a harrowing early life, fled to the Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage, and was elected to that country's Parliament before death threats landed her under 24-hour guard. Not every... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Muslim Veil in North America by Sajida Sultana Alvi Publisher Comments The issue of the hijab (veil) has been divisive for the Muslim community in North America. Muslims themselves see different meanings in covering their heads. The wider North American society also reacts in diverse ways to the Muslim veil; some read into... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women's Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics by Nancy A Naples Publisher Comments "Women's Activism and Globalization" is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the "new world order" in their communities. The first person accounts and regional case studies... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson Publisher Comments Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills– as doctors, nurses, and therapists– seemed... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.75 Used - Hardcover
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Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development by Arvonne Fraser Publisher Comments In these compelling testimonies, a distinguished group of 27 pioneering women from 12 countries tell how they fought to ensure that the unprecedented political and economic changes in the developing world would benefit women as well as men. At this... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives (New Feminist Library) by Gita Sen Synopsis This book synthesizes and analyzes three decades of economic, political, and cultural policies and politics toward third world women. Focusing on the impact of the current global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro- Surinamese Diaspora (Between Men--Between Women) by Gloria Wekker Publisher Comments Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of "mati" work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey by Leila Ahmed Publisher Comments An Egyptian woman's reflections on her changing homeland—updated with an afterword on the Arab Spring In language that vividly evokes the lush summers of Cairo and the stark beauty of the Arabian desert, Leila Ahmed movingly recounts her Egyptian... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Whoredom in Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women by Rosemary Mahoney Publisher Comments Before the mega-bestselling phenomenon of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization, Rosemary Mahoney traveled to Ireland in response to the growing feeling that changes were taking place, and that those changes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women in Early Imperial China (Asian Voices) by Bret Hinsch Publisher Comments After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE-220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War by Cynthia Enloe Publisher Comments "Nimo's War, Emma's War is unique in examining the gendered dimension of the Iraq war, particularly its impact on ordinary Iraqi and American women, thereby revealing an important long-term cost of the conflict. Cynthia Enloe's approach and analysis are... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conceiving the New World Order: Global Politics of Reproduct by Faye D Ginsburg Publisher Comments This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the complexity of contemporary sexual... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $2.99 Used - Trade Paper
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