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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: $10.95 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 throughwars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 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: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic Publisher Comments Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story by Latifa Publisher Comments "My Forbidden Face" provides a moving and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity, Latifa describes her ordered world falling apart, in the name of a fanaticism that she could not comprehend, and... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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From Outrage to Courage: The Unjust and Unhealthy Situation of Women in Poor Countries and What They Are Doing about It by Anne Firth Murray Publisher Comments From sex-selective abortions to millions of girls who are "disappeared," from 90 million girls who do not go to school to HIV/AIDS spreading fastest among adolescent girls, women face unique health challenges, writes Anne Firth Murray. In this searing... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) by Lila Abu Lughod Publisher Comments Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams (Asia-Pacific) by Karen Kelsky Publisher Comments Over the past few decades, many young Japanese women have emerged as Japan’s most enthusiastic “internationalists,” investing in study or work abroad, or in romance with Western men as opportunities to circumvent what they consider... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu Publisher Comments Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.50 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 $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $26.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Veil and the Male Elite : a Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam (91 Edition) by Fatima Mernissi Publisher Comments 'Fatima Mernissi has more ideas per book than any other thinker in the Middle East. Her later works increasingly integrate her brilliant ideas into sustained and compelling discourse that is very much worthy of attention.'Laurence O... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Talking Visions Multicultural Feminism by Ella Shohat Publisher Comments This multivoiced collection of essays and images presents the perspectives of activists, scholars, artists, and curators from a broad range of constituencies. Challenging traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries, the book moves beyond any unified... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments A world-renowned activist and feminist pulls no punches in her efforts to reform Islam in this international bestseller, available for the first time in English.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by Zoya Review "A tale of struggle and suffering...from a courageous freedom fighter...Timely and sobering." Kirkus... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation) by Leila Abouzeid Publisher Comments In this moving fictional treatment of a Muslim woman's life, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Cast out and divorced by her husband, she finds herself in a strange new world. Both... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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