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New Arrivals
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Womens Studies
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage)
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage)
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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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)

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General
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Captive Genders (11 Edition)
Captive Genders (11 Edition)
by Eric A. Stanley
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Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and... (read more)

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Featured Titles
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Wintersons novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the... (read more)

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Sex Industry
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Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
by Jillian Lauren
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Read Jillian Lauren's posts on the Penguin Blog. A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with... (read more)

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Pornography
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Bound and Gagged
Bound and Gagged
by Laura Kipnis
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In a book that completely changes the terms of the pornography debate, Laura Kipnis challenges the position that porn perpetuates misogyny and sex crimes. First published in 1996, Bound and Gagged opens with the chilling case of Daniel DePew, a man... (read more)

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Transgender
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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
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The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing... (read more)

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Gay Studies
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
by Justin Spring
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Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the... (read more)

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Mens Studies
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Unheroic Conduct : Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (97 Edition)
Unheroic Conduct : Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (97 Edition)
by Daniel Boyarin
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In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive... (read more)

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Sale Books
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Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights o
Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights o
by Suzanne Levine
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"A remarkable work of oral history [and] a fond, provocative testament to a remarkable life."* “A fabulous read about a breed of politician now largely extinct . . . Levine and Thom have crafted a history that brings to life one of the great... (read more)

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Used Books
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
by Riane Tennenhaus Eisler
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Chapter One Journey into a Lost World: The Beginnings of Civilization Preserved in a cave sanctuary for over twenty thousand years, a female figure speaks to us about the minds of our early Western ancestors. She is small and carved out of stone: one of... (read more)

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