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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Publisher Comments A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism by Rebecca Walker Publisher Comments Determined to extend the boundaries of feminism to embrace social, political, and economic equality for all humanity, these twenty-one exciting young activists and thinkers recast the concepts of feminism to reflect their own personal experiences and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Affair of the Mind by Laurie Hall Publisher Comments Laurie Hall's story reveals pornography's subversive side and offers comfort, encouragement, insight, and a plan of action to women whose husbands are addicted.... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Tennenhaus Eisler Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stonewall by Martin Duberman Publisher Comments "As scholars we should read Stonewall, and as teachers we should assign it. All of us will be challenged to build on it."—Michael Sherry, Northwestern Univ. "Both a fascinating account of the birth of gay liberation and a replay of the turbulent... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna Stratton Publisher Comments From a rediscovered collection of priceless autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of pioneer women, Joanna Stratton has made a remarkable and widely celebrated book. Never before has there been such a detailed record of women's courage, such a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier Publisher Comments With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Outrageous Acts & Everyday Rebellion 2ND Edition by Gloria Steinem Publisher Comments This phenomenally successful book, that has sold nearly a half a million copies since its original publication in 1983, is Gloria Steinem's most diverse and timeless collection of essays.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism by Robin Morgan Publisher Comments This groundbreaking work on the psychological and political roots of terrorism by award-winning writer Robin Morgan is updated with her new introduction covering the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US. In a new afterword, "Letters from Ground... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Battered Woman by Lenore E Walker Publisher Comments "A major contribution to this subject. She is thorough, practical, compassionate, and authoritative. It is a reading must."--Phyllis... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dover Thrift Editions) by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments Considered a heroine of feminism, Wollstonecraft argues that women, rather than cultivating power from sexual allure, should be honest, intelligent, and independent. Her views about how women's innate worth is denigrated by improper definitions of the... (read more) List Price $3.50 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman Publisher Comments In the tradition of Passages and My Mother, My Self, this unique, personal, and ground-breaking New York Times best-seller -- the first of its kind -- explores the profound pain of mother loss among... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict by Irene Vilar Publisher Comments Irene Vilar was just a pliant young college undergraduate in thrall to her professor when they embarked on a relationship that led to marriage — a union of impossible odds — and fifteen abortions in fifteen years. Vilar knows that she is... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent Publisher Comments A journalist’s provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a man Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Minding the Body by Patricia Foster Publisher Comments A mulitcultural anthology of fiction and non-fiction literary narratives which addresses the psychological and political aspects of a woman's body in today's culture. An important and much-needed book for women... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Balancing the Load: Women, Gender, and Transport by Priyanthi Fernando Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-277) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vashti's Victory: And Other Biblical Women Resisting Injustice by Laverne Mccain Gill Synopsis Examines and discusses six Bible stories of women who rebelled against oppression in order to have God's work made manifest in the world.... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500 - 1800 by Olwen Hufton Publisher Comments This monumental new book decisively enlarges our understanding of the history of women. Hufton leads readers from poorhouse to palazzo, from cradle to grave, illuminating what it meant to be female in pre-modern Europe. "A major effort at synthesis... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sexuality of Organization by Jeff Hearn Publisher Comments The book contains interesting insights and useful empirical material. . . . The two most significant themes] for the future development of organizational theory are the relationship between sexuality, gender, and power and the way the public and private... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.25 Used - Trade Paper
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