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Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue by Nicholas M. Teich Publisher Comments Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich Publisher Comments The experience is her own--as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother--but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks Publisher Comments Everyone needs to love and be loved — even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - 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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Finding Fernanda by Erin Siegal Publisher Comments A compelling, dramatic narrative of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother, shedding light on the alarming and growing problem of international adoption fraud. Over the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto Publisher Comments In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine — and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 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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Captive Genders (11 Edition) by Eric A. Stanley Publisher Comments 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) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano Publisher Comments A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich Publisher Comments At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl Publisher Comments Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A Slate Best Book of 2011 A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011 Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan Publisher Comments Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women. Repeatedly, developmental theories have been built on observations of men's lives. Here, Gilligan attempts to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body--New Paths to Power and Love by Riane Tennen Eisler Publisher Comments Riane Eisler shows us how history has consistently promoted the link between sex and violence—and how we can sever this link and move to a politics of partnership rather than domination in all our relations.... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Transfeminist Perspectives in and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies by Anne (edt) Enke Synopsis If feminist studies and transgender studies are so intimately connected, why are they not more deeply integrated? Offering multidisciplinary models for this assimilation, the vibrant essays in Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and... (read more) Your price: $84.50 New - Hardcover
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Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade Publisher Comments Wait—whats wrong with rights? Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and “equality” strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations—agitating for legal... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Imperial Leather by Anne Mcclintock Publisher Comments Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book take... (read more) Your price: $61.75 New - Trade Paper
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Fascinating Womanhood by Helen B. Andelin Publisher Comments How to Make Your Marriage a Lifelong Love Affair What makes a woman fascinating to her husband? What is happiness in marriage for a woman? These are just two of the questions Helen B. Andelin answers in the bestselling classic that has already brought... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier From Powells.com Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body, exploring the essence of what it means to be a woman. Though Angier grounds her book in a solid foundation of scientific fact, she... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: the New Basics (09 Edition) by Abby L. Ferber Publisher Comments Interest in gender and sexual identity has soared in recent years, sparking lively discussions both inside and outside of the classroom. Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The New Basics brings together many of the vibrant voices in this ongoing dialogue... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $53.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity by Robert Jensen Publisher Comments In our culture, porn makes the man. So argues Robert Jensen in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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