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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 (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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth Publisher Comments Geneen Roth’s 1991 bestseller, When Food Is Love , spoke to a wide audience—including Oprah Winfrey, who embraced Roth’s empowering message. Since then, Roth has taken the sum total of her experience and combined it with... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks Publisher Comments A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving....There can be no love without justice.—from the chapter "To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism" In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Feminine Mystique (01 Edition) by Betty Friedan Publisher Comments Landmark, groundbreaking, classic--these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure (99 Edition) by Nan Enstad Publisher Comments At the beginning of the twentieth century, labor leaders in women's unions routinely chastised their members for their ceaseless pursuit of fashion, avid reading of dime novels, and affected ways, including aristocratic airs and accents. Indeed, working... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $21.50 Used - Trade Paper
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All About Love - New Visions by bell hooks Publisher Comments Chapter One The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word "love" lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of love. And they know that what we think love means is not always what they believe it means.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G Walker Staff Pick "One of my favorite ways of reading is to pull a book off the shelf and open it at random. That's the great thing about reference books like dictionaries or encyclopedias. These books are treasure troves — dip in anywhere, let chance take you, lead... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside by Bridget Kinsella Publisher Comments When a friend who taught creative writing at a maximum-security prison asked Bridget Kinsella to read the work of one of his best students, she readily agreed. As a publishing professional, Kinsella was used to getting manuscripts from all sorts of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth Publisher Comments Geneen Roth's masterwork, Women Food and God explores the relationship between how we eat and how we see ourselves in the world.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins Publisher Comments Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual sly wit and unfussy style (People). When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women by Elisabeth Badinter Publisher Comments In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhood Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Jean Yves Leloup Publisher Comments Jean-Yves Leloup's translation of the Gospel of Mary from the Coptic and his thorough and profound commentary on this text are presented here for the first time in English. The text emphasizes the eminence of the divine feminine and an abiding love of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 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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Unequal Sisters (4TH 08 Edition) by Vicki Ruiz Synopsis Unequal Sisters has become a beloved and classic reader in American Women's History. It provides an unparalleled resource for understanding women's history in the United States today. When it was first published in 1990, it revolutionized the field with... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $36.50 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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Love, Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women by Nura Maznavi and Ayesha Mattu Synopsis In this groundbreaking collection, American Muslim women writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their real-life tales of flirting, dating, longing, and sex. Their stories show just how varied the search for love can be—from singles' events and... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Color of Violence : the Incite! Anthology (06 Edition) by Andrea Smith Publisher Comments This collection of 28 essays about women and the multitude of ways they are victimized around the world by criminal justice systems, militarism, and the medical establishment is compiled by Incite!, which describes itself as "the largest multiracial... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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