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No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood by Henriette (edt) Mantel Synopsis In No Kidding, comedy writer Henriette Mantel tackles the topic of actually not having kids. This fascinating collection features a star-studded group of contributors—including Margaret Cho, Wendy Liebman, Laurie Graff, and other accomplished... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Their Clients Writing about Each Other by R. J. Martin, Jr. (edt) Synopsis Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Their Clients Writing about Each Other is the follow-up to Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys, the groundbreaking anthology that appeared on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. "Eye... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington Publisher Comments "As a husband and as a father of a daughter, I am moved by Sarah Weddington's eloquent reminder of what Roe truly meansthat our most private decisions can be made behind the closed doors of our homes, with our families, and in private... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Crow After Roe: How "Separate But Equal" Has Become the New Standard in Women's Health and How We Can Change That by Jessica Mason Pieklo Publisher Comments 2013 marks the fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Courts abortion decision in Roe v. Wade, one of the most divisive rulings ever to shape American politics. In recent years, attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade have reached a fevered pitch. Since 2010... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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In the Body of the World Signed Edition by Eve Ensler Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection — to the body, the self, and the world. Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has... (read more) Available May 16, 2013 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph by Aimee Molloy Publisher Comments The story of how one of the "most powerful women in women's rights" (Forbes)is paving the way to a world with human dignity for all. However Long the Night is the extraordinary story of one woman's determination to create a movement toward change, and a... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Fortunes of Feminism: From Women's Liberation to Identity Politics to Anti-Capitalism by Nancy Fraser Publisher Comments Nancy Fraser’s powerful new book documents the “movements of feminism” and the shifts in the feminist imaginary since the 1970s. Fraser follows the history of feminism from the ferment of the New Left, during which “Second Wave... (read more) Your price: $109.75 New - Hardcover
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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall Publisher Comments From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New Englands intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed womens sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal the Dial shaped American... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Women in Western Political Thought (New Paperback) by Susan Moller Okin Publisher Comments In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser Publisher Comments Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action. During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement by Sarah Erdreich Publisher Comments “In her first book, journalist and women’s health advocate Erdreich delivers a passionate study of the past, current, and future state of the pro-choice movement in America...This is a thoughtful and comprehensive treatment of one side of an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom by Leslie C Bell Publisher Comments "In this moving book, Leslie Bell gives us insight into the hearts and minds of 20-something women confronted with the emotional challenges of a culture that says they can have it all. Through poignant, rich individual narratives, Bell shows how... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (What Everyone Needs to Know) by Rickie Solinger Publisher Comments The term "reproductive politics" was coined by feminists in the 1970s to describe contemporary Roe v. Wade-era power struggles over contraception and abortion, adoption and surrogacy, and other satellite issues. Forty years later, questions about... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sexy Feminism: A Girl's Guide to Love, Success, and Style by Jennifer Armstrong Publisher Comments "We live in a society where sex is used against women as much as its used by women. Sexy Feminism calls foul on that (and other) double standards—and makes manifest my frequent observation that feminists are almost always the sexiest people in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love, and Family by Liza Mundy Publisher Comments IN THE RICHER SEX, bestselling author and Washington Post writer Liza Mundy takes us to the exciting frontier of a new economic order, showing why more households will be supported by women than by men within a generation and how both men and women will... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Champion of Choice: The Life and Legacy of Women's Advocate Nafis Sadik by Cathleen Miller Publisher Comments Not many women can claim to have changed history, but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth, and change the world she did. Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik, born into a prominent Indian family in 1929, came to be the worlds... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them by Julian Sher Publisher Comments They are Americas forgotten children, the hundreds of thousands of child prostitutes who walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street corners of our cities. Many people wrongly believe sex... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Art Therapy in Capital Murder Cases (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Lydia H. (edt) Liu Your price: $103.75 New - Hardcover
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