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Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection by Debora L. Spar Publisher Comments Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a mans world? Debora L. Spar spent most of her life avoiding feminism. Raised after the tumult of the 60s, she presumed that the gender war was over; she swore to young women that yes... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn Povich Publisher Comments It was the 1960s––a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the “Help Wanted” ads were segregated by gender and the “Mad Men” office culture was rife with sexual... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era by Beatriz Preciado Publisher Comments What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny. In this penetrating... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Publisher Comments Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia by Rachel Rinaldo Publisher Comments Islam and feminism are often thought of as incompatible. Through a vivid ethnography of Muslim and secular women activists in Jakarta, Indonesia, Rachel Rinaldo shows that this is not always the case. Examining a feminist NGO, Muslim women's... (read more) Your price: $34.50 New - Trade Paper
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Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India by Amana Fontanella-Khan Publisher Comments In Uttar Pradesh — known as the "badlands" of India — a woman’s life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after fleeing her service in the home of a powerful local... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation by Molly Haskell Publisher Comments A feminist film criticand#8217;s thoughtful, outspoken memoir about transgender and family On a visit to New York, the brother of well-known film critic Molly Haskell dropped a bombshell: Nearing age sixty, and married, he had decided to become a woman.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son by Lori Duron Publisher Comments Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron’s poignant, heart-breaking, and at times hysterical memoir of her and her family's adventures of raising a gender creative child. Whereas her older son Chase is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, her youngest... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Queer Action/Queer Ideas Book) by J. Jack Halberstam Publisher Comments A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? In Gaga Feminism:... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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So How's the Family?: And Other Essays by Arlie Russell Hochschild Publisher Comments "No one understands contemporary family life better than Arlie Hochschild. With compelling insight, passionate conviction, and graceful style, her essays help us decipher our increasingly complex personal lives." Viviana A. Zelizer, author of... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin Publisher Comments A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rebecca Dickinson: Independence for a New England Woman (Lives of American Women) by Marla R. Miller Publisher Comments Rebecca Dickinson’s powerful voice, captured through excerpts from the pages of her journal, allows colonial and revolutionary-era New England to come alive. Dickinson’s life illustrates the dilemmas faced by many Americans in the decades... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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So How's the Family?: And Other Essays by Arlie Russell Hochschild Publisher Comments "No one understands contemporary family life better than Arlie Hochschild. With compelling insight, passionate conviction, and graceful style, her essays help us decipher our increasingly complex personal lives." Viviana A. Zelizer, author of... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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Trafficked: My Story of Surviving, Escaping, and Transcending Abduction Into Prostitution by Sophie Hayes PW Review "At age 18, British national Hayes was lured from her family by a 19-year-old Albanian illegal immigrant named Kas, abducted into Italy, and forced into prostitution at gunpoint to pay off his enormous debts. Her harrowing story reads like a real life... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Reel Vulnerability: Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television by Sarah Hagelin Publisher Comments Wonder women, G.I. Janes, and vampire slayers increasingly populate the American cultural landscape. What do these figures mean in the American cultural imagination? What can they tell us about the female body in action or in pain? Reel Vulnerability... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers Publisher Comments An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic, now more relevant than ever, argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs. During the latest wave of feminism in the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered by Cynthia Enloe Publisher Comments This is simply a brilliant book. It is timely and necessary. In the shining of her feminist spotlight on deepest fissures of the structures of our modern world, she uncovers and explains; patriarchy, misogyny and masculinity, she moves... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia by Rachel Rinaldo Publisher Comments Islam and feminism are often thought of as incompatible. Through a vivid ethnography of Muslim and secular women activists in Jakarta, Indonesia, Rachel Rinaldo shows that this is not always the case. Examining a feminist NGO, Muslim women's... (read more) Your price: $113.95 New - Hardcover
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The Lesbian Couple's Guide to Wedding Planning: Reading Line Everything You Need to Know about Planning Your Dream Wedding by Bernadette Coveney Smith Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul by Clarissa Pinkola Estes Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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