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Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
by Debora L. Spar
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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)

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The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
by Lynn Povich
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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)

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Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
by Beatriz Preciado
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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)

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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
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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)

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Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia
Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia
by Rachel Rinaldo
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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)

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Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India
Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India
by Amana Fontanella-Khan
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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)

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My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation
My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation
by Molly Haskell
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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)

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Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son
Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son
by Lori Duron
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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)

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Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Queer Action/Queer Ideas Book)
Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Queer Action/Queer Ideas Book)
by J. Jack Halberstam
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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)

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So How's the Family?: And Other Essays
So How's the Family?: And Other Essays
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
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"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)

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The End of Men: And the Rise of Women
The End of Men: And the Rise of Women
by Hanna Rosin
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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)

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Rebecca Dickinson: Independence for a New England Woman (Lives of American Women)
Rebecca Dickinson: Independence for a New England Woman (Lives of American Women)
by Marla R. Miller
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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)

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So How's the Family?: And Other Essays
So How's the Family?: And Other Essays
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
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"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)

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Trafficked: My Story of Surviving, Escaping, and Transcending Abduction Into Prostitution
Trafficked: My Story of Surviving, Escaping, and Transcending Abduction Into Prostitution
by Sophie Hayes
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"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)

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Reel Vulnerability: Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television
Reel Vulnerability: Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television
by Sarah Hagelin
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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)

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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men
The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men
by Christina Hoff Sommers
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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)

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Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered
Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered
by Cynthia Enloe
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“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)

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Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia
Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia
by Rachel Rinaldo
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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)

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The Lesbian Couple's Guide to Wedding Planning: Reading Line Everything You Need to Know about Planning Your Dream Wedding
The Lesbian Couple's Guide to Wedding Planning: Reading Line Everything You Need to Know about Planning Your Dream Wedding
by Bernadette Coveney Smith
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Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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