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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
by Cathi Hanauer  
Powells.com Staff Pick Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged...
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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...
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Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher Comments This seriously funny book portraying a classic Utopia based upon feminist and socialist ideals is a landmark feminist book. Reissue....
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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....
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Vagina Monologues the V Day Edition
by Eve Ensler Publisher Comments A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in...
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Publisher Comments Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier....
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Brilliantly persuasive, this is an exploration of the phenomenon of the violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement. "A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom"...
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The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
by Marcelle Karp
Publisher Comments Both a literary magazine and a chronicle of girl culture, Bust was born in 1993. With contributors who are funny, fierce, and too smart to be anything but feminist, Bust is the original grrrl zine, with a base of loyal female fans – all those women...
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The Second Sex
by Simone De Beauvoir Publisher Comments This triumphant and genuinely revolutionary book began as an exceptional woman's attempt to find out who and what she was. It ended up shocking, infuriating, and galvanizing millions of readers and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about...
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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel Publisher Comments No one better understands the desire to be bad than Elizabeth Wurtzel. Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural...
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True North: A Memoir
by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed — and beloved — bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by...
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Justice, Gender, and the Family
by Susan Moller Okin Publisher Comments In the first feminist critique of modern political theory, Okin shows how the failure to apply theories of justice to the family not only undermines our most cherished democratic values but has led to a major crisis over gender-related issues....
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by Terry Ryan Publisher Comments The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated...
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Elisa Burgos Debray Publisher Comments Illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman, I, Rigoberta Menchu recounts experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today....
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Catfight: Rivalries Among Women--From Diets to Dating, from the Boardroom to the Delivery Room
by Leora Tanenbaum Publisher Comments “ Catfight is an incisive exploration of a long-taboo subject-how and why women sabotage one another.”...
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Woman, Child For Sale the New Slave Trade in the 21st Century
by Gilbert King Synopsis An in-depth look at the atrocities faced by the unfortunate victims of the modern slave trade here and abroad....
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Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both
by Laura Sessions Stepp Publisher Comments A Washington Post reporter evaluates the sexual experiences of three groups of young women who have responded to what the author terms America's increasingly sexualized culture by engaging in obligation-free intimate relationships rather than navigating...
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Fierce Attachments a Memoir
by Vivian Gornick Publisher Comments The acclaimed memoirist's classic exploration of her relationship with her mother. A fine, unflinchingly honest book. -Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book...
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Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
by Susan Moller Okin Publisher Comments "This book brings together impressively varied voices who help to set the terms for discussing the relationship of feminism and multiculturalism. They show in no uncertain terms that feminists have something important to say to multiculturalists, and...
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