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Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
by Rebecca Walker  Publisher Comments From the bestselling author hailed by "Time" magazine as one of the leaders of her generation comes an insightful memoir of pregnancy and her decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty....
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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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In my mother's house
by Kim Chernin About the Author Kim Chernin is a guest instructor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where she teaches a course in psychoanalytic models with Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer. She is the author of two books about eros and memory, Crossing the Border and Sex and...
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The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See
by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Leonard Wolf, a retired professor now in his early eighties, is the kind of person who likes to use a medieval astrolabe, dress in Basque shepherd's clothing, and convince otherwise sensible people to quit their jobs and follow their passions. Leonard...
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Mother Daughter Revolution
by Elizabeth Debold Publisher Comments As the daughters of baby boomer moms approach womanhood the questions begin. Will I teach my daughter the right things? How do I correct the mistakes my mother made with me? Mother Daughter Revolution: From Betrayal to Power addresses all the issues that...
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My Mother My Self 20TH Anniversary Edition
by Nancy Friday Publisher Comments When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970’s no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to...
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
by Ann Fessler Publisher Comments This powerful revelation uncovers the astonishing, untold history of the million-and-a-half women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before "Roe v. Wade."...
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The Perfect Sister: What Draws Us Together, What Drives Us Apart
by Marcia Millman Publisher Comments Sisterhood is one of the most complicated relationships anyone can have. Throughout their lives, sisters are confidantes, competitors, touchstones for shared memories, and, sometimes, each other's harshest critics. Our siblings are our first peers and...
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Augusta, Gone: A True Story
by Martha Tod Dudman 
Publisher Comments The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her. True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a...
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We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
by Cokie Roberts Publisher Comments A Woman's Place A woman's place is in the house... And in the senate," the T-shirts and buttons proclaim at women's political events. "A Woman's Place Is in Uniform," trumpets a book about women in the military. "A woman's place is at the...
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Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children
by Terri Casey Publisher Comments Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children is a collection of interviews with 25 women who have chosen not to have children. In lively stories and vivid voices, these diverse narrators talk proudly of their contributions to their...
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What Is Marriage For? : the Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (04 Edition)
by E. J. Graff Publisher Comments In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court& #39; s historic Goodridge decision, a reissue of the bible of the same-sex marriage movement< BR> < BR> Will same-sex couples destroy traditional marriage, soon to be followed by...
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The Kitchen Congregation: Gatherings at a Timeless Hearth
by Nora Seton Review "Seton successfully serves up the kitchen as female metaphor, equally compassionate for those who have embraced the role(s) and those who have resisted being tied to the stove." (The Bloomsbury Review)...
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Creating a Life: What Every Woman Needs to Know about Having a Baby and a Career
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett Publisher Comments Featuring a new Introduction by the author, this is the book that touched off a national debate about how career women can start a family if they plan for it with the same intensity as they do for their careers....
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1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir
by Anne Roiphe Publisher Comments In this captivating memoir, novelist Anne Roiphe shows us what it was really like to grow up rich and Jewish in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Revisiting the world of her childhood, Roiphe brings alive a cast of characters who are both difficult to...
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Augusta, Gone: A True Story
by Martha Tod Dudman
Publisher Comments "I'm not telling you where I am. Don't try to find me." Remember Go Ask Alice? Augusta, Gone is the memoir Alice's mother never wrote. A single parent, Martha Tod Dudman is sure she is giving her two children the perfect life, sheltering them from the...
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Stories for Sisters (Guideposts for the Spirit)
by Julie K Hogan Publisher Comments Stories that celebrate the love, laughter, and caring that sisters share....
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Texas Tornado: The Autobiography of a Crusader for Women's Rights and Family Justice
by Louise Balle Raggio Publisher Comments At the age of eighty-three, Louise Ballerstedt Raggio is an icon in the struggle for women's equality. She began her life in a small Texas town without electricity or running water and has risen to become a legend in the legal profession and celebrated...
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The Motherhood Manifesto: What America's Moms Want and What to Do about It
by Joan Blades Publisher Comments Women shouldn't be discriminated against simply because they are mothers...but they are! "The Motherhood Manifesto" shares the heartfelt stories of mothers in America who dream of jobs with flexibility and benefits, mothers who can't afford their...
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Promises I Can Keep : Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (05 Edition)
by Kathryn Edin Publisher Comments Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her...
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