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Color of Violence : the Incite! Anthology (06 Edition)
by Andrea Smith  Publisher Comments This collection of 28 essays about women and the multitude of ways they are victimized around the world by criminal justice systems, militarism, and the medical establishment is compiled by Incite!, which describes itself as "the largest multiracial...
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The Lolita Effect: Why the Media Sexualize Young Girls and What You Can Do about It
by M. Gigi Durham Publisher Comments Americans are bombarded with perplexing and alarming media images: brand name thong underwear for ten-year-olds with the slogans "Wink Wink" and "Eye Candy" written on them; oversexed and underdressed celebrities gone wild; Bratz dolls and their "sexy...
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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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Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
by Alexandra Robbins Publisher Comments Alexandra Robbins was puzzled when her eighteen-year-old sister announced that she planned to rush one of her college??'s many sororities. Wanting to find out if the clich?? stereotypes about sorority girls were actually true, Robbins went undercover in...
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Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
by Alexandra Robbins Publisher Comments A fast-paced, behind-the-scenes book that blows the lid off the intriguing world of mainstream sorority life, by a New York Times bestselling author. Alexandra Robbins wanted to find out if the stereotypes about sorority girls were actually true, so she...
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Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood
by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Brazenly exposing the truth behind the conflicting messages directed at young women during and after the sexual revolution, "Promiscuities" reveals how our "liberated" culture still fears and distorts female passion....
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Nymphomania: A History
by Carol Groneman Publisher Comments This lively and fascinating exploration of nymphomania as organic disease, psychological disorder, legal construct, and locker-room joke takes a look at the surprising, contradictory, and illuminating history of the subject over the last 200 years....
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A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
by Wendy Shalit Publisher Comments Where once a young woman had to be ashamed of her sexual experience, today she is ashamed of her sexual inexperience. Where not long ago an unmarried woman was ashamed to give public evidence of sexual desire by living with someone, today she must be...
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Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality
by Peggy Reeves Sanday Publisher Comments 'Applying data from over 150 tribal societies to scales developed to measure power and dominance, Sanday offers answers to basic questions regarding male and female power. The view that emerges conforms to no particular theoretical perspective.'...
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Female Fetishism
by Lorraine Gamman Synopsis An original, liberating interpretation . . . should become a standard of cultural and psychoanalytical studies. --The GuardianThe aura of passivity that has for centuries surrounded female sexuality in popular culture, psychology, and literature has, in...
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Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut
by Emily White Publisher Comments She might have reached puberty at an early age. (Or she might not have.) She might have been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. (Or she might not have.) She might have been different somehow — had a daring sense of style, seemed ethnically "...
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Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst (Women in Culture & Society)
by Christoph Castiglia Publisher Comments In Bound and Determined, Christopher Castiglia gives shape for the first time to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that ranges across three centuries, from Puritan colonist Mary Rowlandson's abduction by Narragansett Indians to Patty...
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Intercourse
by Andrea Dworkin Publisher Comments Andrea Dworkin, once called “Feminism’s Malcolm X,” has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the...
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Sexography: One Woman's Journey from Ignorance to Bliss
by Carly Milne Publisher Comments By turns serious and playful, Sexography maps the coming of age, tragedy and rebirth of one woman's sexual self. From "making out" with imaginary Hollywood stars in her closet (and getting busted) to coming to terms with abuse, assault and rape, from...
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Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture
by Lisa Duggan Synopsis "Sex Wars" is a collection of writings by Lisa Duggan and Nan D. Hunter that brings together the best of the important work they have done on sexual politics in America over the past decade. As writers, activists, and scholars Duggan and Hunter have been...
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Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (Public Planet Books)
by Jane Gallop Publisher Comments Sexual harassment is an issue in which feminists are usually thought to be on the plaintiff's side. But in 1993--amid considerable attention from the national academic community--Jane Gallop, a prominent feminist professor of literature, was accused of...
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Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America
by Laura Browder Publisher Comments The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have interrupted the popular association of guns and masculinity, spurring debates about women's capabilities for violence as...
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Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!)
by Carol Platt Liebau Publisher Comments Political analyst and commentator Liebau takes a hard look at the pervasiveness of sex in todays culture and the havoc it wreaks on young people....
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Sacrificed Lives: Kristeva on Women and Violence
by Martha Reineke Synopsis This volume elaborates a theory of sacrifice designed to explore the culture of violence. In particular, the author wants to explain why speech becomes so inadequate that acts of violence against human bodies becomes necessary, why it is more often...
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Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
by Leora Tanenbaum Publisher Comments Based on the author's confessional article in an issue of "Seventeen" magazine about her experiences of being called a "slut" in high school--as well as the first-hand accounts of other women ages 14 through 66--"Slut" offers "a bracing corrective for...
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