Staff Picks
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Featured Titles in Feminist Studies-Staff Picks:
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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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Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
Powells.com Staff Pick Girl power, Riot Grrrl, first-, second-, or third-wave feminist — however you choose to label your gender-equality insistence, Bitch magazine has had you covered. To celebrate their ten year anniversary, Bitch has released this cultural compendium;...
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Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession
by Rosemary Sullivan
Powells.com Staff Pick "Like a heady love affair Sullivan's writing is addictive and engrossing. Slim and deceptively casual, the book begs to be read in one sitting, but the ideas within resonate for weeks." Georgie Lewis, Powells.com (read the entire Powells.com review)...
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The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell
Powells.com Staff Pick The Friend Who Got Away cost me two nights' sleep, rehashed accounts of every extinct relationship, conjured up nearly every minute emotion previously stashed away, and caused me to literally toss it on the floor... in other words, this book is painfully...
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Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
by Gillian Gill
Powells.com Staff Pick Absolutely fascinating biography of a brilliant Victorian woman, her times, and her hugely interesting family. Florence struggled successfully against all the conventions of her time and Gill tells her story with nuance, skill, and empathy. This is one...
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Herland (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Pe Gilman
Powells.com Staff Pick A feminist utopian novel about three young American men who stumble into a perfectly peaceful, well-organized, and functional all-female society... and that's just where the fun begins! Written in 1915 by a woman who lived in a world not yet ready to...
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by Terry Ryan
Powells.com Staff Pick Evelyn Ryan's family may have been one of the poorest in town, but her children did not go without the occasional taste of well-earned luxury. Their mother entered every contest imaginable (there were plenty in the '50s and '60s) and won everything from...
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Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession
by Rosemary Sullivan
Powells.com Staff Pick "Like a heady love affair Sullivan's writing is addictive and engrossing. Slim and deceptively casual, the book begs to be read in one sitting, but the ideas within resonate for weeks." Georgie Lewis, Powells.com (read the entire Powells.com review)...
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