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Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali  Publisher Comments The author of The Caged Virgin recounts the story of her life, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia and escape from a forced marriage to her efforts to promote women's rights while surviving numerous threats to her safety. 75,000 first...
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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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Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening...
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City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
by Haifa Zangana Publisher Comments Haifa Zangana, a former political prisoner of the Ba'ath regime, presents the first comprehensive history of women in modern Iraq through the US occupation. Positioning Iraqi women today in a long line of daring and vocal activists resisting foreign...
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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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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Publisher Comments A world-renowned activist and feminist pulls no punches in her efforts to reform Islam in this international bestseller, available for the first time in English....
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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
by Fatima Marnissi Publisher Comments ”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams...
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez Publisher Comments Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills– as doctors, nurses, and therapists– seemed...
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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments "Important and provocative . . . There are many tempting reasons to pick up Global Woman." --The New York Times <BR> Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are...
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Whoredom in Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women
by Rosemary Mahoney Publisher Comments Before the mega-bestselling phenomenon of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization, Rosemary Mahoney traveled to Ireland in response to the growing feeling that changes were taking place, and that those changes...
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Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation)
by Leila Abouzeid Publisher Comments In this moving fictional treatment of a Muslim woman's life, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Cast out and divorced by her husband, she finds herself in a strange new world. Both...
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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey
by Leila Ahmed Publisher Comments AS SHE JOURNEYS ACROSS CULTURES, AN EGYPTIAN WOMAN STRUGGLES TO DEFINE HERSELF<P>In language that vividly evokes the lush summers of Cairo and the stark beauty of the Arabian Desert, Leila Ahmed tells the story of her life. This moving memoir...
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Bananeras : Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (05 Edition)
by Dana Frank Publisher Comments "I want to learn how to defend myself from whoever tries to oppress me, whether it's my husband, my union, or my boss."-a "bananera" <P>Women banana workers-"bananeras"-are waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin...
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Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World
by Jean Shinoda Bolen Synopsis Offering a unique combination of visionary thinking and practical how-to, this is Bolen's most activist work to-date. Written in a lyrical, inspiring language, this book seeks to galvanize the still untapped power of women coming together to change the...
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The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation
by Oleszkiewicz Peralba Synopsis A cultural icon, the Black Madonna is a blend of the Virgin Mary and ancient mother-goddesses from Eurasian, Native American, and African cultures. She is worshipped and adored by millions of people around the world. In this examination of the dark...
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Female Circumcision Controversy : an Anthropological Perspective (01 Edition)
by Ellen Gruenbaum Publisher Comments Informed by five years of fieldwork in Sudan, the author studies indigenous and "outsider" perspectives on the traditional practice of female genital cutting....
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Playing With Fire : Collective Journey Across Borders (06 Edition)
by Sangtin Writers Publisher Comments Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is...
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Gender, Globalization, and Democratization
by Rita Mae Kelly Publisher Comments Women's voices and experiences from around the world are brought to bear upon issues of globalization and democratization in this volume of strikingly original and diverse essays. From the Comfort Women of Japan to the Mexican maquiladoras, from the debt...
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My Forbidden Face : Growing Up Under the Taliban, a Young Woman's Story (01 Edition)
by Latifa Publisher Comments "My Forbidden Face" provides a moving and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity, Latifa describes her ordered world falling apart, in the name of a fanaticism that she could not comprehend, and...
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Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by Rogaia Mu Abusharaf Publisher Comments Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries...
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