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Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
by Susan Faludi  
Powells.com Staff Pick With the publication of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women in 1992, Susan Faludi became a feminist icon. When current trends put economic theory or genetic programming at the center of the dialogue on gender issues, Faludi...
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Girlhood: Redefining the Limits
by Candis Steenbergen Publisher Comments In today's society, more and more mass media and popular culture is being produced for, about, and by pre-adolescent and adolescent girls than ever before. "Girls" (and/or their behavior, dress, relationships, education, and more) have driven...
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Refusing to Be a Man
by John Stoltenberg Publisher Comments Since its original publication in 1989, "Refusing to be a Man" has been acclaimed as a classic and widely cited in gender studies literature. In 13 eloquent essays, Stoltenberg articulate the first fully argued liberation theory for men that will also...
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The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller Publisher Comments An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Keller’s story has become a symbol of...
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Gender, Trafficking and Slavery (Oxfam Focus on Gender)
by Rachel (edt) Masika Publisher Comments This book explores areas of human experience that are highly complex and which evoke powerful and contradictory feelings among those attempting to understand them. The institution of slavery has a long and terrible history, and many view it as a purely...
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Two in a Bed: The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing
by Paul C. Rosenblatt Publisher Comments A fascinating look at the social experience of sharing a bed with another person. Millions of adults sleep with another adult, but what does it mean to share a bed with someone else, and how does it affect a couple's relationship? What happens when...
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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.)
by Gail Collins Publisher Comments America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and...
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The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects (More Crystals and New Age)
by Barbara G Walker
Powells.com Staff Pick "One of my favorite ways of reading is to pull a book off the shelf and open it at random. That's the great thing about reference books like dictionaries or encyclopedias. These books are treasure troves — dip in anywhere, let chance take you, lead...
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What Becomes You (American Lives)
by Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz Publisher Comments "Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn," Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man...
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
by bell hooks Publisher Comments With the courage, honesty, and compassion that have made her one of America's most provocative authorities on modern culture, bell hooks takes on the interior lives of men and answers their most intimate questions about love. Everyone needs to love and...
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Psychoanalysis and Gender: an Introductory Reader (UK Edition)
by Rosalind Minsky Publisher Comments What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? In Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader Rosalind Minsky answers these questions and...
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Theory, Culture & Society)
by Ulrich Beck Publisher Comments This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current...
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The Wives of Henry VIII
by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments The six-week New York Times bestselling history of the legendary six wives of Henry VIII--from an acclaimed biographer. "Admirably succeed(s) in bringing to life the six women who married England's ruler. . . ."--New York Times Book Review. 16 color...
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Parlor Politics : in Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (00 Edition)
by Catherine Allgor Book News Annotation Leading the elite and middle-class white women of Washington City during the early 19th century from the shadow of their Great Men, Allgor (history, U. of California-Riverside) shows them as political actors in their own right, using social events and...
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Islam and Gender
by Ziba Mir-hosseini Publisher Comments Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the re-introduction of Sharica law relating to gender and the family, women's rights in Iran suffered a major setback. However, as the implementers of the law have faced the social realities of women's lives...
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Erotica Around the World
by Bret Norton Publisher Comments From ancient Egypt to the recent past, this compilation of erotic stories, poems, songs, illustrations, and photographs follows the history of erotic art and literature. Designed to be tastefully displayed, this book contains excerpts from the Kama Sutra,...
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Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (Yale Historical Publications)
by Kristin Hoganson Publisher Comments Blending gender, political, and foreign policy history, this groundbreaking book offers a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. The author shows how gender concerns influenced political leaders and how gendered arguments...
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The Lazy Crossdresser
by Charles Anders Publisher Comments Charles Anders "has wanted to wear women's clothes for as long as I can remember. I was 12 or thereabouts when I took advantage of my parents' absence to try on a bunch of my mom's bras, slips, and panties. I took several photographs of myself in her...
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Girls, Style, and School Identities: Dressing the Part
by Shauna Pomerantz Publisher Comments Writing against the grain of popular perception and moral panic, Shauna Pomerantz offers a fascinating look at the importance of style for girls in school. Fighting assumptions that girls today are dupes of media and capitalism, Pomerantz skillfully...
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Women in Late Antiquity : Pagan and Christian Lifestyles (93 Edition)
by Gillian Clark Publisher Comments This book bridges a gap between two traditional disciplines. Since the 1970s, there has been a remarkable outpouring of work on women in antiquity, but women in late antiquity (3rd-6th centuries A.D.) have been far less studied. Classicists have been...
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