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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 A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrendered children for adoption in the several decades before Roe v. Wade. In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of...
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts Publisher Comments In Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the heroic women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation. Now the number one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator—praised in USA Today as a...
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments Chapter One Journey into a Lost World: The Beginnings of Civilization Preserved in a cave sanctuary for over twenty thousand years, a female figure speaks to us about the minds of our early Western ancestors. She is small and carved out of stone: one of...
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The Transgender Debate - the Crisis Surrounding Gender Identities
by Synopsis This work addresses the historical, social, legal and medical issues surrounding the transgender community and throws a light onto the complex issues....
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When I Knew
by Robert Trachtenberg Publisher Comments When I Knew is a collection of smart, hilarious, and often poignant stories about that revelation for all gay men and women: when they first knew. In this gorgeously illustrated, cleverly designed, and colorful book, acclaimed fashion and celebrity...
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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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Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
by Robert Jensen Publisher Comments In our culture, porn makes the man. So argues Robert Jensen in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. Jensen's treatise begins with a simple demand: "Be a man."It ends with a defiant response: "I chose to struggle to be a human being."The...
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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
by Carol Gilligan Publisher Comments This is the little book that started a revolution. First published almost twenty years ago, it made women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its...
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Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
by Matt Bernstein (edt) Sycamore Publisher Comments Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms...
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Sex and the City
by Candace Bushnell Publisher Comments Here's the collection of columns that inspired the addictive and multiple award-winning HBO series! Sex and the City offers a tantalizing glimpse of the openings, launch parties, and celebrity affairs that keep society amused....
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Transgender History (Seal Studies)
by Susan Stryker Publisher Comments Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the...
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Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)
by Nicholas J. G. Winter Publisher Comments In addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden ways to profoundly influence the way we think—and vote—about a vast array of issues that don’t seem related to either category. As Nicholas...
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Transgender Warriors : Making History From Joan of Arc To Dennis Rodman (96 Edition)
by Leslie Feinberg Publisher Comments With a New Afterword by the Author In this fascinating, personal journey hrough history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening...
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What Becomes You (07 Edition)
by Aaron Raz Link 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...
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Voting the Gender Gap
by Lois Duke (edt) Whitaker Publisher Comments This book concentrates on the gender gap in voting--the difference in the proportion of women and men voting for the same candidate. Evident in every presidential election since 1980, this polling phenomenon reached a high of 11 percentage points in the...
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Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire
by Lisa M. Diamond Publisher Comments Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are...
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Bodies That Matter (93 Edition)
by Judith Butler Synopsis Develops Butler's theory of gender, offering an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies and examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex and gender. The book opens new questions in feminism, post...
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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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Will To Change : Men, Masculinity, and Love (04 Edition)
by bell hooks Publisher Comments Everyone needs to love and be loved — even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell...
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Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
by Charlotte S Waisman Publisher Comments Her Story is a vivid documentation of the breadth and diversity of American women's achievements throughout U.S. history. This one-of-a-kind illustrated timeline highlights the awesome, varied, and often unrecognized contributions of American women since...
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