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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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The Film Club: A Memoir
by David Gilmour
Powells.com Staff Pick What kind of father would allow his son to drop out of high school as long as the kid agreed to watch three movies of the father's choosing each week? Want to start an interesting conversation about parenting and education? Talk about what Gilmour did...
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
by Francine Prose
Powells.com Staff Pick In nine mini-biographies Prose finds the qualities in each woman that defines her as a muse. Elegantly written. Fascinatingly unique. Mark Ingraham, Powells...
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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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The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
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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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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Strange Piece of Paradise (06 Edition)
by Terri Jentz
Powells.com Staff Pick I almost never read true crime books, and I'm not that fond of memoirs, either. But Terri Jentz transcends both those genres with her riveting story and elegant language. Mesmerizing, terrifying, and occasionally downright surreal, Strange Piece of...
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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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Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond
by Liz McQuiston
Powells.com Staff Pick You need to have this book on your coffee table, to stimulate good conversation, offend, and rejoice. Liz McQuiston has put together a beautiful collection of the shocking, honest, and sassy graphics that have illustrated the journey of women in our...
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Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair
by Anna Holmes
Powells.com Staff Pick "'Dear Jamie, I missed you today, I missed you yesterday and with any luck I won't see you tomorrow,' writes Kylie, 28, from Queensland, Australia, to her ex-fiancée Jamie. Gleefully caustic, she begins her version of the little publicized, but oft...
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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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Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture
by Lauraine Leblanc
Powells.com Staff Pick Lauraine Leblanc has done a bang up job; Pretty in Punk is one of the most interesting youth ethnographies to date. Finally, in the wake of many books about girls' self-esteem, here's a publication that describes how some girls resist societal pressures...
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