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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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Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation
by Barbara Findlen Publisher Comments In this second edition, writers such as Rebecca Walker, Nomy Lamm, and Inga Muscio are joined by Lisa Miya-Jervis, publisher of "Bitch"; Alison Crews, editor of "Girl-Mom"; and Daisy Hernandez of "Ms". Together, they cover a wide range of topics, from...
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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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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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It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
by Amanda Marcotte Publisher Comments For all of you humming "I Will Survive" while watching the political debacles gracing the evening news, when getting an earful from your Limbaugh-loving brother-in-law, or as you're ducking into the bathroom to avoid the date espousing the wisdom 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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Unbowed : a Memoir (06 Edition)
by Wangari Maathai Publisher Comments From the first African woman--and the first environmentalist--to win the Noble Peace Prize comes her powerfully inspiring memoir. Founder of the Green Belt Movement Maathai recounts the obstacles and motivations that have guided her to lead a singularly...
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Brilliantly persuasive, this is an exploration of the phenomenon of the violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement. "A smart, angry, insightful book, and a clarion call to freedom"...
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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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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
by Terry Temp Williams
Publisher Comments As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a...
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Women, Poverty and AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence
by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments "Moving beyond a simple biomedical model, this book compels us to view AIDS in women in a wholly new way, as an inescapable even in lives devalued by the forces of poverty, racism and sexism. This extraordinary multidisciplinary effort should serve as...
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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
by Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher Comments I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised, and, in fact, a little terrified, when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening. For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a...
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts
Publisher Comments From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families–and...
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The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change
by Shari MacDonald Strong Publisher Comments Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political features more than 40 powerful, hard-hitting literary essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and families — both...
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
by Riane Tennenhaus 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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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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Opting in: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself
by Amy Richards Publisher Comments For contemporary women, motherhood has become as polarizing a proposition as it is a powerful calling. For some women this tension is manifest in a debate over whether or not to have children. For others it concerns whether to stay at home with their...
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Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
by Jessica Valenti Publisher Comments Feminism isn't dead. It just isn't very cool anymore. Enter Full Frontal Feminism, a book that embodies the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagates on her popular website, Feministing.com. Covering a range of topics, including...
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
by bell hooks Publisher Comments A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving....There can be no love without justice.-from the chapter "To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism" In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks...
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Communion : Female Search for Love (02 Edition)
by bell hooks Publisher Comments Chapter Oneaging to love, loving to ageEvery day I talk to women about love and aging. It's an over-forty thing to do. The exciting news is this: Everyone agrees that aging is more fun than it has ever been before. It has its joys and delights. It also...
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