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Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
by Naomi Wolf  Publisher Comments Not since The Beauty Myth has Naomi Wolf written such a powerful and passionate critique of American culture, this time, focusing on the hidden costs and vested interests surrounding pregnancy and birth in America. While in the grip of one of the most...
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The Cost of "Choice": Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion
by Erika Bachiochi Publisher Comments Including essays by eminent figures such as Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Elizabeth Fox Genovese, Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities at Emory University, The Cost of "Choice" captures the moral, legal,...
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Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide
by Maureen Dowd Publisher Comments 'Fresh from her success with the best-selling Bushworld, Maureen Dowd turns her sparkling prose and wise wit to a topic even more incendiary than presidential politics: sexual politics. Four decades after the sexual revolution, nothing has worked out the...
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Why Men Don't Listen
by Allan Pease Publisher Comments <P>Have you ever wished your partner came with an instruction booklet? This international bestseller is the answer to all the things you've ever wondered about the opposite sex.</P><P>For their controversial new book on the differences...
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Gender,Generation and Identity in Contemporary Russia
by Hilary Pilkington Publisher Comments An exploration of the lives and expectations of young women in the new Russia, looking at the enormous changes that the new social and economic order have brought....
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Spoilsports
by Publisher Comments Spoilsports offers the first systematic theory of sexual exploitation and abuse within sport. This is an invaluable resource for both academics and policy makers seeking to understand and deal with issues of sexual exploitation in...
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Gender Ironies of Nationalism
by Tamar Mayer Publisher Comments This book provides a unique social science reading on the construction of nation, gender and sexuality and on the interactions between them....
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This Day in the Life
by Rebecca Joffrey Publisher Comments On the Home Front with a “Type A” Television Reporter Amanda Lamb, 38, Cary, North Carolina A crime reporter for WRAL television in Raleigh, she loves her job—the investigative aspect, having sources, getting tips, getting to know the...
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Indecent Theology
by Synopsis By examining the dialectics of decency and indecency and exploring a theology of sexual stories from the margins, this book brings together for the first time Liberation Theology, Queer Theory, post-Marxism and Postcolonial analysis are brought together...
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Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis
by Sally Robinson Synopsis White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike...
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Class Action
by Clara Bingham Review “Harrowing. . . . An enlightening, fast-moving narrative.” –BookPage...
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Kiss Tomorrow Hello
by Kim Barnes Publisher Comments “How could ‘old age’ be a medical diagnosis when I wasn’t even forty?” —Lolly Winston “… if aging is difficult for those of us who were only sometimes cute,” she says, “just imagine how hard it...
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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
by Fatima Mernissi Publisher Comments Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she...
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Policing Sexual Assault
by Jeanne Gregory Publisher Comments This book provides a detailed and uncompromising account of current police practices in the UK, in response to sexual assault. Includes chapters on domestic violence, male/female rape, police culture and harassment within the police force....
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Votes For Women
by Sandra Stanley Holton Publisher Comments Votes for Women examines the importance of the suffrage movement to women's general emancipation in the twentieth century, and discusses its role as catalyst to women's social and political equality....
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Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals
by Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher Comments Eminent historian Stephen Ambrose pays tribute to the friends of his lifetime and reflects on what they have meant to him....
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Why Men Don't Have a Clue & Women Always Need More Shoes AND Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps
by Allen Pease Publisher Comments Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need Shoes Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term?...
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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali's profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the...
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Savage Summit
by Jennifer Jordan Publisher Comments This book was inspired by Jennifer Jordan's 2003 National Geographic documentary special, "The Women of K2." Climbers call K2 "The Savage Mountain." It is not quite as tall as Everest, but it is far more dangerous, located at the border of China and...
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Veiled Courage
by Cheryl Benard Publisher Comments In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman's slightest infractions were...
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