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True North: A Memoir
by Jill Ker Conway
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With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed — and beloved — bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story.
She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by... ( read more)
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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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... ( read more)
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
by Inga Muscio and Betty Dodson
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An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives.
In... ( read more)
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Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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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... ( read more)
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
by Jane Latour
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against... ( read more)
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The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
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The book that changed the consciousness of a country-and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic-these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined the... ( read more)
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For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
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A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.... ( read more)
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Fearless Women: Midlife Portraits
by Nancy Alspaugh
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Ask some women their age, and they'll demur. Ask others, like Joni Mitchell or Cybill Shepherd, and they'll take up a sword. In this inspirational book, 50 women ranging in age from their 40s to their 60s-including movie and television personalities... ( read more)
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
by Cathi Hanauer
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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... ( read more)
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J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by John Stuart Mill
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Three of Mill's classic texts, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and the posthumous Chapters on Socialism are brought together in this edition.... ( read more)
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
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A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.... ( read more)
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Alice Doesnt: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema
by Teresa De Lauretis
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The title seems appropriate, for not only is the book intended in the same sense as the placard, but both are signs of the same struggle, both are texts of the women's movement. The images or references suggested by the name 'Alice' are many and will... ( read more)
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The Second Sex
by Simone De Beauvoir
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This triumphant and genuinely revolutionary book began as an exceptional woman's attempt to find out who and what she was. It ended up shocking, infuriating, and galvanizing millions of readers and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about... ( read more)
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Womens America Refocusing the Past 6TH Edition
by Linda K Kerber
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Women's America, now in its fifth edition, has been extensively revised and contains 34 new selections including several original essays written especially for this edition by leading U.S. historians in the field. Successfully class-tested, these new... ( read more)
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At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst
by Carol Flinders
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In At the Root of This Longing, Flinders identifies the four key points at which the paths of spirituality and feminism seem to collide – vowing silence vs. finding voice, relinquishing ego vs. establishing ‘ self’ , resisting desire vs... ( read more)
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The whole woman
by Germaine Greer
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Thirty years after The Female Eunuch galvanized the women's liberation movement, Germaine Greer launches a fiery sequel assessing the state of womanhood and proclaiming that the time has come to get angry again. With passionate rhetoric, unique authority,... ( read more)
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Woman Defamed and a Woman Defended
by Alcuin Blamires
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"It is impossible / That any clerk wol speke good of wyves." Behind the words of Chaucer's Wife of Bath lies a vast corpus of medieval misogynistic writings. These texts, which range from those of the Church Fathers to a rich array of vernacular... ( read more)
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Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
by Claudia Ro Pierpont
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With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who... ( read more)
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Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like?
by Jane Gottesman
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On playing fields and street corners, in backyards and gyms, the people in this arresting array of pictures are unselfconsciously exploring the physical and emotional pleasures of competition and play. Each image offers an affirming and satisfying answer... ( read more)
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Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse
by Francine Du Pl Gray
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Gray draws on Louise Colet's recently discovered journals to present a compelling biography of one of the most fascinating women of the 19th century. Colet defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become an award-winning writer and... ( read more)
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