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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.
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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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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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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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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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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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"A deeply spiritual book...She honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women. She venerates the female soul." --The Washington Post Book World Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and... ( 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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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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Lucky
by Alice Sebold
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In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her... ( read more)
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Goddesses in Everywoman a New Psychology
by Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Just as women used to be unconscious of the powerful effects that cultural stereotypes had on them, they may also be unconscious of powerful forces within them that influence what they do and how they feel, and which account for major differences among... ( read more)
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Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
by Catharine Mackinnon
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"Toward a Feminist Theory of the State" presents Catharine MacKinnon's powerful analysis of politics, sexuality, and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of... ( read more)
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Other Writings
by Margaret Fuller
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"Would inspire great discussion and debate in class."--Dr. Yolanda Romero, North Lake College... ( read more)
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Mommy's Little Girl: On Sex, Motherhood, Porn, and Cherry Pie
by Susie Bright
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Susie Bright has gained a reputation as one of the world's leading writers on sex and sexual politics. Bright's stories in magazines like Salon, Playboy, and Bust have drawn cultish followings, and her books are national bestsellers. Mommy's Little Girl... ( read more)
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A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
by Susan Griffin
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An acclaimed writer explores the interplay between the public tragedy of war and the daily struggles of our private lives — the conflicts between truth and falsehood, secrecy and revelation, testimony and denial. A brilliant philosophical inquiry... ( read more)
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My Gender Workbook (98 Edition)
by Kate Bornstein
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Whether she's using the USFDA's food group triangle to explain gender, or quoting one-liners from real "gender transgressors", Bornstein's first and foremost concern is making information on gender bending truly accessible. With quizzes and exercises... ( read more)
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Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories
by Diana Fuss
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Lesbians and gays have gone from "coming out," to "acting up," to "outing," meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in "Inside/Out" employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and... ( 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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Alone! Alone!
by Rosemary Dinnage
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In the 30 years she has spent writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has examined a variety of odd and accomplished women, all of whom in one way or another lived their lives apart from their contemporaries.... ( read more)
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Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood
by Susan O Weisser
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Though all women are women, no woman is only a woman, wrote Elizabeth Spelman in The Inessential Woman. Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and... ( read more)
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Gay Relationships
by Tina B Tessina
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Here is a step-by-step guide to making relationships work for America's more than twenty million gay men and women. Written in a warm, direct style, this book is leavened with humor and filled with anecdotes and examples drawn from the lives of the... ( read more)
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