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The Color of Violence: Incite! Anthology by Andrea Smith Publisher Comments This collection of 28 essays about women and the multitude of ways they are victimized around the world by criminal justice systems, militarism, and the medical establishment is compiled by Incite!, which describes itself as "the largest multiracial... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio and Betty Dodson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer 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... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Estes Publisher Comments UPDATED, WITH NEW MATERIAL BY THE AUTHOR"WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows."--Alice WalkerWithin every woman there lives a powerful force... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams Publisher Comments The author compares myths about meat-eating with myths about manliness, and seeks to explore the literary, scientific, and social connections between meat-eating, male dominance, and war. Drawing on such sources as butchering texts, cookbooks, Victorian... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier Publisher Comments With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of "The New York Times's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lucky by Alice Sebold Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Scum Manifesto by Valerie Solanas Publisher Comments "Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aint I a Woman Black Women & Feminism by bell hooks Publisher Comments A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between various forms of oppression. Ain't I a Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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All Night Party : the Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930 (04 Edition) by Andrea Barnet Publisher Comments They were smart. Sassy. Daring. Exotic. Eclectic. Sexy. And influential. One could call them the first divas--and they ran absolutely wild. They were poets, actresses, singers, artists, journalists, publishers, baronesses, and benefactresses. They were... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Goddesses in Everywoman a New Psychology by Jean Shinoda Bolen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs by Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers Publisher Comments A landmark demonstration of how groundless beliefs about "natural" differences between the sexes have harmed both women and men — with a hopeful vision based on up-to-the-minute research. From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.88 Used - Hardcover
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At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst by Carol Flinders Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gay Relationships by Tina B Tessina Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.40 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon Publisher Comments Beyond the Pale follows the lives of two women: Gutke Gurvich, who apprentices as a midwife in a Russian Jewish settlement before immigrating to New York and joining the suffrage and labor movements; and Chava Meyer, a Russian Jew whose birth is attended... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild Publisher Comments Examines the consequences of globalisation on the lives of women worldwide. Ehrenreich is the author of "Nickel & Dimed", which was a "New York Times" bestseller and sold 25,000 copies in the UK. "Ehrenreich is a mature and eloquent writer", Jeremy... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren't Told by Carol Shields Publisher Comments Upon publication in 2001, Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told became an instant smash success: a #1 national bestseller, it spent seventy-one consecutive weeks on The Globe and Mail’s list and has sold over 80,000 copies in Canada. Now... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women's History: A Guide to Sources at Hagley Museum and Library (Bibliographies & Indexes in Women's Studies) by Lynn Ann Catanese Publisher Comments Traditionally, scholars have used Hagley to study the history of business and technology, but in the 1990s, they have begun to use Hagley's collections to examine such issues as gender and the workplace, domesticity, female entrepreneurs, engendering... (read more) List Price $136.75 Your price: $9.80 Used - Hardcover 
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