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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage) by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Staff Pick In this thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book, Kristof and WuDunn reveal the cruel and maddening reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression. Half the Sky will stir feelings of admiration and discomfort, and hopefully sow the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal," Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East throughwars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth Publisher Comments Geneen Roth’s 1991 bestseller, When Food Is Love , spoke to a wide audience—including Oprah Winfrey, who embraced Roth’s empowering message. Since then, Roth has taken the sum total of her experience and combined it with... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (91 Edition) by Donna J. Haraway Publisher Comments The idea that nature is constructed, not discovered — that truth is made, not found — is the keynote of recent scholarship in the history of science. Tracing the gendered roots of science in culture, Donna Haraway's writings about scientific... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Publisher Comments A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren Publisher Comments Read Jillian Lauren's posts on the Penguin Blog. A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism by Rebecca Walker Publisher Comments Determined to extend the boundaries of feminism to embrace social, political, and economic equality for all humanity, these twenty-one exciting young activists and thinkers recast the concepts of feminism to reflect their own personal experiences and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Affair of the Mind by Laurie Hall Publisher Comments Laurie Hall's story reveals pornography's subversive side and offers comfort, encouragement, insight, and a plan of action to women whose husbands are addicted.... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks Publisher Comments Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present by Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin Publisher Comments Ordinary black women, more than any other group in America, have been left out of history. As Darlene Clark Hine points out in her introduction to this powerful and affecting book, disseminating a visual history is more important with Black women... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother by Shari L Thurer Publisher Comments This groundbreaking and irreverent history of motherhood is worth a hundred advice books for any mother who’s ever been made to feel guilty or frazzled by society’s impossible expectations. Analyzing data from the psychoanalyst’s couch... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu Publisher Comments Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-335) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History by Maura Spiegel Publisher Comments Introducing the chunky, obsessive book of Breasts. Using over 600 illustrations and photographs, The Breast Bookis about changing social mores and attitudes, from classical Greek statuary to the Victorian corset to Twiggy to Pamela Lee. The Breast Bookis... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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That Takes Ovaries!: Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts by Rivka Solomon Publisher Comments This inspiring and empowering collection of first-person testimonials is by brave, adventurous, and fun-loving women who have fought back against stereotypes, discrimination, violence, and injustice.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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