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In the Body of the World: A Memoir
In the Body of the World: A Memoir
by Eve Ensler
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From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection — to the body, the self, and the world. Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has... (read more)

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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage)
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage)
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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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)

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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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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)

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Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
by Camille Paglia
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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)

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Elisa Burgos Debray
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Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish... (read more)

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Black Looks: Race and Representation
Black Looks: Race and Representation
by bell hooks
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In these twelve essays, bell hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and political consequences of contemporary representations of race and ethnicity within a white supremacist culture.... (read more)

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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
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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South End Press Classics #5: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
South End Press Classics #5: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
by bell hooks
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center established bell hooks as one of feminism's most vital and influential voices. A new preface by the author introduces the second edition of this essential classic to a new generation of feminist readers, while... (read more)

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Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
by bell hooks
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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)

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Essential Feminist Reader (07 Edition)
Essential Feminist Reader (07 Edition)
by Estelle (ed.) Freedman
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The definitive anthology of feminist writing, this collection presents the true history of feminism within both global and historical frameworks, and provides a vital addition to the field.... (read more)

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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development
by Vandana Shiva
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Janet Reibstein's mother and two aunts grew up in New Jersey amid a close-knit, extended Jewish family set apart only by a genetic propensity for breast cancer. Over fifty years, the disease claims Janet's two aunts, then her mother, then a cousin... (read more)

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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Their Clients Writing about Each Other
Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Their Clients Writing about Each Other
by David Henry Sterry
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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals and Their Clients Writing about Each Other is the follow-up to Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys, the groundbreaking anthology that appeared on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. "Eye... (read more)

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Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World
Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World
by Peggy Orenstein
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Peggy Orensteins bestselling Schoolgirls is the classic study of teenage girls and self-esteem. Now Orenstein uses the same interviewing and reporting skills to examine the lives of women in their 20s, 30s and 40s. The advances of the womens movement... (read more)

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Vagina Monologues the V Day Edition
Vagina Monologues the V Day Edition
by Eve Ensler
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A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in... (read more)

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Watching Sex: How Men Really Respond to Pornography
Watching Sex: How Men Really Respond to Pornography
by David Loftus
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The gulf between critics of pornography and those who use it seems unbridgeable. Not only do the two sides disagree about its effect on society and individual men and women, they cannot even agree on what it is. Where one finds objectification... (read more)

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The Last of the Live Nude Girls
The Last of the Live Nude Girls
by Sheila Mcclear
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In the last of Times Squares peep shows, a man pays $40 to watch a girl strip naked behind glass. These institutions, left over from the days when 42nd Street was the vicious center of vice, will soon disappear completely from a rapidly gentrifying New... (read more)

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Tribe of Women: A Photojournalist Chronicles the Lives of Her Sisters Around the Globe
Tribe of Women: A Photojournalist Chronicles the Lives of Her Sisters Around the Globe
by Connie Bickman
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"Tribe of Women" is photojournalist Bickman's celebration of women throughout the world in 200 beautiful full-color photos and thoughtful prose.... (read more)

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New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation
New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation
by Chris Bobel
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New Blood offers a fresh interdisciplinary look at feminism-in-flux. For over three decades, menstrual activists have questioned the safety and necessity of feminine care products while contesting menstruation as a deeply entrenched taboo. Chris Bobel... (read more)

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Infidel
Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Ali's memoir Infidel reveals an extraordinary woman who survived a harrowing early life, fled to the Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage, and was elected to that country's Parliament before death threats landed her under 24-hour guard. Not every... (read more)

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