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How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran Publisher Comments Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt?... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Full Frontal Feminism : Young Woman's Guide To Why Feminism Matters (07 Edition) 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 $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Body of the World: A Memoir by Eve Ensler Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Feminist Frontiers by Verta A. Taylor Publisher Comments The most widely used anthology of feminist writings and the first to incorporate issues of sexual identity and sexual diversity, Feminist Frontiers has stood the test of time. With both classic and contemporary readings on cutting-edge topics that cut... (read more) List Price $112.50 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution by Karen Green Publisher Comments In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the production of zines. On the forefront of this cut-and-paste revolution have been those zines made specifically by and for young women. The words and images that have come to define many young women's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Different Shade of Blue: How Women Changed the Face of Police Work by Adam Eisenberg Publisher Comments What's it like to be a female cop? Stripped of the television stereotypes and politically correct whitewashing, this is the on-the-record in their own names accounting from three generations of female officers. Black, white, lesbian, straight, feminist,... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America by Alison Piepmeier Publisher Comments "The innovative theses [and] the broad research . . . are useful contributions to American and Women's Studies." Feminist Teacher "Deftly weaves between sentimental and sensational discourses." American Literature "This is a work of... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons by Lynn Peril Publisher Comments Vividly illustrated with photos of vintage paraphernalia, this entertaining social history revisits the nostalgic past, but only to offer a refreshing message to women who lived through those years as well as those who are coming of age now. 45 b&w... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 by Ruth Rosen Publisher Comments "Rosen has broken entirely new ground in what will surely remain the definitive study of urban prostitution in America for many years to come." -- Times Literary... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Feminist Theory: A Reader by Wendy K Kolmar Publisher Comments This comprehensive reader represents the history, intellectual breadth, and diversity of feminist theory. An historical framework organizes a great wealth of selections, 103 in all, with an entirely new concluding Part VII that covers 1995-2002.... (read more) List Price $93.15 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II by Nancy Baker Wise Publisher Comments A Mouthful of Rivets is the oral history of the women who took part in World War II on the homefront. In more than one hundred interviews, Nancy Baker Wise and Christy Wise create a textured portrait of the challenges and triumphs these powerful women... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Vagina Monologues the V Day Edition by Eve Ensler Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments The legacy ofthe sacred feminine The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It showsthat warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologicallyordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War's Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan by Julie A Mertus Publisher Comments * Case studies from Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan tackle human rights laws and gender-based violenceWar's Offensive on Women contends that humanitarian groups' attempts to provide assistance and protection for women will fall short unless they make... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-century Lives by Natalie Zemon Davis Publisher Comments As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the seventeenth century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism by Irene Diamond Book News Annotation A collection of articles, essays, and poetic prose pieces by 26 of the foremost writers, scholars, activists, artists, and spiritual teachers of ecofeminism, an emergent synthesis of the environmental, feminist, and women's spirituality movements... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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