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How to Be a Woman
How to Be a Woman
by Caitlin Moran
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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)

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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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Full Frontal Feminism : Young Woman's Guide To Why Feminism Matters (07 Edition)
Full Frontal Feminism : Young Woman's Guide To Why Feminism Matters (07 Edition)
by Jessica Valenti
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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)

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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by Geraldine Brooks
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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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Feminist Frontiers
Feminist Frontiers
by Verta A. Taylor
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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)

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A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution
A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution
by Karen Green
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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)

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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
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A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.... (read more)

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A Different Shade of Blue: How Women Changed the Face of Police Work
A Different Shade of Blue: How Women Changed the Face of Police Work
by Adam Eisenberg
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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)

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Affair of the Mind
Affair of the Mind
by Laurie Hall
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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)

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Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America
Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America
by Alison Piepmeier
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"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)

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Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
by Lynn Peril
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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)

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The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918
The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918
by Ruth Rosen
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"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)

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Feminist Theory: A Reader
Feminist Theory: A Reader
by Wendy K Kolmar
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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)

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A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II
A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II
by Nancy Baker Wise
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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)

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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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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
by Riane Eisler
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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)

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War's Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan
War's Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan
by Julie A Mertus
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* 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)

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Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-century Lives
Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-century Lives
by Natalie Zemon Davis
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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)

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Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism
Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism
by Irene Diamond
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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)

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