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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra T Mohanty Publisher Comments Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 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: $8.95 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: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir Publisher Comments Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.50 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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock Publisher Comments "Women Don't Ask helps women learn how to communicate their desires. This is absolutely essential and basic information since we can't read brainwaves. Speak up or surrender your goals!"--Patricia Schroeder, President and CEO, Association of American... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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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 through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire by Merri Lisa Johnson Publisher Comments In Jane Sexes It Up, 20 young, progressive feminists reflect on the limitations they think are imposed by establishment feminism on their bodies and their behavior. In these essays, headed up by editor Merri Lisa Johnson?s "Generation X Does the Sex Wars,... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments We all have dreams things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi?s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Geoffery Ward Publisher Comments The definitive Ken Burns hardcover selection. Six hardcover classics, including: The Civil War: An Illustrated History, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jazz: A History of America's Music, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? by Susan Moller Okin Publisher Comments "This book brings together impressively varied voices who help to set the terms for discussing the relationship of feminism and multiculturalism. They show in no uncertain terms that feminists have something important to say to multiculturalists, and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Flapper (06 Edition) by Joshua Zeitz Publisher Comments Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 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: $5.50 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: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Whip Smart: the True Story of a Secret Life (11 Edition) by Melissa Febos Publisher Comments A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young womans transformation from college student to professional dominatrix While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. In poetic, nuanced... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz Publisher Comments Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Outrageous Acts & Everyday Rebellion 2ND Edition by Gloria Steinem Publisher Comments This phenomenally successful book, that has sold nearly a half a million copies since its original publication in 1983, is Gloria Steinem's most diverse and timeless collection of essays.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The 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. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sugarbabe by Holly Hill Publisher Comments “Attractive, professional, well-spoken, well-dressed 35-year-old woman seeks sugar daddy. I live in Darlinghurst on a 17th floor unit with fantastic skyline views to the harbor. The unit also features very discreet and secure undercover guest... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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