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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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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio and Betty Dodson Publisher Comments An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Captive Genders (11 Edition) by Eric A. Stanley Publisher Comments Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition by Kamala Kempadoo Publisher Comments Presents the personal experiences of sex workers in Asia, Australia, the Americas, the Caribbean, West Africa and Western Europe. In exploring the individual narratives of people involved in the sex trade around the world, this book seeks to undermine... (read more) List Price $61.95 Your price: $21.00 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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Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick Publisher Comments In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stonewall by Martin Duberman Publisher Comments "As scholars we should read Stonewall, and as teachers we should assign it. All of us will be challenged to build on it."—Michael Sherry, Northwestern Univ. "Both a fascinating account of the birth of gay liberation and a replay of the turbulent... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler Staff Pick Girl power, Riot Grrrl, first-, second-, or third-wave feminist — however you choose to label your gender-equality insistence, Bitch magazine has had you covered. To celebrate their ten year anniversary, Bitch has released this cultural compendium; a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home by Arlie Hochschild Publisher Comments An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than twenty years after its original publication. More than twenty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gender Space and Power by Mino Vianello Synopsis Presenting the key concept of 'ovular space' as opposed to 'rectilinear' spatial concepts as a new paradigm for social analysis, the authors put forward a wide-ranging social and cultural critique based on a utopian vision of a new social organization... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels by Justin Vivian Bond Publisher Comments "Bond's fabulosity is matched by a trenchant wit, and [V's] over-the-top stories are smartly edged with politics, sexual or otherwise."—The New York Times Recently hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of [V's] generation" in The New Yorker... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel by Jean Kilbourne Publisher Comments "When was the last time you felt this comfortable in a relationship?" -- An ad for sneakers "You can love it without getting your heart broken." -- An ad for a car "Until I find a real man, I'll settle for a real smoke." -- A woman in a cigarette ad... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Transgender Warriors : Making History From Joan of Arc To Dennis Rodman (96 Edition) by Leslie Feinberg Publisher Comments With a New Afterword by the Author In this fascinating, personal journey hrough history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The American Women's Movement: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Nancy Maclean Publisher Comments The American womens movement was one of the most influential social movements of the twentieth century. Beginning with small numbers, the womens movement eventually involved tens of thousands of women and men. Longstanding ideas and habits came under... (read more) List Price $19.20 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trans Liberation : Beyond Pink Or Blue (98 Edition) by Leslie Feinberg Publisher Comments Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer Staff Pick 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) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender (11 Edition) by Nick Krieger Publisher Comments Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery. Ambitious, sporty, feminine “capital-L lesbians&... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict by Irene Vilar Publisher Comments Irene Vilar was just a pliant young college undergraduate in thrall to her professor when they embarked on a relationship that led to marriage — a union of impossible odds — and fifteen abortions in fifteen years. Vilar knows that she is... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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