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Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth Publisher Comments Geneen Roth's masterwork, Women Food and God explores the relationship between how we eat and how we see ourselves in the world.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Vintage) by Nora Ephron Publisher Comments With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.95 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks Publisher Comments A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving....There can be no love without justice.—from the chapter "To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism" In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks... (read more) List Price $20.25 Your price: $6.50 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Female Masculinity (98 Edition) by Judith Halberstam Publisher Comments Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 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: $8.95 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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Goddesses in Everywoman a New Psychology by Jean Shinoda Bolen Publisher Comments Just as women used to be unconscious of the powerful effects that cultural stereotypes had on them, they may also be unconscious of powerful forces within them that influence what they do and how they feel, and which account for major differences among... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade by Ann Fessler Publisher Comments In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color by Gloria Anzaldúa Publisher Comments A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $9.95 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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It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living by Dan Savage and Terry Miller Publisher Comments A heartfelt memoir by the father of a gay teen, and an eye-opening guide for families who hope to bring up well-adjusted gay adults. Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent at The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Weimar and Now #11: Women in the Metropolis by Katharina Von Ankum Publisher Comments "A landmark work of German cultural studies. The richness of the material is dazzling: each of the essays opens up new areas of scholarly inquiry and connects, in surprising and illuminating ways, with other essays in the volume."--Maria Tatar, author of... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women by Jean Shinoda Bolen Publisher Comments In her latest book, Crones Don't Whine, Jean Shinoda Bolen's playful sense of humour and keen insight combine to offer women thirteen qualities to cultivate. Engage in these small practises and you're bound to be a happier person, who's doing her bit to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice by Jael Silliman Publisher Comments “If you have come to help me, please go away. But, if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, let us work together.”—Lila Watson, Aboriginal Activist Vibrant. Strong. Fierce. Undivided Rights captures the evolving... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.71 Used - Trade Paper
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Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K Le Guin Publisher Comments Incisive, eloquent, crackling with ideas, this is a "mental-biography" of the award-winning fiction writer, Ursula K. Le Guin. She draws together essays, travel journals, lectures, informal talks and reviews spanning twelve years, for a fascinating peek... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan Publisher Comments Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women. Repeatedly, developmental theories have been built on observations of men's lives. Here, Gilligan attempts to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stuff of Life: A Daughter's Memoir by Karen Karbo Publisher Comments When Karen Karbo's father, a charming, taciturn Clint Eastwood type who lives in a triple-wide in the Nevada desert, is diagnosed with lung cancer, his only daughter rises to the challenge of caring for him. Neither of them is exactly cut out for the job.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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