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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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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making and how it can help us make better choices. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decisionmaking process as either rational or... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano Publisher Comments A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 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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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain Book News Annotation Proposes, rather than argues closely, that the shift from apprehending the world from images to writing--especially alphabetic--contributed largely to the suppression of goddess worship and the decline in the status of women in society. Shlain is a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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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 $20.00 Your price: $8.95 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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Not for Sale : Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography (05 Edition) by Rebecca Whisnant Publisher Comments Including the latest research on prostitution and pornography, this essay anthology shows how the sex industries harm those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and stable sexual relationships. From sex... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Staff Pick List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 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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Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier Publisher Comments With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 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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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes Publisher Comments US... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America by Sara M. Evans Publisher Comments The most concise and comprehensive one-volume history of American women--from the indigenous women of the 16th-century wilderness to the dual-role career women and mothers of contemporary times--this book brings American womanhood to center stage... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 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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Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Queer Action/Queer Ideas Book) by J Jack Halberstam Publisher Comments Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam answers these questions while attempting to make sense... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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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 $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin Publisher Comments An acclaimed writer explores the interplay between the public tragedy of war and the daily struggles of our private lives the conflicts between truth and falsehood, secrecy and revelation, testimony and denial. A brilliant philosophical inquiry... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Winner-take-all Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (10 Edition) by Paul Pierson Publisher Comments A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich. We all know that the very rich... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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