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by Margaret Sanger  Publisher Comments A pioneer in the battle to establish birth control as a basic human right and a founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Sanger -- a nurse who witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of unwanted pregancy -- triumphed over arrest... (read more)  List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Claudia Ro Pierpont Publisher Comments With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shemeem Burne Abbas Publisher Comments The female voice plays a more central role in Sufi ritual, especially in the singing of devotional poetry, than in almost any other area of Muslim culture. Female singers perform sufiana-kalam, or mystical poetry, at Sufi shrines and in concerts, folk... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $39.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dia Furchtgott Roth Publisher Comments A controversial and eye-opening look at women's equality dispels the myth that women need government programs to protect them and shows why feminists want to keep this myth alive.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cynthia Enloe Publisher Comments Cynthia Enloe's riveting new book looks at the end of the Cold War and places women at the center of international politics. Focusing on the relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe charts the changing... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Tavris Publisher Comments When "man is the measure of all things," woman is forever trying to measure up. In this enlightening book, Carol Tavris unmasks the widespread but invisible custom -- pervasive in the social sciences, medicine, law, and history -- of treating men as the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald P Judges Publisher Comments In a powerful indictment of the battle over abortion rights, Mr. Judges charges that the conflict has divided society, distorted constitutional rights, and damaged the courts. RThoughtful, balanced...a welcome antidote to the emotional rhetoric that has... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Gottesman Publisher Comments On playing fields and street corners, in backyards and gyms, the people in this arresting array of pictures are unselfconsciously exploring the physical and emotional pleasures of competition and play. Each image offers an affirming and satisfying answer... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosemary Mahoney Publisher Comments Before the mega-bestselling phenomenon of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization, Rosemary Mahoney traveled to Ireland in response to the growing feeling that changes were taking place, and that those changes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Katha Pollitt Publisher Comments Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this brilliant, insightful, controversial, and courageous book contains the best of Pollitt's pieces, which have galvanized readers of The Nation, The New Yorker and The New York Times, on subjects... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Kingsolver Book News Annotation The story of how women in several small towns in Arizona sustained the strike for 18 months. Cloth edition (unseen), $26. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kevin White Publisher Comments The century-long struggle over the boundaries of sexual propriety and morality is the subject of Kevin White's rich account of American attitudes toward sex. Mr. White explores this great and continuing cultural conflict in the full context of Americans'... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Griffin Publisher Comments Feminist writer Griffin takes a provocative look at the pleasure-filled world of the West's first female power brokers, whose lively liaisons brought them unspoken influence, wealth, and freedom. 45 illustrations throughout.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Foster Publisher Comments The feminist pornography debates are centered around the opposition between pro-censorship factions and the pro-sex radicals or sex positives. But what exactly is the relationship between these debates and postmodern theories of reading and... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $9.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean V Matthews Publisher Comments A concise history of the early years of the women's rights movement, showing how the early agitators aimed at a complete rethinking of womanhood, and how their concerns resembled the revived feminism of the 1970s. A biographical and political base for... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Bell Scott Publisher Comments Life Notes is the first collection devoted exclusively to writings from the journals, diaries, and personal notebooks of contemporary black women. These intensely personal testimonies illuminate the complexities of black women's lives, offering unique... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joanne Arnott Publisher Comments Personal essays and stories about writing, women's rituals, fighting racism, and more.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chela Sandoval Publisher Comments In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francine Du Pl Gray Publisher Comments Gray draws on Louise Colet's recently discovered journals to present a compelling biography of one of the most fascinating women of the 19th century. Colet defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become an award-winning writer and... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $1.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Risen Publisher Comments Abortion has been at the emotional center of America’s culture wars for a generation. Ever since the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision, abortion has in many ways defined American politics, creating an ideological demilitarized... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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