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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-335) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories by Katha Pollitt Publisher Comments Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection of stories drawn from the author's own life... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Body Wars: Making Peace with Women's Bodies: An Activist's Guide by Margo Maine Publisher Comments In this ground-breaking study, Margo Maine declares war on a culture that dismisses, devalues, and disempowers women by making them hate their own bodies. This book covers issues from dieting and weight prejudice to concepts of beauty and ageism to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Betsy Prioleau Publisher Comments In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the worldfrom such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan Publisher Comments The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Synopsis "Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy." --People A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Justice, Gender, and the Family by Susan Moller Okin Publisher Comments In the first feminist critique of modern political theory, Okin shows how the failure to apply theories of justice to the family not only undermines our most cherished democratic values but has led to a major crisis over gender-related issues.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Woman, Child For Sale the New Slave Trade in the 21st Century by Gilbert King Synopsis An in-depth look at the atrocities faced by the unfortunate victims of the modern slave trade here and abroad.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fierce Attachments a Memoir by Vivian Gornick Publisher Comments The acclaimed memoirist's classic exploration of her relationship with her mother. A fine, unflinchingly honest book. -Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Feminist Studies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments Chapter One Journey into a Lost World: The Beginnings of Civilization Preserved in a cave sanctuary for over twenty thousand years, a female figure speaks to us about the minds of our early Western ancestors. She is small and carved out of stone: one of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel Publisher Comments No one better understands the desire to be bad than Elizabeth Wurtzel. Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Audre Lorde Synopsis The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work, several of them published for the first time, span almost a decade of this Black lesbian feminnist's work. Lorde is unflinching in her observations and is lucid and clarifying in her coverage of a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list True North: A Memoir by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed — and beloved — bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments “Important and provocative . . . There are many tempting reasons to pick up Global Woman.” —The New York Times Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir by Marina Nemat Publisher Comments What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life? In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-540) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both by Laura Sessions Stepp Publisher Comments A Washington Post reporter evaluates the sexual experiences of three groups of young women who have responded to what the author terms America's increasingly sexualized culture by engaging in obligation-free intimate relationships rather than navigating... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown Publisher Comments Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than a journey through a turbulent time in American history, this is the story of a black woman's battle to define herself.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image by Ophira Edut Publisher Comments Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws. The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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