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American Feminist Thought at Century's End: A Readerby Linda S. KauffmanISBN 1557863474 (1-55786-347-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Feminist Thought at Century's End: A Reader'Book summary:In this outstanding collection of essays, contributed by some of America's leading feminist writers, the current terrain of American feminism is charted as never before. Covering a broad range of subjects and a diversity of approaches, this volume demonstrates just how far American feminism has come in developing distinctive and sophisticated strategies for combining theory and practice.
While many of the writers represented have made their careers within the academy, their interests are never exclusively academic. Indeed, at the heart of this book lies a broad concern with the key social issues of our day. Thus, Catherine MacKinnon writes on sex equality under the law, Cynthia Enloe on international politics, bell hooks on cinematic representation of blackness, and Donna Haraway on the biopolitics of postmodern bodies.
The selection also includes important essays by Gayle Rubin, Tania Modleski, Rey Chow, Trinh Minh-ha, Sandra Harding, Judith Stacey and Barrie Thorne, Evelyn Fox Keller, Joan Wallach Scott, Linda S. Kauffman, Paula Treicher, Angela Davis, Gloria Anzaldua and Jean Bethke Elshtain. [via]More editions of American Feminist Thought at Century's End: A Reader:
Aurora Leighby Elizabeth Barrett BrowningISBN 0915864851 (0-915864-85-1)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girlsby Gavin De Becker, Ellen SnortlandISBN 0971144702 (0-9711447-0-2)
Softcover, B3 Books
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Black Womanist Ethicsby K. CannonISBN 155540216X (1-55540-216-X)
Softcover, Amer Academy of Religion
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Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongueby Gail GriffinISBN 0962387924 (0-9623879-2-4)
Softcover, Trilogy Books
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The Cancer Journalsby Audre LordeISBN 0933216033 (0-933216-03-3)
Softcover, Spinsters, Ink
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cancer Journals'Book summary:nonfiction memoir [via]
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Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Centuryby Rory Cooke Dicker, Alison PiepmeierISBN 1555535704 (1-55553-570-4)
Softcover, Northeastern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century'Book summary:Young women today have benefited from the strides made by grassroots social activists in the 1960s and 1970s, yet they are hesitant to identify themselves as feminists and seem apathetic about carrying the torch of older generations to redress persistent sexism and gender-based barriers. Contesting the notion that we are in a post-feminist age, this provocative collection of original essays identifies a third wave of feminism. The contributors argue that the next generation needs to develop a politicized, collective feminism that both builds on the strategies of second wave feminists and is grounded in the material realities and culture of the twenty-first century.
Organized in five sections that mirror the stages of consciousness-raising, this is an engaging, often edgy, look at a broad range of perspectives on the diversity, complexity, multiplicity, and playfulness of the third wave. It is also a call to action for new voices to redefine a feminism that is not only personally aware but also politically involved. [via]More editions of Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century:
The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortionby Angela Bonavoglia, Gloria SteinemISBN 1568581882 (1-56858-188-2)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminismby F. Carolyn GragliaISBN 0965320863 (0-9653208-6-3)
Hardcover, Spence Pub
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Doris: an Anthology 1991-2001by Cindy CrabbISBN 0972696784 (0-9726967-8-4)
Softcover, Microcosm Pub
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Early Novels and Storiesby Willa Cather, Sharon O BrienISBN 0940450399 (0-940450-39-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Novels and Stories'Book summary:"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The vast Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow and the sky is huge and open, mirrors the uniquely American ethic of her characters: their heroic aspirations and stoicism, their passion for creativity, their rebelliousness of spirit. This volume, the first in The Library of America's authoritative three-volume collected Cather, includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," her first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," and "One of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize. [via]
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Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistanceby Irene Diamond, Lee QuinbyISBN 1555530338 (1-55553-033-8)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Feminism: Opposing Viewpointsby Carol WekesserISBN 1565101790 (1-56510-179-0)
Softcover, Greenhaven Pr
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Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movementby Myra M. Ferree, Patricia Y. MartinISBN 1566392292 (1-56639-229-2)
Softcover, Temple University Press
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Fight Back: Feminist Resistance to Male Violenceby Frederique DelacosteISBN 0939416018 (0-939416-01-8)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion And Feminismby Linda M. ScottISBN 140397134X (1-4039-7134-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Gynomite: Fearless, Feminist Pornby Chester Aaron, Douglas Urig, Dennis BoatmanISBN 0966646924 (0-9666469-2-4)
Softcover, New Mouth from the Dirty South
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Herland And the Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 1406500542 (1-4065-0054-2)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab Worldby NawÈAl SaìDÈAwÈIISBN 0905762517 (0-905762-51-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World'Book summary:This is a personal and often disturbing account of growing into womanhood in the Islamic world. The author ranges over a host of topics and relates women's position in the Middle East to the struggles between the left and right in Islam, and shows how the political priorities of Western and Third World women differ. [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 1406510017 (1-4065-1001-7)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" was one of the first of the personal slave narratives. At the time this book was first published Harriet Jacobs was living as an escaped slave in the North, a precarious position given the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Originally published under the pseudonym Linda Brent, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is a gripping first hand account of the brutality endured by slaves and one of the few ever written by a woman. [via]
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The Judas Roseby Suzette Haden ElginISBN 1558614036 (1-55861-403-6)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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The Last Time I Wore a Dressby Daphne Scholinski, Jane Meredith AdamsISBN 1573226963 (1-57322-696-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Time I Wore a Dress'Book summary:This terrifying memoir recounts author Daphne Scholinski's three years spent in mental institutions for, among other things, Gender Identity Disorder. Daphne came from a busted home: Mom left to go to college and become a feminist and an artist; Dad stayed home with two daughters, the elder of whom, Daphne, he often beat. When Daphne started acting up at school, her shrinks decided to put her away. Her family, not knowing how to handle her, agreed. Because she was a tomboy who wore jeans and T-shirts and didn't act enough like a girl, her treatment, in addition to talk therapy, isolation, and drugs, required her to wear makeup, walk with a swing in her hips, and pretend to be obsessed with boys. This sounds awful enough, but when you realize that the confinement and treatment took place from 1981 to 1984, it's absolutely chilling. This book is both a powerful indictment of Gender Identity Disorder treatment and an inspiring testament of one person's survival. [via]
Lesbian-Feminism in Turn-Of-The-Century Germanyby Lillian Faderman, Brigitte ErikssonISBN 0930044134 (0-930044-13-4)
Softcover, Naiad Press
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Memoir of a Race Traitorby Mab SegrestISBN 0896084744 (0-89608-474-4)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 1400096898 (1-4000-9689-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:The first thing you notice about the audio version of Memoirs of a Geisha is that Arthur Golden's 428-page novel has been reduced to a scant two cassettes. But dismay quickly gives way to mounting pleasure as Elaina Erika Davis (Contact, As the World Turns) begins her delicate rendering of geisha culture in the years before World War II. Davis reads the abbreviated story of Sayuri with an authentic-sounding Japanese accent--one mixed with a magical combination of Asian reserve and theatrical energy. As Sayuri ages from a 9-year-old peasant girl to a popular geisha in her late 20s, Davis directs her voice gently away from curious youth to a tone that reflects Sayuri's uphill life.
From start to finish, the listener is absorbed in the elegant spirit of Davis's performance, eager to hear the next chapter of Sayuri's transformation into one of the most famous geishas of the century. How unfortunate, then, to learn that book readers not only get the basic story, but a fascinating look at the intricate rules and rituals of geisha culture. Here, for example, is one of the many revelations omitted from the cassette: "Japanese men, as a rule, feel about a woman's neck and throat the same way that men in the West might feel about a woman's legs.... In fact, a geisha leaves a tiny margin of skin bare all around the hairline, causing her makeup to look even more artificial.... When a man sits beside her, he becomes that much more aware of the bare skin beneath."
We're also denied several subplots--the aborted friendship between Sayuri and a geisha named Pumpkin, for example, or much of the story involving the man Sayuri is secretly in love with. But what remains is as precious as a traditional Japanese kimono--at once artistic, suggestive, and moving. --Ann Senechal [via]
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Memoirs of a Geisha: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, Piano Soloby John WilliamsISBN 1423412206 (1-4234-1220-6)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Geisha: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, Piano Solo'Book summary:(Piano Solo Songbook). Six instrumental themes by John Williams from this Oscar-winning film, arranged for piano solo. Includes: As the Water * Becoming a Geisha * The Chairman's Waltz * Going to School * Sayuri's Theme * Sayuri's Theme and End Credits. [via]
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The Montreal Massacreby Louise Malette, Marie Chalouh, Marlene WildemanISBN 0921881142 (0-921881-14-2)
Softcover, Gynergy Books/Ragweed Pr
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 1419135937 (1-4191-3593-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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My Antoniaby Joseph R. UrgoISBN 1551114917 (1-55111-491-7)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:Willa Cather's My ÃÂntonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows ÃÂntonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.
The Broadview edition includes a rich selection of primary source materials: the revised introduction for the 1926 edition; Cather's "Mesa Verde Wonderland is Easy to Reach...," "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," "Peter", and her comments on the novel; contemporary reviews and photographs. [via]
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Nervous Conditionsby Tsitsi DangarembgaISBN 0954702336 (0-9547023-3-6)
Softcover, Ayebia Clarke Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nervous Conditions'Book summary:This story exlpores the alienation of two young African girls - Nyasha, brought up in England and now a stranger amongst her own people, and Tamba, who leaves her village for the pricey mission school. [via]
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 1420925334 (1-4209-2533-4)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Hardcover, 1st World Library - Northhanger Abbey: ISBN 0899665349 (0-89966-534-9)
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Northanger Abbeyby Claire GroganISBN 1551110784 (1-55111-078-4)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensoredby Mary GabrielISBN 1565121325 (1-56512-132-5)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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On Strike Against Godby Joanna RussISBN 0918314135 (0-918314-13-5)
Hardcover, Out & Out Books
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 1417687703 (1-4176-8770-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoirby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 1569249563 (1-56924-956-3)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sexby Pat CalifiaISBN 1573440965 (1-57344-096-5)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sexby Patrick Califia-RiceISBN 0939416891 (0-939416-89-1)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Cultureby Carol QueenISBN 157344166X (1-57344-166-X)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture'Book summary:When she was a kid, Carol Queen was called "Queen the Queer." "Queer" was still very much an insult at the time, not the term of power and pride it has recently become. Similarly, sex was called a bad thing, a nasty thing, even for, perhaps especially for, good girl feminists. Like other sex-positive folks of her generation, Carol Queen is re-evaluating the range and possibilities of sexual experience and identity. This book gathers previously published essays on topics ranging from pelvic exams, pornography law, the men's movement, sex as art, Madonna, and sacred whoredom. Queen is an intelligent, funny writer. [via]
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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Controlby Betsy HartmannISBN 0896084914 (0-89608-491-4)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Rubyfruit Jungleby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0913780022 (0-913780-02-2)
Hardcover, Daughters, inc.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubyfruit Jungle'Book summary:Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize. [via]
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Stephen MartinISBN 1551116367 (1-55111-636-7)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.
With "The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride. [via]
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Season of the Witch: Border Lines, Marginal Notesby Gail B. GriffinISBN 0962387959 (0-9623879-5-9)
Softcover, Trilogy Books
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Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingenby Sabina Flanagan, HildegardISBN 1570621640 (1-57062-164-0)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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She Had Some Horsesby Joy HarjoISBN 1560258306 (1-56025-830-6)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Sheddingby Verena Stefan, Tobe LevinISBN 1558610847 (1-55861-084-7)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shedding'Book summary:[via]This volume brings together prose from three decades of writing by Verena Stefan, one of the most influential contemporary feminist writers in the world.
The original 1975 German publication of Shedding-a novella that narrates the radical transformation of a young woman against the backdrop of the early 1970s women's, civil rights, and health care movements-created such a stir that the work has been hailed as "the feminist equivalent to Mao's little red book." To date, over 300,000 copies of Shedding have been sold in Germany. Included here is the first English translation of Literally Dreaming, a delightful collection of eight stories written in the 1980s, drawing a portrait of life as the narrator of Shedding may have envisioned it-women living together in natural and rural settings, independent of men. Stefan has written for this volume a new essay, "Euphoria and Cacophony," which traces the extraordinary reception-and backlash-that greeted Shedding in the 1970s, and the effect on her both as a writer and as a symbol of the German women's movement.
In resonant prose, and with a refreshing honesty, Stefan speaks to the universality of women's lives, a concept popular in the 1970s and 1980s, and ripe for re-discussion now in the 1990s. Stefan was a pioneer in "experimental writing" before the phrase was coined, and her writing about women's lives is as immediate today as when it first exploded on the German literary scene.
Sisters Of The Yamby Bell HooksISBN 0896087344 (0-89608-734-4)
Hardcover, South End Pr
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Sisters Of The Yam: Black Women And Self-recoveryby Bell HooksISBN 0896087336 (0-89608-733-6)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Tehanuby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 1416509623 (1-4165-0962-3)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tehanu'Book summary:Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Nebula Award for Science Fiction. Unlike the tales in the trilogy, this novel is short and concise, yet it is by no means simplistic. Promoted as a children's book because of the awards garnered in that category by her previous work, Tehanu transcends classification and shows the wizardry of female magic. The story involves a middle-age widow who sets out to visit her dying mentor and eventually cares for his favorite student. [via]
The Temple of My Familiarby Alice WalkerISBN 0896219372 (0-89621-937-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 1419151053 (1-4191-5105-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess Of The D'urbervilles'Book summary:Tess first appeared in a serializedand bowdlerizedform in The Graphic in 1891. 'A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented,' as Hardy subtitled the work, represented a direct challenge to conventional notions of sexuality and femininityand, though conventions have radically changed in the past century, the character of Tess has remained a challenging one. In her introduction Maier argues that we should not see Tess merely as a passive victim; she suggests that a combination of sexual vigour and moral rigour makes Tess not just one of the greatest but also one of the strongest women in the canon of English literature. [via]
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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Powerby Audre LordeISBN 0918314097 (0-918314-09-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power'Book summary:There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how women can reclaim it. Uses of the Erotic shines among Audre Lorde's powerful legacy of speeches and essays, and has influenced feminist thinking for more than 15 years. The false dichotomies that Lorde debunks persist in our cultural imagination: the separation of the erotic from the spiritual and political. Now, Kore Press brings this essay into stand-alone focus, reprinting it in a fine, handbound pamphlet illustrated with photographs by Tucson photographer Camille Bonzani. Designed by book artist Nancy Solomon, the essay is offset and letterpress printed in an edition of 1000. [via]
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Villetteby Kate Lawson, Lynn ShakinovskyISBN 1551114615 (1-55111-461-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette'Book summary:Charlotte Brontë's contemporary George Eliot wrote of Villette, "There is something almost preternatural in its power." The deceptive stillness and security of a girls school provide the setting for this 1853 novel, Brontës last. Modelled on Brontës own experiences as a student and teacher in Brussels, Villette is the sombre but engrossing story of Lucy Snowe, an unmarried Englishwoman making her way in a culture deeply foreign to her. The heroines relationships with the fiery professor M. Paul, the cool Englishman Dr. John, and the schools powerful headmistress, Madame Beck, are described in her compelling and enigmatic first-person narration. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction by Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky. The many contextual documents include contemporary writings on surveillance and espionage, anti-Catholicism, and working women, as well as letters describing Brontës own time in Brussels. [via]
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Wandergroundby Sally GearhartISBN 0932870554 (0-932870-55-4)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wanderground'Book summary:The Wanderground is a feminist classic that deserves a fresh reading. In these linked stories, Sally Gearhart portrays a futuristic lesbian utopia where women can communicate telepathically with each other, as well as with plants and animals. The women in the community of Wanderground raise children collectively, choose to die when they think it is time, and heal physical wounds by inducing their own bloodletting. While at first glance this book may appear to be a naive science fiction-romance, the ideas in it are quite prescient. Many of the terms in The Wanderground--learntogether, listenspread--are compound words coined by Gearhart to suggest forms of communication that seemed impossible in the late 1970s, but that have become common in the age of the Internet. Gearhart's text foresaw that a world in which lesbians can live safely and independently is also a world in which communication does not require the physical presence of the body. [via]
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What Did Miss Darrington See?by Jessica Amanda SalmonsonISBN 1558610065 (1-55861-006-5)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Did Miss Darrington See?'Book summary:This collection of 24 entertaining and haunting 19th-and 20th-century tales from the U.S., Britain, and Latin America reclaims a literary tradition that has long been overlooked. Using such techniques as magic realism, allegory, and surrealism, the authors re-imagine the cliches of supernatural fiction, focusing on female characters and treating traditional themes in inventive and provocative ways. Among the authors included are Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Luisa Valenzuela, Leonora Carrington, Barbara Burford, and Joanna Russ. 1989 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR BEST LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY[via]More editions of What Did Miss Darrington See?:
What Every American Should Know About Women's History: 200 Events That Shaped Our Destinyby Christine LunardiniISBN 155850687X (1-55850-687-X)
Softcover, Adams Media Corp
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Women Who Hate Meby Dorothy AllisonISBN 1563411482 (1-56341-148-2)
Softcover, Firebrand Books
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The Women Who Hate Me Poetryby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0932379990 (0-932379-99-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Y:The Last Man 1: Unmannedby Brian K. Vaughan, Pia GuerraISBN 1563899809 (1-56389-980-9)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Y:The Last Man 1: Unmanned'Book summary:"Funny and scary & an utterly believable critique of society. A+"THE WASHINGTON POST
"The best graphic novel I've ever read."STEPHEN KING
"This year's best movie is a comic book." ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, NPR
"A seriously funny, nuanced fable.... Grade A."ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Y: THE LAST MAN, winner of three Eisner Awards and one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling comic books series of the last decade, is that rare example of a page-turner that is at once humorous, socially relevant and endlessly surprising.
Written by Brian K. Vaughan (LOST, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD, EX MACHINA) and with art by Pia Guerra, this is the saga of Yorick Brownthe only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome. Accompanied by a mysterious government agent, a brilliant young geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick travels the world in search of his lost love and the answer to why he's the last man on earth.
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Y the Last Man: Unmannedby Brian K. VaughanISBN 1417698101 (1-4176-9810-1)
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