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Always Coming Homeby Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Todd Barton, George HershISBN 0520227352 (0-520-22735-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Coming Home'Book summary:Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.[via] 
Back Rooms: Voices from the Illegal Abortion Eraby Ellen Messer, Kathryn E. MayISBN 0671682024 (0-671-68202-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Cultureby Linda S. KauffmanISBN 0520210328 (0-520-21032-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Beautyby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0553295276 (0-553-29527-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauty'Book summary:With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty," Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair, magic and nature. Set against a backdrop both enchanted and frightening, the story begins with a wicked aunt's curse that will afflict a young woman named Beauty on her sixteenth birthday. Though Beauty is able to sidestep tragedy, she soon finds herself embarked on an adventure of vast consequences. For it becomes clear that the enchanted places of this fantastic world--a place not unlike our own--are in danger and must be saved before it is too late. [via]
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Bluebeard's Eggby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0553378600 (0-553-37860-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluebeard's Egg'Book summary:By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard's Egg infuses a Canada of the 1940s, '50s and '80s with glowing childhood memories, the harsh realities of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty that men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mudane lives and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them--the intimately personal, the fantastic and the shockingly real...whether it's what lies in a mysterious locked room or in the secret feelings we all conceal.
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The Book of Goddesses and Heroinesby Patricia MonaghanISBN 0525476644 (0-525-47664-4)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Cavedwellerby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0525941673 (0-525-94167-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cavedweller'Book summary:"Death changes everything." So begins Dorothy Allison's sprawling, ambitious, and deeply satisfying second novel, Cavedweller. For Delia Byrd, Randall Pritchard's death in a motorcycle accident launches a journey of several thousand miles and almost two decades, a rebirth of sorts that's also a return to her roots. Years before, the handsome but untrustworthy rock star Randall helped Delia flee an abusive husband; Delia escapes physical danger but leaves her two small children behind. In California, her abandoned daughters haunt her dreams and preoccupy her waking hours, even as she sings in Randall's band and gives birth to another daughter, Cissy. But when Randall is killed in a motorcycle accident, Delia packs rebellious Cissy into a broken-down Datsun, bound for Cayro, Georgia, and the one thing that suddenly matters more than anything else: her abandoned children and the chance to be a mother to them once again.
Cayro's poverty is emotional as well as material; the town is a hard place, full of hard people. To them, Delia will always be "that bitch" who abandoned her babies, "that hippie" living a life of sin. Nonetheless, Delia forges a cruel bargain with her former husband: in exchange for Delia's agreeing to care for him as he dies, he gives her a chance to reclaim her daughters. Like Bastard out of Carolina, Allison's acclaimed debut novel, Cavedweller is a chronicle of rage, strength, and survival. Here, however, Allison is equally concerned with the redemptive power of love and forgiveness, and a novel that began with death ends on an unexpectedly sanguine note: "'Yes, it's time for some new songs.'" There are no victims in Dorothy Allison's work; Delia triumphs through sheer force of will, bringing her family together despite the contempt of almost everyone around her.
The novel has its flaws--including occasionally flat-footed prose--but it is in the end compulsively readable, and it's populated by some of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: tough, prickly, flawed, and deeply human, Delia and Cissy are literary creations of the first rank. In describing the complicated emotions that bind and divide them, Allison demonstrates a profoundly unsentimental understanding of the way the human heart works. Cavedweller is the work of a mature artist, her best fiction to date. [via]
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Dealing With Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 061356300X (0-613-56300-X)
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Even Cowgirls Get the Bluesby Tom RobbinsISBN 055334949X (0-553-34949-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Female Desireby Rosalind CowardISBN 0586084479 (0-586-08447-9)
Softcover, Paladin
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The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Womenby Sherry R. Anderson, Patricia HopkinsISBN 0553352660 (0-553-35266-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Womenby Sherry Ruth Anderson, Patricia HopkinsISBN 0553075616 (0-553-07561-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women'Book summary:The eagerly anticipated paperback edition of a pioneering look at women's spirituality that has helped thousands of women redefine traditional beliefs and rediscover their own unique spiritual heritage. Drawn from workshops and interviews conducted across the country, 100 women--including Maya Angelou and Marion Woodman--share stories of their spiritual awakenings. Serial rights to New Age Journal. [via]
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Feminist Practice & Poststructuralist Theoryby Chris WeedonISBN 0631198253 (0-631-19825-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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French Feminist Thought: A Readerby Moi TorilISBN 0631149732 (0-631-14973-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Glory Seasonby David BrinISBN 0553567675 (0-553-56767-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Glory Season'Book summary:Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin is one of the most eloquent, imaginative voices in science fiction. Now he returns with a new novel rich in texture, universal in theme, monumental in scope--pushing the genre to new heights.
Young Maia is fast approaching a turning point in her life. As a half-caste var, she must leave the clan home of her privileged half sisters and seek her fortune in the world. With her twin sister, Leie, she searches the docks of Port Sanger for an apprenticeship aboard the vessels that sail the trade routes of the Stratoin oceans.
On her far-reaching, perilous journey of discovery, Maia will endure hardship and hunger, imprisonment and loneliness, bloody battles with pirates and separation from her twin. And along the way, she will meet a traveler who has come an unimaginable distance--and who threatens the delicate balance of the Stratoins' carefully maintained, perfect society....
Both exciting and insightful, Glory Season is a major novel, a transcendent saga of the human spirit. [via] 
God Save The Sweet Potato Queensby Jill Conner BrowneISBN 060980619X (0-609-80619-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"by Linda WilliamsISBN 0520219430 (0-520-21943-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Womenby CottISBN 0671250698 (0-671-25069-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Womenby Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck, CottISBN 067125068X (0-671-25068-X)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Heroes and Villainsby Angela CarterISBN 0671206524 (0-671-20652-4)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective: A Theologyby Letty M. RussellISBN 0664249914 (0-664-24991-4)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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In The Hand Of The Goddessby Tamora PierceISBN 0613024249 (0-613-02424-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Innocence of the Devilby Nawal Sadawi, Sherif HetataISBN 0520216520 (0-520-21652-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Irigaray Readerby Luce Irigaray, Margaret WhitfordISBN 063117043X (0-631-17043-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0573018499 (0-573-01849-9)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Joan of Arcby Marina WarnerISBN 0520224647 (0-520-22464-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Killing the Black Bodyby Dorothy RobertsISBN 0609000071 (0-609-00007-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Laws of the Bandit Queens : Words to Live by from 35 of Today's Most Revolutionary Womenby Ali Smith, Nora Dunn, Maggie EstepISBN 0609808079 (0-609-80807-9)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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A Letter of Maryby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553577808 (0-553-57780-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Letter of Mary'Book summary:Sherlock Holmes and his scholarly companion Mary Russell are caught up in an exciting mystery when an archaeologist leaves them with a treasured find, a papyrus supposedly written by Mary Magdalene. When the archaeoligist winds up dead and someone attempts to make off with the artifact, Holmes and Russel become embroiled in a rollicking story filled with political intrigue and highbrow sleuthing. The level of writing hasn't been higher in this Laurie King series. [via]
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The Loony-Bin Tripby Kate MillettISBN 0671679309 (0-671-67930-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 0606222049 (0-606-22204-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Formby Marina WarnerISBN 0520227336 (0-520-22733-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form'Book summary:Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style.[via]More editions of Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form:
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Mother Daughter Revolution: From Good Girls to Great Womenby Elizabeth Debold, Marie Wilson, Idelisse MalaveISBN 0553374184 (0-553-37418-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother Daughter Revolution: From Good Girls to Great Women'Book summary:Our culture betrays women. And mothers, to be good mothers, must betray their daughters. It is this tragic norm that Marie Wilson and Idelisse Malave, president and vice president respectively of the Ms. Foundation, and Elizabeth Debold, a member of the Harvard Project, question. Though perhaps no longer revolutionary, their text still presents a vital and revitalizing agenda, 0ffering ways to transform the typical cycles of betrayal and to resist such unnecessary losses as those of voice, freedom, and the power to act. Debold, Wilson, and Malave turn many precious cultural biases and beliefs upside down-- "rugged individualism," for example, is scrapped in favor of interdependence. The belief that separation from the mother is a normal developmental step is firmly cast aside.
Written originally in 1993, Mother Daughter Revolution takes as its foundation the findings that came out of the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development under psychologist Carol Gilligan. The core of that study could be summed up with the question: Why, at the onset of adolescence, does the self-esteem of girls plummet? The authors expand on Gilligan's valuable and still timely "wall" theory. That is, at adolescence, young girls come up, clashingly, against how they're perceived by the dominant culture--largely in terms of their sexual and reproductive value. To get through this "wall," girls must sacrifice parts of themselves in order to be accepted and protected by society. At great cost. Mothers, ironically, usher girls through the wall of self betrayal. And the three most loudly voiced complaints by girls about their mothers reflect that betrayal--that they're not dealt with fairly; not truly loved for being themselves; not trusted with the truth. The "authentic self" of daughters is driven underground.
These are hard and heartbreaking insights which 30 years of feminism's second wave has not changed. Interviews with adolescent girls, memoir fragments offered by the authors, and stories shared by such well-known writers as, for example, Maxine Hong Kingston illustrate the social phenomenon. Don't be fooled. This is not a rant so much as a prescription for uncovering, defining, and nurturing the love between mothers and daughters. Paradoxically, adolescent girls find more of the world open to them, while at the same time experiencing a deep distress. "Eating disorders and teenage pregnancy, once associated with opposite ends of the social class spectrum, are more prevalent among girls of all classes and all races than ever before." These insights and prescriptions, organized and given voice by three committed feminists, are offered with lucidity and passion, in the spirit of social transformation. [via]
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0553214187 (0-553-21418-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:"The best thing I've done is My Antonia ," recalled Willa Cather. "I feel I've made a contribution to American letters with that book." Ántonia Shimerda returns to Black Hawk, Nebraska, to make a fresh start after eloping with a railway conductor following the tragic death of her father. Accustomed to living in a sod house and toiling alongside the men in the fields, she is unprepared for the lecherous reaction her lush sensuality provokes when she moves to the city. Despite betrayal and crushing opposition, Ántonia steadfastly pursues her quest for happiness-a moving struggle that mirrors the quiet drama of the American landscape. [via]
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My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasiesby Nancy FridayISBN 0671019872 (0-671-01987-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies'Book summary:This book caused quite a ruckus when it was released 25 years ago because it directly quotes the sexual fantasies of dozens of women, ranging from the "very common" rape fantasy to lesbian affairs to unusually explicit scenarios that are unmentionable here. While author Nancy Friday maintains that My Secret Garden served to free millions of women from sexual oppression, there's still a need today to get rid of the guilt that millions more still feel when it comes to fantasizing, having orgasms, and making one's sexual wishes be known. "How could it be, you might ask," she writes, "that women today, at the turn of the century, would still think they were the only Bad Girls with erotic thoughts? What kind of prison is this that that women impose on themselves?"
My Secret Garden has the prurient appeal that made it one of the most passed-around books in high school study halls (it boasts chapters titled "Insatiability" and "The Thrill of the Forbidden"), but its premise, underneath the tales of lusty longings, is a serious one. Friday, also author of My Mother, My Self and Women on Top, is appalled at how parents, especially mothers, instill in their children a deep fear of sexual pleasure, and she advises how to do away with this stultifying force. While Friday can get a little histrionic at times ("Women's lust ... could bring down not only individuals, but society itself"), that doesn't make this book any less enthralling. --Erica Jorgensen [via]
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My Year of Meatsby Ruth L. OzekiISBN 0670879045 (0-670-87904-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Year of Meats'Book summary:At first glance, a novel that promises to expose the unethical practices of the American meat industry may not be at the top of your reading list, but Ruth Ozeki's debut, My Year of Meats is well worth a second look. Like the author, the novel's protagonist, Jane Takagi-Little, is a Japanese-American documentary filmmaker; like Ozeki, who was once commissioned by a beef lobbying group to make television shows for the Japanese market, Jane is invited to work on a Japanese television show meant to encourage beef consumption via the not-so-subliminal suggestion that prime rib equals a perfect family:
TO: AMERICAN RESEARCH STAFF
FROM: Tokyo Office
DATE: January 5, 1991
RE: My American Wife!...
Here is list of IMPORTANT THINGS for My American Wife!
DESIRABLE THINGS:
1. Attractiveness, wholesomeness, warm personality
2. Delicious meat recipe (NOTE: Pork and other meats is second class meats, so please remember this easy motto: "Pork is Possible, but Beef is Best!")
3. Attractive, docile husband
4. Attractive, obedient children
5. Attractive, wholesome lifestyle
6. Attractive, clean house...
UNDESIRABLE THINGS:
1. Physical imperfections
2. Obesity
3. Squalor
4. Second class peoples
The series, My American Wife!, initally seems like a dream come true for Jane as she criss-crosses the United States filming a different American family each week for her Japanese audience. Naturally, the emphasis is on meat, and Ozeki has fun with out-there recipes such as rump roast in coke and beef fudge; but as Jane becomes more familiar with her subject, she becomes increasingly aware of the beef industry's widespread practice of using synthetic estrogens on their cattle and determines to sabotage the program.
Cut to Tokyo where Akiko Ueno struggles through the dull misery of life with her brutish husband, who happens to be in charge of the show's advertising. After seeing one of Jane's subversive episodes about a vegetarian lesbian couple, Akiko gets in touch and the two women plot to expose the meat industry's hazardous practices. Romance, humor, intrigue, and even a message--My Year of Meats has it all. This is a book that even a vegetarian would love. [via]
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Northanger Abbeyby Barbara M. Benedict, Deirdre Le FayeISBN 0521824192 (0-521-82419-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ 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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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0553211978 (0-553-21197-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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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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O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 055321358X (0-553-21358-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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On Beautyby Zadie SmithISBN 0670045276 (0-670-04527-6)
Hardcover, Viking Canada
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The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knightby Jack David Zipes, Stephane PoulinISBN 0553096990 (0-553-09699-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight : A Treasury of Modern Fairy Talesby Stephanie Poulin, Jack D. ZipesISBN 0553375148 (0-553-37514-8)
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Pageby Tamora PierceISBN 0606328092 (0-606-32809-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Parable of the Talentsby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0606218548 (0-606-21854-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0606342397 (0-606-34239-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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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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Politics of Womens' Liberationby Jo FreemanISBN 0582280095 (0-582-28009-5)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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Priestess of Avalonby Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. PaxsonISBN 0670910236 (0-670-91023-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Priestess of Avalon'Book summary:Not since The Mists of Avalon has there been such a powerful and mesmerizing portrait of goddess-powered womanhood and women's spirituality. In Priestess of Avalon, the legendary Marion Zimmer Bradley once again reaches back in time to create a magnificent prequel to her undying classic of Camelot.
Priestess of Avalon tells the timeless story of Eilan-known to the Romans as Helena-a British princess raised on the holy isle of Avalon as she grows from maiden to mother to wise woman. It is Helena's destiny-at a crucial turning point in Western history-to bridge the pagan world of the goddess and the new Christian empire founded by her own son, Constantine. When Helena embarks on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land she will find the intrinsic truth that transcends both the old religion and the new.
The legions of fans who cherish The Mists of Avalon will find its promise brought to rich fulfillment in Priestess of Avalon. For those new to the series, undreamed-of enchantment awaits. [via]More editions of Priestess of Avalon:
Raising the Stonesby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0553291165 (0-553-29116-5)
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The Republican War Against Women: An Insider's Report from Behind the Linesby Tanya MelichISBN 0553378163 (0-553-37816-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Rubyfruit Jungleby Rita Mae BrownISBN 055327886X (0-553-27886-X)
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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, Susan M. CockcroftISBN 0521567831 (0-521-56783-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ 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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Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk KiddISBN 0670032379 (0-670-03237-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Life of Bees'Book summary:In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler [via]
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See Jane Win : The Rimm Report on How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Womenby Sylvia Rimm, Sara Rimm-Kaufman, Ilonna RimmISBN 0609805606 (0-609-80560-6)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'See Jane Win : The Rimm Report on How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women'Book summary:See Jane Win is a parents' guide for turning girls into happy, successful women. Child psychologist Sylvia Rimm, along with her daughters--a research psychologist and a pediatric-oncology researcher--spent three and a half years collecting data and conducting interviews to devise the 20 basic points detailed in this book. Their conclusions were based in large part on a detailed questionnaire completed by over 1,400 women with successful careers in a variety of fields, including science and technology, media, the arts, medicine, law, and education. (Homemaking and volunteer work do receive some token attention, but there is a clear professional bias in their definition of success.) Their goal is to "identify the essential childhood elements that encouraged these women to achieve fulfilling careers" in order to alert other parents to them. In this, they achieve their aim. See Jane Win is well organized and informative. Even if some of the advice leans toward common sense, the combination of professional opinion and personal experience is an effective one, animating statistics that could otherwise be as dry as chalk dust.
In the Rimms' findings, education emerges as the key common denominator. High academic expectations, good study habits, strong math and science skills, and a love of reading (no television!) are all stressed. They also encourage parents to resist the urge to overprotect girls, and recommend fostering a healthy love of competition in order to build self-confidence. Indeed, self-esteem is a major underlying theme of the book. The authors discuss in detail how to combat eating disorders, social insecurities, and the negative image of women often portrayed in the media.
Overall, this is a useful compendium of sound advice and enlightening case studies that ultimately serves to underscore one vital point: Parents do make a difference. Sugar and spice are certainly nice, but See Jane Win offers a more substantial recipe for the raising of daughters. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Selected Poems of Anne Sextonby Anne Sexton, Diana Hume George, Diane Wood MiddlebrookISBN 0618057048 (0-618-05704-8)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Self-made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Againby Norah VincentISBN 0670034665 (0-670-03466-5)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Self-made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again'Book summary:Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me) and Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), Norah Vincent absorbed a cultural experience and reported back on what she observed incognito. For more than a year and a half she ventured into the world as Ned, with an ever-present five oclock shadow, a crew cut, wire-rim glasses, and her own size 111/2 shoesa perfect disguise that enabled her to observe the world of men as an insider. The result is a sympathetic, shrewd, and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism thats destined to challenge preconceptions and attract enormous attention.
With her buddies on the bowling league she enjoyed the rough and rewarding embrace of male camaraderie undetectable to an outsider. A stint in a high-octane sales job taught her the gut- wrenching pressures endured by men who would do anything to succeed. She frequented sex clubs, dated women hungry for love but bitter about men, and infiltrated all-male communities as hermetically sealed as a mens therapy group, and even a monastery. Narrated in her utterly captivating prose style and with exquisite insight, humor, empathy, nuance, and at great personal cost, Norah uses her intimate firsthand experience to explore the many remarkable mysteries of gender identity as well as who men are apart from and in relation to women. Far from becoming bitter or outraged, Vincent ended her journey astoundedand exhaustedby the rigid codes and rituals of masculinity. Having gone where no woman (who wasnt an aspiring or actual transsexual) has gone for any significant length of time, let alone eighteen months, Norah Vincents surprising account is an enthralling reading experience and a revelatory piece of anecdotally based gender analysis that is sure to spark fierce and fascinating conversation. [via]
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Sex Tips for Girlsby Cynthia HeimelISBN 0671477250 (0-671-47725-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasureby Lynne SegalISBN 0520200012 (0-520-20001-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Subversion of Women as Practiced by Churches, Witch-Hunters, and Other Sexistsby Nancy Van VuurenISBN 0664209726 (0-664-20972-6)
Hardcover, Westminster Press
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Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberationby Anna Coote, Beatrix CampbellISBN 0631125558 (0-631-12555-8)
Hardcover, Blackwell
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The Sweet Potato Queens' Big Ass Cookbook and Financial Plannerby Jill Conner BrowneISBN 060980877X (0-609-80877-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sweet Potato Queens' Big Ass Cookbook and Financial Planner'Book summary:Theyre wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, therere just never enough good timesor enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne is revealing her big-ass top secret recipesand the events that inspired themin The Sweet Potato Queens Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner). And, of course, shes dishing up plenty of hilarious stories, including:
" Queenly adventures in mothering
"The tiniest bit of plastic surgery
" The all-true story of the Cutest Boy in the World
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" Sound financial planning. Tip number one: Hope that Daddy lives forever. [via]More editions of The Sweet Potato Queens' Big Ass Cookbook and Financial Planner:
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The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Loveby Jill Conner BrowneISBN 0609804138 (0-609-80413-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love'Book summary:To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, their royal ringleader, Jill Conner Browne, introduces the Queens to the world with this sly, hilarious manifesto about love, life, men, and the importance of being prepared. Chapters include:
The True Magic Words Guaranteed to Get Any Man to Do Your Bidding
The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life at All Times
Men Who May Need Killing, Quite Frankly
What to Eat When Tragedy Strikes, or Just for Entertainment
And, of course:
The Best Advice Ever Given in the Entire History of the World
From tales of the infamous Sweet Potato Queens' Promise to the joys of Chocolate Stuff and Fat Mama's Knock You Naked Margaritas, this irreverent, shamelessly funny book is the gen-u-wine article.
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Tehanuby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0613495276 (0-613-49527-6)
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The Temple of My Familiarby Alice WalkerISBN 0671003763 (0-671-00376-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Temple of My Familiar'Book summary:In a story spanning 500,000 years and moving through England, Africa, and America, men, women, and animals share a spiritual world and come to understand the intricacies of their connecting lives. Reprint. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0553211684 (0-553-21168-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:In addition to presenting the complete text of Hardy's famous novel, this volume provides students with contextualizing historical essays by John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, and Mona Caird and a selection of modern critical essays. Additional works by Hardy include "On the Western Circuit" and the poem "Tess' Lament." [via]
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925by Vera BrittainISBN 0575024674 (0-575-02467-4)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925'Book summary:When war broke out in August 1914, 21-year-old Vera Brittain was planning on enrolling at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father told her she wouldn't be able to go: "In a few months' time we should probably all find ourselves in the Workhouse!" he opined. Brittain had hoped to escape the Northern provinces, but the war seemingly dashed her plans. "It is not, perhaps, so very surprising that the War at first seemed to me an infuriating personal interruption rather than a world-wide catastrophe."
Her father eventually relented, however, and she was allowed to attend. By the end of her first year, she had fallen in love with a young soldier and resolved to become active in the war effort by volunteering as a nurse--turning her back on what she called her "provincial young-ladyhood." Brittain suffered through 12-hour days by reminding herself that nothing she endured was worse than what her fiancé, Roland, experienced in the trenches. Roland was expected home on leave for Christmas 1915; on December 26, Brittain received news that he had been killed at the front. Ten months later Brittain herself was sent to Malta and then to France to serve in the hospitals nearer the front, where she witnessed firsthand the horrors of battle. When peace finally came, Brittain had also lost her brother Edward and two close friends. As she walked the streets of London on November 11, 1918--Armistice Day--she felt alone in the crowds:
For the first time I realised, with all that full realisation meant, how completely everything that had hitherto made up my life had vanished with Edward and Roland, with Victor and Geoffrey. The War was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were dead and would never return.
First published in 1933, Testament of Youth established Brittain as one of the best-loved authors of her time. Her crisp, clear prose and searing honesty make this unsentimental memoir of a generation scarred by war a classic. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0553239031 (0-553-23903-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tombs of Atuan'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this second book of Le Guin's Earthsea series, readers will meet Tenar, a priestess to the "Nameless Ones" who guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan. Only Tenar knows the passageways of this dark labyrinth, and only she can lead the young wizard Sparrowhawk, who stumbles into its maze, to the greatest treasure of all. Will she? [via]
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0553212435 (0-553-21243-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journeya journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature. [via]
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What It's Like to Live Nowby Meredith MaranISBN 0553374931 (0-553-37493-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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In What It's Like To Live Now, Meredith Maran explores the gap between the dreams of the '60s and the realities of the '90s, in a book filled with uncommon insight--and her own wickedly subversive sense of humor. Reading What It's Like To Live Now is like having dinner with your funniest, most unshockable woman friend. You won't want it to end. [via]More editions of What It's Like to Live Now:
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973by Leslie J. ReaganISBN 0520216571 (0-520-21657-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Women of Brewster Placeby Gloria NaylorISBN 0613176146 (0-613-17614-6)
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Women Together, Women Alone: The Legacy of the Consciousness-Raising Movementby Anita ShreveISBN 0670819107 (0-670-81910-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Women's Bible Commentaryby Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. RingeISBN 066425781X (0-664-25781-X)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's Bible Commentary'Book summary:In the critically acclaimed best-seller, Women's Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevence to women, focusing on female charecters, symbols, life situations such as marriage and family, the legal status of women, and religious principles that affect relationships of women and men. Now, this expanded edition provides similar insights on the Apocrypha, presenting a significant view of the lives and religious experiences of women as well as attitudes toward women in the Second Temple period. This expanded edition sets a new standard for women's and biblical studies.
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The Zanzibar Catby Joanna RussISBN 0671559060 (0-671-55906-0)
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