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Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminismby Alison Assiter, Avedon CarolISBN 0745305245 (0-7453-0524-5)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophetsby Renita J. WeemsISBN 0800629485 (0-8006-2948-5)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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A Bed Of Red Flowers: In Search Of My Afghanistanby Nelofer PaziraISBN 0743281330 (0-7432-8133-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Beekeeper's Apprenticeby Laurie R. KingISBN 0783819323 (0-7838-1932-3)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beekeeper's Apprentice'Book summary:In 1915, long since retired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did he think to meet an intellect to match his ownuntil his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a very modern fifteen-year-old whose mental acuity is equaled only by her audacity, tenacity, and penchant for trousers and cloth caps.
Under Holmess tutelage, Russell hones her talent for deduction, disguises, and danger: in the chilling case of a landowners mysterious fever and in a kidnapping in the wilds of Wales. But her ultimate challenge is yet to come. Soon the two sleuths are on the trail of a murderer whose machinations scatter meaningless clues&but whose objective is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmess partnershipand their lives. [via]More editions of Beekeeper's Apprentice:
The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtuesby Susan GriffinISBN 0767904516 (0-7679-0451-6)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Cliffscomplete Shelley's Frankensteinby Stephen C. BehrendtISBN 0764587269 (0-7645-8726-9)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete Shelley's Frankenstein'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]CliffsComplete Frankenstein is certainly Mary Shelleys greatest literary achievement and one of the most complex literary works of all time. Unlike most Romantic writers, Mary Shelley seems interested in the dark, self-destructive side of human reality and the human soul.
Discover how Dr. Frankensteins creation impacts everyone he meets and save yourself valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of Frankenstein with these additional features:
- A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter
- Bibliography and historical background on the author, Mary Shelley
- A look at the historical context and structure of the novel
- Discussions on the novels symbols and themes
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
- A ResourceCenter full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 0739326740 (0-7393-2674-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Da Vinci Code'Book summary:With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.
A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his daughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's father's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself.
Brown (Angels and Demons) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown's hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture's greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa's smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown's conjectures, therein lies the fun. The Da Vinci Code is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
Dancing Girls and Other Storiesby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0771008104 (0-7710-0810-4)
Hardcover, McClelland and Stewart
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The Daughter's Seductionby Jane GallopISBN 0801414938 (0-8014-1493-8)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debatesby Michele Barrett, Anne PhillipsISBN 0745607950 (0-7456-0795-0)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theoryby Carole PatemanISBN 0745607896 (0-7456-0789-6)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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Emma Bovaryby Harold BloomISBN 0791009351 (0-7910-0935-1)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The Essential Frankensteinby Leonard Wolf, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Christopher H. BingISBN 0743498062 (0-7434-9806-2)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Frankenstein'Book summary:Here is the complete original text of Mary Shelley's classic 1816 novel, fully annotated with thousands of fascinating facts and legends. Includes: background on the Romantic spirit that infuses the novel; commentary by leading contemporary writers; a selected filmography of major Frankenstein films; and dozens of illustrations. [via]
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Eternal Frontierby James H. Schmitz, Eric FlintISBN 0743435591 (0-7434-3559-1)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eternal Frontier'Book summary:Earth's colonists have divided into the Swimmers, who spend their entire lives in zero-gravity and claim to be the next step in evolution, and the planet-dwelling Walkers. The Swimmers regard those who prefer to live on the surface of a planet as little better than unevolved apes, while the Walkers are not about to say farewell to the planets they grew up on, and think the Swimmers are not advanced at all, but merely deranged. Crowell, born a Swimmer but now a Walker by choice, is caught in the middle as the two sides prepare for war. Then he discovers the true cause of the altercation: a hidden alien race trying to provoke a war of extinction. [via]
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The Eye of the Heronby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0765346125 (0-7653-4612-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Feminist Theology/Christian Theology: In Search of Methodby Pamela Dickey YoungISBN 0800624025 (0-8006-2402-5)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Graceby Serene JonesISBN 080062694X (0-8006-2694-X)
Softcover, Fortkamp Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace'Book summary:This long-awaited text charts clearly and comprehensively the enormously important area of feminist theory -- and brings it into fruitful conversation with Christian theology. Jones introduces the primary concerns that animate feminist theory through discussion of critical texts and through women's narratives. She shows how they pose uncomfortable questions, and leave no corner of the Christian tradition unchallenged. Jones unfolds feminist theory in three broad categories that analyze human identity and gender, oppression, and ethics. She then illustrates their potential for illuminating theological categories of experience, truth, text, and norm to revitalize three key traditional Christian doctrines: faith, sin, and church. [via]
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Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Genderby John Gordon StackhouseISBN 0801031303 (0-8010-3130-3)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Forbidden Towerby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0727845896 (0-7278-4589-6)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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Foucault and Feminism: Power, Gender and the Selfby Lois McNayISBN 0745609392 (0-7456-0939-2)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Margaret BrantleyISBN 0743487583 (0-7434-8758-3)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Softcover, Edc Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 076660828X (0-7666-0828-X)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 0791093034 (0-7910-9303-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File - Frankenstein: ISBN 074325578X (0-7432-5578-X)
Softcover, Kaplan - Frankenstein: ISBN 0721408133 (0-7214-0813-3)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd - Frankenstein: ISBN 0743487583 (0-7434-8758-3)
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0794500900 (0-7945-0090-0)
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Frankensteinby Harold BloomISBN 0791078825 (0-7910-7882-5)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0762405457 (0-7624-0545-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Free to Be ... You and Meby Marlo ThomasISBN 0762413069 (0-7624-1306-9)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free to Be ... You and Me'Book summary:Originally published in 1974, this spectacular collection of stories, songs, poems, and illustrations is packed with enough inspiration to span several generations. But be warned--if you are revisiting the delights held within these fuchsia covers, you may find it difficult to contain your glee. Recalling songs like "It's All Right to Cry" (sung by football star Rosie Greer on the original album), "Parents Are People," and of course, the titular "Free to Be... You and Me," may inspire irrepressible crooning.
This wondrous collection was created by Marlo Thomas and contains introductions by Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, stories and poems by Shel Silverstein, Judy Blume, Carl Reiner, Charlotte Zolotow, and Judith Viorst, among others, and an afterward by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. With such stellar contributors, it's not surprising that Free to Be... You and Me has won critical acclaim since its publication. The Los Angeles Times notes that it "challenged racial, sexist, and economic stereotypes for children ... became a beloved national bestseller--and made it okay for boys to have dolls and girls to be good at sports." The Washington Post has called it "an immensely diverse and imaginatively arranged collection," while the New York Times Book Review deemed it "a positive, refreshing book for children and adults that tells you not who you should be ... but who you can be." Indeed, the concepts espoused by this book go beyond what is glibly referred to as "politically correct," and offer a simple, hopeful vision for humanity.
This reissue will appeal to people of all ages--those who remember reading it to their children and grandchildren in the 1970s, those who have fond memories of growing up with this book close at hand, and those who are exploring its illuminating content for the first time. Enjoy, one and all. [via]
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Free to Be You and Me : Stories, Songs, and Poemsby Marlo ThomasISBN 0762403500 (0-7624-0350-0)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free to Be You and Me : Stories, Songs, and Poems'Book summary:A delightful 25th-anniversary souvenir of the classic New York Times bestseller, our Miniature Edition" of Marlo Thomas's Free to Be... You and Me is packed with the same playful, inclusive, identity-affirming stories, songs, and poems that made the original such a hit. Also available: The original 1974 classic[via]More editions of Free to Be You and Me : Stories, Songs, and Poems:
From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zinesby Trina Robbins, Carla SinclairISBN 0756781205 (0-7567-8120-5)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Genderby R. W. ConnellISBN 0745627161 (0-7456-2716-1)
Softcover, Polity Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender'Book summary:How can we understand the gender patterns of modern society? Are gender identities unstable? How do masculinities and femininities develop? Do gender patterns change under globalization? In this book R. W. Connell, one of the world's leading scholars in the field, answers these questions, and more. He provides a readable introduction to modern gender studies, gender theories, and gender politics. He presents contemporary classics of research, traces the history of Western intellectuals' ideas, and discusses current findings on gender differences, inequalities and patterns in the state and corporations.
However, the book is more than an introduction. It provides a powerful contemporary framework for gender studies, based on a synthesis of structural and post-structural analysis. Connell demonstrates the multidimensional and dynamic character of gender relations. He shows how to link individual life with large-scale social patterns, and how to locate gendered bodies in the historical process that constantly transforms gender relations. He also shows, in a deeply personal way, how gender politics arises in personal life and why we need to address injustice. [via] 
The Goddess Revivalby Aida Besancon SpencerISBN 0801083850 (0-8010-8385-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Hip Mama Survival Guide: Advice from the Trenches on Pregnancy, Childbirth, Cool Names, Clueless Doctors, Potty Training, Toddler Avengers, Domestic Mayhem, Support Groups, riby Ariel GoreISBN 0786882328 (0-7868-8232-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0747560870 (0-7475-6087-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House on Mango Street'Book summary:Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, The House On Mango Street is the story of Esperanza Cordera, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. For Esperanza, Mango Street is a desolate landscape of concrete and run-down tenements where she discovers the hard realities of life - the fetters of class and gender, the spectre of racial enmity and the mysteries of sexuality. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, Esperanza is able to rise above hopelessness and create for herself "a house all of my own quiet as snow, a space for myself to go" in the midst of her oppressive surroundings. [via]
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I Am...: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Storiesby Althalya BrennerISBN 0800636651 (0-8006-3665-1)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Icons, Saints & Divas: Intimate Conversations with Women Who Changed the Worldby Susan MitchellISBN 073225731X (0-7322-5731-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Infidelby Ayaan Hirsi AliISBN 0743289684 (0-7432-8968-4)
Hardcover, Free Pr
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Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studiesby Sheila RuthISBN 0767416449 (0-7674-1644-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Jinian Footseerby Sheri TepperISBN 0765346192 (0-7653-4619-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Justice Hallby Laurie R. KingISBN 0786239530 (0-7862-3953-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justice Hall'Book summary:A lost heir, murder most foul, and the unexpected return of two old friends start Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes--spouses and intellectual equals--on an investigation that takes them from the trenches of World War I France to the heights of English society. In this sixth entry in Laurie King's award-winning series, fans will find the Baker Street sleuth mellowed by age and marriage yet still in possession of his deductive abilities and acerbic wit, and, in Mary Russell, a surprisingly apt companion for the legendary detective.
Justice Hall brings back two colorful characters from earlier in the series: Bedouins Ali and Mahmoud Hazr (now known as Alistair and Marsh), who last appeared in O Jerusalem. At their request, Holmes and Russell take up the trail of the doomed heir to Justice Hall, who has been executed for cowardice in the bloody trenches of France. As the detectives strive to make sense of his death and to locate another heir to the family title, an attempt is made on the life of the man who's soon to be welcomed as the new duke. Holmes and Russell soon realize something sinister is afoot, and that they must untangle a web of deceit to discover which of the many suspects is taking steps to shorten the line of inheritance. Once again, King's satisfying tale stays true to the spirit of Conan Doyle's original stories while extending them into new terrain. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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Life So Farby Betty FriedanISBN 0743200241 (0-7432-0024-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life So Far : A Memoir'Book summary:Betty Friedan has given us another terrific and bravely written book--this time, it's a personal memoir from a woman who changed the world. Her many professional accomplishments are detailed here, from her beginning as a labor reporter to the creation of The Feminine Mystique and the organization of NOW, as well as all the fascinating travel, marches, writings, and controversies that have become her career. Told with characteristic straightforwardness, her personal and professional lives are comfortably mixed in every chapter: the death of the ERA occurred at the same time she found her dream home, and Indira Gandhi and Friedan had a relationship that mixed political admiration with a similar fashion sense. Her messy divorce and lack of child support is detailed without bitterness, while her well-publicized differences with Phyllis Schlafly are described in an illuminating and entertaining manner. The tone is both intelligent and conversational--there are no heroes in this book, but no one is a total villain either. Personal recollections of various politicians, activists, and events offer strong opinions, such as Friedan's belief that the National Women's Conference of 1977 was nearly derailed by right-wing ERA opposition, rather than the unexpected lesbian-rights organization that presented itself so strongly during the Houston convention. Divisions within the larger force of feminism are addressed simply--Friedan is first a pragmatist, and was often at odds with the famous sexual-politic theorists of the '70s. Wise and encouraging, Life So Far is a fascinating read for feminists and fans of all varieties. --Jill Lightner [via]
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Like Water for Chocolateby Laura EsquivelISBN 0785721665 (0-7857-2166-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This novel includes recipes, romances, and home remedies. [via]
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Like Water for Chocolateby Thomas Christensen, Laura Esquivel, Carol ChristensenISBN 0792717848 (0-7927-1784-8)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Male Fantasies: Women, Floods, Bodies, Historyby Klaus TheweleitISBN 0745603831 (0-7456-0383-1)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0755331478 (0-7553-3147-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israelby Phyllis A. BirdISBN 0800631285 (0-8006-3128-5)
Softcover, Fortress Pr
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0748662529 (0-7486-6252-9)
Softcover, Polygon
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'Book summary:Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an African detective, Precious Ramotswe, who's their full-fledged heir.
It's the detective as folk hero, solving crimes through an innate, self-possessed wisdom that, combined with an understanding of human nature, invariably penetrates into the heart of a puzzle. If Miss Marple were fat and jolly and lived in Botswana--and decided to go against any conventional notion of what an unmarried woman should do, spending the money she got from selling her late father's cattle to set up a Ladies' Detective Agency--then you have an idea of how Precious sets herself up as her country's first female detective. Once the clients start showing up on her doorstep, Precious enjoys a pleasingly successful series of cases.
But the edge of the Kalahari is not St. Mary Mead, and the sign Precious orders, painted in brilliant colors, is anything but discreet. Pointing in the direction of the small building she had purchased to house her new business, it reads "THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY. FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES. UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT."
The solutions she comes up with, whether in the case of the clinic doctor with two quite different personalities (depending on the day of the week), or the man who had joined a Christian sect and seemingly vanished, or the kidnapped boy whose bones may or may not be those in a witch doctor's magic kit, are all sensible, logical, and satisfying. Smith's gently ironic tone is full of good humor towards his lively, intelligent heroine and towards her fellow Africans, who live their lives with dignity and with cautious acceptance of the confusions to which the world submits them. Precious Ramotswe is a remarkable creation, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency well deserves the praise it received from London's Times Literary Supplement. I look forward with great eagerness to the upcoming books featuring the memorable Miss Ramotswe, Tears of the Giraffe and Morality for Beautiful Girls, soon to be available in the U.S. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition For A New Eraby Boston Women's Health Book CollectiveISBN 0743256115 (0-7432-5611-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0755331494 (0-7553-3149-4)
Softcover, Headline Book Publishing
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Pledged: The Secret Life Of Sororitiesby Alexandra RobbinsISBN 0786888598 (0-7868-8859-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pledged: The Secret Life Of Sororities'Book summary:Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller-with over 91,000 copies in print-that takes you behind closed doors to see what really goes on in America's sororities. Ever wonder what sorority life is really like In Pledged, bestselling author Alexandra Robbins goes undercover to expose the dark side of collegiate sisterhood-the psychological abuse, hazing rituals, and widespread body image disorders-while at the same time introducing us to many of the intelligent, successful women within its ranks. The result is a compelling sociological exploration of the powerful influence that these organizations wield over young women today. With its fly-on-the-wall voyeurism and remarkable insight, Pledged paints a sharp-eyed portrait of the intriguing and paradoxical world of modern-day sororities. [via]
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Princess Sultana's Daughtersby Jean SassonISBN 0786202017 (0-7862-0201-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryantby Mary DearbornISBN 0735101469 (0-7351-0146-9)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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Reading Lacanby Jane GallopISBN 0801415853 (0-8014-1585-3)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthologyby Estelle DischISBN 0767410025 (0-7674-1002-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewingby Isabel Cristina PinedoISBN 0791434427 (0-7914-3442-7)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing'Book summary:In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary horror film speaks to the cultural need to express rage and terror in the midst of social upheaval.
Through interpretations of a number of horror films including The Thing, The Wizard of Gore, The Stepfather, and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Pinedo looks at how the postmodern elements of the contemporary horror film produce the conditions for recreational terror. [via]
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The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendtby Seyla BenhabibISBN 0742521516 (0-7425-2151-6)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Modelsby Constance JordanISBN 0801421632 (0-8014-2163-2)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectivesby Patrice M. BuzzanellISBN 0761912797 (0-7619-1279-7)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteemby Bell HooksISBN 0743456068 (0-7434-5606-8)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across Americaby Lily BuranaISBN 0786886757 (0-7868-8675-7)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The Third Life of Grange Copelandby Alice WalkerISBN 0743418239 (0-7434-1823-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Tiny Ladies In Shiny Pantsby Jill SolowayISBN 0743272188 (0-7432-7218-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants : Based on a True Storyby Jill SolowayISBN 074327217X (0-7432-7217-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants : Based on a True Story'Book summary:When Jill Soloway was just thirteen, she and her best friend donned the tightest satin pants they could find, poufed up their hair and squeezed into Candies heels, then headed to downtown Chicago in search of their one-and-only true loves forever: the members of whichever rock band was touring through town. Never mind that both girls still had braces, coke-bottle-thick glasses and had only just bought their first bras...they were fabulous, they felt beautiful, they were "tiny ladies in shiny pants."
Now that Jill is all grown up and a successful writer and producer, she can look back on her tiny self and share her shiny tales with fondness, absurdity and obsessive-compulsive attention to even the most embarrassing details. From the highly personal (conflating her own loss of virginity and the Kobe Bryant accusations), to the political (what she has in common with Monica and Chandra), to the outrageously Los Angelean (why women wear huge diamonds and what they must do to get them), "Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants" is a genre-defying combination of personal essay and memoir, or a hilarious, unruly and unapologetic evaluation of society, religion, sex, love, and -- best of all -- Jill.
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Tori Amos: Piece by Piece A Portrait of the Artist Her Thoughts, Her Conversationsby Ann Powers, Tori AmosISBN 0767916778 (0-7679-1677-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tori Amos: Piece by Piece A Portrait of the Artist Her Thoughts, Her Conversations'Book summary:From her critically acclaimed 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes, to the recent hit, Scarlets Walk, Tori Amos has been a formidable force in contemporary music, with one of the most dedicated fan bases in the industry. In Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, the singer herself takes readers beyond the mere facts, explaining the specifics of her creative processhow her songs go from ideas and melodies to recordings and passionately performed concert pieces.
Written with acclaimed music journalist Ann Powers, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece is a firsthand account of the most intricate and intimate details of Amoss life as both a private individual and a very public performing musician. In passionate and informative prose, Amos explains how her songs come to her and how she records and then performs them for audiences everywhere, all the while connecting with listeners across the world and maintaining her own family life (which includes raising a young daughter). But it is also much more, a verbal collage made by two strong female voices and the voices of those closest to Amosthat calls upon genealogy, myth, and folklore to express Amoss unique and fascinating personal history. In short, we see the pieces that make up as Amos herself puts it the woman we call Tori.
With photos taken especially for this book by the photographer Loren Haynes, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece is a rare treat for both Tori listeners and newcomers alike, a look into the heart and mind of an extraordinary musician. [via]More editions of Tori Amos: Piece by Piece A Portrait of the Artist Her Thoughts, Her Conversations:
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Unlessby Carol ShieldsISBN 0786245999 (0-7862-4599-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unless'Book summary:"A life is full of isolated events," writes Carol Shields near the end of Unless, "but these events, if they are to form a coherent narrative, require odd pieces of language to link them together, little chips of grammar (mostly adverbs or prepositions) that are hard to define... words like therefore, else, other, also, thereof, therefore, instead, otherwise, despite, already, and not yet." Shield's explanation for her novel's title lends meaning to this multilayered narrative in which a mother's grief over a daughter's break with the family revises her feminist outlook and pushes her craft as a writer in a new direction.
The oldest daughter of 44-year-old Reta Winters suddenly, inexplicably, drops out of college and ends up on a Toronto street corner panhandling, with a cardboard sign around her neck that reads "goodness." The quiet comforts of Reta's small-town life and the constancy of her feminist perspective sustain her hope that her daughter will snap out of this, whatever "this" is. Threaded into her family's crisis is her ongoing internal elegy on the exclusion of women from the literary canon, which she transposes to mean her daughter's exclusion from humanity. Reta wonders if her daughter has discovered, as she herself did years before, that the world is "an endless series of obstacles, an alignment of locked doors," and has chosen to pursue the one thing that doesn't require power or a voice: goodness.
In her own writing, Reta reaffirms her own sense of self, as well as her sense of humor. As her theoretical reflections on modern womanhood play counterpoint to her unwavering sense of creating a home and keeping her family together, Reta's smarts and fears form a wonderfully coherent narrative--a life worth reading about. With Unless, the inaugural title in HarperCollins's Fourth Estate imprint, Shields (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Stone Diaries) once again asserts her place in the canon. --Emily Russin [via]
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Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspectiveby Shelia JeffreysISBN 0745628389 (0-7456-2838-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistanceby Cheryl BenardISBN 0767913019 (0-7679-1301-9)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance'Book summary:In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A womans slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and incredible that the sole effective civil resistance to Taliban rule was made by women. Veiled Courage reveals the remarkable bravery and spirit of the women of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), whose daring clandestine activities defied the forces of the Taliban and earned the worlds fierce admiration.
The complete subordination of women was one of the first acts of the Taliban. But the women of RAWA refused to cower. They used the burqa to their advantage, secretly photographing Taliban beatings and executions, and posting the gruesome pictures on their multi-language website, rawa.org, which is read around the world. They organized to educate girls and women in underground schools and to run small businesses in the border towns of Pakistan that allowed widows to support their families.
If caught, any RAWA activist would have faced sure death. Yet they persisted.
With the overthrow of the Taliban now a reality, RAWA faces a new challenge: defeating the powers of Islamic fundamentalism of which the Taliban are only one face and helping build a society in which women are guaranteed full human rights.
Cheryl Benard, an American sociologist and an important advisor to RAWA, uses her inside access to write the first behind-the-scenes story of RAWA and its remarkably brave women. Veiled Courage will change the way Americans think of Afghanistan, casting its people and its future in a new, more hopeful light. [via]More editions of Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance:
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West With the Nightby Beryl MarkhamISBN 0785777032 (0-7857-7703-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'West With the Night'Book summary:One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following, resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern life:
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.
Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa in 1906. She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children and apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses. In the 1930s, she became an African bush pilot, and in September 1936, became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. [via]More editions of West With the Night:
What Is Feminism?: An Introduction to Feminist Theoryby Chris BeasleyISBN 0761963359 (0-7619-6335-9)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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White Jennaby Jane YolenISBN 0765343584 (0-7653-4358-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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White, Male and Middle Class : Explorations in Feminism and Historyby Catherine HallISBN 0745609562 (0-7456-0956-2)
Softcover, Polity Press
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Wilderness Tipsby Atwood, Margaret AtwoodISBN 0771008198 (0-7710-0819-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Women & Children First: A Provocative Look at Modern Canadian Women at Work and at Homeby Michele LandsbergISBN 0771597266 (0-7715-9726-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan of Canada
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Women Caught in the Conflict: The Culture War Between Traditionalism and Feminismby Rebecca Merrill GroothuisISBN 0801063043 (0-8010-6304-3)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Women's Mysteries: Ancient and Modernby M. Esther HardingISBN 0766132730 (0-7661-3273-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Women's Voices: A Documentary History of Women in Americaby Lorie Jenkins McElroyISBN 0787606650 (0-7876-0665-0)
Hardcover, Gale Group
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The Word for World Is Forestby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 076534985X (0-7653-4985-X)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily Brontd, Caroline Plaisted, Jennifer DonnellyISBN 0747587507 (0-7475-8750-7)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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