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American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Eraby E. Anthony RotundoISBN 0465001696 (0-465-00169-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Annotated Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard WolfISBN 0517530716 (0-517-53071-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated 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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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, Adam FrostISBN 048640062X (0-486-40062-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Arcadioby William GoyenISBN 0517550539 (0-517-55053-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 0486277860 (0-486-27786-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital infidelity. The poignant, lyrical story of a New Orleans wife who attempts to find love outside a stifling marriage, critics have praised it as a forerunner of the modern novel. New introductory Note.[via]More editions of The Awakening:
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Bastard Out of Carolinaby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452269571 (0-452-26957-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bastard Out of Carolina'Book summary:[via]Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright familyrough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furiousuntil their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.More editions of Bastard Out of Carolina:
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 045225230X (0-452-25230-X)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Toni Morrison gently reads her own Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the unabridged version of this riveting tale of ex-slave Sethe and the beloved ghost that haunts her. While Morrison makes occasional odd pauses in her reading, what is lost in smoothness is more than made up for in quiet intensity as the author reads words obviously deeply felt. Her intimate knowledge of the characters and their motivations lends this reading an authority that helps the listener sort out the breaks in time and dialogue in this complex story of a woman coming to terms with her enslaved past and the loss of her husband and baby daughter. (Running time: 12 hours, eight cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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Body of Guysby Garrison KeillorISBN 0517152770 (0-517-15277-0)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Body of Guys'Book summary:The Book of Guys features 22 very funny stories about "ordinary guys, gods, heroes, and dim bulbs," told in the friendly, conversational style of silver-tongued master storyteller Garrison Keillor, the host and writer of the popular radio show "Prairie Home Companion," author of Lake Wobegon Days, Happy To Be Here, and many other books.
"Guys are in trouble these days," says Keillor. "Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might have painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling are now just trying to be Mr. O.K. All-Rite, the man who can bake a cherry pie, be passionate in a skillful way, and yet also lift them bales and tote that barge."
In the book's introduction, a bunch of guys are drinking whiskey in the woods and singing mournful songs. One of them says, "I ain't no misogynist or chauvinist but I got to say, women are getting awfully impossible to please these days. . . . I quit playing softball and deer hunting and took up painting delicate watercolors, still lifes mostly, and tossing salads, and learned how to discuss issues and feelings and concerns and not make jokes about them, and they're still angry at me. A guy can't win . . . . So don't worry about it. Live your life. Oya! we all yelled."
This book is truly a hoot, even if you're not a guy. [via]
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Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Communityby Faye D. GinsburgISBN 0520064933 (0-520-06493-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community'Book summary:Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism.[via]More editions of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community:
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Emileby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, P.D. JimackISBN 0460873806 (0-460-87380-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile'Book summary:This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library. [via]
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Emile or Educationby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0460015184 (0-460-01518-4)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile or Education'Book summary:This philosophical romance called by Lord Morley 'one of the seminal books' and by others 'the child's charter,' has a new introduction by Andre Coutet de Monvel, Professor of French Literature, Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni. The work 'has been the inspirational source of every great educational reformer since the eighteenth century,' says Proffesor Boutet de Monvel but its influence has extended far beyond the confines of education, and its effect upon the ideas of several generations has covered a much wider sphere. Emile became indeed one of the major textbooks of the French Evolution and of European Romanticism, and Mirabeau ranked it among the masterpieces of the age. [via]
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Emile: Or, On Educationby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0465019315 (0-465-01931-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emile or on Education'Book summary:Two hundred years before Jean Piaget did a twenty year longitudinal study of his children, Rousseau did this longitudinal study of an imaginary child. This novel is a story of how Rousseau would have raised such a child placed in his charge. As full-time governor of Emile, Rousseau begins his study, not with the intent of discovering how the boy would grow into manhood, but with the conscious intent of shaping and controlling Emile's maturation. [via]
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The Essential Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf, Christopher BingISBN 0452269687 (0-452-26968-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Frankenstein'Book summary:Horror expert Wolf's sublime edition of this literary masterpiece features in-depth and extensive notes on all the novel's most interesting aspects, plus biographical information revealing how Mary Shelley's turbulent personal life influenced her work. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings. [via]
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The Essential Frankensteinby Robert JamesonISBN 0517069741 (0-517-06974-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 046001837X (0-460-01837-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Walter James MillerISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library 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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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0460875280 (0-460-87528-0)
Softcover, Everyman - Frankenstein: ISBN 0486282112 (0-486-28211-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Frankenstein: ISBN 0486415627 (0-486-41562-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Frankenstein: ISBN 0460871498 (0-460-87149-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 0517118807 (0-517-11880-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Frankenstein: ISBN 0517668424 (0-517-66842-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Frankenstein: ISBN 0520052811 (0-520-05281-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Barry MoserISBN 0520053176 (0-520-05317-6)
Hardcover, University of California Press
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Geishaby Liza Crihfield DalbyISBN 0520047427 (0-520-04742-7)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geisha'Book summary:In the mid-1970s, an American graduate student in anthropology joined the ranks of white-powdered geisha in Kyoto, Japan. Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district. [via]
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Genderspeak: Men, Women, and the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defenseby Suzette Haden ElginISBN 0471580163 (0-471-58016-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genderspeak: Men, Women, and the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense'Book summary:Communications guru Suzette Haden Elgin bridges the gender gap. In this groundbreaking book, the internationally acclaimed author of The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense helps you anticipate and avoid the frustrating conversational knots in which men and women all too often find themselves entangled. Picking up where other authors leave off, Suzette Haden Elgin arms you with her proven techniques for dealing effectively with verbal confrontation in your personal and professional lives. She zeroes in on how to:
* Identify the differences between women's and men's perceptions of the world and avoid the dangerous semantic traps they create
* Distinguish between innocent and willful misunderstandings--and what to do about them
* Read body language and use it as a powerful communications tool
* Recognize and put an end to the treacherous verbal games people play
Strikingly true-to-life dialogues and scenarios illustrate each point, covering nearly every argument and misunderstanding you've ever had with somebody of the opposite sex. Empowered with Elgin's proven techniques for dealing with these situations, you'll be prepared to take full control of any verbal confrontation with your co-workers, friends, and family. [via]More editions of Genderspeak: Men, Women, and the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense:
Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 6500-3500 B.C.: Myths, and Cult Imagesby Marija GimbutasISBN 0500272387 (0-500-27238-7)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 7000 to 3500 B. C.: Myths, Legends, and Cult Imagesby Marija GimbutasISBN 0520046552 (0-520-04655-2)
Softcover, University of California Press
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Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Genderby Rhoda Kesler UngerISBN 0471653578 (0-471-65357-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhoodby Kathleen GersonISBN 0520057457 (0-520-05745-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood'Book summary:How do women choose between work and family commitments? And what are the causes, limits, and consequences of the "subtle revolution" in women's choices over the 1960s and 1970s? To answer these questions, Kathleen Gerson analyzes the experiences of a carefully selected group of middle-class and working-class women who were young adults in the 1970s. Their informative life histories reveal the emerging social forces in American society that have led today's women to face several difficult choices.[via]More editions of Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood:
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Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Pastby Martha Vicinus, George Chauncey, Martin DubermanISBN 0453006892 (0-453-00689-2)
Hardcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past'Book summary:A collection of 30 essays which explore homosexuality in various cultures, and different eras, from late imperial China and Renaissance Italy to "Jazz-Age" America and from London to Harlem and Japan. Other chapters look at male prostitutes, cross-dressing and schoolgirl crushes in public schools. [via]
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Hidden from History : Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Pastby Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, Chauncey, George, Jr.ISBN 0452010675 (0-452-01067-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden from History : Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past'Book summary:Winner of two Lambda Rising Awards. "A landmark of a book and a landmark of ideas that will shatter ignorance and delusion."Catharine Stimpson.[via]More editions of Hidden from History : Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past:
How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945by Victoria De GraziaISBN 0520074572 (0-520-07457-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Howards Endby E. M. Forster, Marler, Regina (AFT), Benjamin DemottISBN 0451530462 (0-451-53046-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Invention of Heterosexualityby Jonathan N. Katz, Gore Vidal, Lisa DugganISBN 0452275423 (0-452-27542-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invention of Heterosexuality'Book summary:Exploring the history of heterosexual and homosexual concepts, a study examines the works of such professionals as Freud and the influence of the church while challenging current opinions about sexual identity. Reprint. [via]
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Lysistrataby Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith, Douglass ParkerISBN 0451527895 (0-451-52789-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lysistrata'Book summary:[via]This classic comedy from the 5th century BC concerns the vow of Greek women to withhold sex from their husbands until the men agree to end the disastrous wars between Athens and Sparta. An exuberant battle of the sexes with underlying anti-war theme. 
The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Centuryby Catherine Gallagher, Thomas LaqueurISBN 0520059611 (0-520-05961-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feelingby Arlie Russell HochschildISBN 0520054547 (0-520-05454-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling'Book summary:In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules" about what is owing to others in a given situation. Based on our private mutual understandings of feeling rules, we make a "gift exchange" of acts of emotion management. We bow to each other not simply from the waist, but from the heart.[via]
But what occurs when emotion work, feeling rules, and the gift of exchange are introduced into the public world of work? In search of the answer, Arlie Hochschild closely examines two groups of public-contact workers: flight attendants and bill collectors. The flight attendant's job is to deliver a service and create further demand for it, to enhance the status of the customer and be "nicer than natural." The bill collector's job is to collect on the service, and if necessary, to deflate the status of the customer by being "nastier than natural." Between these extremes, roughly one-third of American men and one-half of American women hold jobs that call for substantial emotional labor. In many of these jobs, they are trained to accept feeling rules and techniques of emotion management that serve the company's commercial purpose.
Just as we have seldom recognized or understood emotional labor, we have not appreciated it cost to those who do it for a living. Like a physical laborer who becomes estranged from what he or she makes, an emotional laborer, such as a flight attendant, can become estranged not only from her own expressions of feeling (her smile is not "her" smile), but also from what she actually feels (her managed friendliness). This estrangement, though a valuable defense against stress, is also an important occupational hazard, because it is through our feelings that we are connected with those around us.
On the basis of this book, Hochschild was featured in Key Sociological Thinkers, edited by Rob Stones. This book was also the winner of the Charles Cooley Award in 1983, awarded by the American Sociological Association and received an honorable mention for the C. Wright Mills Award.More editions of The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling:
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 0451529855 (0-451-52985-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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The Naked Civil Servantby Quentin CrispISBN 0452254132 (0-452-25413-2)
Softcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked Civil Servant'Book summary:In this autobiography, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence that led him to London. There in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality and comedy, of shortlived jobs and precarious relationships. All of which he faced with humour and intelligence. [via]
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0486290972 (0-486-29097-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages. [via]
Pornography: Men Possessing Womenby Andrea DworkinISBN 0452267935 (0-452-26793-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0460013203 (0-460-01320-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:Young Isabel Archer, a beautiful American, travels to Europe where her naivete and recent inheritance attracts many suitors. But despite her great promise, she falls victim to her own provincialism. Exposing the differences between the New and the Old Worlds, James's masterpiece examines the themes of freedom, sexuality, and betrayal.[via] -
The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Genderby Nancy ChodorowISBN 0520038924 (0-520-03892-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender'Book summary:When this best-seller was published, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The Reproduction of Mothering was chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the ten most influential books of the past twenty-five years. With a new preface by the author, this updated edition is testament to the formative effect that Nancy Chodorow's work continues to exert on psychoanalysis, social science, and the humanities.[via]More editions of The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender:
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0460010212 (0-460-01021-2)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via] 
Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 045225227X (0-452-25227-X)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sula'Book summary:Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." Her new novel has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes. Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour...at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it. Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate. Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them. Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home (the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance)...that a child drowned in the river years ago...that there was a plague of robins when she first returned... In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 0486297659 (0-486-29765-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0486415899 (0-486-41589-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:Thomas Hardy broke the boundaries of the acceptable Victorian heroine with "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", Victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy, Tess is a woman whose intense vitality flares unforgettably against the bleak background of a dying rural society. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and indelibly poignant beauty. This classic novel remains a triumph of literary art and a timeless commentary on the human condition. [via]
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Womanby Thomas HardyISBN 0451530276 (0-451-53027-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman'Book summary:Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin-a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. [via]
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The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, Barbara EverettISBN 0451527135 (0-451-52713-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra'Book summary:A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters-the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . . between an empire and love. Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare's supreme achievements. [via]
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sureby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452273404 (0-452-27340-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two or Three Things I Know for Sure'Book summary:Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.[via]
Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse.
As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence.More editions of Two or Three Things I Know for Sure:
Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0460012983 (0-460-01298-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:A classic, set during the Napoleonic wars, giving a satiricl picture of a worldly society and revolving around the exploits of two women from very different backgrounds. [via]
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Woman Hatingby Andrea DworkinISBN 0452268273 (0-452-26827-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Woman in Sexist Societyby GornickISBN 0451624599 (0-451-62459-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessnessby Vivian GornickISBN 0465091997 (0-465-09199-7)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Woman's Inhumanity to Womanby Phyllis CheslerISBN 0452284082 (0-452-28408-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Women In College: Shaping New Feminine Identitiesby Mirra KomarovskyISBN 0465091989 (0-465-09198-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920sby Kathleen M. BleeISBN 0520072634 (0-520-07263-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Alice HoffmanISBN 0451529251 (0-451-52925-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847. [via]
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Wuthering Heights and Poems: ISBN 0460002430 (0-460-00243-0)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0517227827 (0-517-22782-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Wuthering Heights and Poems: ISBN 0460873113 (0-460-87311-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0460012436 (0-460-01243-6)
Hardcover, E P Dutton - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0517606127 (0-517-60612-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0517643014 (0-517-64301-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0451529251 (0-451-52925-1)
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Wuthering Heightsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517415119 (0-517-41511-9)
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