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Anne of Inglesideby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0808516957 (0-8085-1695-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Ingleside'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Anne, now a joyful wife and mother, returns to visit the fishing village of Avonlea in this portrayal of family life on picturesque Prince Edward Island. [via]
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Anne of Windy Poplarsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0808516965 (0-8085-1696-5)
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Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dreamby Barbara EhrenreichISBN 0805081240 (0-8050-8124-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Through over three decades of journalism and activism and over a dozen books, Barbara Ehrenreich has been one of the most consistent and imaginative chroniclers of class in America, but it was her bestselling 2001 book, Nickel and Dimed, a undercover expose of the day-to-day struggles of the working poor, that has been the most influential work of her career. Now, with Bait and Switch, she has gone undercover again, this time as a middle-aged professional trying to get a white-collar job in corporate America. We asked her a few questions about what she found: Amazon.com: Your previous book, Nickel and Dimed, became a blockbuster bestseller with a classic "there but for the grace of God go I" liberal message just when the general political mood of the country seemed to be going in a very different direction. Why do you think it struck such a chord? What sorts of reactions have you gotten to it over the past four years?
Barbara Ehrenreich: A lot of Nickel and Dimed readers are people who regularly inhabit the low-wage work world, and many of them write to tell me that the book affirmed their experience and made them feel less alone and ignored. Other readers though, are affluent people who write to say I opened their eyes to a world they'd been unaware of. For those people, I think one appealing feature of Nickel and Dimed is that it's a personal narrative that gives them a look at lives lived at the margins of their own. The most gratifying response has been from people who tell me the book inspired them to become activists for things like a living wage or affordable housing.
Amazon.com: At what point did you realize that your new book, Bait and Switch, in which you went undercover again, this time to tell a story of working in corporate America, was instead becoming one of not working in corporate America? Is that the story you expected to tell?
Ehrenreich: My initial aim was not "to tell a story of working in corporate America" but to try to understand the human underside of corporate America--the job insecurity, the constant layoffs and downsizings that now occur even in the best of times. I expected to get a job and hence an inside view, but I always knew that that would be very difficult. After about 4-5 months of job searching, I began to get seriously discouraged, but I also came to understand that a fruitless search is in fact a very common experience. After all, today 44 percent of the long-term unemployed are white collar folks--an unusually high percentage. It's their world I entered, and their story that I tell in Bait and Switch.
Amazon.com: For someone with a white-collar career, you didn't have much experience in corporate culture before you attempted to join it for this book. What surprised you the most about what you found?
Ehrenreich: What surprised me most, right from day one of my job search, was the surreal nature of the job searching business. For example, everyone, from corporations to career coaches, relies heavily on "personality tests" which have no scientific credibility or predictive value. One test revealed that I have a melancholy and envious nature and, for some reason, was unsuited to be a writer! And what does "personality" have to do with getting the job done, anyway? There's far less emphasis on skills and experience than on whether you have the prescribed upbeat and likeable persona. I kept wondering: Is this any way to run a business? I was also surprised--and disgusted--by the constant victim-blaming you encounter among coaches, at networking events for the unemployed, and in the business advice books. You're constantly told that whatever happens to you is the result of your attitude or even your "thought forms"--not a word about the corporate policies that lead to so much turmoil and misery.
Amazon.com: You seemed to make much closer ties with your fellow workers in Nickel and Dimed than you did on the white-collar job hunt. What was different this time?
Ehrenreich: You're right--there is a difference. But it's not so much a matter of personalities as it is about two different worlds. There's a lot of camaraderie in the blue-collar world I entered in Nickel and Dimed. People help each other and look out for each other; they laugh together--often at the managers. The white-collar world doesn't encourage camaraderie, far from it. There it's all about competition and fear--of losing one's job, for one thing. Other people are seen as sources of contacts or tips, at best; as competitors or rivals, at worst. And among the unemployed add shame and a sense of personal failure, the constant message that it's all your own fault. All this discourages any solidarity with others or real openness.
Amazon.com: God forbid anyone would come to your book as a guide for finding a white-collar job, but what advice would you give to someone in the shoes you put yourself in: a middle-aged professional woman, in fear of falling irrevocably out of touch with the world of the regularly employed?
Ehrenreich: You don't think I'd make a good career coach? OK, but I have three pieces of advice for the middle-aged, middle-class job seeker anyway:
One, be very careful how you spend your money and time. Since the mid-90s, a whole industry has sprung up to help--or, depending on your point of view, prey upon--white-collar job seekers. The "professionals" in this business are usually entirely unlicensed and unregulated. Also, watch out for events billed as "networking" opportunities that really have another agenda--like recruiting you into expensive coaching or proselytizing you into a particular religion.
Two, don't count on the internet job sites to find you a job or even an interview. On any of these sites, your resume will be competing with hundreds of thousands of others, and most large companies today don't even bother reading online resumes; they have computer programs scan them for keywords (and you won't know what those keywords are.)
Three, and most important: stop believing that it's your own fault. That's the first step to recognizing the common problems facing white-collar workers and responding to them. I'd be thrilled if this book, like Nickel and Dimed, also inspires readers to get involved and become active in efforts to make life a little easier for the growing numbers of people who are unemployed, underemployed, or anxiously employed. What could they do? Lobby for universal health insurance that's not tied to a job, for example. Fight for extended unemployment benefits. Raise their voices to complain about corporate tax breaks and subsidies that are justified in terms of "job creation" but often go to companies that are busy laying people off. One major reason job loss is so catastrophic is that we just don't have much of a safety net in this country. That has to change, and who's going to make it change, if not people like those I met in Bait and Switch? I've got a new website, barbaraehrenreich.com, and I'd like to hear from readers--both their stories and their ideas for how to take action.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
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Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Presentby Linda Grant De PauwISBN 0806132884 (0-8061-3288-4)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Booty : Girl Pirates on the High Seasby Sara Lorimer, Susan SynarskiISBN 0811832376 (0-8118-3237-6)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guideby Janet ToddISBN 0804433348 (0-8044-3334-8)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Storiesby Angela Carter, Salman RushdieISBN 0805044620 (0-8050-4462-0)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Celia: A Slaveby Melton McLaurinISBN 0820313521 (0-8203-1352-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Celia: A Slave'Book summary:Illuminating the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society, this book tells the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her master and ultimately executed for his murder.[via]Celia was only fourteen years old when she was acquired by John Newsom, an aging widower and one of the most prosperous and respected citizens of Callaway County, Missouri. The pattern of sexual abuse that would mark their entire relationship began almost immediately. After purchasing Celia in a neighboring county, Newsom raped her on the journey back to his farm. He then established her in a small cabin near his house and visited her regularly (most likely with the knowledge of the son and two daughters who lived with him). Over the next five years, Celia bore Newsom two children; meanwhile, she became involved with a slave named George and resolved at his insistence to end the relationship with her master. When Newsom refused, Celia one night struck him fatally with a club and disposed of his body in her fireplace.
Her act quickly discovered, Celia was brought to trial. She received a surprisingly vigorous defense from her court-appointed attorneys, who built their case on a state law allowing women the use of deadly force to defend their honor. Nevertheless, the court upheld the tenets of a white social order that wielded almost total control over the lives of slaves. Celia was found guilty and hanged.
Melton A. McLaurin uses Celia's story to reveal the tensions that strained the fabric of antebellum southern society. Celia's case demonstrates how one master's abuse of power over a single slave forced whites to make moral decisions about the nature of slavery. McLaurin focuses sharply on the role of gender, exploring the degree to which female slaves were sexually exploited, the conditions that often prevented white women from stopping such abuse, and the inability of male slaves to defend slave women. Setting the case in the context of the 1850s slavery debates, he also probes the manner in which the legal system was used to justify slavery. By granting slaves certain statutory rights (which were usually rendered meaningless by the customary prerogatives of masters), southerners could argue that they observed moral restraint in the operations of their peculiar institution.
An important addition to our understanding of the pre-Civil War era, Celia, A Slave is also an intensely compelling narrative of one woman pushed beyond the limits of her endurance by a system that denied her humanity at the most basic level.
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Circle of Womenby Kim Barnes, Mary Clearman BlewISBN 0806133678 (0-8061-3367-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Corregidoraby Gayl JonesISBN 0807063150 (0-8070-6315-0)
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The Descent of Womanby Elaine MorganISBN 0812814584 (0-8128-1458-4)
Hardcover, Stein and Day
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurantby Anne TylerISBN 080410882X (0-8041-0882-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.... [via]More editions of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant:
Earthly Possessionsby Anne TylerISBN 0804108897 (0-8041-0889-7)
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Etty Hillesum: An Interupted Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerborkby Etty Hillesum, Eva HoffmanISBN 0805050876 (0-8050-5087-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Wordsby Lynn SherrISBN 0812927184 (0-8129-2718-4)
Softcover, Times Books
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Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Wordsby Susan B. Anthony, Lynn SherrISBN 0812924304 (0-8129-2430-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Fair and Tender Ladiesby Lee SmithISBN 081614785X (0-8161-4785-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The First Ladies Cook Book: Favorite Recipes of All the Presidents of the United Statesby Margaret Brown Klapthor, Bullock, Helen Claire (Duprey)ISBN 0819308242 (0-8193-0824-2)
Hardcover, Parents' Magazine Press
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Gender & Grace: Love Work & Parenting in a Changing Worldby Mary Stewart Van LeeuwenISBN 0830812970 (0-8308-1297-0)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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Girl Cultureby Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Lauren GreenfieldISBN 0811837904 (0-8118-3790-4)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl Culture'Book summary:Renowned photographer Lauren Greenfield has won acclaim and awards for her studies of youth culture. In Girl Culture, she combines a photojournalists sense of story with fine-art composition and color to create an astonishing and intelligent exploration of American girls. Her photographs provide a window into the secret worlds of girls social lives and private rituals, the dressing room and locker room, as well as the iconic subcultures of the popular clique: cheerleaders, showgirls, strippers, debutantes, actresses, and models. With 100 hypnotic photographs, 20 interviews with the subjects, and an introduction by foremost historian of American girlhood Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Greenfield reveals the exhibitionist nature of modern femininity and how far it has drifted from the feminine ideologies of the past. [via]
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Girls' Poker Night: A Novelby Jill DavisISBN 081296683X (0-8129-6683-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tankby Erma BombeckISBN 0816165025 (0-8161-6502-5)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movementby Julie Roy JeffreyISBN 0807847410 (0-8078-4741-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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For more than three decades, women raised money, carried petitions, created propaganda, sponsored lecture series, circulated newspapers, supported third-party movements, became public lecturers, and assisted fugitive slaves. Indeed, Jeffrey says, theirs was the day-to-day work that helped to keep abolitionism alive. Drawing from letters, diaries, and institutional records, she uses the words of ordinary women to illuminate the meaning of abolitionism in their lives, the rewards and challenges that their commitment provided, and the anguished personal and public steps that abolitionism sometimes demanded they take. Whatever their position on women's rights, argues Jeffrey, their abolitionist activism was a radical stepone that challenged the political and social status quo as well as conventional gender norms. [via]
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0808510258 (0-8085-1025-8)
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Joyce Milton, Harper LeeISBN 0812034465 (0-8120-3446-5)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Heidi Chroniclesby Wendy WassersteinISBN 0822205106 (0-8222-0510-6)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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Hidden Art of Homemakingby Edith SchaefferISBN 0842313982 (0-8423-1398-2)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0816156522 (0-8161-5652-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Hungry Self : Women, Eating and Identityby Kim CherninISBN 0812911466 (0-8129-1146-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Centuryby Margaret AlicISBN 0807067318 (0-8070-6731-8)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salemby Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox, Angela Y. Davis, Ann A. ScarboroISBN 0813913985 (0-8139-1398-5)
Hardcover, University Press of Virginia
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CARAF Books:Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
This book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY.
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In Defense of Womenby H. L. MenckenISBN 0809437236 (0-8094-3723-6)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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Journal of a Solitudeby May SartonISBN 081616777X (0-8161-6777-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journal of a Solitude'Book summary:In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideasand throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey.
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' life again at last. That is what is strangethat friends, even passionate love,are not my real life, unless there is time alone in which to explore what is happening or what has happened." In this journal, she says, "I hope to break through into the rough, rocky depths,to the matrix itself. There is violence there and anger never resolved. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there."
In this book, we are closer to the marrow than ever before in May Sarton's writing. [via]More editions of Journal of a Solitude:
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KindredISBN 0807083690 (0-8070-8369-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This BookBook summary:Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin. [via]
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Kindredby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0807083054 (0-8070-8305-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Ladies of Missalonghiby Colleen McCullough, Peter ChapmanISBN 0816143668 (0-8161-4366-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860by Annette KolodnyISBN 0807841110 (0-8078-4111-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speakby Saleemah Abdul-GhafurISBN 0807083836 (0-8070-8383-6)
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Love and Friendshipby Jane AustenISBN 0809589931 (0-8095-8993-1)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Love Medicineby Louise ErdrichISBN 080502798X (0-8050-2798-X)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing Worldby Margaret MeadISBN 0837197813 (0-8371-9781-3)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World'Book summary:Mead's anthropological examination of seven Pacific island tribes analyzes the dynamics of primitive cultures to explore the evolving meaning of "male" and "female" in modern American society. On its publication in 1949, the New York Times declared, "Dr. Mead's book has come to grips with the cold war between the sexes and has shown the basis of a lasting sexual peace." This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Helen Fisher and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Male & Female remains an extraordinary document of great relevance, while Mead's research methods and fieldwork offer a blueprint for scholars in future generations.
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Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870by Sylvia Van KirkISBN 0806118474 (0-8061-1847-4)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnleyby Alison WeirISBN 0812971515 (0-8129-7151-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Member of the Weddingby Carson McCullersISBN 0811200930 (0-8112-0093-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Member of the Wedding: A Playby Carson McCullersISBN 0811216551 (0-8112-1655-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Member of the Wedding: A Play'Book summary:Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella The Member of the Wedding into a touching and poignant play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950, and has long since become a classic of the American theater.
With compassion, veracity and wit, in The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers depicts the intrinsically enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the American South. Julie Harris became a star playing the awkward, twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Adams, who falls deeply in love with her older brother and his fiance. Exhilarated by her naive conviction that being a member of their wedding means she will become what she calls the "we of me," Frankie is devastated when she learns she is not invited on the honeymoon. Bernice Sadie Brown, who has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, is a surrogate mother for Frankie. Portrayed on stage and in the film versions by the great Ethel Waters, Bernice is an epic character, fiercely loyal, down-to-earth, and centered by deep faith. [via]More editions of The Member of the Wedding: A Play:
My Cousin Rachelby Daphne Du Maurier, Diana MorganISBN 0822207974 (0-8222-0797-4)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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My Journey to Lhasaby Alexandra David-NeelISBN 0807059013 (0-8070-5901-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Journey to Lhasa'Book summary:In any time, Alexandra David-Neel would have been considered an extraordinary woman, but in the Victorian era, she was truly exceptional. Born in 1868, David-Neel eschewed the dances, dinners, and formal marriages common to women of her era and social standing in order to indulge her fierce independence and insatiable intellectual curiosity. Her interest in comparative religions dated back to early childhood; even as a student in a Catholic convent school, she kept statues of both Christ and the Buddha in her room. She made her first trip to Asia in 1891, then supported herself as a light-opera singer and journalist before marrying a seemingly conventional man, Philip Neel. Fortunately for both Alexandra David-Neel and for posterity, Philip was less stodgy than his position as a well-off engineer might imply; though he did not accompany her, he supported his wife's explorations and even acted as her literary agent when she began to write about the places she visited. Alexandra and Philip remained the closest of friends until his death in 1941.
David-Neel spent years traveling in India and China, but perhaps her most daring adventure was the trip to Tibet's forbidden city of Lhasa. She was 55 years old at the time, fluent in Tibetan and well versed in both Sanskrit and Buddhism. Disguised as a man, she spent four treacherous months on the road before finally becoming the first European woman ever to enter Lhasa. My Journey to Lhasa is David-Neel's own account of her astounding journey, one fraught with hardship and danger. It is both a chronicle of a bygone time and a testimonial to a remarkable human. [via]
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Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feministby Brooke KroegerISBN 0812925254 (0-8129-2525-4)
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Not Without My Daughterby Betty Mahmoody, William HofferISBN 0816151997 (0-8161-5199-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Novel on Yellow Paperby Stevie SmithISBN 0811212394 (0-8112-1239-4)
Softcover, New Directions
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On Being a Jewish Feministby Susannah HeschelISBN 0805210369 (0-8052-1036-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Readerby Susannah HeschelISBN 0805207457 (0-8052-0745-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhismby Sandy BoucherISBN 0807073091 (0-8070-7309-1)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Patty Jane's House of Curlby Lorna LandvikISBN 0804114609 (0-8041-1460-9)
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Quicksand and Passingby Nella LarsenISBN 0813511704 (0-8135-1170-4)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksand and Passing'Book summary:[via]Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of the black bourgeoisie. The novels' greatest appeal and achievement, however, is not sociological, but psychological. As noted in the editor's comprehensive introduction, Larsen takes the theme of psychic dualism, so popular in Harlem Renaissance fiction, to a higher and more complex level, displaying a sophisticated understanding and penetrating analysis of black female psychology.
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Reading the Women of the Bibleby Tikva Frymer KenskyISBN 0805211829 (0-8052-1182-9)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditionsby Paula Gunn AllenISBN 0807046175 (0-8070-4617-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Saint Maybeby Anne TylerISBN 0804108749 (0-8041-0874-9)
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The Secrets of Mariko : A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Familyby Elisabeth BumillerISBN 081292603X (0-8129-2603-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secrets of Mariko : A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family'Book summary:Jill Leman turns her skillfull hands to adapting many of her husband's best-loved cat portraits to needlepoint. Included are 24 original needlepoint designs, with full-color indication charts and yarn specifications as well as reproductions of the original artwork from which the designs ae drawn. Full-color illustrations. [via]
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The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0812523385 (0-8125-2338-5)
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The Shattered Chainby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0839825021 (0-8398-2502-1)
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Sister Light, Sister Darkby Jane YolenISBN 0812502493 (0-8125-0249-3)
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The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930by Anne Firor ScottISBN 0813916445 (0-8139-1644-5)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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The Story Of My Lifeby Helen Keller, James BergerISBN 0812968867 (0-8129-6886-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story Of My Life'Book summary:THE 100th YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The Story of My Life, a remarkable account of overcoming the debilitating challenges of being both deaf and blind, has become an international classic, making Helen Keller one of the most well-known, inspirational figures in history. Originally published in 1903, Kellers fascinating memoir narrates the events of her life up to her third year at Radcliffe College.
Helen Kellers story of struggle and achievement is one of unquenchable hope. From tales of her difficult early days, to details of her relationship with her beloved teacher Anne Sullivan, to her impressions of academic life, Kellers honest, straightforward writing lends insight into an amazing mind. Like the original, this centenary edition of The Story of My Life includes letters Keller wrote to friends throughout her childhood and adolescence that chronicle her intellectual and sensory progression, as well as assistant John Macys commentary on her interpretations of her surroundings.
In addition to reprinting Kellers long-lost original work, this edition contains excerpts from her little-known, deeply personal memoir The World We Live In, which give readers a detailed look into an otherwise unimaginable existence, as well as an excerpt from Out of the Dark, a political commentary Keller wrote during her years as a socialist.
Deftly edited and prefaced by scholar James Berger, this comprehensive anniversary edition celebrates a century of readers enthrallment with one of the most powerful figures in history. [via]More editions of The Story Of My Life:
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Tar Babyby Toni MorrisonISBN 0816132933 (0-8161-3293-3)
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Temptations Women Face: Honest Talk About Jealousy, Anger, Sex, Money, Food, Prideby Mary Ellen AshcroftISBN 0830813209 (0-8308-1320-9)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroonsby Mary H. Kingsley, Mary KinglseyISBN 0807071056 (0-8070-7105-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Victorian Women Poetsby Angela LeightonISBN 0813914272 (0-8139-1427-2)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915by Sandra L. MyresISBN 0826306268 (0-8263-0626-8)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millayby Daniel Mark EpsteinISBN 0805071814 (0-8050-7181-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay'Book summary:Poet, playwright, and translator Daniel Mark Epstein certainly has the right background to understand and evaluate poet, playwright, and translator Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)--though Millay didn't write biographies. Readers of Epstein's Sister Aimee and Nat King Cole will recognize the intense personal engagement the author brings to his task. He's not afraid to express an almost physical fascination for his subjects, which is especially appropriate for the flamboyant Millay, who insisted on the right to take as many lovers as she pleased and to write about them in some of the greatest erotic poetry in American verse. Epstein focuses on that poetry, deciphering the affairs that fueled it and elucidating the boldly iconoclastic, almost cynical acceptance of love's fleeting nature that informs it. (Of the last sonnet in A Few Figs from Thistles, with its notorious putdown, "I shall forget you presently, my dear / So make the most of this, your little day," he remarks: "For a woman, not yet thirty, to compose and market such a poem... was a scandal, an alarm, and a red flag to censors.") While the Edna St. Vincent Millay who emerges in Nancy Milford's Savage Beauty is indelibly shaped by her upbringing, particularly her relationship with her mother and sisters, Epstein's Millay is a self-created goddess of love and literature. It's fascinating to compare these two biographies, published nearly simultaneously and each with considerable merits. Milford's lengthy book, the product of three decades of research, is lavish with details and comprehensive in scope. Epstein's more selective work excels in cogent summaries and forcefully stated opinions. Either book will satisfy readers with an interest in Millay or American literature; really passionate aficionados of the art of biography will want to read both. --Wendy Smith [via]
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What Was She Thinking? : Notes on a Scandal: A Novelby Zoe HellerISBN 0805073337 (0-8050-7333-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Sheba is not alone in abusing power, though, and Heller forces us to confront this unpleasant truth about the moralising, managerial headmaster, the husband freed by Sheba's action to seduce his own very slightly older students, and the relatives who never liked her much and can now disown her. Above all, she devotes most of the novel to Barbara, the older colleague who becomes Sheba's confidante and slowly manipulates the situation to make Sheba entirely dependent on her. This is a brilliantly gloomy study in obsession--and the obsession in question is not actually Sheba's with her underage lover. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Womanguides: Readings Toward a Feminist Theologyby Rosemary Radford RuetherISBN 0807012033 (0-8070-1203-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Women at Work in Medieval Europeby Madeleine Pelner CosmanISBN 0816045666 (0-8160-4566-6)
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Women in the Early Church: Message of the Fathers of the Church Seriesby Elizabeth A. Clark, Thomas HaltonISBN 0814653324 (0-8146-5332-4)
Softcover, Liturgical Pr
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Women Who Killby Ann JonesISBN 080706775X (0-8070-6775-X)
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Work : A Story of Experienceby Louisa May Alcott, Sarah ElbertISBN 0805205632 (0-8052-0563-2)
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Written Out of History: A Hidden Legacy of Jewish Women Revealed through Their Writings and Lettersby Emily Taitz, Sondra HenryISBN 0819704547 (0-8197-0454-7)
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Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fiftiesby Wini BreinesISBN 0807075035 (0-8070-7503-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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