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The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum Americaby Jean Fagan Yellin, John C. Van HorneISBN 0801480116 (0-8014-8011-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Ancient Sisterhood: The Lost Traditions of Hagar and Sarahby Savina J. TeubalISBN 0804010013 (0-8040-1001-3)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual Purityby Dannah GreshISBN 0802483445 (0-8024-8344-5)
Softcover, Moody Pub
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Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Womenby Nancy Sorkin RabinowitzISBN 0801480914 (0-8014-8091-4)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Artemisiaby Anna Banti, Shirley D. CaraccioloISBN 0803261195 (0-8032-6119-5)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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Artemisiaby Alexandra Lapierre, Liz HeronISBN 0802138578 (0-8021-3857-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Artemisiaby Liz Heron, Alexandra LapierreISBN 0802116728 (0-8021-1672-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artemisia'Book summary:Small wonder that biographer Alexandra Lapierre was drawn to write about Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the first female painters to gain acclaim in the male-dominated 17th-century art world. Her story has all the ingredients of high drama: rape, jealousy, and an infamous court trial set against a backdrop of art and passion. Meticulously researched, framed in a fictional context, Lapierre's treatment applies a painterly touch to a scholarly work. Billed as a biography in the U.K. but as a novel in the U.S., it combines the rigor of one genre with the page-turning immediacy of the other.
Born in Rome to the artist Orazio Gentileschi and his wife Prudenzia, Artemisia's life was turned upside down after the death of her mother. Orazio jealously guarded his only daughter, refusing her outside contact even as he taught her the subtleties of painting. At 17, Artemisia, already a skilled artist, was facing a life of spinsterhood as her father's prisoner. Yet the Gentileschi household was full of the comings and goings of artists whose shifting allegiances were as complex as the politics of the time. When Orazio's friend, arrogant trompe l'oeil master Agostino Tassi, set his sights on young Artemisia, her refusals only stoked his passion. What followed was rape. Tassi kept her quiet through promises of marriage; when marriage was not forthcoming, Tassi found himself in court.
Even under torture, Artemisia's statement never wavered, and eventually Tassi was convicted. The mild sentence scarcely harmed him, yet the experience had a lasting effect on his victim. Touched by scandal, Artemisia was able to marry an inferior painter only by virtue of a substantial dowry. Through an unhappy marriage, the deaths of her first children, and the lives of her daughters, however, she continued to paint, eventually gaining considerable acclaim. Interestingly enough, given her experiences, her paintings of religious allegory often portrayed women in illustrations of strength and dominance. If her depiction of Judith violently decapitating Holofernes elicited the Grand Duchess's repulsion, the Grand Duke Cosimo II was riveted. Others in the room saw the allusion to the artist's own past: "'This face, so close to death, brings someone to mind,' the secretary, Andrea Cioli, interjected insidiously. 'A painter, your Highness...'"
Artemisia blends storytelling and careful detail in a complex rendering that will particularly appeal to readers with an interest in either Baroque art or Italian history. Color plates illustrate the haunting quality of Artemisia's work, and the end notes make clear which portions derive from documentation and which are fictional strokes of color. The uninitiated may have a difficult time unraveling the intricacies of characters and politics, perhaps because Lapierre is more at home with scholarship than with fiction. Worse, her breathless prose sometimes tries too hard, even while doing little to reveal her characters' inner worlds. In the end, it's both the compelling quality of Artemisia's story and the lushness of Lapierre's supporting detail that hold this unusual book together. --Anne DeGrace [via]
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Auto Da Fay: A Memoirby Fay WeldonISBN 0802141420 (0-8021-4142-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Beth Book: Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Geniusby Sarah GrandISBN 0803705522 (0-8037-0552-2)
Hardcover, Dial Press
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Birth, Death, And Motherhood In Classical Greeceby Nancy DemandISBN 080188053X (0-8018-8053-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Bobbin Girlby Emily Arnold McCullyISBN 0803718276 (0-8037-1827-6)
Hardcover, Dial Books for Young Readers
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Celestial Navigationby Anne TylerISBN 0792719778 (0-7927-1977-8)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literatureby Peter Berresford EllisISBN 0802838081 (0-8028-3808-1)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835by Theda PerdueISBN 0803287607 (0-8032-8760-7)
Softcover, Bison Books
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City of the Mind: A Novelby Joe CartwrightISBN 0802140203 (0-8021-4020-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of the Mind: A Novel'Book summary:Penelope Lively is one of England's greatest living writers. In City of the Mind, Matthew Halland is an architect intimately involved with the new face of London, while haunted by the destruction and loss in its history. Matthew has a rich and moving relationship with his daughter Jane, and becomes entangled with an array of fascinating characters, from Rutter, a corrupt real estate developer whose Mafia-like ways disgust him, to Sarah, a romantic ray of hope who enters his life. In Lively's most ambitious novel, she has created a wonderfully rich and audacious confrontation with the mystery of London.[via]More editions of City of the Mind: A Novel:
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The Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe: A Life-changing Study for Groups or Individualsby Nancy Leigh DemossISBN 0802446930 (0-8024-4693-0)
Softcover, Moody Pub
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-In a Nutshell--gives you an overview of the chapter to be studied from Lies Women Believe and reminds you of the lies discussed within that chapter.
-Exploring the Truth--offers a daily personal study for you to complete during the course of the week between your small group meetings. Each day's
study includes a few pages to read from Lies Women Believe and then questions to answer under the subtitles "Realize," "Reflect," and "Respond."
-Walking Together in the Truth--provides questions to be discussed when your small group meets.
Now there is a resource that will help you go deeper with the truths from Nancy's best-selling book Lies Women Believe. These penetrating questions will make you and your friends think and wrestle with the Truth as you search the Bible for answers to tough issues. Truth is not just something to know but something to live out as you apply the Word to real-life situations. The Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe is ideal for small groups, Bible studies, and Sunday school classes.More editions of The Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe: A Life-changing Study for Groups or Individuals:
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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1851by Kenneth L. HolmesISBN 0803272871 (0-8032-7287-1)
Softcover, Bison Books
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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1875-1883by Kenneth L. Holmes, David Duniway, Elliott WestISBN 0803272995 (0-8032-7299-5)
Softcover, Bison Books
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Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847by Susan Shelby Magoffin, Stella Madeleine DrummISBN 0803281161 (0-8032-8116-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Valuable as a social and historical record of her encountersshe met Zachary Taylor and was agreeably disappointed to find him disheveled but kindlyher journal is equally important as a chronicle of her growing intelligence, experience, and strength, her lost illusions and her coming to terms with herself.
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Edie: American Girlby Jean Stein, George PlimptonISBN 0802134106 (0-8021-3410-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Emily: The Diary of a Hard Worked Womanby Emily French, Janet LecompteISBN 0803268610 (0-8032-6861-0)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Enlisting Women for the Cause: Women, Labour and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920by Linda KealeyISBN 0802073786 (0-8020-7378-6)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Equal to Serve: Women and Men Working Together Revealing the Gospelby Gretchen Gaebelein HullISBN 0801058228 (0-8010-5822-8)
Softcover, Baker Books
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Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Centuryby Hasia R. DinerISBN 0801828724 (0-8018-2872-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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God and the Rhetoric of Sexualityby Phyllis TribleISBN 0800604644 (0-8006-0464-4)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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God's High Calling for Womenby John MacArthurISBN 0802453082 (0-8024-5308-2)
Softcover, Moody Pub
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Hardboiled & Hard Luckby Banana Yoshimoto, Michael EmmerichISBN 0802142621 (0-8021-4262-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hardboiled & Hard Luck'Book summary:In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimotos warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller status. Her insightful, spare vision returns in two novellas possessed by the ghosts of love found and lost. In Hardboiled, the unnamed narrator is hiking in the mountains on an anniversary she has forgotten about, the anniversary of her ex-lovers death. As she nears her hotelstopping on the way at a hillside shrine and a strange soba shopa sense of haunting falls over her. Perhaps these eerie events will help her make peace with her loss. Hard Luck is about another young woman, whose sister is dying and lies in a coma. Kunis fiancé left her after the accident, but his brother Sakai continues to visit, and the two of them gradually grow closer as they make peace with the impending loss of their loved one. Yoshimotos voice is clear, assured, and deeply moving, displaying again why she is one of Japans, and the worlds, most beloved writers.[via]More editions of Hardboiled & Hard Luck:
Hardboiled And Hard Luckby Banana Yoshimoto, Michael EmmerichISBN 0802117996 (0-8021-1799-6)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Hedda Gablerby Henrik Ibsen, Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey, Susan Faludi, Jon Robin BaitzISBN 0802138063 (0-8021-3806-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hedda Gabler'Book summary:In 1890, Henrik Ibsen premiered Hedda Gabler, a play questioning the role of women in Victorian society. Some audiences have viewed Gabler as a woman driven to desperation simply because her world has turned out to be less charmed than she hoped. For others, she is a victim of her times, unwilling to devote herself, as was expected of her, to the duties of home. Jon Robin Baitz has brushed away the cobwebs, and he serves as an ambassador from Ibsen's age to our own, preserving the intensity of the original but translating it into a spare, contemporary idiom. His adaptation provides an opportunity to understand the play through a lens shaped by feminism and a theatrical tradition beginning with Beckett. Trapped by the conventions of her age, Gabler is both a martyr and a female incarnation of Vladimir and Estragon, longing for a salvation that will likely never arrive.[via]More editions of Hedda Gabler:
The Hiding Placeby Trezza AzzopardiISBN 0802138594 (0-8021-3859-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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I Am a Woman by God's Designby Beverly LA HayeISBN 0800751000 (0-8007-5100-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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I Dared to Call Him Fatherby Bilquis SheikhISBN 0800790715 (0-8007-9071-5)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Originally published in 1978, the book has sold 300,000 copies and is a classic in Muslim evangelism. The 25th anniversary edition includes an afterword by a missionary friend of Bilquis who plays a prominent role in the story and an appendix on how the East enriches the West. [via]More editions of I Dared to Call Him Father:
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I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter With Godby Richard H. Schneider, Bilquis SheikhISBN 0800793242 (0-8007-9324-2)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Originally published in 1978, the book has sold 300,000 copies and is a classic in Muslim evangelism. The 25th anniversary edition includes an afterword by a missionary friend of Bilquis who plays a prominent role in the story and an appendix on how the East enriches the West. [via]More editions of I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter With God:
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I Suffer Not a Woman: Rethinking 1 Timothy 2 11-15 in Light of Ancient Evidenceby Catherine Clark Kroeger, Richard Clark KroegerISBN 0801052505 (0-8010-5250-5)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Jasmineby Bharati MukherjeeISBN 0802136303 (0-8021-3630-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jasmine'Book summary:When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her -- our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives. "Rich...one of the most suggestive novels we have about what it is to become an American." -- The New York Times Book Review [via]
The Jewish Woman in Americaby Charlotte BaumISBN 0803797079 (0-8037-9707-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Letters to Philipby Charlie SheddISBN 0800780256 (0-8007-8025-6)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic Worldby Paula J. CaplanISBN 0802074111 (0-8020-7411-1)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918by Ruth RosenISBN 0801826659 (0-8018-2665-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Medieval Women in Their Communitiesby Diane WattISBN 0802081223 (0-8020-8122-3)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The volume is a significant contribution to a fast developing field and should appeal not only to medieval specialists but all those with an interest in women's history and writing.
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Minaret: A Novelby Leila AboulelaISBN 0802170145 (0-8021-7014-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Moon Tigerby Penelope LivelyISBN 0802135331 (0-8021-3533-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon Tiger'Book summary:The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.[via] 
Mothers in Mourning: With the Essay of Amnesty and Its Oppositeby Nicole Loraux, Corinne PacheISBN 0801482429 (0-8014-8242-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Ordination of Women: An Essay on the Office of Christian Ministryby Paul King JewettISBN 0802818501 (0-8028-1850-1)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Pandora's Daughters: The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquityby Eva CantarellaISBN 080183385X (0-8018-3385-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Peacemaking Women: Biblical Hope For Resolving Conflictby Tara Klena Barthel, Judy DablerISBN 0801064953 (0-8010-6495-3)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Period Book: Everything You Don't Want to Ask (but Need to Know)by Karen Gravelle, Jennifer Gravelle, Debbie PalenISBN 0802777368 (0-8027-7736-8)
Softcover, Walker & Co
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Plains Songby Wright Morris, Charles BaxterISBN 0803282672 (0-8032-8267-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Practicalitiesby Marguerite DurasISBN 0802133118 (0-8021-3311-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Practicalities: Marguerite Duras Speaks to Jerome Beaujourby Marguerite DurasISBN 0802110738 (0-8021-1073-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewessby Hannah Arendt, Lilianeed Weissberg, Richard Winston, Clare WinstonISBN 080186335X (0-8018-6335-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Arendt draws a lively and complex portrait of a woman during the period of the Napoleonic wars and the early emancipation of the Jews, a figure who met and corresponded with some of the most celebrated authors, artists, and politicians of her time. She documents Rahel's attempts to earn legitimacy as a writer and gain access to the highest aristocratic circles, to assert for herself a position in German culture in spite of her gender and religion.
Arendt had almost completed a first draft of her book on Rahel by 1933 when she was forced into exile by the National Socialists. She continued her work on the manuscript in Paris and New York, but would not publish the book until 1958. Rahel Varnhagen became not just a study of a historical Jewish figure, but a poignant reflection on Arendt's own life and times, her first exploration of German-Jewish identity and the possibility of Jewish life in the face of unimaginable adversity.
For this first complete critical edition of the book in any language, Liliane Weissberg reconstructs the notes Arendt planned for Rahel Varnhagen but never fully executed. She reveals the extent to which Arendt wove the biography largely from the words of Rahel and her contemporaries. In her extended introduction, Weissberg reflects on Rahel's writings and on the importance of this text in the development of Arendt's political theory. Weissberg also reveals the hidden story of how Arendt manipulated documents relating to Rahel Varnhagen to claim for herself a university position and reparation payments from the postwar German state.
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The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendtby Seyla BenhabibISBN 0803938179 (0-8039-3817-9)
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The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenmentby Dena GoodmanISBN 0801481740 (0-8014-8174-0)
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The Road to Lichfieldby Penelope LivelyISBN 0802136257 (0-8021-3625-7)
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Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religionsby Daniel C. MaguireISBN 0800634330 (0-8006-3433-0)
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The Sexual Life of Catherine M.by Catherine Millet, Adriana HunterISBN 0802139868 (0-8021-3986-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sexual Life of Catherine M.'Book summary:A publishing sensation upon its original publication in France, Catherine Millets The Sexual Life of Catherine M is one of the most sexually explicit books ever written by a woman. Ostensibly a semi-autobiographical account of the sexual life of the author, the editor of an influential Parisian art magazine, the book is a frank and detailed account of Millets development from an awkward, guilt-ridden Catholic teenager to sophisticated Parisian intellectual and enthusiastic member of the singles bars, orgies and public sex spaces of Paris.
The book has no sequential narrative. Instead, it offers a frank and extremely graphic celebration of the pursuit and gratification of sex. Millet praises the virtues of anonymous sex, admitting that "I can account for forty-nine men whose sexual organs have penetrated mine and to whom I can attribute a name or, at least, in a few cases, an identity. But I cannot put a number on those that blur into anonymity". Nevertheless, she proceeds to offer page after page of exhausting descriptions of sexual couplings in groups in houses, car parks, offices, toilets, museums--the list and the permutations are endless, as are Millets descriptions of her own sexual organs and her ability to perform oral sex. Millet wants to celebrate the personal freedom and physical pleasure that casual, anonymous sex offers a woman, but this is never fully explored beyond her assertion that "the certainty that I could have sexual relations in any situation with any willing party" was "the lungfuls of fresh air you inhale as you walk to the end of the pier". Much of the books language is equally prosaic. Ultimately, this is a book about sexual fantasy, but as Millet herself admits, "sexual fantasies are far too personal for them ever really to be shared". Millet is too busy describing the literal nuts and bolts, the grunts and bumps of (resolutely heterosexual) sex to produce eroticism on a par with her obvious models, Pauline Reages Story of O and Georges Batailles Story of the Eye, which leaves The Sexual Life of Catherine M feeling rather naughty, but strangely dated.--Jerry Brotton [via]
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Shakespeare and Companyby Sylvia BeachISBN 0803260970 (0-8032-6097-0)
Softcover, Bison Books
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Snakey Riddlesby Katy Hall, Lisa Eisenberg, Simms TabackISBN 0803706707 (0-8037-0670-7)
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Some Went Westby Dorothy M. JohnsonISBN 0803275986 (0-8032-7598-6)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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A Spell of Winterby Helen DunmoreISBN 0802138764 (0-8021-3876-4)
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A Spy in the House of Loveby Anais NinISBN 0804002800 (0-8040-0280-0)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Stet: A Memoirby Diana AthillISBN 0802138624 (0-8021-3862-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stet: A Memoir'Book summary:For nearly five decades Diana Athill edited (nursed, coerced, and coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language. Stet is her "charming and insightful memoir of life in a publishing house when it was possible to be small, live hand to mouth, and attract big authors" (Bookseller). A founding editor of the prestigious literary publishing house Andre Deutsch Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, illuminating the portraits of some of the century's most fascinating writers from her unique and privileged perspective as editor, friend, and keenly observant insider. Vividly evocative and engaging, Stet is spiced with candid observations about the type of people who make brilliant writers and ingenious publishers, and the idiosyncrasies of both; and it is enlivened by her memories of such great literary figures as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, Gitta Sereny, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Mordecai Richler, and a host of others. Most of all, it is Athill's voice that captivates -- intimate, lively, generous, humorous -- the voice of a favorite aunt who is as warm and big-hearted as she is worldly and irreverent. Packed with delights, this is a book about the world of books, about people who write them and the process of making them, a world dissected with sharp and irresistible honesty. Stet is an invaluable contribution to the literature of literature. [via]
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Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narrativesby Phyllis TribleISBN 0800615379 (0-8006-1537-9)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolutionby Thomas DublinISBN 0801480906 (0-8014-8090-6)
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed Americaby David Von DrehleISBN 080214151X (0-8021-4151-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Triangle: The Fire That Changed America'Book summary:"Sure to become the definitive account of the fire. . . . Triangle is social history at its best, a magnificent portrayal not only of the catastrophe but also of the time and the turbulent city in which it took place." -The New York Times Book ReviewTriangle is a poignantly detailed account of the 1911 disaster that horrified the country and changed the course of twentieth-century politics and labor relations. On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside: their ladders simply weren't tall enough. People on the street watched in horror as desperate workers jumped to their deaths. The final toll was 146 people-123 of them women. It was the worst disaster in New York City history. Triangle is a vibrant and immensely moving account that Bob Woodward calls, "A riveting history written with flare and precision." [via]
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Twisting in the Windby Judith KnelmanISBN 0802029159 (0-8020-2915-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Twisting in the Wind: The Murderess and the English Pressby Judith KnelmanISBN 0802074200 (0-8020-7420-0)
Softcover, University of Toronto Press
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A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsleyby Kathrine FrankISBN 0804105707 (0-8041-0570-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Woman Questionby Kenneth E. HaginISBN 0800782143 (0-8007-8214-3)
Hardcover, Manna Christian Outreach
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Women and Redemption: A Theological Historyby Rosemary R. RuetherISBN 0800629450 (0-8006-2945-0)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Fairly argued and balanced, and written in Ruether's clear, personal style, this book is an immensely useful overview. It will give almost any open-minded reader a superb introduction to more than a dozen crucial writers even as it explores the long, unfolding saga of the place of women and equality in the redemption story. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Women As Christ's Disciplesby Boyd Luter, Kathy McReynolds, A. Boyd LuterISBN 0801057116 (0-8010-5711-6)
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Women in Greek Mythby Mary LefkowitzISBN 0801841089 (0-8018-4108-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Greek Myth'Book summary:Modern critics often interpret ancient literature according to their own standards ad preoccupations, as if they were reading the works of a contemporary author. Most recently, feminists have applied their own criteria to the rich variety of female characters in Greek mythology. The Amazons are seen as representatives of an original matriarchy, Clytemnestra as a frustrated individualist, Antigone an oppressed revolutionary. The Greek myths reflect a world in which men dominate women, largely out of fear of women's sexuality.
Mary R. Lefkowitz argues in this controversial book that this view is justified neither by the myths themselves nor by the relevant documentary evidence. Concentrating on those aspects of women's experience most often misunderstood -- women's life apart from men, marriage, influence in politics, self-sacrifice and martyrdom, misogyny -- she presents a far less negative account of the role of Greek women, both ordinary and extraordinary, as manifested in the central works of Greek literature.
Lefkowitz shows that the darkness of Greek mythology suggests not the wretched lot of women in particular, but of mortals generally. Women in Greek myth, she contends, play a rather more enlightened role than their biblical or Christian counterparts. And what Greek men feared in women, if they feared anything, was not women's sexuality but their intelligence.
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Women in Old Norse Societyby Jenny JochensISBN 0801485207 (0-8014-8520-7)
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Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880by Mary P. RyanISBN 0801844010 (0-8018-4401-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880'Book summary:"Ryan's elegant essays sketch a chronology of changing gender symbology and contribute to our understanding of the cultural construction of boundaries between public and private. Historians and feminists will pursue for some time her questions about the process and consequences of excluding women from the public arena and their striving for participation in it."Lee Chambers-Schiller, American Historical Review. "An extremely important contribution to women's history. It reminds us . . . that women's emergence in public life during the twentieth century continues to open up new political possibilities."Ruth Rosen, Women's Review of Books. The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History. [via]
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Women Photographersby Cathy NewmanISBN 0792276892 (0-7922-7689-2)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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Writing Women's Literary Historyby Margaret J.M. EzellISBN 080185508X (0-8018-5508-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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