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The Accidental Touristby Anne TylerISBN 0425092917 (0-425-09291-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Alice James: A Biographyby Jean StrouseISBN 0395597730 (0-395-59773-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Anais Nin: A Biographyby Deirdre BairISBN 0399139885 (0-399-13988-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anais Nin: A Biography'Book summary:The National Book Award-winning author of Samuel Beckett draws on unprecedented access to unpublished archives and journals to provide an incisive portrait of the controversial author, her literary work, and her complex personal life. [via]
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...And Ladies of the Clubby Helen Hoover SantmyerISBN 0425174409 (0-425-17440-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: '...And Ladies of the Club'Book summary:Glowing with romance, alive with passion, here is the phenomenal novel that topped bestseller lists from coast to coast... a magnificent saga of love and life, war and peace, set in America's warmest and richest decades...filled with people you will never forget and stories you will always remember. If you read only one novel this year, let it be ."...AND LADIES OF THE CLUB." [via]
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Apples & Oranges: My Journey Through Sexual Identityby Jan ClausenISBN 0395827523 (0-395-82752-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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At Freddie'sby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395956188 (0-395-95618-8)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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The Bachelors: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 0399509291 (0-399-50929-1)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Between Friends : Writing Women Celebrate Friendsby Mickey PearlmanISBN 0395657849 (0-395-65784-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men, 1885-1967by Kevin Porter, Jeffrey WeeksISBN 0415009448 (0-415-00944-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Blue Flowerby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395859972 (0-395-85997-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Flower'Book summary:The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and great universities of late-eighteenth century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis. Fritz seeks his father's permission to wed his "heart's heart," his "spirit's guide"=a plain, simple child named Sophie von Kuhn. It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends. Their brilliant young Fritz, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard! How can this be? The irrationality of love, the transfiguration of the commonplace, the clarity of purpose that comes with knowing one's own fate-these are the themes of this beguiling novel, themes treated with a mix of wit, grace, and mischievous humor unique to the art of Penelope Fitzgerald. [via]
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The Book of Ruth : A Novelby Jane HamiltonISBN 0395866502 (0-395-86650-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Ruth : A Novel'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 1996: The Book of Ruth is a virtuoso performance and that's precisely why it can be excruciating to read. Author Jane Hamilton leads us through the arid life of Ruth Grey, who extracts what small pleasures and graces she can from a tiny Illinois town and the broken people who inhabit it. Ruth's prime tormentor is her mother May, whose husband died in World War II and took her future with him. More poor familial luck has given Ruth a brother who is a math prodigy; Matt sucks up any stray attention like a black hole. Ruth is left to survive on her own resources, which are meager. She struggles along, subsisting on crumbs of affection meted out by her Aunt Sid and, later, her screwed-up husband Ruby. Hamilton has perfect pitch. So perfect that you wince with pain for confused but fundamentally good Ruth as she walks a dead-end path. The book ends with the prospect of redemption, thank goodness--but the tale is nevertheless much more bitter than sweet. [via]
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Lifeby Samuel RichardsonISBN 0404641008 (0-404-64100-8)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greeceby John J. WinklerISBN 0415901235 (0-415-90123-5)
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The Cure for Death by Lightningby Gail Anderson-DargatzISBN 0395771846 (0-395-77184-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Custom of the Countryby Edith WhartonISBN 0425046087 (0-425-04608-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments And Greek Literatureby Gail Holst-WarhaftISBN 0415121655 (0-415-12165-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments And Greek Literature'Book summary:In Dangerous Voices Holst-Warhaft investigates the power and meaning of the ancient lament, especially women's mourning of the dead, and sets out to discover why legislation was introduced to curb these laments in antiquity. An investigation of laments ranging from New Guinea to Greece suggests that this essentially female art form gave women considerable power over the rituals of death. The threat they posed to the Greek state caused them to be appropriated by male writers including the tragedians. Holst-Warhaft argues that the loss of the traditional lament in Greece and other countries not only deprives women of their traditional control over the rituals of death but leaves all mourners impoverished. [via]
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Deep Southby Nevada BarrISBN 0425178951 (0-425-17895-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh War Within and Withoutby Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 0425070360 (0-425-07036-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Steinby Janet HobhouseISBN 0399116052 (0-399-11605-2)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Fat Is a Feminist Issueby Susie OrbachISBN 0425099202 (0-425-09920-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Is a Feminist Issue'Book summary:Orbach's non-dieting approach to weight loss shows women how to get off the diet/binge merry-go-round and lose weight through self acceptance. "It is more essential than ever that (it) be read by every American woman".--Susan Faludi, bestselling author of Backlash. [via]
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Fat Is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-Diet Guide to Permanent Weight Lossby Susie OrbachISBN 0425141454 (0-425-14145-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Feminist Critique of Language: A Readerby Deborah CameronISBN 0415164001 (0-415-16400-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader'Book summary:Feminism has placed language firmlu on the political agenda. A 'feminist critiqwue of language' now undeniably exists: its influence on public, and especially academinc discourse has grown to the point where those with an interest in literary of social theory can no longer dismiss it. Feminist views on language are varied and complex, with contributions from a broad spectrum of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, some of them notoriously 'difficult' for the student. This selection of new and wide-ranging writings on language, gender, and feminist thought brings together important articles from linguistics and literary crticism. Broader in scope than existing texts, the volume makes availlavle material which is hard to find and collects in a single volume material which is widely scattered. Itt docuaments the diversity of the field and makdes the devate accessible by porviding helpful introcustions and annotations. Giving a clear overview, it makes sense of the way the field has developed chromologically and clarifies similarities and differednes of approach within it. [via]
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The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Agesby Shulamith ShaharISBN 041504605X (0-415-04605-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha TudorISBN 0397321651 (0-397-32165-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Friday Night Knitting Clubby Kathleen JacobsISBN 0399154094 (0-399-15409-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern Worldby Anne Richardson RoipheISBN 0395735319 (0-395-73531-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Getting of Wisdomby Henry Handel RichardsonISBN 0434959502 (0-434-95950-2)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood: Wise and Witty Advice on Everything from Coping With Postpartum Mood Swings to Salvaging Your Sex Life to Fitting into That Favorite Pair of Jeansby Vicki IovineISBN 0399523308 (0-399-52330-8)
Softcover, Perigee
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The Golden Childby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395956196 (0-395-95619-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Child'Book summary:Penelope Fitzgerald's first novel is packed with institutional follies and fiercely territorial old trouts. Set in a London museum whose officers only appear august, The Golden Child literally proves that authorities are clowns and clowns authorities. As the book opens, all England is queuing up to see the golden treasure of the Garamantes--the remains of a young king who was interred complete with a trove of toys and goodies. Only the man who unearthed the kinglet back in 1913 refuses to go anywhere near the exhibit, despite his constant proximity: "Sir William, in extreme but clear-headed old age, and after a lifetime of fieldwork, had come to roost in the Museum itself." Meanwhile, everyone--from nations to corporations--wants a piece of the Golden Child. (The exhibit is even underwritten by a company that hopes its puff, "Silence is Golden," will give its cigarettes more positive associations.) What, then, if the relics are cursed--or fake?
As both possibilities grow increasingly likely, and the Museum risks ridicule, its director deputizes Waring Smith to transport the mummy's doll to an incorruptible expert. Too bad if Professor Semyonov is in Russia: this junior officer will simply have to smuggle the toy in! Suffice it to say that Waring's covert odyssey to Moscow is but one of The Golden Child's many witty--and enigmatic--episodes. Near the Kremlin, he comes upon a line that makes him think he's back at work. The citizens, though, have assembled for another mummy altogether:
The park statues were covered with shrouds of straw to protect them against the cold, but the human beings stood there, wiping the frozen drops from noses and eyelashes, waiting with immemorial patience to see what they had been told was worth seeing. In an hour and a half they would be filing past the embalmed head and hands, and the ghastly evening dress suit, of Lenin.
On the surface, Fitzgerald's 1977 novel is a bona fide mystery, complete with a body in the library and a spot of garroting. But adepts of this author will prize it for its pixilated cast of characters and for its gentle, perfect assaults on pretension--whether academic, journalistic, or even gustatory. As ever, Fitzgerald is drawn to explore the power--and sheer inconvenience--of the emotions. No wonder The Golden Child's mysteries go so far beyond those of its genre. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Golden Child:
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Graceby Robert LaceyISBN 0425151255 (0-425-15125-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grace'Book summary:A biography on Grace Kelly with photographs in black and white. [via]
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Hedda Gablerby Henrik IbsenISBN 0413326705 (0-413-32670-5)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hedda Gabler'Book summary:Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in the stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage. When writer Eilert Loevborg, an old flame returns to Hedda's life with a masterpiece that might threaten her husband's career, Hedda decides to take drastic and fatal action.Universally condemned in 1890 when it was written, Hedda Gabler has since become one of Ibsen's most frequently performed plays. Its title role is elusive and complex: Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, who has no means of finding personal fulfilment in the stifling world of late nineteenth-century bourgeois society. Too frightened of scandal to become involved with a brilliant, wayward writer, she opts for a conventional but loveless marriage in the hope of finding surrogate satisfaction through her husband's career.[via]
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Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Lifeby Sabina FlanaganISBN 0415185513 (0-415-18551-3)
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The Hundred Secret Sensesby Amy TanISBN 0399141146 (0-399-14114-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hundred Secret Senses'Book summary:Kwan, a seventeen-year-old Chinese half-sister, turns young Olivia's world upside down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination, until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts of the past with her dreams of the future. [via]
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Images of Women in Antiquityby Amelie Kuhrt, Cameron, Averil and Kuhrt, AmelieISBN 0415090954 (0-415-09095-4)
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In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Societyby Marlene LegatesISBN 0415930987 (0-415-93098-7)
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It's Your Body: A Woman's Guide to Gynecologyby Niels H. Lauersen, Steven Whitney, Eileen StukaneISBN 0399518304 (0-399-51830-4)
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The Lady, Her Lover and Her Lordby T. D. JakesISBN 0425168727 (0-425-16872-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord'Book summary:T.D. Jakes's insights and expressions are balm for every woman's soul. As he explains so compassionately, we have lost sight of "the lady," and it is a loss that continues to buffet women and misdirect men. Jakes eschews condemnation and exposes the lies that have cloaked women in sorrow, helping women to stand in the beauty, strength, and confidence God intended.
Bishop Jakes, church founder, pastor, and author of numerous books, including the bestselling Woman, Thou Art Loosed!, structures this book in three parts. In the first, he gently takes the hand of every woman who has been ill-used, crippled in the innermost being, and shows her what is truly beautiful about the feminine. In part two, he opens the door for communication between husband and wife, lover and friend. Part three brings alive the passion of the Lord for women, this most exquisite of His creations.
Much has been lost. Weep with Bishop Jakes over the pain to which women have succumbed. But loss is not forever. In fact, any woman reading this book will likely feel something emerge within her, something long forgotten but something that rings of truth. --Ann Weinheimer [via]
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fictionby Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan WoodISBN 0399123253 (0-399-12325-3)
Softcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the Westby Linda Hasselstrom, Nancy Curtis, Gaydell CollierISBN 0395837383 (0-395-83738-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women's Historyby Merry E. Wiesner, Lisa DicaprioISBN 0395970520 (0-395-97052-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Midwife's Apprenticeby Karen CushmanISBN 0395692296 (0-395-69229-6)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Midwife's Apprentice'Book summary:Karen Cushman likes to write with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek, and her feisty female characters firmly planted in history. In The Midwife's Apprentice, which earned the 1996 Newbery Medal, this makes a winning combination for children and adult readers alike. Like her award-winning book Catherine, Called Birdy, the story takes place in medieval England. This time our protagonist is Alyce, who rises from the dung heap (literally) of homelessness and namelessness to find a station in life--apprentice to the crotchety, snaggletoothed midwife Jane Sharp. On Alyce's first solo outing as a midwife, she fails to deliver. Instead of facing her ignorance, Alyce chooses to run from failure--never a good choice. Disappointingly, Cushman does not offer any hardships or internal wrestling to warrant Alyce's final epiphanies, and one of the book's climactic insights is when Alyce discovers that lo and behold she is actually pretty! Still, Cushman redeems her writing, as always, with historical accuracy, saucy dialogue, fast-paced action, and plucky, original characters that older readers will eagerly devour. (Ages 12 and older) --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Mineral Palaceby Heidi JulavitsISBN 0425179826 (0-425-17982-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Mistress of the Art of Deathby Ariana FranklinISBN 0399154140 (0-399-15414-0)
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Morning in the Burned Houseby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0395825210 (0-395-82521-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morning in the Burned House'Book summary:These beautifully crafted poems - by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate - make up Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering to date, " setting foot on the middle ground / between body and word." Some draw on history, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.[via]More editions of Morning in the Burned House:
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My Lifeby Golda MeirISBN 0399116699 (0-399-11669-9)
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The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn, 1640-89by Maureen DuffyISBN 0413176509 (0-413-17650-9)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spiritualityby Carol P. ChristISBN 0415921864 (0-415-92186-4)
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Right-Wing Womenby Andrea DworkinISBN 0399506713 (0-399-50671-3)
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Selected Poemsby Christina RossettiISBN 0415942977 (0-415-94297-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Ford Madox Ford, who had a subtle ear for the understated excellence of the nineteenth century writers, called her "the most valuable poet that the Victorian age produced." Her modern admirers are many, especially among the poets. Philip Larkin speaks of her poetry as "unequalled for its objective expression of happiness denied and a certain unfamiliar steely stoicism." This book provides Christina Rossetti's poetry in a simple volume, and includes an informative introduction to help identify the proper context in which to read her work. [via]
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Seventeenth Summerby Maureen DaleyISBN 0396023223 (0-396-02322-3)
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Seventh Heavenby Alice HoffmanISBN 0425188485 (0-425-18848-5)
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Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theoryby Toril MoiISBN 0415280125 (0-415-28012-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory'Book summary:What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?
Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French, paying particular attention to the works of Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva. In the years since publication this book has rightly attained the status of a classic. Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, Sexual/Textual Politics nevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or apolitical approaches.
With a new afterword in this edition, Sexual/Textual Politics is a must-read for all those interested in feminist literary theory. [via]More editions of Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory:
- Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory: ISBN 0415280117 (0-415-28011-7)
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Spindle's Endby Robin McKinleyISBN 0399234667 (0-399-23466-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Streetby Ann PetryISBN 0395901499 (0-395-90149-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Street'Book summary:The classic urban tale of a young black woman's struggle to raise her son alone amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of 1940s Harlem. [via]
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminineby Rozsika ParkerISBN 0415902061 (0-415-90206-1)
Softcover, Routledge Kegan & Paul
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Brian MorrisISBN 0416475809 (0-416-47580-9)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war between the sexes THIS EDITION INCLUDES: * An illuminating introduction to The Taming of the Shrew by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play * An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre * A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Taming of the Shrew in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors and an actress - Gregory Doran, Phyllida Lloyd and Michelle Gomez -- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare plays offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century. [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby MorrisISBN 0415027039 (0-415-02703-9)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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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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This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformationby Analouise Keating, Gloria E. AnzalduaISBN 0415936829 (0-415-93682-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Two Of Themby Joanna RussISBN 0425041069 (0-425-04106-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Artby Griselda PollockISBN 0415007224 (0-415-00722-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Artby Griselda PollockISBN 041530850X (0-415-30850-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art'Book summary:Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but also re-inserts into art history their female contemporaries - women artists such as Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.
Pollock discusses the work of women artists such as Mary Kelly and Yve Lomax, highlighting the problems of working in a culture where the feminine is still defined as the object of the male gaze. Now published with a new introduction, Vision and Difference is as powerful as ever for all those seeking not only to understand the history of the feminine in art, but also to develop new strategies for representation for the future.
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The White Plagueby Frank HerbertISBN 0399127216 (0-399-12721-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Plague'Book summary:[via]What if women were an endangered species?
It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new disease expressly designed to target only women. As fully half of the human race dies off at a frightening pace and life on Earth faces extinction, panicked people and governments struggle to cope with the global crisis. Infected areas are quarantined or burned to the ground. The few surviving women are locked away in hidden reserves, while frantic doctors and scientists race to find a cure. Anarchy and violence consume the planet.
The plague is the work of a solitary individual who calls himself the Madman. As government security forces feverishly hunt for the renegade scientist, he wanders incognito through a world that will never be the same. Society, religion, and morality are all irrevocably transformed by the White Plague.More editions of The White Plague:
The Wide, Wide Worldby Susan WarnerISBN 0403019893 (0-403-01989-3)
Hardcover, Native Amer Books Distributor
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0404072585 (0-404-07258-5)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Women and the Welfare Stateby Elizabeth WilsonISBN 0422760609 (0-422-76060-9)
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Women in Islam: The Western Experienceby Anne Sofie RoaldISBN 0415248965 (0-415-24896-5)
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Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testamentby Ross S. Kraemer, Carol L. Meyers, Toni CravenISBN 0395709369 (0-395-70936-9)
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Women, Work, and Familyby Joan W. Scott, Louise A. TillyISBN 0415902622 (0-415-90262-2)
Softcover, Routledge Kegan & Paul
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Women, Work, and Familyby Louise A. Tilly, Joan Wallach ScottISBN 0416016812 (0-416-01681-2)
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Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Centuryby Alice Clark, Amy Louise EricksonISBN 041538253X (0-415-38253-X)
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The World's Wickedest Womenby Margaret NicholasISBN 0425109836 (0-425-10983-6)
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Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush Westby Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy CurtisISBN 0395977088 (0-395-97708-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West'Book summary:The American West conjures images of wide-open spaces, harsh but beautiful landscapes embroidered with winding rivers and streams, long dusty roads to nowhere, sagging barbed wire fences that separate neighbors in the loosest sense. Here the only hustle-bustle is the wind gathering strength across the plains and the rush to get a day's work done before darkness swallows the countryside whole. In this region where time and space are writ large and solitude is a fact of life, how exactly do friendships among women develop, let alone thrive? What does that human connection provide; what does it mean? And what can these friendships teach us about these women, about ourselves?[via]
In the grassroots tradition of LEANING INTO THE WIND, WOVEN ON THE WIND collects true stories, poems, and reflections from women of the interior West--also known as sagebrush country--writing about their kinship with other women. A communion of voices, WOVEN ON THE WIND tells of the beauties, ironies, rigors, heartbreak, and humor of western life and how it is enriched by friendships past and present.
A mother makes a harrowing bus trip during a legendary storm to bring her blind daughter home for Christmas with the help of unlikely friends. A trio of women steal a motorcycle from an estranged husband for a wild ride to redemption. A newlywed finds a true sense of family in the faces of strangers, her new Black Crow kin. Handmade gifts left in a roadside mailbox help shepherd a terribly pregnant young wife through a harsh Montana winter. Through marriage, childbirth, drought, doubt, careers, catastrophes, and change, these western women stand strong or lean gratefully on their friends. The voices in this volume--unsentimental, unflinching, and utterly unforgettable--take us into the souls, kitchens, barns, and hearts of nearly 150 women and show us how, in a life stripped down to what really matters, friendship can both ground us and help us to grow.More editions of Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West:
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