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About Menby Phyllis CheslerISBN 0671229397 (0-671-22939-7)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Adam, Eve, and the Serpentby Elaine PagelsISBN 0679722327 (0-679-72232-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Age of Homespun : Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Mythby Laurel Thatcher UlrichISBN 0679445943 (0-679-44594-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Alice Walkerby Alice WalkerISBN 0671922548 (0-671-92254-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Angels of Albionby RobinsonISBN 0670846708 (0-670-84670-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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Anne Sexton: A Biographyby Diane Wood MiddlebrookISBN 0679741828 (0-679-74182-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved : A Writer's Activismby Alice WalkerISBN 0679455841 (0-679-45584-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anything We Love Can Be Saved : A Writer's Activism'Book summary:Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, is an international activist and self-professed womanist. This pleasing collection of short essays amounts to a very personal stroll through her psyche. Sharing touchstones and demons, she serves up a spirited defense of Winnie Mandela, accused of taking part in kidnapping and torture; a quest to mark the grave of Zora Neale Hurston, an "African AmerIndian" folklorist who chronicled the lives of Southern American blacks in the 1920s and '30s; poignant, angry witnesses at a conference in Ghana devoted to stopping female genital mutilation; and life lessons her daughter taught her. Walker's opinions are enriched by her poetry and highlighted by the whimsical phrases and titles with which she frames serious subjects. [via]
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Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Moralsby Marilyn FrenchISBN 0671499599 (0-671-49959-9)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Loveby Carol GilliganISBN 0679759433 (0-679-75943-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love'Book summary:A psychologist's fine-tuned ear and a scholar's penchant for illuminating key ideas with precise literary citations enable Carol Gilligan to trace love's path in The Birth of Pleasure. Her extensive research on children's communications and couples in crisis has revealed a rather disturbing truism: a child's inborn ability to love freely and live authentically gets thoroughly squelched by patriarchal structures. She shows how daughters' voices are systematically quieted, sons are shamed into masculinity, and those who pursue "inappropriate" knowledge or rapacious expressions are punished.
At the core of her study lies the timeless myth of Psyche and Cupid, a richly allegorical tale of passion and resistance to patriarchal norms. By meticulously interpreting this triumph, Gilligan challenges the standard "foundational stories" embraced by Western civilization (including the Book of Genesis, Oedipus Tyrannus, and The Orestia). Satisfying excerpts from dozens of authors flow easily alongside Gilligan's dialogues with couples, adolescent girls, and preschool boys. Clearly, her analysis of Anne Frank's diary--all three editions--provides Gilligan's best illustration of one's initiation into patriarchal tunnel vision. She credits many colleagues, students, and seminar and symposium attendees for fleshing out all parts of this lovingly crafted text; but her own ear for truth makes its message resonate. --Liane Thomas [via]
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Black Women in White America: A Documentary Historyby Gerda LernerISBN 0679743146 (0-679-74314-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holidayby Angela Y. DavisISBN 067945005X (0-679-45005-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Born Femaleby Caroline BirdISBN 067180068X (0-671-80068-X)
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Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhoodby Kate SimonISBN 0670192392 (0-670-19239-2)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United Statesby Eleanor FlexnerISBN 0674106520 (0-674-10652-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States'Book summary:The book you are about to read tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics...It is difficult to imagine now a time when women were largely removed by custom, practice, and law from the formal political rights and responsibilities that supported and sustained the nation's young democracy...For sheer drama the suffrage movement has few equals in modern American political history.
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Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United Statesby Ellen Fitzpatrick, Eleanor FlexnerISBN 0674106539 (0-674-10653-9)
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerISBN 0671019074 (0-671-01907-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color Purple'Book summary:Winner of the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize, "The Color Purple" established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. Her unforgettable portrait of Celie and her friends, family, and lovers is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, "The Color Purple" is a classic of American literature. [via]
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Comfort Womanby Nora O. KellerISBN 0670872695 (0-670-87269-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Crazy Saladby Nora Ephron, Steve MartinISBN 0679640355 (0-679-64035-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy Salad'Book summary:The classic Crazy Salad, by screenwriting legend and novelist Nora Ephron, is an extremely funny, deceptively light look at a generation of women (and men) who helped shape the way we live now. In this distinctive, engaging, and simply hilarious view of a period of great upheaval in America, Ephron turns her keen eye and wonderful sense of humor to the media, politics, beauty products, and women's bodies. In the famous "A Few Words About Breasts," for example, she tells us: "If I had had them, I would have been a completely different person. I honestly believe that." Ephron brings her sharp pen to bear on the notable women of the time, and to a series of events ranging from Watergate to the Pillsbury Bake-Off. When it first appeared in 1975, Crazy Salad helped to illuminate a new American era--and helped us to laugh at our times and ourselves. This new edition will delight a fresh generation of readers. [via]
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Daughters of Isisby TyldesleyISBN 0670848387 (0-670-84838-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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Deal With It!: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life As a Gurlby Esther Drill, Heather McDonald, Rebecca OdesISBN 0671041576 (0-671-04157-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Dinner Partyby Judy ChicagoISBN 0670859575 (0-670-85957-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dinner Party'Book summary:When Judy Chicago's multimedia exhibit "The Dinner Party" opened in the 1970s, it was hailed "an icon of feminist art" (ARTnews) and was seen by nearly one million people. Now, in a book celebrating the re-opening of the exhibit in Los Angeles later this year, Chicago updates the themes, interpretation, and history of her landmark exhibit. [via]
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Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Toldby Carol Shields, Marjorie May AndersonISBN 0679310711 (0-679-31071-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India And Indonesiaby Elizabeth GilbertISBN 0670034711 (0-670-03471-1)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India And Indonesia'Book summary:If wisdom could be traded like currency, author Elizabeth Gilbert would be a wealthier woman by far, though it's likely her fabulous memoir, Eat Pray Love, racked up a few bucks during its stay on the New York Times bestseller list. What Gilbert imparts in her story--basically, bracing self-knowledge acquired during a year of travel following a bitter divorce and a shattered rebound romance--is at once astounding yet totally obvious. As Gilbert would attest, albeit more eloquently, the most important stuff in life is pretty much under our noses, but we occasionally have to shake ourselves senseless in order to see it (enlisting a guru and a medicine man are highly recommended).
Take this simple but devastating observation posited while Gilbert was on the final leg of a global tour. "I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and then I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been the victim of my own optimism."
Ten million women are smiling wry smiles and nodding their heads in agreement (men too, probably, but the book has a definite female skew). Such emotional bulls-eyes are hit early and often in Eat Pray Love, each seemingly more poignant than the last. Alternately funny and heartbreaking and always deeply resonant, Eat Pray Love, takes the reader on two epic journeys one through Italy, India and Indonesia and the other deep inside Gilbert's intense psyche. Charles Montgomery's towering The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia notwithstanding, travel memoirs just don't get any better than that. --Kim Hughes [via]
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Feminist Theology: A Readerby Ann LoadesISBN 0664251293 (0-664-25129-3)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Gift from the Seaby Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 0679732411 (0-679-73241-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gift from the Sea'Book summary:I found a 1955 printing of this book in an old waterfront cabin and was struck by the care with which the previous owner had read it. Eve (the name inscribed inside the front cover and then again above the heading for chapter 3) made pencil marks on nearly every paragraph of the book, underlining a phrase, highlighting many passages with strong vertical marks, scratching out some words that she seems to have found superfluous and even x-ing out whole sections that apparently missed their mark with her altogether. Two rusting paper clips isolate several pages, absent any marking at all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh's lyrical words are still relevant and presage so many of the themes of today's most popular books: simplicity, peaceful solitude, caring for the soul, a woman finding her place in society and life. I heard that the woman who had lived in the cabin had actually passed away some time before. Thank you, Eve, for your gift... from the sea. [via]
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Girl, Interruptedby Susanna KaysenISBN 0679746048 (0-679-74604-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl, Interrupted'Book summary:When reality got "too dense" for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon reality possess Kaysen's lucidity in sorting out a maelstrom of contrary perceptions. Her observations about hospital life are deftly rendered; often darkly funny. Her clarity about the complex province of brain and mind, of neuro-chemical activity and something more, make this book of brief essays an exquisite challenge to conventional thinking about what is normal and what is deviant. [via]
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750by Laurel Thatcher UlrichISBN 0679732578 (0-679-73257-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750'Book summary:This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising -- and, all too often, mourning -- her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best. [via]
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Half the Human Experience: The Psychology of Womenby Janet Shibley HydeISBN 0669067547 (0-669-06754-7)
Softcover, D.C. Heath
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A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Womenby CottISBN 0671250698 (0-671-25069-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Womenby Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck, CottISBN 067125068X (0-671-25068-X)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Hidden Lives: A Family Memoirby Margaret ForsterISBN 0670857076 (0-670-85707-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Agesby Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Pauline Schmitt PantelISBN 0674403681 (0-674-40368-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages'Book summary:Drawing on myriad sources--from the faint traces left by the rocking of a cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve's fall from grace-this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve distinguished historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.
More than in any other era, a medieval woman's place in society was determined by men; her sexuality was perceived as disruptive and dangerous, her proper realm that of the home and cloister. The authors draw upon the writings of bishops and abbots, moralists and merchants, philosophers and legislators, to illuminate how men controlled women's lives. Sumptuary laws regulating feminine dress and ornament, pastoral letters admonishing women to keep silent and remain chaste, and learned treatises with their fantastic theories about women's physiology are fully explored in these pages. As adoration of the Virgin Mary reached full flower by the year 1200, ecclesiastics began to envision motherhood as a holy role; misogyny, however, flourished unrestrained in local proverbs, secular verses, and clerical thought throughout the period.
Were women's fates sealed by the dictates of church and society? The authors investigate legal, economic, and demographic aspects of family and communal life between the sixth and the fifteenth centuries and bring to light the fleeting moments in which women managed to seize some small measure of autonomy over their lives. The notion that courtly love empowered feudal women is discredited in this volume. The pattern of wear on a hearthstone, fingerprints on a terra-cotta pot, and artifacts from everyday life such as scissors, thimbles, spindles, and combs are used to reconstruct in superb detail the commonplace tasks that shaped women's existence inside and outside the home. As in antiquity, male fantasies and fears are evident in art. Yet a growing number of women rendered visions of their own gender in sumptuous tapestries and illuminations. The authors look at the surviving texts of female poets and mystics and document the stirrings of a quiet revolution throughout the West, as a few daring women began to preserve their thoughts in writing.
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History of Women in the West: Toward a Cultural Identity in the 20th Centuryby Georges Duby, Francoise Thebaud, Michelle Perrot, Pauline Schmitt PantelISBN 0674403746 (0-674-40374-6)
Hardcover, Belknap Pr
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A History of Women in the West Vol. 2: Silences of the Middle Agesby Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0674403711 (0-674-40371-1)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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A History of Women Vol. 5: Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Centuryby Francois Thebaud, Georges Duby, Arthur Goldhammer, Michelles PerrotISBN 0674403657 (0-674-40365-7)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0679734775 (0-679-73477-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House on Mango Street'Book summary:In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. [via]
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LA Casa En Mango Street/the House on Mango Streetby Elena Poniatowska, Sandra CisnerosISBN 0679755268 (0-679-75526-8)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Ladies and Not So Gentle Women : Elisabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Vanderbilt and Their Timesby Alfred A. LewisISBN 0670858102 (0-670-85810-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Liar's Clubby Mary KarrISBN 0670850535 (0-670-85053-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Liar's Club'Book summary:In this funny, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip into psychosis; a fist swinging father who spun tales with his cronies - dubbed the Liars' Club; and a neighborhood rape when she was eight. An inheritance was squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at the deserving and undeserving. With a row authenticity stripped of self pity,and a poet's eye for the lyrical detail, Karr shows us a "terrific family of liars and drunks...redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth." [via]
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Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800by Mary Beth NortonISBN 0673393488 (0-673-39348-8)
Softcover, Scott Foresman & Co
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, James PrunierISBN 0670877069 (0-670-87706-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:"Little Women" is an American classic, adored for Louisa May Alcott's lively and vivid portraits of the endearing March sisters: talented tomboy Jo, pretty Meg, shy Beth, temperamental Amy. Millions have shared in their joys, hardships, and adventures as they grow up in Civil War New England, separated by the war from their father and beloved mother, "Marmee", blossoming from "little women" into adults. Jo searches for her writer's voice and finds unexpected love... Meg prepares for marriage and a family... Beth reaches out to the less fortunate, tragically... and Amy travels to Europe to become a painter. Based on Louisa May Alcott's own Yankee childhood, "Little Women" is a treasure-- a story whose enduring values of patience, loyalty, and love have kept this extraordinary family close to the hearts of generation after generation of delighted readers. [via]
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Little Womenby Janet Allison Brown, Dinah DryhurstISBN 0670899127 (0-670-89912-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Little Womenby Laurie Lawlor, Louisa May AlcottISBN 0671519026 (0-671-51902-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Little Women, Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amyby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0679436421 (0-679-43642-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essaysby Mary Beth NortonISBN 0669144908 (0-669-14490-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essaysby Ruth M. Alexander, Mary Beth NortonISBN 0669353906 (0-669-35390-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Marriage, A History: From Obedience To Intimacy Or How Love Conquered Marriageby Stephanie CoontzISBN 067003407X (0-670-03407-X)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marriage, A History: From Obedience To Intimacy Or How Love Conquered Marriage'Book summary:Marriage today is held up as a blissful haven of love and friendship, sex and stability. We long for the gold standard, the traditional marriage but marriage turns out to have a checkered past-the "traditional marriage" was evanescent. This real look at what people think of as "traditional" finally explains why so many married people are so unsatisfied.
In this groundbreaking book, award-winning historian Stephanie Coontz takes us on an eye- opening journey from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the sexual torments of Victorian lovers to the current debates over the meaning and future of marriage. She provides the definitive story of marriages evolution from the arranged unions common since the dawn of civilization into the intimate, sexually fulfilling but volatile relationships of today.
For most of our history, marriage was not a relationship based on mutual love between a breadwinning husband and an at-home wife, but an institution devoted to acquiring wealth, power, and property. Picking a mate on the basis of something as irrational as love would have been considered absurd. Only in the nineteenth century did marriage move to the center of peoples emotional lives, when the wife became the "angel of the home" and the husband the "provider." Yet these Victorian ideals contain the seeds of todays marriage crisis. As people began to expect romance and intimacy in their marriages, their unions became more fragile. The postwar era of the 1950s ushered in a brief "Golden Age" of marriage-the Ozzie and Harriet years-but the same advances in birth control, increased individual autonomy, and womens equality that made marriage more satisfying than it had been in the past also undermined its stability.
Marriage has changed more in the last thirty years than in the previous five thousand, and few of the old "rules" for marriage still apply. In the courts, the op-ed pieces, and at the dinner table, battles rage over what marriage means, why people do it, and who can do it. Marriage, a History is the one book you need to understand not only the vicissitudes of modern marriage but also gay marriage, "living together" and divorce. Stephanie Coontz shatters dozens of myths about the past and future of married life and shows us why marriage, though more fragile today, can be more rewarding than ever before. [via]
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812by Laurel Thatcher UlrichISBN 0679733760 (0-679-73376-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Mosaicby Jeri TaylorISBN 0671563122 (0-671-56312-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mosaic'Book summary:The co-creator and executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager explores in detail the character she created, Captain Kathryn Janeway, commander of the Federation Starship Voyager. While fighting a desperate battle on alien planet, forced to choose between the lives of the Away Team and the safety of her ship, Captain Janeway reviews the most important events of her life--and the pivotal choices that have made her the woman she has come to be. [via]
The Natural Inferiority of Women: Outrageous Pronouncements by Misguided Malesby Tama StarrISBN 0671744313 (0-671-74431-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Womenby Boston Women's Health Book CollectiveISBN 0671791761 (0-671-79176-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Nisa: The Life and Words of Kung Womenby Majorie ShostakISBN 0674004329 (0-674-00432-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Nympho and Other Maniacsby Irving WallaceISBN 0671207962 (0-671-20796-2)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Womenby Boston Women's Health Book CollectiveISBN 0671221469 (0-671-22146-9)
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Pathwaysby Jeri TaylorISBN 0671026267 (0-671-02626-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pathways'Book summary:Jeri Taylor, cocreator of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager, examined the life of Captain Katherine Janeway in Mosaic. Now she returns to the U.S.S. Voyager to tell the story of the ragtag misfits who became the sterling crew of Janeway's ill-fated starship. A hostile alien encounter leaves Voyager's crew stranded in a horrific prison camp. They share their life stories to pass the time, and end up a closer-knit group of friends. The autobiographies of Chakotay, Harry Kim, Tom Paris, B'Ellana, Seven of Nine, Neelix, Tuvok, and Kes will thrill any Star Trek fan looking for the missing chapters in their favorite characters' lives. [via]
Selected Storiesby Alice MunroISBN 0679446273 (0-679-44627-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essaysby Camille PagliaISBN 0679741011 (0-679-74101-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin De Siecleby Elaine ShowalterISBN 0670825034 (0-670-82503-4)
Hardcover, Viking
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Simone De Beauvoir: A Biographyby Deirdre BairISBN 0671741802 (0-671-74180-2)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Sisterhood: The True Story of the Women Who Changed the Worldby Marcia CohenISBN 0671495534 (0-671-49553-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Stolenby Kelley ArmstrongISBN 0670031372 (0-670-03137-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stolen'Book summary:International acclaim for Kelley Armstrong's sophisticated debut novel, Bitten, is steadily growing. It was in Bitten that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman-and the only living female werewolf.
In Stolen, on a mission for her own elite pack, she is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has funded a bogus scientific investigation of the "other races" and their supernatural powers. Kidnapped and studied in his underground lab deep in the Maine woods, these paranormals-witches, vampires, shamans, werewolves-are then released and hunted to the death in a real-world video game. But when Winsloe captures Elena, he meets his match.
Suspenseful, chilling, and witty, Stolen is a novel of rich and amazing versatility. [via]More editions of Stolen:
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The Story of Jane : The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Serviceby Laura KaplanISBN 0679420126 (0-679-42012-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Temple of My Familiarby Alice WalkerISBN 0671003763 (0-671-00376-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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The Temple of My Familiar Exportby John N. WalkerISBN 0671686801 (0-671-68680-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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They Used to Call Me Snow White...but I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humorby Regina BarrecaISBN 0670838012 (0-670-83801-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil Warby Tera W. HunterISBN 0674893085 (0-674-89308-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War'Book summary:The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 might have signaled the end of slavery, but the beginning of freedom remained far out of sight for most of the four million enslaved African Americans living in the South. Even after the Civil War, when thousands of former slaves flocked to southern cities in search of work, they found the demands placed on them as wage-earners disturbingly similar to those they had faced as slaves: seven-day workweeks, endless labor, and poor treatment. In To 'Joy My Freedom, author Tera W. Hunter takes a close look at the lives of black women in the post-Civil War South and draws some interesting conclusions. Hunter's interest in the subject was initially sparked by her research of the washerwomen's strike of 1881. This labor protest by more than 3,000 Atlanta laundresses is symbolic, Hunter posits, of African American women's ability to build communities and practice effective, if rough-and-ready, political strategies outside the mainstream electoral system.
To 'Joy My Freedom is a fascinating look at the long-neglected story of black women in postwar southern culture. Hunter examines the strategies these women (98 percent of whom worked as domestic servants) used to cope with low wages and poor working conditions and their efforts to master the tools of advancement, including literacy. Hunter explores not only the political, but the cultural, too, offering an in-depth look at the distinctive music, dance, and theater that grew out of the black experience in the South. [via]
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Vidaby Marge PiercyISBN 0671401106 (0-671-40110-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Conventby Mary LavenISBN 0670031836 (0-670-03183-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Conventby Mary LavenISBN 0670896357 (0-670-89635-7)
Hardcover, Penguin/Viking
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0679721886 (0-679-72188-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior'Book summary:The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward. The author's America is a landscape of confounding white "ghosts"--the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost--with equally rigid, but very different rules. Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain. [via]
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A Woman's Educationby Jill K. ConwayISBN 0679744622 (0-679-74462-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Woman's Educationby Jill Ker ConwayISBN 0679421009 (0-679-42100-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Women in Ancient Egyptby Gay RobinsISBN 0674954696 (0-674-95469-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Women in Ancient Greeceby Sue BlundellISBN 0674954734 (0-674-95473-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Women's Bible Commentaryby Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. RingeISBN 066425781X (0-664-25781-X)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's Bible Commentary'Book summary:In the critically acclaimed best-seller, Women's Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevence to women, focusing on female charecters, symbols, life situations such as marriage and family, the legal status of women, and religious principles that affect relationships of women and men. Now, this expanded edition provides similar insights on the Apocrypha, presenting a significant view of the lives and religious experiences of women as well as attitudes toward women in the Second Temple period. This expanded edition sets a new standard for women's and biblical studies.
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The Women's Wheel of Life: Thirteen Archetypes of Woman at Her Fullest Powerby Elizabeth Davis, Carol LeonardISBN 0670862274 (0-670-86227-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Women, Culture, and Politicsby Angela Y. DavisISBN 0679724877 (0-679-72487-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women An Anthologyby Jill K. ConwayISBN 0679736336 (0-679-73633-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women An Anthology'Book summary:Jill Ker Conway (The Road from Coorain ) edits this sterling selection of autobiographical excerpts by 25 American women. Among them are artists, scientists, doctors, writers, and reformers, all well chosen though not necessarily well known. Physician Anne Walter Fearn writes of decades dispensing Western medicine in China and struggling with her husband, a God-fearing medical missionary who was "born to give orders just as definitely as I was born not to take them." The heart-rending narrative of former slave Harriet Ann Jacob, who tells of abortive and finally successful attempts to free herself and her children segues into Maya Angelou's more widely read contemporary account of doggedly soliciting sex as a teen uncertain of her sexual identity and hoping to be ushered into "that strange and exotic land of frills and femininity." [via]
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Written by Herself Vol. 2 : Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia and the United Statesby Jill Ker ConwayISBN 0679751092 (0-679-75109-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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