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Abortion and the Politics of Motherhoodby Kristin LukerISBN 0520055977 (0-520-05597-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Anarchism, and Other Essaysby Emma GoldmanISBN 0486224848 (0-486-22484-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anarchism, and Other Essays'Book summary:Twelve essays by the influential radical include "Marriage and Love," "The Hypocrisy of Puritanism," "The Traffic in Women," Anarchism," and "The Psychology of Political Violence." Other enduringly relevant essays examine patriotism, the failure of the penal system, and drama as a means of conveying political theory.[via]More editions of Anarchism, and Other Essays:
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Womenby Susan FaludiISBN 0517576988 (0-517-57698-8)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'Book summary:A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work: First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainstream media, career-minded women are generally not husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, "stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's positions have actually led to their downfall." Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tumultuous debate is monumental and it earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. [via]
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Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politicsby Cynthia EnloeISBN 0520229126 (0-520-22912-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics'Book summary:This radical new analysis of international politics reveals the crucial role of women in implementing governmental foreign policies, be it Soviet Glasnost, Britain's dealings in the EEC, or the NATO alliance. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes--governments restricting imported goods, bankers negotiating foreign loans, soldiers serving overseas--and shows that the real landscape is less exclusively male.[via]
Bananas, Beaches and Bases shows how thousands of women tailor their marriages to fit the demands of state secrecy; how foreign policy would grind to a halt without secretaries to handle money transfers or arms shipments; and how women are working in hotels and factories around the world in order to service their governments' debts.
Enloe also challenges common assumptions about what constitutes "international politics." She explains, for example, how turning tacos and sushi into bland fast foods affects relations between affluent and developing countries, and why a multinational banana company needs the brothel outside its gates. And she argues that shopping at Benneton, wearing Levis, working as a nanny (or employing one) or planning a vacation are all examples of foreign policy in action.
Bananas, Beaches and Bases does not ignore our curiosity about arms dealers, the President's men or official secrets. But it shows why these conventional clues are not sufficient for understanding how the international political system works. In exposing policymakers' reliance on false notions of "feminity" and "masculinity," Enloe dismantles a seemingly overwhelming world system, exposing it to be much more fragile and open to change than we are usually led to believe.More editions of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics:
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath, Frances McCulloughISBN 0553260081 (0-553-26008-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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Cerulean Sinsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515136816 (0-515-13681-6)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cerulean Sins'Book summary:Laurell K. Hamilton's legions of eager fans will be pleased to see Cerulean Sins, the eleventh novel in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, which is set on an alternate Earth where magic works and vampires and werewolves are real. When a sinister stranger tries to hire the magically potent Anita Blake to raise the dead, she finds herself embroiled in the search for a vicious, supernatural serial killer, and also in the clandestine international politics of the vampires. And as she becomes more deeply enmeshed in cruel plots and counterplots, her tangled personal life only becomes more demanding, more wrenching, and more erotically fraught.
With ten previous books in the Anita Blake series, Cerulean Sins is not the place to start. Though author Hamilton artfully reveals the backstory in small doses, the numerous returning characters and the complex history will overwhelm most newcomers (and even the most devoted fans may find that the backfilling slows the pace). Also, the characters frequently stand around talking and psychoanalyzing one another, which makes for static stretches unlikely to hold a new reader's attention. Newcomers should start with the first book, Guilty Pleasures. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerISBN 0521403979 (0-521-40397-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color Purple'Book summary:Set in the segregated world of the Deep South between the wars, this text is a challenging read for students aged 14 and above. It is part of a series of contemporary women's writing, in editions designed specifically for schools. [via]
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The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk About Living Feminismby Christina Looper Baker, Christina Baker KlineISBN 0553375245 (0-553-37524-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Crazy Saladby Nora EphronISBN 0553143123 (0-553-14312-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolutionby Sattareh F. Farmaian, Dona MunkerISBN 0517586975 (0-517-58697-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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A Different Womanby Jane HowardISBN 0525093109 (0-525-09310-9)
Hardcover, Dutton
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The Edible Womanby Margaret AtwoodISBN 055329699X (0-553-29699-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Far More Precious Than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Womenby Katheryn Pfisterer DarrISBN 0664251072 (0-664-25107-2)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far More Precious Than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Women'Book summary:Using interpretation from modern critical scholars, rabbis, and feminist scholars, Katheryn Darr offers a fascinating book that provides new ways of understanding the stories of four biblical women. The author studies Ruth, a foreigner from Moab who became the ancestor of Israel's King David; Sarah, who lost hope of bearing a child yet she became the mother of Isaac and the entire Hebrew nation; Hagar, who was mistreated by Sarah, her boss, yet survived under persecution; and Esther, a Jewish queen of Persia who preserved her people despite a conspiracy at court.
The Gender and the Biblical Tradition series brings to a wide audience important new discoveries concerning women and the Bible, ancient Israel, and early Christianity. The books explore the role of sexuality within the biblical tradition and document the continuing influence of biblical treatments of gender on subsequent life and thought.
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The Female Eunuchby Germaine GreerISBN 0553204432 (0-553-20443-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Feminine Dimension of the Divineby Joan Chamberlain EngelsmanISBN 0664242685 (0-664-24268-5)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Girl, Interruptedby Susanna KaysenISBN 0613377176 (0-613-37717-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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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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God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submissionby R. Marie GriffithISBN 0520226828 (0-520-22682-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Goddess: Power, Sexuality, and the Feminine Divineby Shahrukh HusainISBN 047208934X (0-472-08934-X)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Goddess: Power, Sexuality, and the Feminine Divine'Book summary:Drawing on myth, religious beliefs, and a revealing selection of iconography from the Paleolithic Venus of Willendorf and ancient Egyptian images of Isis to medieval Madonnas and contemporary visions of female Hindu deities, psychotherapist and folklorist Shahrukh Husain offers readers a comprehensive, cross-cultural panorama of goddess worship through the ages.Using a wealth of examples from every era and tradition, she traces a long and primal struggle that over the course of millennia saw originally female deities usurped by male-dominated priestly hierarchies, a process reflected both in myth and in actual religious practice, which saw the goddess principle attacked, diminished, and eclipsed, but never entirely eliminated. Husain examines cosmic concepts of creation and seasonal fertility, the mythic rivalries and partnerships between male and female divinities, and the explicitly sexual duality personified in the West by the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene (but common to cultures all over the world), as well as such other aspects as the warrior, the queen, and the witch or crone who snips the threads of Fate. Finally, she reviews contemporary attitudes, values, and rites, finding a new vitality after centuries of suppression: the goddess is today a subject of renewed interest to feminist theorists, cultural historians, Wiccans and Paganists, and even environmentalists, for whom the Gaia hypothesis offers a powerful metaphor reconciling modern science with ancient wisdom.Filled with vivid full-color illustrations and dozens of informative sidebars on subjects as diverse as the Vestal Virgins of Rome, the Matronit of the Kabbala, and the almost universal association of the planet Venus with goddess figures, this is a book that will appeal to a wide audience, from scholars in women's studies, anthropology, folklore, and ancient history to more general readers interested in the female influence on cultural evolution and the antecedents to modern New Age thought.Shahrukh Husain is a psychotherapist, folklorist, and storyteller. She has lectured extensively and has worked as a consultant on TV documentaries and in an advisory role to members of Parliament on cultural matters ranging from marriage and race to religion and language issues. Her publications include Daughters of the Moon: Witch Tales from around the World (1993) and Handsome Heroines (1996).[via]More editions of The Goddess: Power, Sexuality, and the Feminine Divine:
Half the Human Experience: The Psychology of Womenby Janet Shibley HydeISBN 0618751475 (0-618-75147-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"by Linda WilliamsISBN 0520219430 (0-520-21943-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"'Book summary:In this unprecedented and brilliant study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of anti-porn/anti-censorship position-taking to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does--as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. Working against tendencies to oversimplify hard core--either as pure abusive power or pure liberatory pleasure--Williams sees the form as inherently contradictory. Hard core claims to speak confessional and involuntary "truths" of sex. However, analysis of its forms (including its spectacular "money shots" and sexual "numbers" parallel to those in musicals) reveals that sex in the sense of a natural, visible "doing what comes naturally" is in fact the supreme and deeply contradictory fiction of the genre. Gender, the social construction of the relation between the sexes, is what determines this fiction.[via]
For most of its history, pornography has been for men and about women. Yet in hard core's attempt to solve the riddles of sex with more, different, or better sex, the monolith of masculine pleasure breaks down and the possibility of women using pornography for their own purposes begins to emerge. To this end, Williams traces the roots of contemporary hard core's quest to see the "truth" of sex back to the origins of cinema itself--in motion studies of women's bodily movements. She then follows the generic development of hard core through its silent, primitive stag form and into feature-length narratives like Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door, up to its recent sadomasochistic and "couples market" permutations--showing how the form has begun to respond and react to changing gender relations. Neither a defense of what pornography has been nor a utopian dream of what it should be, this daring book refuses simply to scapegoat the form as the cause of all our ills. Instead, Williams utilizes the insights of recent studies of mass culture to show that hard core is a discourse, a genre, and a rhetoric that can only be understood through comparison with, rather than separation from, other forms.More editions of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible":
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Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Traditionby David R. KinsleyISBN 0520063392 (0-520-06339-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0553279378 (0-553-27937-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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In Defense of Womenby H. L. MenckenISBN 0486433889 (0-486-43388-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Defense of Women'Book summary:Originally published in 1922, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today's readers, including monogamy and polygamy, prostitution, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining birth and marriage rates. Written in Mencken's characteristic no-nonsense manner, In Defense of Women crackles with controversy and caustic wit.[via]More editions of In Defense of Women:
The Innocence of the Devilby Nawal Sadawi, Sherif HetataISBN 0520216520 (0-520-21652-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Jubilee Time: Celebrating Women, Spirit, and the Advent of Ageby Maria HarrisISBN 0553374672 (0-553-37467-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Kiss Sleeping Beauty Goodbyeby Madonna KolbenschlagISBN 0553149121 (0-553-14912-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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La Prisonniere: Twenty Years in a Desert Goalby Ros Schwartz, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Malika Oufkir, Michele FitoussiISBN 0553813021 (0-553-81302-1)
Hardcover, Bantam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Prisonniere: Twenty Years in a Desert Goal'Book summary:La Prisonniere topped the French bestseller lists for many weeks, selling well over 100,000 copies, but one's initial reaction is that something must have got lost in the translation. The style is dour, to say the least, and the opening chapters contain a catalogue of unnecessary family information that may have the reader nodding off. Curiously, though, as the pace of the action heats up, the deadness of the prose comes into its own. This is not a story that needs to be oversold and reads all the better for its minimalist delivery. The bare bones of the book are classic derring-do adventure, and Hollywood almost certainly has its eyes on the film rights--complete with American cast.
Malika Oufkir was born into a well-connected Moroccan family and when she was five years old she was chosen to be the special companion of Lalla Mina, King Muhammad V's daughter. Malika was taken away from her family and remained confined within the palace at Rabat for 14 years. She then had two years of vague normality before her father, General Oufkir, was implicated in an assassination attempt on Muhammad's successor, King Hassan II. The General was executed and Malika and the rest of her family were slung into a remote desert gaol where they remained for 15 years. Their release was only secured after they tunnelled their way out of the prison and remained at liberty for five days. The resulting furore after their recapture led to the family being transferred to house arrest and it was not until 1996 that the they were able to leave the country.
If the action drives the narrative, it is the clashes between Middle-Eastern and Western culture that are the most telling. Even in the 1960s, it was de rigueur for the King to have a harem full of concubines, and throughout the book one senses the tension between the materialistic, hedonistic indulgence of the ruling elite and their conformity to Muslim culture. Oufkir is a keen observer of her own injustices, but is rather slower on the uptake when it comes to the wider injustices of a despotic regime. --John Crace [via]
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Presentby Jacqueline JonesISBN 0465037569 (0-465-03756-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Leaving Deep Water: The Lives of Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Culturesby Claire S. ChowISBN 0525940758 (0-525-94075-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Letters from a War Zone: Writings, 1976-1989by Andrea DworkinISBN 0525248242 (0-525-24824-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963by Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober PlathISBN 0571106110 (0-571-10611-0)
Hardcover, Faber
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Robert Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486296342 (0-486-29634-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Timeless, heartwarming tale of the four young March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy their mother Marmee, and other memorable characters. Generations of readers have enjoyed this story of the joys, heartaches, and triumphs of a warm, close-knit family, poor in material wealth, but rich in love and devotion to one another. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Little Women:
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Live, from Feminism : Memoirs of Women's Liberationby Ann Snitow, Rachel Blau DuPlessisISBN 0609803840 (0-609-80384-0)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essaysby Mary Beth Norton, Ruth M. AlexanderISBN 0618719180 (0-618-71918-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essays'Book summary:Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. Major Problems in American Women's History is the leading reader for courses on the history of American women, covering the subject's entire chronological span. While attentive to the roles of women and the details of women's lives, the authors are especially concerned with issues of historical interpretation and historiography. The Fourth Edition features greater coverage of the experiences of women in the Midwest and the West, immigrant women, and more voices of women of color. Key pedagogical elements of the Major Problems format have been retained: 14 to 15 chapters per volume, chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings. [via]
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Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essaysby Ruth M. Alexander, Mary Beth NortonISBN 0618122192 (0-618-12219-2)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Manrapeby Eva FigesISBN 0571087086 (0-571-08708-6)
Hardcover, Faber
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Maria, or the Wrongs of Womanby Mary Wollstonecraft, William S. GodwinISBN 0486445038 (0-486-44503-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Medieval Womenby Eileen E. Power, M. PostonISBN 0521099463 (0-521-09946-3)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Medieval Womenby M. M. Postan, Eileen Edna PowerISBN 0521595568 (0-521-59556-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Women'Book summary:Throughout her career as a medieval historian, Eileen Power was engaged on a book about women in the Middle Ages. She did not live to write the book but some of the material she collected found its way into her popular lectures on medieval women. These lectures are now brought together, edited by M.M. Postan, and reveal the world in which women lived, were educated, worked, and worshipped. Power gives a vivid account of the worlds of the lady, the peasant, the townswoman, and the nun. The result is a historical yet intimate picture of a period gone by yet with resonances for today. For this edition, an essay on Eileen Power, by Maxine Berg, is also included. It offers an intimate portrait of the writer and social historian. [via]
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Memoirs from the Women's Prisonby Nawal Sadawi, Marilyn BoothISBN 0520088883 (0-520-08888-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs from the Women's Prison'Book summary:Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Education in Cairo, she was summarily dismissed from her post in 1972 for her political writing and activities. In 1981 she was imprisoned by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State" and was not released until after his assassination.[via]
Memoirs from the Women's Prison offers both firsthand witness to women's resistance to state violence and fascinating insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamic revivalists, forged alliances to demand better conditions and to maintain their sanity in the confines of their cramped cell.
Saadawi's haunting prose makes Memoirs an important work of twentieth-century literature. Recognized as a classic of prison writing, it touches all who are concerned with political oppression, intellectual freedom, and personal dignity.More editions of Memoirs from the Women's Prison:
Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 0606222049 (0-606-22204-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Menby Anne Fausto-SterlingISBN 0465047920 (0-465-04792-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men'Book summary:By carefully examining the biological, genetic, evolutionary, and psychological evidence, a noted biologist finds a shocking lack of substance behind ideas about biologically based sex differences. Features a new chapter and afterward on recent biological breakthroughs.[via]More editions of Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men:
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0606342397 (0-606-34239-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images of Femininityby Jan MarshISBN 0517567997 (0-517-56799-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Priestessesby Norma Lorre GoodrichISBN 0531151131 (0-531-15113-1)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Priestesses'Book summary:Drawing on the works of Joseph Campbell, Robert Graves, Sigmund Freud, Sir James Frazier and other scholars, as well as her own extensive research, Norma Lorre Goodrich brings to light the powerful yet neglected women--priestesses from Asia Minor to Ireland--who influenced the formation of western civilization. [via]
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Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studiesby Noretta Koertge, Daphne PataiISBN 0465098274 (0-465-09827-4)
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Revelations of Divine Loveby Julian of Norwich, Roger HudlestonISBN 0486452441 (0-486-45244-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revelations of Divine Love'Book summary:One of medieval mysticism's most original works, this book was written by a 14th-century anchoress whose fervent prayers triggered intense visions. Her message of God's love written in immediate, compelling terms continues to influence modern Christian thought. This edition features both the short text and a later, more complex rendering.[via]More editions of Revelations of Divine Love:
The Robber Brideby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0606208879 (0-606-20887-9)
Hardcover, Tandem Library Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Robber Bride'Book summary:Exploring the paradox of female villainy, this tale of three fascinating women is another peerless display of literary virtuosity by the supremely gifted author of Cat's Eye and The Handmaid's Tale. Roz, Charis and Tony all share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Beautiful, smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, Zenia is the turbulent center of her own neverending saga. She entered their lives in the sixties, when they were in college. Over the three decades since, she has damaged each of them badly, ensnaring their sympathy, betraying their trust, and treating their men as loot. Then Zenia dies, or at any rate the three women -- with much relief -- attend her funeral. But as The Robber Bride begins, Roz, Charis and Tony have come together at a trendy restaraunt for their monthly lunch when in walks the seemingly resurrected Zenia... In this consistently entertaining and profound new novel, Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the war between the sexes with her characteristic well-crafted prose, rich and devious humor, and compassion. [via]
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia Woolf, Jenifer SmithISBN 0521485908 (0-521-48590-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism. [via]
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Root of Bitternessby Nancy F. CottISBN 0525473289 (0-525-47328-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexualityby Anne Fausto-SterlingISBN 0465077145 (0-465-07714-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality'Book summary:Anyone who has been following the new brain science in the popular press--and even those whose casual reading includes journals along the lines of Psychoneuroendocrinology--will be fascinated by the puckish observations of Brown University biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling, whose provocative and erudite essays easily establish the cultural biases underlying current scientific thought on gender. She goes on to critique the science itself, exposing inconsistencies in the literature and weaknesses in the rhetorical and theoretical structures that support new research. "One of the major claims I make in this book," she explains, "is that labeling someone a man or a woman is a social decision. We may use scientific knowledge to help us make the decision, but only our beliefs about gender--not science--can define our sex. Furthermore, our beliefs about gender affect what kinds of knowledge scientists produce about sex in the first place." Whether discussing genital surgery on intersex infants or the amorous lives of lab rats, the author is unfailingly clear and convincing, and manages to impart humor to subjects as seemingly unpromising as neuroanatomy and the structure of proteins. --Regina Marler [via]
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Sisterhood: The True Story of the Women Who Changed the Worldby Marcia CohenISBN 0595092349 (0-595-09234-9)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Take Back the Night: Women on Pornographyby Laura LedererISBN 0553149075 (0-553-14907-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Three Guineasby Virginia WoolfISBN 0631177248 (0-631-17724-8)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Guineas'Book summary:This prestigious new edition of the most controversial of Woolf's works includes an illuminating introduction and full annotations by the editor. [via]
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trapby Stephanie CoontzISBN 0465090974 (0-465-09097-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap'Book summary:Did you ever wonder about the historical accuracy of those "traditional family values" touted in the heated arguments that insist our cultural ills can be remedied by their return? Of course, myth is rooted in fact, and certain phenomena of the 1950s generated the Ozzie and Harriet icon. The decade proved profamily--the birthrate rose dramatically; social problems that nag--gangs, drugs, violence--weren't even on the horizon. Affluence had become almost a right; the middle class was growing. "In fact," writes Coontz, "the 'traditional' family of the 1950s was a qualitatively new phenomenon. At the end of the 1940s, all the trends characterizing the rest of the twentieth century suddenly reversed themselves." This clear-eyed, bracing, and exhaustively researched study of American families and the nostalgia trap proves--beyond the shadow of a doubt--that Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary.
Gender, too, is always on Coontz's mind. In the third chapter ("My Mother Was a Saint"), she offers an analysis of the contradictions and chasms inherent in the "traditional" division of labor. She reveals, next, how rarely the family exhibited economic and emotional self-reliance, suggesting that the shift from community to nuclear family was not healthy. Coontz combines a clear prose style with bold assertions, backed up by an astonishing fleet of researched, myth-skewing facts. The 88 pages of endnotes dramatize both her commitment to and deep knowledge of the subject. Brilliant, beautifully organized, iconoclastic, and (relentlessly) informative The Way We Never Were breathes fresh air into a too often suffocatingly "hot" and agenda-sullied subject. In the penultimate chapter, for example, a crisp reframing of the myth of black-family collapse leads to a reinterpretation of the "family crisis" in general, putting it in the larger context of social, economic, and political ills.
The book began in response to the urgent questions about the family crisis posed her by nonacademic audiences. Attempting neither to defend "tradition" in the era of family collapse, nor to liberate society from its constraints, Coontz instead cuts through the kind of sentimental, ahistorical thinking that has created unrealistic expectations of the ideal family. "I show how these myths distort the diverse experiences of other groups in America," Coontz writes, "and argue that they don't even describe most white, middle-class families accurately." The bold truth of history after all is that "there is no one family form that has ever protected people from poverty or social disruption, and no traditional arrangement that provides a workable model for how we might organize family relations in the modern world."
Some of America's most precious myths are not only precarious, but down right perverted, and we would be fools to ignore Stephanie Coontz's clarion call. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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Womanhood in Americaby Mary P. RyanISBN 0531056244 (0-531-05624-4)
Softcover, New Viewpoints
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Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women As a Factor in Social Evolutionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486299740 (0-486-29974-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women As a Factor in Social Evolution'Book summary:When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. Yet by the mid-1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was long out of print. Revived here with new introduction, Gilman's pivotal work remains a benchmark feminist text that anticipates many of the issues and thinkers of 1960s and resonates deeply with today's continuing debate about gender difference and inequality.[via]
Gilman's ideas represent an integration of socialist thought and Darwinian theory and provide a welcome disruption of the nearly all-male canon of American economic and social thought. She stresses the connection between work and home and between public and private life; anticipates the 1960s debate about wages for housework; calls for extensive childcare facilities and parental leave policies; and argues for new housing arrangements with communal kitchens and hired cooks. She contends that women's entry into the public arena and the reforms of the family would be a win-win situation for both women and men as the public sphere would no longer be deprived of women's particular abilities, and men would be able to enlarge the possibilities to experience and express the emotional sustenance of family life.
The thorough and stimulating introduction by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson provides substantial information about Gilman's life, personality, and background. It frames her impact on feminism since the Sixties and establishes her crucial role in the emergence of feminist and social thought.More editions of Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women As a Factor in Social Evolution:
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Women and Evilby Nel NoddingsISBN 0520074130 (0-520-07413-0)
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The Women in Our Lives: Cinderella, Scarlett, Virginia, and Meby Louise BernikowISBN 0517538431 (0-517-53843-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Women of the Rajby Margaret MacMillanISBN 0500278989 (0-500-27898-9)
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Women Writing Cultureby Ruth Behar, Deborah A. GordonISBN 0520202082 (0-520-20208-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women Writing Culture'Book summary:Conceived partly in homage to the diversity of This Bridge Called Our Backs and partly in umbrage at the mostly male musings on anthropology in Writing Culture, this rewarding collection redefines anthropology through feminist and multicultural eyes. At its heart is the "poetics and politics" of ethnography, an uneasy marriage of art and science that attempts to distill the essence of another person's culture.
Editor Ruth Behar, who wrote in depth about her comadre Esmeralda (and more fleetingly of her own father's rage) in Translated Woman, contributes a wrenching piece on the betrayal implicit in marking down another person's life. "Foolish, foolish is the anthropologist who mixes up the field with her life," she mourns. Other essays consider such issues as how gender and racism play out in anthropology, how women in the field undermine themselves, and what women bring to the odd dance between narrator and observer. In a light essay that contrasts cultures, Lila Abu-Lighod, who researched the lives of Bedouin women, speaks of their pity for her childless state. While they assume she is "searching for children" unsuccessfully, she assumes their infertility remedies are wondrous fodder for field notes. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
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Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mindby Mary Field Belenky, Jill Mattuck Tarule, Nancy Rule Goldberger, Blythe McVicker ClinchyISBN 0465090990 (0-465-09099-0)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind'Book summary:The authors of this provocative book pursue the disturbing question "Why are so many women reluctant to speak up for what they think?" in candid interviews with 135 women, rich and poor, young and old, well-educated and unschooled. [via]
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Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mindby Nancy Goldberger, Jill Tarule, Blythe Clinchy, Mary Field BelenkyISBN 0465092136 (0-465-09213-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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LA Casa En Mango Street/the House on Mango Streetby Sandra Cisneros, Elena PoniatowskaISBN 0613046889 (0-613-04688-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Casa En Mango Street/the House on Mango Street'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, but she tries to rise above the hopelessness. [via]
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