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Abengby Michelle CliffISBN 0452274834 (0-452-27483-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933: An Anthology and Critical Guideby Ann Allen ShockleyISBN 0452009812 (0-452-00981-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Among Sistersby Susan CahillISBN 0451627342 (0-451-62734-2)
Softcover, Mentor Books
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, David MagarshackISBN 0451528611 (0-451-52861-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:The sensual, rebellious Anna renounces a respectable yet stifling marriage for an affair that offers passion even as it ensnares her for destruction. Her story contrasts with that of Levin, a young, self- doubting agnostic who takes a different path to fulfillment.[via]
@DoTheLocomotion Some gentleman danced with me the whole night. We got a little grinding on, but not too much. This is formal Russian society, mind you.
Apparently by dancing with Vronsky I pussy-blocked a girl called Kitty. I suppose thats ironic. Youd think with a name like that&
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Bittenby Kelley ArmstrongISBN 0452283485 (0-452-28348-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bitten'Book summary:I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose ...Nature wins out. It always does.' Elena Michaels didn't know that her lover Clay was a werewolf until he bit her, changing her life forever. Betrayed and furious, she cannot accept her transformation, and wants nothing to do with her Pack - a charismatic group of fellow werewolves who say they want to help. When a series of brutal murders threatens the Pack - and Clay - Elena is forced to make an impossible choice. Abandon the only people who truly understand her new nature, or help them to save the lover who ruined her life, and who still wants her back at any cost. [via]
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Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonISBN 0452273056 (0-452-27305-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluest Eye'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her debut is nothing if not sophisticated, in terms of both narrative ingenuity and rhetorical sweep. It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.
Set in Lorain, Ohio, in 1941, The Bluest Eye is something of an ensemble piece. The point of view is passed like a baton from one character to the next, with Morrison's own voice functioning as a kind of gold standard throughout. The focus, though, is on an 11-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove, whose entire family has been given a cosmetic cross to bear:
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.... And they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle over them, and went about the world with it.
There are far uglier things in the world than, well, ugliness, and poor Pecola is subjected to most of them. She's spat upon, ridiculed, and ultimately raped and impregnated by her own father. No wonder she yearns to be the very opposite of what she is--yearns, in other words, to be a white child, possessed of the blondest hair and the bluest eye.This vein of self-hatred is exactly what keeps Morrison's novel from devolving into a cut-and-dried scenario of victimization. She may in fact pin too much of the blame on the beauty myth: "Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion." Yet the destructive power of these ideas is essentially colorblind, which gives The Bluest Eye the sort of universal reach that Morrison's imitators can only dream of. And that, combined with the novel's modulated pathos and musical, fine-grained language, makes for not merely a sophisticated debut but a permanent one. --James Marcus [via]
Cavedwellerby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452279690 (0-452-27969-0)
Softcover, Plume
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Composing a Lifeby Mary C. BatesonISBN 0452265053 (0-452-26505-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Composing a Life'Book summary:This extraordinary book explores that act of creation that engages us all--the compostition of our lives. Through the comparative biographies of herself and four of her close friends, Mary Catherine Bateson provides a fascinating framework for her inquiry into the creative potential of complex lives, where energies are not narrowly focused toward a single ambition but rather are continually refocused and redefined.
Each of the women in "Composing a Life" faced discontinuity at periods in her life, yet was rich in professional achievement and personal relationships. Bateson's life-affirming conclusion is that life is an improvisational art form, and that the interruptions, conflicted priorities, and exigencies that are a part of all our lives can and should be seen as a source of wisdom. Important and empowering, "Composing a Life" will change lives.
"Well-formulated and passionate...offers nothing less than a radical rethinking of the concept of achievement." -- "San Francisco Chronicle"
"Bateson has written about women, but not just for women. Everyone can gain from this book."--Bill Moyers
"The best book since Gail Sheehy's Passages for turning life's discontinuities into growth." --Stewart Brand
"A literary form that reflects the way women commonly reason and talk." "The Boston Globe"
"Truth steams behind the quiet elegance of these passages." -- "The New York Times Book Review" [via]More editions of Composing a Life:
A Country Doctorby Sarah Orne JewettISBN 0452008050 (0-452-00805-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Daughters of the Dust : The Making of an African American Woman's Filmby Julie DashISBN 0452276071 (0-452-27607-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movementby Linda Gordon, Rosalyn Fraad BaxandallISBN 046501707X (0-465-01707-X)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement'Book summary:Although the title and subtitle of this outstanding collection pretty much say it all, readers will be delighted to have these leaflets, essays, op-ed pieces, cartoons ("Wonder Woman with a Speculum" is especially fetching), and other essential and/or ephemeral documents of the women's liberation movement, dating from about 1968-1977. Much of the work collected and commented on here was collaborative or anonymous (almost all of it has been preserved by chance), and it has also been substantially abridged to make room for as much material as possible. Nevertheless, it supports a vivid picture of the hope, defiance, and giddy enthusiasm that characterized the women's movement in those years. The section on women's health--in which feminists have made such enormous strides--is especially cheering. --Regina Marler [via]
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A Doll's House/the Wild Duck/the Lady from the Sea/3 Plays in 1 Volumeby Henrik IbsenISBN 0460872931 (0-460-87293-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Down by the Riverby Edna O'BrienISBN 0452278775 (0-452-27877-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Helen McNeilISBN 0460878956 (0-460-87895-6)
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Feminist Classroomby Frances A. Maher, Mary K. TetreaultISBN 0465023541 (0-465-02354-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Free Enterprise: A Novelby Michelle CliffISBN 0452271223 (0-452-27122-3)
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940by George ChaunceyISBN 0465026214 (0-465-02621-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. A Documentary Historyby Jonathan Ned KatzISBN 0452010926 (0-452-01092-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Heartbreakby Andrea DworkinISBN 0465017541 (0-465-01754-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heartbreak'Book summary:Always innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movement's most influential figures, from the early days of consciousness-raising to the "post-feminist" present. Heartbreak reveals for the first time the personal side of Dworkin's lifelong journey as an activist and a writer. By turns wry, spirited, and poignant, Dworkin tells the story of how she evolved from a childhood lover of music and books into a college activist, embraced her role as an international advocate for women, and emerged as a maverick thinker at odds with both the liberal left and the mainstream women's movement. Throughout, Dworkin displays a writer's genius for expressing emotional truth and an intellectual's gift for conveying the excitement of ideas and words. Beautifully written and surprisingly intimate, Heartbreak is a portrait of a soul, and a mind, in the making.[via]More editions of Heartbreak:
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Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militantby Andrea DworkinISBN 0465017533 (0-465-01753-3)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant'Book summary:Always innovative, often controversial, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movement's most influential figures, from the early days of consciousness-raising to the "post-feminist" present. A tireless defender of women's rights, especially the rights of those who have been raped and assaulted, and a relentless critic of pornography, Dworkin is one of feminism's most rigorous minds and fiercest crusaders.Now, in Heartbreak, Dworkin reveals for the first time the personal side of her lifelong journey as activist and writer. By turns wry, spirited, and poignant, Dworkin tells the story of how she evolved from a childhood lover of music and books into a college activist, embraced her role as an international advocate for women, and emerged as a maverick thinker at odds with both the liberal left and the mainstream women's movement. Throughout, she displays a writer's genius for expressing emotional truth and an intellectual's gift for conveying the excitement of ideas and words. Beautifully written and surprisingly intimate, Heartbreak is a portrait of a soul, and a mind, in the making.From Hearthbreak:"How did I become who I am? I have a heart easily hurt. I believed that cruelty was most often caused by ignorance. I thought that if everybody knew, everything would be different. I was a silly child who believed in the revolution. I was torn to pieces by segregation and Viet Nam. Apartheid broke my heart. Apartheid in Saudi Arabia still breaks my heart-I don't understand why every story about rising oil prices does not come with an addendum about the domestic imprisonment of women in the Gulf states. I can't be bought or intimidated because I'm cut down in the middle. I walk with women whispering in my ears. Every time I cry there's a name attached to each tear."[via]More editions of Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant:
Her Works Praise Herby Beryl Lieff Benderly, Diner & BenderlyISBN 0465017126 (0-465-01712-6)
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Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Presentby Hasia R. Diner, Beryl Lieff BenderlyISBN 0465017118 (0-465-01711-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Herotica 4by Marcy SheinerISBN 0452271819 (0-452-27181-9)
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Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Pastby Martha Vicinus, George Chauncey, Martin DubermanISBN 0453006892 (0-453-00689-2)
Hardcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past'Book summary:A collection of 30 essays which explore homosexuality in various cultures, and different eras, from late imperial China and Renaissance Italy to "Jazz-Age" America and from London to Harlem and Japan. Other chapters look at male prostitutes, cross-dressing and schoolgirl crushes in public schools. [via]
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Hidden from History : Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Pastby Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, Chauncey, George, Jr.ISBN 0452010675 (0-452-01067-5)
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Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Eraby Elaine Tyler MayISBN 0465030556 (0-465-03055-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era'Book summary:In the 1950s, the term containment referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the sphere of influence was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the fulfilling life to which postwar women and men aspired. Homeward Bound tells the story of domestic containment - how it emerged, how it affected the lives of those who tried to conform to it, and how it unraveled in the wake of the Vietnam eras assault on Cold War culture, when unwed mothers, feminists, and secular humanists became the new enemy. This revised and updated edition includes the latest information on race, the culture wars, and current cultural and political controversies of the post-Cold War era.[via]More editions of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era:
How The Pro-choice Movement Saved Americaby Cristina PageISBN 0465054897 (0-465-05489-7)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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How the Pro-choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, And the War on Sexby Cristina PageISBN 0465054900 (0-465-05490-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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A Hundred And One Daysby Asne Seierstad, Ingrid ChristophersenISBN 0465076017 (0-465-07601-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Hundred And One Days'Book summary:For one hundred and one days Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad. Always in search of a story far less obvious than the American military invasion, Seierstad brings to life the world behind the headlines in this compelling- and heartbreaking-account of her time among the people of Iraq. From the moment she first arrived in Baghdad on a ten-day visa, she was determined to unearth the modern secrets of an ancient place and to find out how the Iraqi people really live. What do people miss most when their world changes overnight? What do they choose to say when they can suddenly say what they like? Seierstad reveals what life is like for everyday people under the constant threat of attack- first from the Iraqi government and later from American bombs. Displaying the novelist's eye and lyrical storytelling that have won her awards around the world, Seierstad here brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters, from foreign press apparatchik Uday, to Zahra, a mother of three, to Aliya, the guide and translator who becomes a friend. Putting their trust in a European woman with no obvious agenda, these and other Iraqis speak for themselves, to tell the stories we never see on the evening news.[via]More editions of A Hundred And One Days:
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A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journalby Asne Seierstad, Ingrid ChristophersenISBN 0465076009 (0-465-07600-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal'Book summary:From January until April 2003for one hundred and one daysÅsne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Bagdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the events in Iraq before, during, and after the attacks by the American and British forces.But Seierstad was after a story far less obvious than the military invasion. From the moment she arrived in Baghdad Seierstad was determined to understand the modern secrets of an ancient place and to find out how the Iraqi people really live. In A Hundred and One Days, she introduces us to daily life under the constant threat of attackfirst from the Iraqi government and later from American bombs. Moving from the deafening silence of life under Hussein to the explosions that destroyed the power supply, the water supply, and security, Seierstad sets out to discover: What happens to people when the dam bursts? What do they choose to say when they can suddenly say what they like? What do they miss most when their world changes overnight?Displaying the novelists eye and lyrical storytelling that have won her awards around the world, Seierstad here brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters to tell the stories we never see on the evening news. The only woman in the world to cover both the fall of Kabul in 2001 and the bombings of Baghdad in 2003, Åsne Seierstad has redefined war reporting with her mesmerizing book.[via]More editions of A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal:
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In the Company of My Sisters : Black Women and Self-Esteemby Julia A. BoydISBN 0452272467 (0-452-27246-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Invention of Heterosexualityby Jonathan N. Katz, Gore Vidal, Lisa DugganISBN 0452275423 (0-452-27542-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invention of Heterosexuality'Book summary:Exploring the history of heterosexual and homosexual concepts, a study examines the works of such professionals as Freud and the influence of the church while challenging current opinions about sexual identity. Reprint. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0460012878 (0-460-01287-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Jane Eyre is a wildly emotional romance with a lonely heroine and a tormented Byronic hero, pathetic orphans, dark secrets, and a madwoman in the attic. When it was
published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly
handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Brontë , a young woman from a bleak Yorkshire parsonage. [via]-
Jane Eyreby Margaret Smith, Charlotte BronteISBN 0460875965 (0-460-87596-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, orphaned, penniless, victim to a harsh Aunt, and miserable years at Lowood institution finds love as Governess to the sickly Adele, illegitimate daughter of Mr Rocheste. With their wedding interrupted by the sudden intrusion of Rochester's mad Creole wife, inhabitant of the upper regions of Thornfield Hall for years, Jane flees. Nursed from near-death on the moors by the Revd St John Rivers and his 2 sisters, Jane learns both that they are her cousins and that she is the recipient of some money from her Uncle. On the verge of yielding to River's appeal that she marry him, Jane is prevented by a telepathic appeal from Rochester and returns to the Hall to find the building burned, his wife dead and Rochester blinded. Yet marriage seemsaid in the restoration of his sight. [via]
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Jazzby Toni MorrisonISBN 0452269652 (0-452-26965-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz'Book summary:Jazz embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, Jazz sways with a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.
Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners hoping for better lives. Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of this migration; madly in love with each other and the idea of this urban mecca, they "traindanced into the city." But like so many of the marriages in Morrison's novels, this union crumbles, and the dreams for a better life fade away. Joe finds another, a love "that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going."
In Jazz, time ebbs and flows like human memory, traversing between recollections of the past and expectations for the future; likewise, jazz music is often wild and chaotic. Here Morrison once again exemplifies herself as both a superb writer and a masterful storyteller. [via]
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Kidding Ourselves: Breadwinning, Babies, and Bargaining Powerby Rhona MahonyISBN 0465085946 (0-465-08594-6)
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Knowledge, Difference and Power: Essays Inspired by Women's Ways of Knowingby Nancy Goldberger, Mary Field Belenky, Jill Mattuck Tarule, Blythe McVicker ClinchyISBN 046503733X (0-465-03733-X)
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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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Letters for Literary Ladiesby Maria EdgeworthISBN 0460872508 (0-460-87250-8)
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Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraftby Claire TomalinISBN 0452006562 (0-452-00656-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Lines of Fire : Women Writers of World War IIby Margaret HigonnetISBN 0452281466 (0-452-28146-6)
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Living My Lifeby Emma GoldmanISBN 0452006694 (0-452-00669-4)
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Mary Bartonby Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan ShelstonISBN 046087554X (0-460-87554-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:Mary Barton(1848),subtitled 'A Tale of Manchester Life',is the first novel by Mrs Gaskell(1810-65).The entirely working-class cast of characters in this novel was then an innovation.The background story is Manchester in the 'hungry forties'and the acute poverty of the unemployed mill-hands. Mary Batson,daughter of an embittered worker,wins the attention of Henry Carson,son of one of the employers.But a group of workmen plot his murder as a warning to his class,and it falls upon Mary's father to perform the deed.Suspicion lies with Mary's working class admirer,Jed,who is tried for his life.Finally,John Barton is driven by guilt to confess. [via]
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A Mary Wollstonecraft Readerby Solomon, Barbara H. and Berggren, Paula S., Paula S. BerggrenISBN 0451621956 (0-451-62195-6)
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Nanaby Emile ZolaISBN 0460041444 (0-460-04144-4)
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The New Quotable Woman: The Definitive Treasury of Notable Words by Women from Eve to the Presentby Elaine PartnowISBN 0452010993 (0-452-01099-3)
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Not to People Like Us: Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriagesby Susan WeitzmanISBN 0465090745 (0-465-09074-5)
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Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Sex: Every Woman's Guide to Pleasure and Beyondby Sue Browder, Sandra ScantlingISBN 0452272394 (0-452-27239-4)
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Englandby Steven MarcusISBN 0452004624 (0-452-00462-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellionsby Gloria SteinemISBN 0452255791 (0-452-25579-1)
Softcover, New American Library
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Paradiseby Toni MorrisonISBN 0452280397 (0-452-28039-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 1998: Toni Morrison's Paradise takes place in the tiny farming community of Ruby, Oklahoma, which its residents proudly proclaim "the one all-black town worth the pain." Settled by nine African American clans during the 1940s, the town represents a small miracle of self-reliance and community spirit. Readers might be forgiven, in fact, for assuming that Morrison's title refers to Ruby itself, which even during the 1970s retains an atmosphere of neighborliness and small-town virtue. Yet Paradises are not so easily gained. As we soon discover, Ruby is fissured by ancestral feuds and financial squabbles, not to mention the political ferment of the era, which has managed to pierce the town's pious isolation. In the view of its leading citizens, these troubles call for a scapegoat. And one readily exists: the Convent, an abandoned mansion not far from town--or, more precisely, the four women who occupy it, and whose unattached and unconventional status makes them the perfect targets for patriarchal ire. ("Before those heifers came to town," the men complain, "this was a peaceable kingdom.") One July morning, then, an armed posse sets out from Ruby for a round of ethical cleansing.
Paradise actually begins with the arrival of these vigilantes, only to launch into an intricate series of flashbacks and interlaced stories. The cast is large--indeed, it seems as though we must have met all 360 members of Ruby's populace--and Morrison knows how to imprint even the minor players on our brains. Even more amazing, though, are the full-length portraits she draws of the four Convent dwellers and their executioners: rich, rounded, and almost painful in their intimacy. This richness--of language and, ultimately, of human understanding--combats the aura of saintliness that can occasionally mar Morrison's fiction. It also makes for a spectacular piece of storytelling, in which such biblical concepts as redemption and divine love are no postmodern playthings but matters of life and (in the very first sentence, alas) death. [via]
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Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysisby Juliet MitchellISBN 0465046088 (0-465-04608-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Rape: The First Sourcebook for Womenby New York Radical FeministsISBN 0452250862 (0-452-25086-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Roe V. Wade: Marking the 20th Anniversary of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision That Made Abortion Legalby Marian FauxISBN 0451627199 (0-451-62719-9)
Softcover, Mentor Books
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Sapphoby Robert ChandlerISBN 046087943X (0-460-87943-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle For Workers' Rights at Wal-Martby Liza FeatherstoneISBN 0465023169 (0-465-02316-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Soldier: A Poet's Childhoodby June JordanISBN 0465036821 (0-465-03682-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soldier: A Poet's Childhood'Book summary:"There was a war on against colored people," June Jordan recalls her father telling her. "I had to become a soldier." Jordan's fierce, funny, lyrical memoir of her first 12 years reveals the seeds of her adult poetry in her childhood experiences: the magical sounds of words in the nursery rhymes her mother crooned, the awareness nearly from birth of the bitter complexities of family relations. Jordan's father (depicted in a brilliantly nuanced portrait) was a proud Jamaican immigrant who encouraged his daughter to read and took her to museums and to Carnegie Hall, but also called her "damn black devil child" and beat her for the slightest misstep. He moved his family from a Harlem housing project to their own home in Brooklyn, enrolled June at a white boarding school, and fought savagely with his wife, who argued, "The child is a Black girl ... you gwine to make her afraid to be sheself!" Jordan reproduces the rhythms of West Indian speech as vividly as she captures African American culture of the 1930s and '40s in a poignant autobiography that, for all its racial particularity, tells an all-American story of the charged emotional legacy bequeathed by parents striving to give their children a better life. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Some of Us Did Not Die : New and Selected Essaysby June JordanISBN 0465036937 (0-465-03693-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, James GibsonISBN 046087344X (0-460-87344-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. [via]
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Womanby Thomas HardyISBN 0451530276 (0-451-53027-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman'Book summary:Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin-a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. [via]
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sureby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452273404 (0-452-27340-4)
Softcover, Plume
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Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse.
As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence.More editions of Two or Three Things I Know for Sure:
Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Approachby Susie Orbach, Eichenbaum, Luise and Orbach, SusieISBN 0465088651 (0-465-08865-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reformby Barbara Meil HobsonISBN 0465088686 (0-465-08868-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/the Subjection of Women/2 Books in 1by John Stuart Mill, Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0460871730 (0-460-87173-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Voices from Women's Liberationby TannerISBN 0451613562 (0-451-61356-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacyby Geneen RothISBN 0452268184 (0-452-26818-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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When Heaven & Earth Changed Placesby Jay Wurts, Le Ly HayslipISBN 0452271681 (0-452-27168-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Heaven & Earth Changed Places'Book summary:A memoir of the Vietnam war from a woman's point of view - seen through the eyes of a child who survived the horror. Le Ly Hayslip, the inspiration for the musical "Miss Saigon", tells the story of a young peasant girl's struggle to survive. Pressed into service at the age of 12 by the Vietcong, Le Ly Hayslip was captured and tortured by government forces. She found sanctuary at last with an American soldier and after affairs with several GIs, she fled to America to escape the horrors of the war. But as the traumas of the war years lingered on in painful nightmares, Le Ly Hayslip returned to her homeland in 1986. Horrified and shocked to discover the country and the people still profoundly scarred by the war, she took the biggest decision of her life - selling her property to start a foundation dedicated to building health clinics jointly staffed by Americans and Vietnamese. [via]
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0460011103 (0-460-01110-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Wives and Daughtersby Pam Morris, Elizabeth Gaskell, Graham HandleyISBN 0460876511 (0-460-87651-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Woman Hatingby Andrea DworkinISBN 0452268273 (0-452-26827-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Woman's Proper Placeby Shelia M. RothmanISBN 0465092047 (0-465-09204-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Women and Fiction : Short Stories by and about Womenby Susan CahillISBN 0451627296 (0-451-62729-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Women In College: Shaping New Feminine Identitiesby Mirra KomarovskyISBN 0465091989 (0-465-09198-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Women Lawyers: Rewriting the Rulesby Mona HarringtonISBN 0452273676 (0-452-27367-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Women of Brewster Placeby Gloria NaylorISBN 0451822021 (0-451-82202-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understandingby Dusty MillerISBN 0465045871 (0-465-04587-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Alice HoffmanISBN 0451529251 (0-451-52925-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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