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About My Sistersby Debra GinsbergISBN 0060522038 (0-06-052203-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About My Sisters'Book summary:On the heels of her poignant and critically acclaimed memoirs, Waiting and Raising Blaze, Debra Ginsberg explores the unique connection she shares with her three sisters.
In About My Sisters, Ginsberg examines the special bond she shares with her three sisters, May, Lavander and Deja. As her hippie parents criss-crossed the globe, Debra, the oldest of five children, formed indelible bonds with her three sisters that last to this day. Separated by fifteen years among them, Debra and her sisters represent two different generations, each one of them having something to teach the other. Debra and Maya (the next oldest) became not only babysitters, but also playmates, problem solvers, teachers and surrogate mothers to the youngest two. And the shared experience of being the children of an unconventional, dope-smoking, non-career oriented, nomadic couple bonded them even more.
Structured around the course of one year, About My Sisters examines these bonds through the prism of the events of that year, revealing not only a "different" family, but also a unique and amazing relationship that has weathered many storms but never foundered. The four sisters (as well as their parents and brother) still live within ten miles of one another and share meals, holidays, joys, pains, and babysitting duties with an astounding frequency. This is a heart-warming, funny, and poignant look at a family that's much like the one we all wish we had..
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Alineby Carole KleinISBN 0060124237 (0-06-012423-7)
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All of the Women of the Bibleby Edith DeenISBN 0060618523 (0-06-061852-3)
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The American Frugal Housewifeby Lydia Maria ChildISBN 0060114827 (0-06-011482-7)
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American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Countryby Kay Bailey HutchisonISBN 0060566361 (0-06-056636-1)
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritansby Eve LaplanteISBN 0060750561 (0-06-075056-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans'Book summary:Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six- year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson defended herself brilliantly, but the judges, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for her] sex." Until now, Hutchinson has been a polarizing figure in American history and letters, attracting either disdain or exaltation. Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was haunted by the "sainted" Hutchinson, used her as a model for Hester Prynne in "The Scarlet Letter." Much of the praise for her, however, is muted by a wish to domesticate the heroine: the bronze statue of Hutchinson at the Massachusetts State House depicts a prayerful mother -- eyes raised to heaven, a child at her side -- rather than a woman of power standing alone before humanity and God. Her detractors, starting with her neighbor John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, referred to her as "the instrument of Satan," the new Eve, the "disturber of Israel," a witch, "more bold than a man," and Jezebel -- the ancient Israeli queen who, on account of her tremendous political power, was "the most evil woman" in the Bible. Written by one of Hutchinson's direct descendants, "American Jezebel" brings both balance and perspective to Hutchinson's story. It captures this American heroine's life in all its complexity, presenting hernot as a religious fanatic, a cardboard feminist, or a raging crank -- as some have portrayed her -- but as a flesh-and-blood wife, mother, theologian, and political leader. Opening in a colonial courtroom, "American Jezebel" moves back in time to Hutchinson's childhood in Elizabethan England, exploring intimate details of her marriage and family life. The book narrates her dramatic expulsion from Massachusetts, after which her judges, still threatened by her challenges, promptly built Harvard College to enforce religious and social orthodoxies -- making her midwife to the nation's first college. In exile, she settled Rhode Island (which later merged with Roger Williams's Providence Plantation), becoming the only woman ever to co-found an American colony. The seeds of the American struggle for women's and human rights can be found in the story of this one woman's courageous life. "American Jezebel" illuminates the origins of our modern concepts of religious freedom, equal rights, and free speech, and showcases an extraordinary woman whose achievements are astonishing by the standards of any era. [via]
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Anna and the King of Siamby Margaret Landon, Margaret AyerISBN 0060187905 (0-06-018790-5)
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Ariel: The Restored Edition, A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangementby Sylvia Plath, Frieda HughesISBN 0060732601 (0-06-073260-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariel: The Restored Edition, A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement'Book summary:Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, and Robert Lowell describes them as written by "hardly a person at all ... but one of those super-real, hypnotic, great classical heroines." Even more remarkable, she wrote them during one of the coldest, snowiest winters (1962-63) Londoners have ever known. Snowbound, without central heating, she and her two children spent much of their time sniffling, coughing, or running temperatures (In "Fever 103°" she writes, "I have been flickering, off, on, off on. / The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss."). Pipes froze, lights failed, and candles were unobtainable.
As if these physical privations weren't enough, Plath was out in the cold in another sense--her husband, Ted Hughes, had left her for another woman earlier that year. Despite all this (or perhaps because of it), the Ariel poems dazzle with their lyricism, their surprising and vivid imagery, and their wit. Rather than confining herself to her bleak surroundings, Plath draws from a wide array of experience. In "Berck-Plage," for instance, clouds are "electrifyingly-coloured sherbets, scooped from the freeze." In "The Night Dances," the poet stands crib-side, reveling in her son's own brand of do-si-do: "Such pure leaps and spirals--Surely they travel / The world forever, I shall not entirely / Sit emptied of beauties, the gift / Of your small breath..."
Though at times they present the reader with hopelessness laid bare, these poems also teem with the brightest shards of a life, confounding those who merely look for the words of a gloomy, dispassionate suicide. Plath rose each morning in the final months of her life to "that still blue, almost eternal hour before the baby's cry" and left us these words like "axes/After whose stroke the wood rings..." [via]
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Autobiography of a Faceby Lucy GrealyISBN 0060569662 (0-06-056966-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography of a Face'Book summary:"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison."
At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.
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Birth Of The Chess Queenby Marilyn YalomISBN 0060090650 (0-06-009065-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birth Of The Chess Queen'Book summary:Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. In India, Persia, and the Arab lands, where the game was first played, a general, or vizier (chief counselor to the king), occupied the square where the queen now stands. Not until the year 1000, two hundred years after Arab conquerors brought chess to southern Europe, did a chess queen appear on the board. Initially she was the weakest piece, moving only one square at a time on the diagonal, yet by 1497, during the reign of Isabella of Castile, the chess queen had become the formidable force she is today.
How and why did this transformation take place? Birth of the Chess Queen examines the five-hundred-year period between the chess queen's timid emergence and her elevation into the game's mightiest piece. Marilyn Yalom, inspired by a handful of surviving medieval chess queens, traces their origin and spread from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and England to Scandinavia and Russia. In a lively and engaging narrative, Yalom draws parallels between the birth of the chess queen and the ascent of female sovereigns in Europe, presenting a layered, fascinating history of medieval courts, with their intrigues and internal struggles for power. Further, she shows the connection between the chess queen, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and the cult of Romantic Love, all of which influenced European society for centuries to come.
Illustrated with beautiful art throughout, this book takes a fresh look at the politics and culture of medieval Europe, the institution of queenship, and the reflections of royal power in the figure of the chess queen.
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The Bloody Chamberby Angela CarterISBN 0060107081 (0-06-010708-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bloody Chamber'Book summary:From familiar fairy tales and legends Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires, werewolves Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.[via]More editions of The Bloody Chamber:
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Blue Angelby Francine ProseISBN 006019541X (0-06-019541-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Angel'Book summary:Francine Prose may never surpass Joyce Carol Oates in the Prolific Olympics, but she is one of those omnipresent writers whom failed writers hate. And surely she'll make new enemies with her hilarious and cruel 10th novel, Blue Angel, a satire of academia, specifically of English and writing departments. The setting is Euston College in rural Vermont, a place kids go to if they don't get into Bennington; a place where desperate novelists teach creative writing to rich kids who don't seem to read. Prose, who has taught at all the hotshot workshops, skewers both teachers and students in the way only a true insider could.
Swenson, her writing-teacher protagonist, once published a well-received novel but is now consumed by neuroses and repressed lust, and instead of writing tends to get drunk or morose, or both. But when a gifted student named Angela Argo enters his class, he feels like he is coming back to life. His resurrection into "believing" in writing again, and his eventual disappointment, form the core of the novel.
Prose's gift for satire is stunning as she directs her caustic wit at all the current academic debates: sexual-harassment policies warning against all manner of "touching"; deconstructionists versus Old School fuddy-duddies; women's studies teachers who bring everything back to the phallocentric Man killing us all. But Blue Angel's best passages come when the author is describing truly rotten writers. Here's a Connecticut rich girl, a member of Swenson's workshop, who likes to write about all those poor unfortunate nonwhite people. Her story is called "First Kiss--Inner City Blues" and is written from the point of view of a Latino woman who lives in a trash-strewn neighborhood full of gunfire and bad people. Here's the opening line: "The summer heat sat on the hot city street, making it hard for it to breathe, especially for Lydia Sanchez." It's a sentence so bad, it's almost a revelation. --Emily White [via]
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Body & Soul: The Black Women's Guide to Physical Health and Emotional Well-Beingby National Black Women's Health Project, Linda VillarosaISBN 0060553596 (0-06-055359-6)
Hardcover, HarperPerennial
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Bold in Her Breeches: Woman Pirates Across the Agesby Jo Stanley, Anne Chambers, Diane Murray, Julie WheelwrightISBN 0044409702 (0-04-440970-2)
Softcover, Pandora Press
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Born of a Womanby John Shelby SpongISBN 0060675233 (0-06-067523-3)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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Callgirlby Jeannette L. AngellISBN 0060736054 (0-06-073605-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Callgirl'Book summary:Professor by day, callgirl by night a true storyJenny is left penniless by an ex-boyfriend and, in order to make ends meet, she finds herself juggling two lives - respected college-lecturer by day and $200-an-hour high class callgirl 'Tia' by night.Tia's clients range from the pitiful to the downright disturbing: there's the man obsessed with wearing her underwear, the client who wants her to pretend to be his mother and the punter who gets his kicks from inflicting pain. Tia is paid to fulfil all kinds of desires.Despite her madam's protection, Tia is drawn into a world of increasing danger, trying to dodge undercover cops, resist the temptation of drugs and, most of all, avoid falling in love with the wrong man.As Jenny juggles the twin roles of professor and prostitute, the eventual strain of keeping her life secret from friends and family forces her to re-examine everything - before her two worlds inevitably collide& [via]
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The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuseby Ellen Bass, Laura DavisISBN 0060551054 (0-06-055105-4)
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The Dance of Deceptionby Harriet Goldhor LernerISBN 0060168161 (0-06-016816-1)
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The Dancing Girls Of Lahore: Selling Love And Saving Dreams In Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure Districtby Louise Brown, T. Louise BrownISBN 0060740426 (0-06-074042-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dancing Girls Of Lahore: Selling Love And Saving Dreams In Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure District'Book summary:The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are gandi, "unclean," and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it.
Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of a Lahori dancing girl. With beautiful understatement, she turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to a powerful Arab sheikh at the age of twelve; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the sheikh come calling once more.
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love And Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure Districtby Louise BrownISBN 0060740434 (0-06-074043-4)
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Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angelby Anne De CourcyISBN 0060565330 (0-06-056533-0)
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodby Rebecca WellsISBN 0060502258 (0-06-050225-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood'Book summary:Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "It's so much fun being a bad girl!"
Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn. [via]
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Divorced from Justice: The Abuse of Women and Children by Divorce Lawyers and Judgesby Karen WinnerISBN 0060391847 (0-06-039184-7)
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The Dollmakerby Harriette ArnowISBN 0060529342 (0-06-052934-2)
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The Edwardian Womanby Duncan CrowISBN 0049421581 (0-04-942158-1)
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The Feminist Companion to Mythologyby Carolyne LarringtonISBN 0044408501 (0-04-440850-1)
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The Fifties: A Women's Oral Historyby Brett HarveyISBN 0060162791 (0-06-016279-1)
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Freeing Theology: The Essentials of Theology in Feminist Perspectiveby Catherine Mowry LacugnaISBN 0060649356 (0-06-064935-6)
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Frogs and Snails and Feminist Tales: Preschool Children and Genderby Bronwyn DaviesISBN 0045200076 (0-04-520007-6)
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Gaia & God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healingby Rosemary Radford RuetherISBN 0060669675 (0-06-066967-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gaia & God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing'Book summary:Internationally acclaimed author and teacher Rosemary Radford Ruether presents a sweeping ecofeminist theology that illuminates a path toward "earth-healing"--a whole relationship between men and women, communities and nations. "This is theology that really matters."--Harvey Cox [via]
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Guinevereby Norma Lorre GoodrichISBN 0060164425 (0-06-016442-5)
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Her Wits About Her: Self-Defense Success Stories by Womenby Denise Caignon, Gail GroveISBN 0060550783 (0-06-055078-3)
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A History of the Wifeby Marilyn YalomISBN 0060193387 (0-06-019338-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Wife'Book summary:The cultural historian who gave us A History of the Breast takes stock of the wife from her conception by the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans to her 20th-century manifestation as the New Woman. Beginning with the charter myth for the Judeo-Christian wife (Adam and Eve), Marilyn Yalom explains the religious, legal, and social practices of ancient civilizations that provided the template for the idea of wife as property of and subservient to her husband, with a role limited to mother and housekeeper. What she discovers is that the recent transformation of wifehood from sexless stay-at-home dependent to sexy supermom is actually the distillation of changes that have been going on for a long time, say a couple of thousand years. In fact, what makes Yalom's passage through time so fascinating is the steady rise and fall and rise again of the status of the wife and her struggle for greater autonomy. There are plenty of surprises: the first reciprocal marriages were actually had in Roman times; divorce became popular around the same time that monogamy was instituted; and while it's true that Puritans punished adultery harshly, it was they who brought the concepts of mutual love and lovemaking (other than for procreation) to America. The growing tension between women's impulses towards emancipation and the reaction against it was a quickly repeating theme in the 20th century, best exemplified by a WWII ad of a working woman pledging to "guard every bit of Beauty that he cherishes in me."
The wives in this revelatory genealogy resonate with the aid of illuminating stories and the lively voices found in letters and diaries. Through these, Yalom lithely demonstrates that the fantasy of the selfless devoted wife has always had an ineluctable twin, the archetypal powerful woman--and vice versa. While college women in the 1970s may have declared that "the idea that a woman's place is in the home is nonsense," Yalom points out that society still acts like every breadwinner has a stay-at-home wife, and the anxieties that are raised in advice columns today are not that different from those a hundred years ago. Greater independence and equality have not, as feared, led to the abandonment of the marital institution, nor many of the issues that haunt it. --Lesley Reed [via]
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A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Presentby Bonnie S Anderson, Judith P. ZinsserISBN 0060158506 (0-06-015850-6)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present'Book summary:This classic two-volume history is an exciting and revolutionary look at women's history from prehistoric times to the present. Its unique organization focuses on the developments, achievements, and changes in women's roles in society. Rather than examining women's history as an inevitable progression of events along a strict timeline, this text is organized within a loose chronology, with chapters focusing on women's place and function in society. This revised edition provides a new introduction, an updated epilogue on women's lives in Europe since 1988, and a completely revised bibliography that includes recent scholarship. A History of Their Own restores women to the historical record, brings their history into focus, and provides models of female action and heroism. Lively and engaging, this new edition takes readers on a fascinating journey through women's history and the changing roles they have played. In addition it is an ideal text for general courses in women's studies and women's history and more specialized courses focusing on women in European history.
Volume Two covers the fifteenth century to the present. Topics include the roles of female monarchs and women of the court; the application of the new tools of the Scientific Revolution to prove traditional views of women; the salons and parlors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and wealthy women's contributions to the arts and social services; the impact of city-living and the Industrial Revolution on women's roles and family life; and the emergence, evolution, and impact of the modern feminist movement. [via]More editions of A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present:
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumerby Diane Wolkstein, Samuel Noah KramerISBN 006014713X (0-06-014713-X)
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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in Americaby John D'Emilio, Estelle B. FreedmanISBN 0060158557 (0-06-015855-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America'Book summary:The first full length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offers trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans, from colonial times to today. D'Emilio and Freedman give us a deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramatically influenced politics and culture throughout our history.[via]
"The book John D'Emilio co-wrote with Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters, was cited by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy when, writing for a majority of court on July 26, he and his colleagues struck down a Texas law criminalizing sodomy. The decision was widely hailed as a victory for gay rights--and it derived in part, according to Kennedy's written comments, from the information he gleaned from D'Emilio's book, which traces the history of American perspectives on sexual relationships from the nation's founding through the present day. The justice mentioned Intimate Matters specifically in the court's decision."--Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
"Fascinating. . . . [D'Emilio and Freedman] marshall their material to chart a gradual but decisive shift in the way Americans have understood sex and its meaning in their lives." --Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review
"[With] comprehensiveness and care . . . D'Emilio and Freedman have surveyed the sexual patters for an entire nation across four centuries." --Martin Bauml Duberman, Nation
"Intimate Matters is comprehensive, meticulous and intelligent." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"This book is remarkable. . . . [Intimate Matters] is bound to become the definitive survey of American sexual history for years to come." --Roy Porter, Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesMore editions of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America:
Ladies Almanack:Showing Their Signs and Their Tides: Their Moons and Their Changes; the Seasons as It Is with Them; Their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as Well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal Distempersby Djuna BarnesISBN 0060102217 (0-06-010221-7)
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Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in Eighteenth-Century Europeby Brian DolanISBN 0060185430 (0-06-018543-0)
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fictionby Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan WoodISBN 0060168358 (0-06-016835-8)
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The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0060125748 (0-06-012574-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Left Hand of Darkness'Book summary:Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with which Le Guin portrays her alien world are not only unusual and inspiring, they are fundamental to almost all decent science fiction that has been written since. In fact, reading Le Guin again may cause the eye to narrow somewhat disapprovingly at the younger generation: what new ground are they breaking that is not already explored here with greater skill and acumen? It cannot be said, however, that this is a rollicking good story. Le Guin takes a lot of time to explore her characters, the world of her creation, and the philosophical themes that arise.
If there were a canon of classic science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness would be included without debate. Certainly, no science fiction bookshelf may be said to be complete without it. But the real question: is it fun to read? It is science fiction of an earlier time, a time that has not worn particularly well in the genre. The Left Hand of Darkness was a groundbreaking book in 1969, a time when, like the rest of the arts, science fiction was awakening to new dimensions in both society and literature. But the first excursions out of the pulp tradition are sometimes difficult to reread with much enjoyment. Rereading The Left Hand of Darkness, decades after its publication, one feels that those who chose it for the Hugo and Nebula awards were right to do so, for it truly does stand out as one of the great books of that era. It is immensely rich in timeless wisdom and insight.
The Left Hand of Darkness is science fiction for the thinking reader, and should be read attentively in order to properly savor the depth of insight and the subtleties of plot and character. It is one of those pleasures that requires a little investment at the beginning, but pays back tenfold with the joy of raw imagination that resonates through the subsequent 30 years of science fiction storytelling. Not only is the bookshelf incomplete without owning it, so is the reader without having read it. --L. Blunt Jackson [via]
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The Livingby Annie DillardISBN 0060168706 (0-06-016870-6)
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The Modern Woman's Guide to Lifeby E. Chapman, Maggie KassnerISBN 006055116X (0-06-055116-X)
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The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombsby Gena CoreaISBN 0060153903 (0-06-015390-3)
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New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authorityby Mary Jo WeaverISBN 006069288X (0-06-069288-X)
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No More Masks!: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets, Newly Revised and Expandedby Florence HoweISBN 006055262X (0-06-055262-X)
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Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politicsby Andrea DworkinISBN 006011116X (0-06-011116-X)
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Paper Daughter: A Memoirby M. Elaine MarISBN 0060182938 (0-06-018293-8)
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Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801by Emma DonoghueISBN 0060172614 (0-06-017261-4)
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Passions Child: The Extraordinary Life of Jane Digbyby Margaret F. SchmidtISBN 0060138076 (0-06-013807-6)
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Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansionby Jennifer SaginorISBN 0060761571 (0-06-076157-1)
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The daughter of Hugh Hefner's personal physician and closest friend, a man who was immortalized in Motley Crue song Dr. Feelgood, spent most of her youth in the Playboy Mansion (and still visits every weekend). In this wholly original coming-of-age memoir, Jennifer Saginor recounts her time living a double life - as a child who had to teach herself how to survive, and as a fixture at the Playboy Mansion, where life was always a party, and where anything she wanted was at the touch of her fingertips.
This is a great summer read for anyone who wants to take a look inside the walls of the Playboy Mansion, as well as a heart wrenching look into the psychological effects of a glamorous, yet broken, upbringing.
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonaldISBN 0060095520 (0-06-009552-0)
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Proud Shoesby Pauli MurrayISBN 0060131098 (0-06-013109-8)
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNAby Brenda MaddoxISBN 0060184078 (0-06-018407-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA'Book summary:In March 1953, Maurice Wilkins of King's College, London, announced the departure of his obstructive colleague Rosalind Franklin to rival Cavendish Laboratory scientist Francis Crick. But it was too late. Franklin's unpublished data and crucial photograph of DNA had already been seen by her competitors at the Cambridge University lab. With the aid of these, plus their own knowledge, Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the molecule that genes are composed of -- DNA, the secret of life. Five years later, at the age of thirty-seven, after more brilliant research under J. D. Bernal at Birkbeck College, Rosalind died of ovarian cancer. In 1962, Wilkins, Crick and Watson were awarded the Nobel Prize for their elucidation of DNA's structure. Franklin's part was forgotten until she was caricatured in Watson's book The Double Helix.
In this full and balanced biography, Brenda Maddox has been given unique access to Franklin's personal correspondence and has interviewed all the principal scientists involved, including Crick, Watson and Wilkins.
This is a powerful story, told by one of the finest biographers, of a remarkably single-minded, forthright and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.
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The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistanby Christina LambISBN 0060505273 (0-06-050527-3)
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Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in Americaby Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-GoodenISBN 0060090553 (0-06-009055-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America'Book summary:Do you ever feel that you have to leave your true self at the door in order to placate White colleagues? Do you downplay your abilities for fear of outshining Black men? Do you speak one way in the office, another way to your girlfriends? Is it sometimes a struggle to feel good about how you look -- your skin color, your hair, your body size and shape?
In this arresting and groundbreaking work, authors Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Ph.D., articulate with deep understanding what it is really like to be Black and female in America today.
Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, an interview and questionnaire study with four hundred women across the United States and from many walks of life, Shifting reveals that a large number of Black women feel pressure to compromise their true selves in order to fit in to American society. From one moment to the next, they report changing inwardly and outwardly -- Shifting "White," then Shifting "Black" again, Shifting "corporate," Shifting "cool" -- a coping and survival skill that often diminishes the joys of living an authentic life.
Shifting can have a devastating effect on a woman's body and soul. In a culture that is both racist and sexist, Black women are suffering. They are susceptible to an array of psychological problems, including anxiety, low self-esteem, disordered eating, depression, and even outright self-hatred. They may make others feel comfortable, but too often they are left feeling conflicted, weary, and alone.
Yet their revealing voices are utterly cathartic. As Black women talk openly about their lives -- contending with the workplace, mothering, coming to terms with their beauty, forging relationships with men, living their spirituality -- they describe what it takes to "make it" despite everything, and bring to light how essential it is to explode the myths and stereotypes still in place.
With this deeper perspective, Black women will find the path back to their true selves and come to understand how important it is to be aware of Shifting in their own lives. And readers of all genders and ethnicities will gain a heightened sensitivity to the continued damage wrought by bias and prejudice, and an increased awareness of what we can all do to make a difference.
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Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetryby Charlotte Watson ShermanISBN 0060553510 (0-06-055351-0)
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Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimageby Pauli MurrayISBN 0060157046 (0-06-015704-6)
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The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddessby StarhawkISBN 0060675357 (0-06-067535-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess'Book summary:The original book that brought Goddess worship to the public eye has marked its 10th anniversary, yet it still remains an integral part of the Wiccan canon. The Spiral Dance leans heavily toward the feminist aspects of Wicca, but Starhawk's comments on the new edition make it clear that she is aware of the growing male presence in witchcraft. However, this edition is not some watered down, politically correct revision of the original. Very little is changed aside from the addition of Starhawk's observations on how the book has weathered its first decade, and what few changes she would make if she were writing it today. Readers interested in learning more about contemporary witchcraft, whether considering Wicca as a way of life or simply desiring to understand this earth-based religion, will find a wealth of information in The Spiral Dance, and will notice that it becomes one of the most frequently consulted books in their Wicca libraries. --Brian Patterson [via]
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Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazyby Sonya SonesISBN 0060283866 (0-06-028386-6)
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The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriageby Ferdinand MountISBN 0049421808 (0-04-942180-8)
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Two Old Womenby Velma Wallis, A. C. CallahanISBN 0060723521 (0-06-072352-1)
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Under My Skin: My Autobiography to 1949by Doris May LessingISBN 0060171502 (0-06-017150-2)
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Unveiled: Voices of Women in Afghanistanby Harriet LoganISBN 0060510870 (0-06-051087-0)
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Victoria and the Victoriansby Herbert TingstenISBN 0049420860 (0-04-942086-0)
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Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraftby Lyndall GordonISBN 0060198028 (0-06-019802-8)
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Walking in the Shade : Volume Two of My Autobiography 1949-1962by Doris LessingISBN 0060182954 (0-06-018295-4)
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The Way the Crow Fliesby Ann-Marie MacDonaldISBN 0060586370 (0-06-058637-0)
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What Paul Really Said About Womenby John Temple BristowISBN 0060610638 (0-06-061063-8)
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Womanspirit: A Guide to Women's Wisdomby Hallie IglehartISBN 0060640898 (0-06-064089-8)
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Women and Religion in Americaby Rosemary Radford Ruether, Rosemary Skinner KellerISBN 0060668296 (0-06-066829-6)
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Women and Religion in America: 1900-1968by Rosemary Radford Ruether, Rosemary Skinner KellerISBN 0060668334 (0-06-066833-4)
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Women in Praise of the Sacredby Jane HirshfieldISBN 0060169877 (0-06-016987-7)
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Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Themby Dale SpenderISBN 0044408323 (0-04-440832-3)
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The Women's Haggadahby E. M. Broner, Naomi NimrodISBN 006061143X (0-06-061143-X)
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