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Fist Stick Knife Gun
A Personal History of Violence
Written by Geoffrey Canada
Illustrated by Jamar Nicholas
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-4449-0 (0-8070-4449-0)
A 2011 Great Graphic Novel for Teens (YALSA)
Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children,” and First Lady Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,” Geoffrey Canada was a small and scared boy growing up in... Read more >
A Personal History of Violence
Written by Geoffrey Canada
Illustrated by Jamar Nicholas
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-4449-0 (0-8070-4449-0)
A 2011 Great Graphic Novel for Teens (YALSA)
Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children,” and First Lady Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,” Geoffrey Canada was a small and scared boy growing up in... Read more >
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Having It All?
Black Women and Success
Written by Veronica Chambers
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1239-6 (0-7679-1239-X)
In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially. They’ve entered the workplace at a far greater rate than white women; increased their enrollment in law schools and graduate programs by 120 percent; and many are now running top companies, or in some cases, the country.
With... Read more >
Black Women and Success
Written by Veronica Chambers
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1239-6 (0-7679-1239-X)
In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially. They’ve entered the workplace at a far greater rate than white women; increased their enrollment in law schools and graduate programs by 120 percent; and many are now running top companies, or in some cases, the country.
With... Read more >
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Gender Talk
The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Written by Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-45413-3 (0-345-45413-8)
"...a cogent history of black feminist struggles and debates up until now."
—The Women's Review of Books
Two of America’s leading African-American intellectuals provide the most comprehensive critique to date of the state of relations between Black men and women. Dr. Johnetta Cole and Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall argue that, in the 21st century,... Read more >
The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Written by Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-45413-3 (0-345-45413-8)
"...a cogent history of black feminist struggles and debates up until now."
—The Women's Review of Books
Two of America’s leading African-American intellectuals provide the most comprehensive critique to date of the state of relations between Black men and women. Dr. Johnetta Cole and Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall argue that, in the 21st century,... Read more >
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A Woman's Education
Written by Jill Ker Conway
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74462-7 (0-679-74462-2)
The beloved bestselling author of The Road from Coorain and True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College—a time when she was faced with the challenge of reinventing women’s education and with the demands of her own life.
Conway took... Read more >
Written by Jill Ker Conway
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74462-7 (0-679-74462-2)
The beloved bestselling author of The Road from Coorain and True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College—a time when she was faced with the challenge of reinventing women’s education and with the demands of her own life.
Conway took... Read more >
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In Search of Mary
The Woman and the Symbol
Written by Sally Cunneen
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 20, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-38246-7 (0-345-38246-3)
In this thoughtful and highly readable book, Cunneen explores the meaning of Mary in Western art, poetry, popular culture and theology. Read more >
The Woman and the Symbol
Written by Sally Cunneen
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 20, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-38246-7 (0-345-38246-3)
In this thoughtful and highly readable book, Cunneen explores the meaning of Mary in Western art, poetry, popular culture and theology. Read more >
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Altared
Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings
Edited by Colleen Curran
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27763-3 (0-307-27763-1)
Original essays by Top Women Writers
Julianna Baggott _ Curtis Sittenfeld _ Catherine Ingrassia _ Elizabeth Crane
Lara Vapnyar _ Lisa Carver _ Carina Chocano _ Rory Evans _ Jennifer Armstrong _ Elise Mac Adam _ Janelle Brown _ Daisy de Villeneuve _ Meghan Daum _ Amy Sohn _ Samina Ali _... Read more >
Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings
Edited by Colleen Curran
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27763-3 (0-307-27763-1)
Original essays by Top Women Writers
Julianna Baggott _ Curtis Sittenfeld _ Catherine Ingrassia _ Elizabeth Crane
Lara Vapnyar _ Lisa Carver _ Carina Chocano _ Rory Evans _ Jennifer Armstrong _ Elise Mac Adam _ Janelle Brown _ Daisy de Villeneuve _ Meghan Daum _ Amy Sohn _ Samina Ali _... Read more >
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Surviving Ophelia
Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years
Written by Cheryl Dellasega
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45538-3 (0-345-45538-X)
Drawing on the experiences of scores of mothers and daughters, Dellasega takes a hard look at the lives of girls in crisis—once happy, carefree children who are now struggling with eating disorders, unplanned pregnancies, substance abuse, and severe mental problems. These are stories of girls on the edge, and mothers who... Read more >
Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years
Written by Cheryl Dellasega
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45538-3 (0-345-45538-X)
Drawing on the experiences of scores of mothers and daughters, Dellasega takes a hard look at the lives of girls in crisis—once happy, carefree children who are now struggling with eating disorders, unplanned pregnancies, substance abuse, and severe mental problems. These are stories of girls on the edge, and mothers who... Read more >
The Only Girl in the Car
Written by Kathy Dobie
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: March 2, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-31883-9 (0-385-31883-9)
In The Only Girl in the Car, Kathy Dobie has written an extraordinary and painfully intimate memoir of her coming to womanhood. Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy was a young girl with a tender heart, an adventurer’s spirit, and a child’s terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the... Read more >
Written by Kathy Dobie
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: March 2, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-31883-9 (0-385-31883-9)
In The Only Girl in the Car, Kathy Dobie has written an extraordinary and painfully intimate memoir of her coming to womanhood. Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy was a young girl with a tender heart, an adventurer’s spirit, and a child’s terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the... Read more >
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Letters from Motherless Daughters
Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing
Written by Hope Edelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: April 1, 1996
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-31522-7 (0-385-31522-8)
Revisiting the profoundly important subject of mother loss, Letters From Motherless Daughters is a compilation of letters written by women in response to the ground-breaking Motherless Daughters. When Motherless Daughters was first published in 1994, author Hope Edelman -- through research, interviews, and personal experience -- articulated both the experiences and... Read more >
Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing
Written by Hope Edelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: April 1, 1996
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-31522-7 (0-385-31522-8)
Revisiting the profoundly important subject of mother loss, Letters From Motherless Daughters is a compilation of letters written by women in response to the ground-breaking Motherless Daughters. When Motherless Daughters was first published in 1994, author Hope Edelman -- through research, interviews, and personal experience -- articulated both the experiences and... Read more >
Mother of My Mother
The Intimate Bond Between Generations
Written by Hope Edelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-31799-3 (0-385-31799-9)
Drawing from her own experience and the recollections of over seventy other granddaughters, Edelman explores the three-generation triangle from which women develop their female identities: the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship. With insightful personal testimony, she demonstrates the vital roles grandmothers have played in their granddaughters’ lives as a source of unconditional love, family... Read more >
The Intimate Bond Between Generations
Written by Hope Edelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-31799-3 (0-385-31799-9)
Drawing from her own experience and the recollections of over seventy other granddaughters, Edelman explores the three-generation triangle from which women develop their female identities: the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship. With insightful personal testimony, she demonstrates the vital roles grandmothers have played in their granddaughters’ lives as a source of unconditional love, family... Read more >
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For Her Own Good
Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
Written by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7800-4 (1-4000-7800-8)
Updated to cover the 25 years since it was first published, this brilliant and wonderfully written women's history classic exposes the myths told to women in the name of science.
Since the the nineteenth century, "experts" have been telling women how to take care of themselves. Generations of highly respected mainstream physicians... Read more >
Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
Written by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7800-4 (1-4000-7800-8)
Updated to cover the 25 years since it was first published, this brilliant and wonderfully written women's history classic exposes the myths told to women in the name of science.
Since the the nineteenth century, "experts" have been telling women how to take care of themselves. Generations of highly respected mainstream physicians... Read more >
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The Girl Project
Written by Kate Engelbrecht
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Universe
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-7893-2260-9 (0-7893-2260-9)
Female adolescence through the eyes of teenage girls for a teenage-girl audience. This empowering volume introduces the reader to an insider’s view of teenage girlhood. Through their participation in The Girl Project-created in 2007 by Kate Engelbrecht to explore the personal realities of modern female adolescence-teenage girls contributed intimate, heartwarming, diary-like... Read more >
The Girl Project
Written by Kate Engelbrecht
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Universe
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-7893-2260-9 (0-7893-2260-9)
Female adolescence through the eyes of teenage girls for a teenage-girl audience. This empowering volume introduces the reader to an insider’s view of teenage girlhood. Through their participation in The Girl Project-created in 2007 by Kate Engelbrecht to explore the personal realities of modern female adolescence-teenage girls contributed intimate, heartwarming, diary-like... Read more >
American Plastic
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
Written by Laurie Essig
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0323-7 (0-8070-0323-9)
The story of how credit and cosmetic surgery have created a subprime mortgage crisis of the body.
In this provocative book, sociologist Laurie Essig traces the history of plastic surgery, tracks the effect of fashion and porn on our desire to “fix” ourselves, and explores our image- and youth-obsessed culture. In over... Read more >
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
Written by Laurie Essig
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0323-7 (0-8070-0323-9)
The story of how credit and cosmetic surgery have created a subprime mortgage crisis of the body.
In this provocative book, sociologist Laurie Essig traces the history of plastic surgery, tracks the effect of fashion and porn on our desire to “fix” ourselves, and explores our image- and youth-obsessed culture. In over... Read more >
Women Who Run with the Wolves
Written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 22, 1995
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-39681-5 (0-345-39681-2)
In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes, a Jungian analyst and cantadora (storyteller), conducts what she calls "psychic archeological digs" into the ruins of the female unconscious. Using multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories chosen from more than twenty years of research, she examines the healthy, instinctual... Read more >
Written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 22, 1995
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-39681-5 (0-345-39681-2)
In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes, a Jungian analyst and cantadora (storyteller), conducts what she calls "psychic archeological digs" into the ruins of the female unconscious. Using multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories chosen from more than twenty years of research, she examines the healthy, instinctual... Read more >
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Trans Liberation
Beyond Pink or Blue
Written by Leslie Feinberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 10, 1999
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7951-5 (0-8070-7951-0)
Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and stirring book is for anyone... Read more >
Beyond Pink or Blue
Written by Leslie Feinberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 10, 1999
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7951-5 (0-8070-7951-0)
Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and stirring book is for anyone... Read more >
Transgender Warriors
Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Written by Leslie Feinberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 30, 1997
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7941-6 (0-8070-7941-3)
With a New Afterword by the Author
In this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening jaunt through the history of gender expression and a powerful testament to the rebellious spirit.
“Activist... Read more >
Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Written by Leslie Feinberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 30, 1997
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7941-6 (0-8070-7941-3)
With a New Afterword by the Author
In this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening jaunt through the history of gender expression and a powerful testament to the rebellious spirit.
“Activist... Read more >
The War on Choice
The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
Written by Gloria Feldt
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38292-1 (0-553-38292-6)
Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back the clock on women's rights.
As Feldt... Read more >
The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
Written by Gloria Feldt
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38292-1 (0-553-38292-6)
Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back the clock on women's rights.
As Feldt... Read more >
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Necessary Dreams
Ambition in Women's Changing Lives
Written by Anna Fels
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75888-4 (0-679-75888-7)
In this groundbreaking book about how women perceive, are prepared for, and cope with ambition and achievement, psychiatrist Anna Fels examines ambition at the deepest psychological level. Cutting to the core of what ambition can provide—the essential elements of a fulfilling life—Fels describes why, for women but not for men, ambition... Read more >
Ambition in Women's Changing Lives
Written by Anna Fels
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75888-4 (0-679-75888-7)
In this groundbreaking book about how women perceive, are prepared for, and cope with ambition and achievement, psychiatrist Anna Fels examines ambition at the deepest psychological level. Cutting to the core of what ambition can provide—the essential elements of a fulfilling life—Fels describes why, for women but not for men, ambition... Read more >
In Search of Islamic Feminism
Written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 10, 1998
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48858-7 (0-385-48858-0)
To most Americans, the very idea of “Islamic feminism” would seem a contradiction in terms. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force Muslim women to accept male authority unconditionally. In In Search of Islamic Feminism, Elizabeth Fernea—acclaimed scholar, author of... Read more >
Written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 10, 1998
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48858-7 (0-385-48858-0)
To most Americans, the very idea of “Islamic feminism” would seem a contradiction in terms. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force Muslim women to accept male authority unconditionally. In In Search of Islamic Feminism, Elizabeth Fernea—acclaimed scholar, author of... Read more >
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Anatomy of Love
A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Written by Helen Fisher
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: January 3, 1994
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-90897-6 (0-449-90897-6)
Dr.Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, looks at love throughout four-million-year history of the human species. She demystifies much about romance and pairing that we tend to believe is willfull or just plain careless. She offers new explanations for why men and women fall in love... Read more >
A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Written by Helen Fisher
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: January 3, 1994
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-90897-6 (0-449-90897-6)
Dr.Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, looks at love throughout four-million-year history of the human species. She demystifies much about romance and pairing that we tend to believe is willfull or just plain careless. She offers new explanations for why men and women fall in love... Read more >
The First Sex
The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World
Written by Helen Fisher
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-91260-7 (0-449-91260-4)
"Tomorrow belongs to women," notes celebrated anthropologist Helen Fisher. In this explosive new book she illustrates this enticing assertion. Drawing on original research, Fisher reveals how women and their natural talents are changing the world, making them ideal leaders and successful shapers of business and society today. Looking back to prehistoric... Read more >
The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World
Written by Helen Fisher
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-91260-7 (0-449-91260-4)
"Tomorrow belongs to women," notes celebrated anthropologist Helen Fisher. In this explosive new book she illustrates this enticing assertion. Drawing on original research, Fisher reveals how women and their natural talents are changing the world, making them ideal leaders and successful shapers of business and society today. Looking back to prehistoric... Read more >
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Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them
When Loving Hurts And You Don't Know Why
Written by Susan Forward and Joan Torres
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: January 2, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38141-2 (0-553-38141-5)
Dr. Susan Forward presents detailed case studies to address the practice of overcoming destructive relationships. She draws on case histories and the voices of men and women trapped in negative relationships to help readers understand the reasons behind some men's destructive patterns and the part a woman plays in it.
This work... Read more >
When Loving Hurts And You Don't Know Why
Written by Susan Forward and Joan Torres
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: January 2, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38141-2 (0-553-38141-5)
Dr. Susan Forward presents detailed case studies to address the practice of overcoming destructive relationships. She draws on case histories and the voices of men and women trapped in negative relationships to help readers understand the reasons behind some men's destructive patterns and the part a woman plays in it.
This work... Read more >
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Obsessive Love
When It Hurts Too Much to Let Go
Written by Susan Forward and Craig Buck
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: January 2, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38142-9 (0-553-38142-3)
Renowned psychotherapist Dr. Susan Forward presents detailed case studies to address the practice of overcoming destructive relationships and also offers a program that shows readers how to break the "connection compulsion" that keeps them trapped in unhealthy, obsessive relationships.
This work is sure to afford students of psychology and sociology a... Read more >
When It Hurts Too Much to Let Go
Written by Susan Forward and Craig Buck
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: January 2, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38142-9 (0-553-38142-3)
Renowned psychotherapist Dr. Susan Forward presents detailed case studies to address the practice of overcoming destructive relationships and also offers a program that shows readers how to break the "connection compulsion" that keeps them trapped in unhealthy, obsessive relationships.
This work is sure to afford students of psychology and sociology a... Read more >
Minding the Body
Written by Patricia Foster
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 20, 1995
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-47167-1 (0-385-47167-X)
A mulitcultural anthology of fiction and non-fiction literary narratives which addresses the psychological and political aspects of a woman’s body in today’s culture. An important and much-needed book for women who seek to understand their bodies and find independent, imaginative ways to cope with aging, beauty expectations beauty expectations, and ethnic... Read more >
Written by Patricia Foster
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 20, 1995
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-47167-1 (0-385-47167-X)
A mulitcultural anthology of fiction and non-fiction literary narratives which addresses the psychological and political aspects of a woman’s body in today’s culture. An important and much-needed book for women who seek to understand their bodies and find independent, imaginative ways to cope with aging, beauty expectations beauty expectations, and ethnic... Read more >
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No Turning Back
The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Written by Estelle Freedman
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: January 1, 2003
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-45053-1 (0-345-45053-1)
2002 Outstanding Academic Title in History, Geography, & Area Studies
—CHOICE Magazine (American Library Association)
A Library Journal Best Books of 2002
Feminism — alive or dead? According to Estelle Freedman, Professor of History and a founder of the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford University, feminism is not only clearly alive and well... Read more >
The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Written by Estelle Freedman
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: January 1, 2003
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-45053-1 (0-345-45053-1)
2002 Outstanding Academic Title in History, Geography, & Area Studies
—CHOICE Magazine (American Library Association)
A Library Journal Best Books of 2002
Feminism — alive or dead? According to Estelle Freedman, Professor of History and a founder of the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford University, feminism is not only clearly alive and well... Read more >
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