Hell Hath No Fury
True Stories of Women at War from Antiquity to Iraq
Written by Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-34637-7 (0-307-34637-4)

HELL HATH NO FURY fills a significant gap in the way we look at women's contributions and role in war. These compelling biographical essays give an in-depth sense of the widely different ways in which women across all cultures have participated in war--from the front lines to the the medical tents... Read more >

She Looks Just Like You
A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
Written by Amie Klempnauer Miller

Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0151-6 (0-8070-0151-1)

After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became... Read more >

The Healing Connection
How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life
Written by Jean Baker Miller

Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-2921-3 (0-8070-2921-1)

In The Healing Connection, Jean Baker Miller, M.D., author of the best-selling Toward a New Psychology of Women, and Irene Stiver, Ph.D., argue that relationships are the integral source of psychological health. In so doing they offer a new understanding of human development that points a way to change in all... Read more >

Toward a New Psychology of Women

Written by Jean Baker Miller

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 2, 1987
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-2909-1 (0-8070-2909-2)

In the twenty years since its publication, this classic psychology text has become famous for its groundbreaking demonstration of how sexual stereotypes restrict men’s and women’s psychological development. Toward a New Psychology of Women revolutionized concepts of strength and weakness, dependency and autonomy, emotion, success, and power.

“Monumental in its innovative--possibly revolutionary--restructuring... Read more >

Honeymoon in Tehran
Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
Written by Azadeh Moaveni

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7790-5 (0-8129-7790-4)

Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose economic grievances and nationalist spirit find an outlet in Ahmadinejad’s... Read more >

And If I Perish
Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
Written by Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3129-0 (1-4000-3129-X)

In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through... Read more >

A Few Good Women
America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Written by Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9560-5 (1-4000-9560-3)

In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories.

Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and gathering thousands of eyewitness accounts, letters, and interviews for this unprecedented chronicle... Read more >

Women's History For Beginners

Written by Bonnie Morris
Illustrated by Phillip Evans

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: For Beginners
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-1-934389-60-7 (1-934389-60-9)

History books have either blurred, glossed, or omitted many events and people throughout history involving women and their roles in furthering the progression of the world’s cultures. What is women’s history? Is it the history of sex or gender? Is it scholarly history, or a feminist viewpoint? Is it the story... Read more >

Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Portrait of a First Lady
Written by Sylvia Morris

Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 4, 2001
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75768-6 (0-375-75768-6)

Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic and political partnerships in American history. Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously unpublished... Read more >

Everything Conceivable
How the Science of Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World
Written by Liza Mundy

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9537-7 (1-4000-9537-9)

Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species.

Skyrocketing infertility rates and dizzying technological advances are revolutionizing American families and changing... Read more >

Heroine's Journey

Written by Maureen Murdock

Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 23, 1990
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-87773-485-7 (0-87773-485-2)

"The Heroine's Journey offers a map of the feminine healing process. Murdock writes in a clear and compassionate voice which draws inspiration from her experiences as a mother, artist, and therapist and from the collective wisdom of the community of women on the path of the goddess. This book speaks to... Read more >

Rose
Love in Violent Times
Written by Inga Muscio

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-926-2 (1-58322-926-4)

With trademark precision and razor-sharp wit, Inga Muscio explores the impacts of passive violence, abuse, war, and cultural trauma on our most intimate lives in order to uncover a path toward healthy and imaginative sex and love.

Rose breaks new ground in answering a fundamental question in most feminist and antiracist writing... Read more >

Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
Written by Azar Nafisi

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7106-4 (0-8129-7106-X)

Winner, 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Non-Fiction

"This book transcends categorization of memoir, literary criticism or social history, though it is superb in all three."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to... Read more >

Sati - Widow Burning in India

Written by Sakuntal Narasimhan

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 1, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-42317-5 (0-385-42317-9)

“Bombay journalist Narasimhan here offers an unnerving, carefully documented study of the Indian ritual whereby widows bring glory on themselves and their families by self-immolation on the pyres of their dead husbands. According to the author, the Hindi scriptures, which evolved from the second millennium B.C. to the second millennium A.D.... Read more >

Market Sentiments
Middle-Class Market Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Written by Elizabeth White Nelson

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-290-4 (1-58834-290-5)

In this brilliant study, Elizabeth White Nelson challenges a central tenet of 19th-century American history: namely, that men and women lived in separate spheres. Women, supposedly, lived lives focused around hearth and home; men focused on trade and commerce. Market Sentiments turns this theory on its head, arguing that the market... Read more >

In the Devil's Snare
The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Written by Mary Beth Norton

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70690-5 (0-375-70690-9)

Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.

In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many... Read more >

Lazy B
Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
Written by Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6673-2 (0-8129-6673-2)

What was it in Sandra Day O'Connor's background and early life that helped make her the woman she is today—the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women in America?

In Lazy B, Sandra Day O'Connor, with her brother, Alan, tells the story of the... Read more >

The Majesty of the Law
Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
Written by Sandra Day O'Connor

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6747-0 (0-8129-6747-X)

In The Majesty of the Law, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, and ideas, O’Connor... Read more >

Out of Order
Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Written by Sandra Day O'Connor

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9392-9 (0-8129-9392-6)

“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions. But the... Read more >

Flux
Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World
Written by Peggy Orenstein

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49887-6 (0-385-49887-X)

The advances of the women’s movement allow women to grow up with a sense of expanded possibilities. Yet traditional expectations have hardly changed. To discover how they are navigating this double burden personally and professionally, Orenstein interviewed hundreds of women and has blended their voices into a compelling narrative that gets... Read more >

Schoolgirls
Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
Written by Peggy Orenstein

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1995
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-42576-6 (0-385-42576-7)

SchoolGirls examines the lives of teenage girls and reveals that despite perceptions of progress toward equality between the sexes, fundamentally things have not really advanced much. Written in association with the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the book is deeply rooted in a broad-based 1990 AAUW poll, which found that... Read more >

Know Your Power
A Message to America's Daughters
Written by Nancy Pelosi and Amy Hill Hearth

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2944-8 (0-7679-2944-6)

“Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights. But women weren’t just waiting; women were working. Never losing faith, we worked to redeem the promise of America, that all men and women are created equal. For our daughters and our granddaughters today we have... Read more >

Aching for Beauty
Footbinding in China
Written by Wang Ping

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72136-3 (0-385-72136-6)

In this award-winning inquiry into the centuries-old custom of footbinding, poet, novelist, and scholar Wang Ping offers a fresh perspective on a shocking practice.

By first examining the root of her own girlhood desire for tiny feet–years after footbinding had been outlawed in China–Wang unleashes a fascinating exploration of the history... Read more >

Deborah, Golda, and Me

Written by Letty Pogrebin

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 14, 1992
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-42512-4 (0-385-42512-0)

A leading feminist activist, author, and nationally known lecturer writes of her struggle to integrate a feminist head with a Jewish heart.
“Required reading for those who define themselves as Jewish or feminist—or care about either.” —San Francisco Chronicle Read more >

Subject to Debate
Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
Written by Katha Pollitt

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: February 6, 2001
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78343-5 (0-679-78343-1)

Subject to Debate, Katha Pollitt’s column in The Nation, has offered readers clear-eyed yet provocative observations on women, politics, and culture for more than seven years. Bringing together eighty-eight of her most astute essays on hot-button topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school vouchers, this selection displays the full range of... Read more >