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Backlash
The Undeclared War Against American Women
Written by Susan Faludi

Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $14.95

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The Fire This Time
Young Activists and the New Feminism
Edited by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $14.95

Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic—and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and multicultural activist organization--and Vivien Labaton, its first... Read more >

A Piece of My Heart
The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam
Written by Keith Walker

Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $16.95

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No Turning Back
The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Written by Estelle Freedman

Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95

Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. A truly global movement... Read more >

The War on Choice
The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
Written by Gloria Feldt

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00

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.

With the... Read more >

Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2007
Price: $16.99

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change... Read more >

Backlash
The Undeclared War Against American Women
Written by Susan Faludi

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $14.95

Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women’s Rights

“Opting-out,” “security moms,” “desperate housewives,” “the new baby fever”—the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations. Now, the book that reignited... Read more >

I Dwell In Possibility
How Women Shaped a Nation
Written by Donna Lucey

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $25.00

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The Fire This Time
Young Activists and the New Feminism
Edited by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $14.95

Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic—and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and multicultural activist organization--and Vivien Labaton, its first... 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
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $13.00

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.

With the... Read more >

Women Who Run with the Wolves

Written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $27.95

"WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows."
Alice Walker
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is... Read more >

No Turning Back
The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Written by Estelle Freedman

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2003
Price: $15.95

“On the situations of women around the world today, this one book provides more illumination and insight than a dozen others combined. . . . Freedman’s survey is a triumph of global scope and informed precision.”
–NANCY F. COTT
Professor of History, Harvard University

Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement... Read more >

Our Nig
or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Afterword by Barbara Ehrlich White
Edited by Harriet E. Wilson

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2002
Price: $14.00

With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New Afterword by Barbara White

A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials... Read more >

In Our Time
Memoir of a Revolution
Written by Susan Brownmiller

Format: Trade Paperback, 388 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $19.00

There once was a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape crisis center or a shelter for battered women, when "sexual harassment" had... Read more >

A Year by the Sea

Written by Joan Anderson

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2000
Price: $13.95

Now available in paperback, the entrancing story of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to persevere in re-creating her life.

Life is a work in progress, as ever-changing as a sandy shoreline along the beach. During the years Joan Anderson was a loving wife and supportive mother, she... Read more >

Rebels in White Gloves
Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69
Written by Miriam Horn

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2000
Price: $14.00

When the women of the Wellesley class of 1969 entered the ivory tower, they were initiated into a rarefied world. Many were daughters of privilege, many were going for their "MRS." But by the time they graduated four years later, they faced a world turned upside down by the Pill, NOW... 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
On Sale: February 1, 2000
Price: $23.00

"Tomorrow belongs to women," notes celebrated anthropologist Helen Fisher. In her explosive new book, The First Sex, 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 and on... Read more >