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Heretic's Heart
A Journey through Spirit and Revolution
Written by Margot Adler
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $24.00
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A Journey through Spirit and Revolution
Written by Margot Adler
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $24.00
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The Bonds of Love
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & the Problem of Domination
Written by Jessica Benjamin
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $11.99
Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why, indeed, do hey continue to recapitulate... Read more >
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & the Problem of Domination
Written by Jessica Benjamin
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $11.99
Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why, indeed, do hey continue to recapitulate... Read more >
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The Last Men on Top
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $2.99
A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?
How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television... Read more >
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $2.99
A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?
How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television... Read more >
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Paradise Beneath Her Feet
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Written by Isobel Coleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $17.00
Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
In this timely and important book, Isobel Coleman... Read more >
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Written by Isobel Coleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $17.00
Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
In this timely and important book, Isobel Coleman... Read more >
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My Escape
An Autobiography
Written by Benoite Groult
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $17.95
This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist, through the obstacles and movements in twentieth-century France.
Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married four times, bore three... Read more >
An Autobiography
Written by Benoite Groult
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $17.95
This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist, through the obstacles and movements in twentieth-century France.
Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married four times, bore three... Read more >
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My Escape
An Autobiography
Written by Benoite Groult
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $14.95
This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist, through the obstacles and movements in twentieth-century France.
Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married four times, bore three... Read more >
An Autobiography
Written by Benoite Groult
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $14.95
This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist, through the obstacles and movements in twentieth-century France.
Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married four times, bore three... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays
Written by Katie Roiphe
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $25.00
This powerful collection of essays ranges from pop culture to politics, from Hillary Clinton to Susan Sontag, from Facebook to Mad Men, from Joan Didion to David Foster Wallace to—most strikingly—the author’s own life. For fans of the essays of John Jeremiah Sullivan and Jonathan Lethem.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS... Read more >
Written by Katie Roiphe
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $25.00
This powerful collection of essays ranges from pop culture to politics, from Hillary Clinton to Susan Sontag, from Facebook to Mad Men, from Joan Didion to David Foster Wallace to—most strikingly—the author’s own life. For fans of the essays of John Jeremiah Sullivan and Jonathan Lethem.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS... Read more >
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In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays
Written by Katie Roiphe
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
This powerful collection of essays ranges from pop culture to politics, from Hillary Clinton to Susan Sontag, from Facebook to Mad Men, from Joan Didion to David Foster Wallace to—most strikingly—the author’s own life. For fans of the essays of John Jeremiah Sullivan and Jonathan Lethem.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS... Read more >
Written by Katie Roiphe
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
This powerful collection of essays ranges from pop culture to politics, from Hillary Clinton to Susan Sontag, from Facebook to Mad Men, from Joan Didion to David Foster Wallace to—most strikingly—the author’s own life. For fans of the essays of John Jeremiah Sullivan and Jonathan Lethem.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Unfinished Revolution
Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Edited by Minky Worden
Introduction by Christiane Amanpour
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $25.95
“It’s a time of change in the world, with dictators toppling and new opportunities rising, but any revolution that doesn’t create equality for women will be incomplete. The time has come to realize the full potential of half the world’s population.” —Christiane Amanpour, from the foreword
The Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the... Read more >
Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Edited by Minky Worden
Introduction by Christiane Amanpour
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $25.95
“It’s a time of change in the world, with dictators toppling and new opportunities rising, but any revolution that doesn’t create equality for women will be incomplete. The time has come to realize the full potential of half the world’s population.” —Christiane Amanpour, from the foreword
The Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Unfinished Revolution
Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Edited by Minky Worden
Introduction by Christiane Amanpour
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $25.95
“It’s a time of change in the world, with dictators toppling and new opportunities rising, but any revolution that doesn’t create equality for women will be incomplete. The time has come to realize the full potential of half the world’s population.” —Christiane Amanpour, from the foreword
The Unfinished Revolution tells the... Read more >
Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Edited by Minky Worden
Introduction by Christiane Amanpour
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $25.95
“It’s a time of change in the world, with dictators toppling and new opportunities rising, but any revolution that doesn’t create equality for women will be incomplete. The time has come to realize the full potential of half the world’s population.” —Christiane Amanpour, from the foreword
The Unfinished Revolution tells the... Read more >
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eBook.
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Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
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 >
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
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 >
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Last Gift of Time
Written by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun solemnly vowed to end her life when she turned seventy. But on the advent of that fateful birthday, she realized that her golden years had been full of unforeseen pleasures. Now, the astute and ever-insightful Heilbrun muses on the emotional and... Read more >
Written by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun solemnly vowed to end her life when she turned seventy. But on the advent of that fateful birthday, she realized that her golden years had been full of unforeseen pleasures. Now, the astute and ever-insightful Heilbrun muses on the emotional and... Read more >
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Rebels in White Gloves
Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69
Written by Miriam Horn
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $9.99
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 >
Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69
Written by Miriam Horn
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $9.99
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 >
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trade paperback.
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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
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.95
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
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.95
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...
Also available as an
eBook.
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I Am an Emotional Creature
The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $13.00
In this daring book, internationally acclaimed author and playwright Eve Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Fierce, tender, and smart, I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to... Read more >
The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $13.00
In this daring book, internationally acclaimed author and playwright Eve Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Fierce, tender, and smart, I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to... Read more >
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eBook.
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A Year by the Sea
Written by Joan Anderson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
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 >
Written by Joan Anderson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
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 >
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trade paperback.
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The Murder of Helen Jewett
Written by Patricia Cline Cohen
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2010
Price: $12.99
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen Jewett.
From her beginnings... Read more >
Written by Patricia Cline Cohen
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2010
Price: $12.99
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen Jewett.
From her beginnings... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The First Sex
The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World
Written by Helen Fisher
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $13.99
"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 >
The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World
Written by Helen Fisher
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $13.99
"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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Church and the Second Sex
Written by Mary Daly
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $19.00
First published in 1968, The Church and the Second Sex represents one of the most important critiques of sexism in the Christian tradition.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Mary Daly
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $19.00
First published in 1968, The Church and the Second Sex represents one of the most important critiques of sexism in the Christian tradition.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
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Paradise Beneath Her Feet
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Written by Isobel Coleman
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $26.00
Over the centuries and throughout the world, women have struggled for equality and basic rights. Their challenge in the Middle East has been intensified by the rise of a political Islam that too often condemns women’s empowerment as Western cultural imperialism or, worse, anti-Islamic. In Paradise Beneath Her Feet, Isobel Coleman... Read more >
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Written by Isobel Coleman
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $26.00
Over the centuries and throughout the world, women have struggled for equality and basic rights. Their challenge in the Middle East has been intensified by the rise of a political Islam that too often condemns women’s empowerment as Western cultural imperialism or, worse, anti-Islamic. In Paradise Beneath Her Feet, Isobel Coleman... Read more >
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Paradise Beneath Her Feet
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Written by Isobel Coleman
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $14.99
Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
In this timely and important book, Isobel Coleman... Read more >
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Written by Isobel Coleman
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $14.99
Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
In this timely and important book, Isobel Coleman... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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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: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $13.99
America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Written by Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $13.99
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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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I Am an Emotional Creature
The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $9.99
In this daring book, internationally acclaimed author and playwright Eve Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Fierce, tender, and smart, I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up... Read more >
The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
Written by Eve Ensler
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $9.99
In this daring book, internationally acclaimed author and playwright Eve Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Fierce, tender, and smart, I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Dating Jesus
A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl
Written by Susan Campbell
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Price: $16.00
By the age of twelve, Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time, and in her mind, Jesus had been flirting back. Why wouldn't he? She went to his house three times a week, listened to his stories, loudly and lustily sang songs to him. She even professed her... Read more >
A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl
Written by Susan Campbell
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Price: $16.00
By the age of twelve, Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time, and in her mind, Jesus had been flirting back. Why wouldn't he? She went to his house three times a week, listened to his stories, loudly and lustily sang songs to him. She even professed her... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Jubilee Time
Celebrating Women, Spirit, And The Advent Of Age
Written by Maria Harris
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2009
Price: $13.99
In keeping with the bestselling When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, and Gail Sheehy's New Passages, Jubilee Time celebrates the freedom, opportunities, and power of older women, who are too often maligned in our youth-obsessed culture. Based on the Jubilee passage in Leviticus--"You shall hallow the fiftieth year. It... Read more >
Celebrating Women, Spirit, And The Advent Of Age
Written by Maria Harris
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2009
Price: $13.99
In keeping with the bestselling When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, and Gail Sheehy's New Passages, Jubilee Time celebrates the freedom, opportunities, and power of older women, who are too often maligned in our youth-obsessed culture. Based on the Jubilee passage in Leviticus--"You shall hallow the fiftieth year. It... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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