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Birth Matters
How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us
Written by Ina May Gaskin
Foreword by Ani DiFranco
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean... Read more >
How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us
Written by Ina May Gaskin
Foreword by Ani DiFranco
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean... Read more >
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Catfight
Women and Competition
Written by Leora Tanenbaum
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
Catfight: Women and Competition is Leora Tanenbaum's dissection of the gender war waged among women. Tanenbaum meticulously analyzes the roots of destructive competitiveness among women, asserting that "catfights" thrive because, despite women's many gains, American women are conditioned to regard each other as adversaries rather than allies. She investigates the arenas-from... Read more >
Women and Competition
Written by Leora Tanenbaum
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
Catfight: Women and Competition is Leora Tanenbaum's dissection of the gender war waged among women. Tanenbaum meticulously analyzes the roots of destructive competitiveness among women, asserting that "catfights" thrive because, despite women's many gains, American women are conditioned to regard each other as adversaries rather than allies. She investigates the arenas-from... Read more >
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City of Widows
An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
Written by Haifa Zangana
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a... Read more >
An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
Written by Haifa Zangana
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95
In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a... Read more >
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The Clitoral Truth
The Secret World at Your Fingertips
Written by Rebecca Chalker
Illustrated by Fish
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
The clitoris has been dismissed, undervalued, unexplored, and misunderstood for hundreds of years, but the truth is out there, and internationally celebrated sex educator Rebecca Chalker has found it. In The Clitoral Truth, Chalker offers the only mainstream, in-depth exploration devoted solely to women's genital anatomy and sexual response. Women readers... Read more >
The Secret World at Your Fingertips
Written by Rebecca Chalker
Illustrated by Fish
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
The clitoris has been dismissed, undervalued, unexplored, and misunderstood for hundreds of years, but the truth is out there, and internationally celebrated sex educator Rebecca Chalker has found it. In The Clitoral Truth, Chalker offers the only mainstream, in-depth exploration devoted solely to women's genital anatomy and sexual response. Women readers... Read more >
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Dispatches from the Abortion Wars
The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us
Written by Carole Joffe
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.00
Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access
More than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how... Read more >
The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us
Written by Carole Joffe
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.00
Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access
More than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how... Read more >
Dr. Rice in the House
Edited by Amy Scholder
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $13.95
We have been bombarded by images of the U.S. Secretary of State as the Great Diplomat, walking onto the tarmac of a foreign country as if she were a rock star, an intellectual giant, and the embodiment of the American dream all rolled into one. Meanwhile, she has spoken out against... Read more >
Edited by Amy Scholder
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $13.95
We have been bombarded by images of the U.S. Secretary of State as the Great Diplomat, walking onto the tarmac of a foreign country as if she were a rock star, an intellectual giant, and the embodiment of the American dream all rolled into one. Meanwhile, she has spoken out against... Read more >
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A Field Guide for Female Interrogators
Written by Coco Fusco
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
The world was shocked by the images that emerged from Abu Ghraib, the US-controlled prison in Iraq. Lynndie England, the young female army officer shown smiling devilishly as she humiliated male prisoners, became first a scapegoat and then a victim who was "just following orders." Ignored were the more elemental questions... Read more >
Written by Coco Fusco
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
The world was shocked by the images that emerged from Abu Ghraib, the US-controlled prison in Iraq. Lynndie England, the young female army officer shown smiling devilishly as she humiliated male prisoners, became first a scapegoat and then a victim who was "just following orders." Ignored were the more elemental questions... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women
Exploding the Estrogen Myth
Written by Barbara Seaman
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
With the ardent tone of a close friend, Barbara Seaman draws on forty years of journalistic research to expose the "menopause industry" and shows how estrogen therapy often causes more problems—including breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke—than it cures. The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women tracks the well-intentioned discovery of... Read more >
Exploding the Estrogen Myth
Written by Barbara Seaman
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
With the ardent tone of a close friend, Barbara Seaman draws on forty years of journalistic research to expose the "menopause industry" and shows how estrogen therapy often causes more problems—including breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke—than it cures. The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women tracks the well-intentioned discovery of... Read more >
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trade paperback.
A History of Marriage
Written by Elizabeth Abbott
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
What does the "tradition of marriage" really look like? In A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott paints an often surprising picture of this most public, yet most intimate, institution. Ritual of romance, or social obligation? Eternal bliss, or cult of domesticity? Abbott reveals a complex tradition that includes same-sex unions, arranged... Read more >
Written by Elizabeth Abbott
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
What does the "tradition of marriage" really look like? In A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott paints an often surprising picture of this most public, yet most intimate, institution. Ritual of romance, or social obligation? Eternal bliss, or cult of domesticity? Abbott reveals a complex tradition that includes same-sex unions, arranged... Read more >
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hardcover.
The Hite Report
A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
Written by Shere Hite
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
A reproduction of the classic text, unavailable now for more than a decade, with a new introduction by the author. The Hite Report, first published in 1976, was a sexual revolution in six hundred pages. To answer sensitive questions dealing with the most intimate details of women's sexuality, Hite's innovation was... Read more >
A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
Written by Shere Hite
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
A reproduction of the classic text, unavailable now for more than a decade, with a new introduction by the author. The Hite Report, first published in 1976, was a sexual revolution in six hundred pages. To answer sensitive questions dealing with the most intimate details of women's sexuality, Hite's innovation was... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Live Through This
On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This (a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards) is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse... Read more >
On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This (a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards) is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Rose
Love in Violent Times
Written by Inga Muscio
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
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 >
Love in Violent Times
Written by Inga Muscio
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
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 >
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trade paperback.
The Shere Hite Reader
New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life
Written by Shere Hite
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
The Shere Hite Reader presents wide-ranging analysis on the individual and society from a renowned thinker on psychosexual development. The book includes new science in addition to previously published material, reflecting Hite's three decades of work probing the roots of human identity through questionnaires and theory.
For the first time Hite formalizes... Read more >
New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life
Written by Shere Hite
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
The Shere Hite Reader presents wide-ranging analysis on the individual and society from a renowned thinker on psychosexual development. The book includes new science in addition to previously published material, reflecting Hite's three decades of work probing the roots of human identity through questionnaires and theory.
For the first time Hite formalizes... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Good Wives
Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $13.99
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional... Read more >
Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $13.99
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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In Search of Islamic Feminism
Written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
"Islamic feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Westerners. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force women to accept male authority and surrender to the veil. How could feminism emerge under such a code, let alone flourish? Now... Read more >
Written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
"Islamic feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Westerners. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force women to accept male authority and surrender to the veil. How could feminism emerge under such a code, let alone flourish? Now... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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How Reading Changed My Life
Written by Anna Quindlen
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $7.99
THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural, will enlighten, comfort, entertain, enrage, and ignite healthy debate across... Read more >
Written by Anna Quindlen
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $7.99
THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural, will enlighten, comfort, entertain, enrage, and ignite healthy debate across... Read more >
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A Midwife's Tale
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $14.99
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $14.99
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Feminine Ingenuity
How Women Inventors Changed America
Written by Anne Macdonald
Format: eBook, 540 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2010
Price: $12.99
"Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting... Read more >
How Women Inventors Changed America
Written by Anne Macdonald
Format: eBook, 540 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2010
Price: $12.99
"Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Personal Politics
The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left
Written by Sara Evans
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2010
Price: $8.99
The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights... Read more >
The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left
Written by Sara Evans
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2010
Price: $8.99
The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights... Read more >
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Spinning Straw into Gold
What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
Written by Joan Gould
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $12.99
What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden meanings in fairy tales and myths, and illuminates what... Read more >
What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
Written by Joan Gould
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $12.99
What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden meanings in fairy tales and myths, and illuminates what... Read more >
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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 >
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The Secrets of Mariko
A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $13.99
With Bumiller's intimate, beautifully written portrait of a middle-class Tokyo housewife, readers finally penetrate the mysteries of the Japanese people to see how they differ from us, and how they are alike.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $13.99
With Bumiller's intimate, beautifully written portrait of a middle-class Tokyo housewife, readers finally penetrate the mysteries of the Japanese people to see how they differ from us, and how they are alike.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
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After Silence
Rape & My Journey Back
Written by Nancy Venable Raine
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2010
Price: $15.99
"Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he... Read more >
Rape & My Journey Back
Written by Nancy Venable Raine
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2010
Price: $15.99
"Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he... Read more >
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The House of Secrets
The Hidden World of the Mikveh
Written by Varda Polak-Sahm
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $20.00
The Hidden World of the Mikveh
Written by Varda Polak-Sahm
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $20.00
For Orthodox Jews, immersion in a ritual bath—the mikveh—is the cornerstone of family life and is central to Jewish women’s practice of their faith. Yet women from across the Jewish spectrum frequent the mikveh, often for surprising personal reasons. Roused by her own immersion experience, for years Varda Polak-Sahm, a secular...
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