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Composing a Further Life
The Age of Active Wisdom
Written by Mary Catherine Bateson
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $13.99
From the author of Composing a Life (first published in 1991 and still in print), an inspiring exploration of a new stage of the life cycle, “Adulthood II,” created by unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and resources—of which we have barely begun to be fully conscious.
Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging... Read more >
The Age of Active Wisdom
Written by Mary Catherine Bateson
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $13.99
From the author of Composing a Life (first published in 1991 and still in print), an inspiring exploration of a new stage of the life cycle, “Adulthood II,” created by unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and resources—of which we have barely begun to be fully conscious.
Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging... Read more >
Also available as a
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Iron Butterflies
Women Transforming Themselves and the World
Written by Birute Regine
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2010
Price: $11.99
A profound transition is taking place in our society, a revolution that is largely hidden, and led predominantly by women. A society once based on domination and power over others is beginning to crumble as an era of cooperation and community emerges, founded on the principle that power should only be... Read more >
Women Transforming Themselves and the World
Written by Birute Regine
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2010
Price: $11.99
A profound transition is taking place in our society, a revolution that is largely hidden, and led predominantly by women. A society once based on domination and power over others is beginning to crumble as an era of cooperation and community emerges, founded on the principle that power should only be... Read more >
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The Woman Warrior
Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Written by Maxine Hong Kingston
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Written by Maxine Hong Kingston
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Pornland
How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Written by Gail Dines
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 6, 2010
Price: $26.95
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as “life changing.”
In Pornland—the culmination of... Read more >
How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Written by Gail Dines
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 6, 2010
Price: $26.95
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as “life changing.”
In Pornland—the culmination of... Read more >
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Written by Mary Wollstonecraft
Introduction by Katha Pollitt
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2010
Price: $9.99
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by... Read more >
with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Written by Mary Wollstonecraft
Introduction by Katha Pollitt
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2010
Price: $9.99
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by... Read more >
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 >
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Pornland
How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Written by Gail Dines
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $26.95
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as "life changing."
In Pornland—the culmination of her... Read more >
How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Written by Gail Dines
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $26.95
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as "life changing."
In Pornland—the culmination of her... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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A Wasp Among Eagles
A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Written by Ann Carl
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2010
Price: $14.95
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of... Read more >
A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Written by Ann Carl
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2010
Price: $14.95
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of... Read more >
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The Body Project
An Intimate History of American Girls
Written by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2010
Price: $15.99
"Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy." --People
A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have... Read more >
An Intimate History of American Girls
Written by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2010
Price: $15.99
"Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy." --People
A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Bad Shoes & The Women Who Love Them
Written by Leora Tanenbaum
Illustrated by Vanessa Davis
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $13.95
Bad Shoes & the Women Who Love Them is a lighthearted wake-up call to women to make informed decisions when buying and wearing fashionable shoes. Arming the reader with essential facts, citing medical literature as well as leading podiatric surgeons and orthopedists, Tanenbaum covers the history of high heels, Chinese foot... Read more >
Written by Leora Tanenbaum
Illustrated by Vanessa Davis
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $13.95
Bad Shoes & the Women Who Love Them is a lighthearted wake-up call to women to make informed decisions when buying and wearing fashionable shoes. Arming the reader with essential facts, citing medical literature as well as leading podiatric surgeons and orthopedists, Tanenbaum covers the history of high heels, Chinese foot... Read more >
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eBook.
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Half the Sky
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.95
#1 National Bestseller
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa... Read more >
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.95
#1 National Bestseller
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa... Read more >
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Dropped Threads 2
More of What We Aren't Told
Written by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2010
Price: $11.99
The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the “women's network” still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or... Read more >
More of What We Aren't Told
Written by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2010
Price: $11.99
The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the “women's network” still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Damned If She Does, Damned If She Doesn't
Rethinking the Rules of the Game That Keep Women from Succeeding in Business
Written by Lynn Cronin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $19.00
Forty-five years after Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, women have yet to achieve parity with men in the workplace. Men continue to make more money than women, and women’s representation in the higher management ranks continues to lag behind men’s. This book asserts that certain respected rules of business actually work... Read more >
Rethinking the Rules of the Game That Keep Women from Succeeding in Business
Written by Lynn Cronin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $19.00
Forty-five years after Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, women have yet to achieve parity with men in the workplace. Men continue to make more money than women, and women’s representation in the higher management ranks continues to lag behind men’s. This book asserts that certain respected rules of business actually work... Read more >
Telling
Written by Marion Winik
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2010
Price: $11.99
Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, Marion Winik has captivated thousands of listeners on NPR's All Things Considered. Now, in Telling, she takes us on a journey both personal and universal, a tour of the minefield of chance... Read more >
Written by Marion Winik
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2010
Price: $11.99
Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, Marion Winik has captivated thousands of listeners on NPR's All Things Considered. Now, in Telling, she takes us on a journey both personal and universal, a tour of the minefield of chance... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Feminist Promise
1792 to the Present
Written by Christine Stansell
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $11.99
In this definitive volume, respected historian Christine Stansell tells the story of one of the great democratic movements of our times. She paints richly detailed portraits of well-known leaders—Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan—but others, too, appear in a new light, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Toni Morrison. Accounting for... Read more >
1792 to the Present
Written by Christine Stansell
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $11.99
In this definitive volume, respected historian Christine Stansell tells the story of one of the great democratic movements of our times. She paints richly detailed portraits of well-known leaders—Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan—but others, too, appear in a new light, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Toni Morrison. Accounting for... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Sapphires and Other Precious Jewels
Discover and Celebrate the Beauty of Women of African Descent
Written by Terri McFaddin
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2010
Price: $13.99
Women of African Ancestry Shine With the Beauty, Value, and Uniqueness of Precious Jewels.
If any race of women should recognize that their value is far above rubies, pearls, and sapphires, says author Terri McFaddin, it is those of African ancestry. Like precious gemstones formed within the earth, we have endured hard... Read more >
Discover and Celebrate the Beauty of Women of African Descent
Written by Terri McFaddin
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2010
Price: $13.99
Women of African Ancestry Shine With the Beauty, Value, and Uniqueness of Precious Jewels.
If any race of women should recognize that their value is far above rubies, pearls, and sapphires, says author Terri McFaddin, it is those of African ancestry. Like precious gemstones formed within the earth, we have endured hard... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Iron Butterflies
Women Transforming Themselves and the World
Written by Birute Regine
Format: Trade Paperback, 299 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $19.00
A profound transition is taking place in our society, a revolution that is largely hidden, and led predominantly by women. A society once based on domination and power over others is beginning to crumble as an era of cooperation and community emerges, founded on the principle that power should only be... Read more >
Women Transforming Themselves and the World
Written by Birute Regine
Format: Trade Paperback, 299 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $19.00
A profound transition is taking place in our society, a revolution that is largely hidden, and led predominantly by women. A society once based on domination and power over others is beginning to crumble as an era of cooperation and community emerges, founded on the principle that power should only be... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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 >
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
Edited by Kate Bernheimer
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2010
Price: $13.99
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.
Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss how these stories helped shape their imaginations... Read more >
Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
Edited by Kate Bernheimer
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2010
Price: $13.99
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.
Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss how these stories helped shape their imaginations... Read more >
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Aman
The Story of a Somali Girl
As told to Virginia Lee Barnes and Janice Boddy
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2010
Price: $13.99
This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; at eleven, her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a... Read more >
The Story of a Somali Girl
As told to Virginia Lee Barnes and Janice Boddy
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2010
Price: $13.99
This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; at eleven, her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a... Read more >
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Things I've Been Silent About
Memories of a Prodigal Daughter
Written by Azar Nafisi
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $16.00
In this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her memories of living in thrall to a powerful and complex mother against the backdrop of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets, a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature, the... Read more >
Memories of a Prodigal Daughter
Written by Azar Nafisi
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $16.00
In this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her memories of living in thrall to a powerful and complex mother against the backdrop of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets, a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature, the... Read more >
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Breaking Out
VMI and the Coming of Women
Written by Laura Fairchild Brodie
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
On July 26, 1996, the United States Supreme Court nullified the single-sex admissions policy of the Virginia Military Institute, the last all-male military college in America. Capturing the voices of female and male cadets, administrators, faculty, and alumni, Laura Brodie tells the story of the Institute's intense planning for the inclusion... Read more >
VMI and the Coming of Women
Written by Laura Fairchild Brodie
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
On July 26, 1996, the United States Supreme Court nullified the single-sex admissions policy of the Virginia Military Institute, the last all-male military college in America. Capturing the voices of female and male cadets, administrators, faculty, and alumni, Laura Brodie tells the story of the Institute's intense planning for the inclusion... Read more >
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Nine Parts of Desire
The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Written by Geraldine Brooks
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2010
Price: $13.99
With a New Afterword
As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily... Read more >
The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Written by Geraldine Brooks
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2010
Price: $13.99
With a New Afterword
As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily... Read more >
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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.
