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The Rise of Enlightened Sexism
How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild
Susan J. Douglas
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“A must-read: Whip-smart, witty, and scathingly insightful. Susan Douglas has penned a brilliant—and often funny—critique of the myths about equality, ambition, and femininity that are currently being served up as ‘reality’ in our media-crazed culture. She challenges those who insist that feminism is outmoded, that strong women are scary and unlovable, and that ‘real’ girl power comes from Botox, a bustier, and the ability to pole-dance in a pair of size-two hot pants. Best yet,
Enlightened Sexism
offers an antidote to the contradictory messages and predicaments many women experience today. It’s a call to action and an inspiration.”—
Susan Jane Gilman, bestselling author of
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
An American Life
Lori D. Ginzberg
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"Lori Ginzberg makes a convincing case for Stanton as the founding philosopher of the American women’s rights movement in a lively voice that enhances her eccentric subject."—
Andrea Cooper,
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Betsy Ross and the Making of America
Marla R. Miller
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"In an engaging biography, Miller shows that even though the flag story is riddled with improbabilities, the life of the woman who came to be known as Betsy Ross is worth recovering . . . Through skillful use of small details, Miller sustains her repeated assertion that the future Betsy Ross was often 'only a handshake away' from the men who made the Revolution . . . Miller's admiring biography will warm the hearts of those who love the Betsy Ross legend. It may also convince skeptics (Miller refers to them as 'naysayers') that there is something in the flag stories worth considering."—
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,
The New York Times
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Call Me by Your Name
A Novel
André Aciman
Picador
"A coming-of-age story, coming-out story, a Proustian meditation on time and desire, a love letter, an invocation and something of an epitaph,
Call Me by Your Name
is also an open question. It is an exceptionally beautiful book that cannot quite bring itself to draw the inevitable conclusion about axis-shifting passion that men and women of the world might like to think they will always reach—that that obscure object of desire is, by definition, ungraspable, indeterminate and already lost at exactly the moment you rush so fervently to hold him or her."—
Stacey D'Erasmo,
The New York Times Book Review
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Madras on Rainy Days
A Novel
Samina Ali
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A Finalist for the Northern California Book Award
"Ali explores cultural conditions with sensitivity, and mercifully does not over-exoticise. Her story is intriguing . . . She is one of a rare breed of writers who take us into the closed world behind a Muslim woman's veil . . . Carefully crafted [and] eminently readable."—
Mitali Saran,
Far Eastern Economic Review
"This book goes to a place where few, if any, of its predecessors have gone before. . . [This is] a deeply feminist novel with richly drawn and complicated characters."—
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A Perfect Union
Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
Catherine Allgor
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"When Americans think of Dolley Madison, we tend to recall her legendary response to the British invasion of Washington in 1814: fleeing the White House ahead of the oncoming troops, carting off official papers and a portrait of George Washington. Appropriately, then, Catherine Allgor, who teaches at the University of California, Riverside, begins
A Perfect Union
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Mary Beth Norton,
The New York Times Book Review
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A Woman in Berlin
Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Anonymous; Translated by Philip Boehm
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Bianka J. Adams,
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Through the Narrow Gate, Revised
A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
Karen Armstrong; With a New Introduction by the Author
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Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on...
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Biological Exuberance
Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
Bruce Bagemihl
Stonewall Inn Editions
"A scholarly, exhaustive, and utterly convincing refutation of the notion that human homosexuality is an aberration in nature . . . Bagemihl does realize that some among us will never be convinced that homosexuality occurs freely and frequently in nature. But his meticulously gathered, congently delivered evidence will quash any arguments to the contrary."—
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Sisters
The Lives of America's Suffragists
Jean H. Baker
Hill and Wang
"No reader can walk away from this [book] without understanding, and being moved by, the tremendous accomplishments of these women."—
Geeta Sharma-Jensen,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Christopher Awards - Winner - Books For Adults
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The Myth of Monogamy
Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People
David P. Barash, Ph.D. and Judith Eve Lipton, M.D.
Holt Paperbacks
"The revelation that social pair-bonds do not necessarily imply exclusive mating relationships has spurred a revolution in how scientists think about mating systems. This book explores when and why social and sexual monogamy often do not coincide."—
Paul W. Sherman, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
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It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World
Gina Barreca
St. Martin's Griffin
In a world where eye cream is made from placenta, Gina Barreca is the lone voice calling out “But wait, whose placenta is it?” In this collection of...
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Grassroots
A Field Guide for Feminist Activism
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards; With an Introduction by Winona LaDuke
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"[The authors'] recognition that everyone can do something is refreshing. What's more, their definition of feminism is so inclusive it's bound to resonate . . . Would-be agitators, look no further for the sass, savvy, and skills you'll need to begin. Highly recommended."—
Library Journal
"Have you ever wanted to make a difference but didn't know how?
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Katha Pollitt
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Look Both Ways
Bisexual Politics
Jennifer Baumgardner
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"The premise of Jennifer Baumgardner's
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Look Both Ways
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Rebecca Walker,
Bookforum
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Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]
Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
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"[The authors] have sorted out the fruits of this wave of feminism—intended and unintended, media mess and truth—for a new generation. With wit and honesty,
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Gloria Steinem
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To Tell the Truth Freely
The Life of Ida B. Wells
Mia Bay
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"Superb . . . Having been squeezed out of a role in national civil and women's rights organizations, Wells lost a prominent place in the historical record. It took several generations before her relentless and often discomforting agitation for social justice received the appreciation it deserved, as scholars over the last twenty years gradually reestablished her place in history. Mia Bay's lucid biography contributes enormously to this project."—
Andrew Feffer,
History News Network
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First Generations
Women in Colonial America
Carol Berkin
Hill and Wang
Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and...
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Army Wives
The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage
Tanya Biank
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The Male Body
A New Look at Men in Public and in Private
Susan Bordo
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"A prodigiously researched tour through movies, TV, art, advertising, fashion, celebrity culture, pop psychology, social science, literature, medicine, and more . . . a readable treatment of what has sometimes become as academic and abstrusely theoretical object of study."—
Laura Kipnis,
The Village Voice Literary Supplement
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My Lesbian Husband
Barrie Jean Borich
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Winner of the American Library Association GLBT Book AwardFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award
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Florence Nightingale
The Making of an Icon
Mark Bostridge
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The common soldier’s savior, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer: Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of...
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Lions Don't Eat Us
Constance Quarterman Bridges
Graywolf Press Paper
The winner of the 2005 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Lions Don't Eat Us introduces a fierce and wise new voice There’s nothing to be afraid of. Don’t ever...
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Pulp Friction
Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps
Edited by Michael Bronski
St. Martin's Griffin
"I read through this book saying again and again, 'How did I miss this?' 'How did I manage not to know about this?'—a sign that Michael Bronski has done a necessary job and done it well. Rarely is a book so educational also such a delight. By leaving the hallowed precincts of the 'literary,' Bronski lends a continuity heretofore lacking in many of our pictures of the development of gay fiction from World War II on."—
Samuel R. Delany, author of
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
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The Motion of Light in Water
Lambda Literary Awards - Winner - Fiction Anthology
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Running with Scissors
A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs
Picador
The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true...
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