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Bodies
Big Ideas/Small Books
Susie Orbach
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"There was a time, believe it or not, when our bodies worked for us, instead of the other way around. In her new book,
Bodies
, British author and psychologist Susie Orbach examines how science, culture and globalization have upended our relationships to our corporeal selves, turning us from master into slave. Good looks and peak fitness are no longer a happy biological gift, she argues, but a ceaseless pursuit. The idea: People around the world—men included—now treat their bodies as vanity projects: every pore, curve and feature is an opportunity for self-improvement. Instead of a tool for production, the body is a production in itself. In our culture, beauty is an ambition like any other metric of success, and body hatred is the West's silent export. The evidence: How much do you need? When Orbach penned her first book 31 years ago, the bestseller
Fat Is a Feminist Issue
, bulimia and anorexia were barely on the radar. Now parents digitally enhance their kids' baby pictures, the cosmetic-surgery industry is growing by $1 billion a year, we can genetically screen our embryos, and scientists grow bioengineered organs in labs. The conclusion: As nips and tucks and tweaks become more acceptable, we may no longer treat the human body as a God-given accident of biology, but Orbach implores us to take some pleasure in our bodies as they are—to take them, she writes repeatedly, 'for granted.'"—
Jesse Ellison,
Newsweek
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Pornified
How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
Pamela Paul
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"[Paul] has stripped porn of its culture war claptrap . . .
Pornified
may stand as a Kinsey report for our time."—
San Francisco Chronicle
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Gay Marriage
Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America
Jonathan Rauch
Holt Paperbacks
"Into [today's] hot, angry debate comes Jonathan Rauch's cool, articulate, poignant plea . . . This is a powerful book, clear, tolerant, and persuasive, never ranting or self-pitying . . . Rauch's book should become obligatory reading for all."—
The Economist
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Opting In
Having a Child Without Losing Yourself
Amy Richards
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"With
Opting In
, Amy Richards does an impressive job of showing just how many ways there are for modern women to make motherhood work for them. Richards powerfully reminds us that although these are seemingly isolated 'domestic' negotiations, women open up the work-life balance not only for other women, but for men and for generations of young people to come."—
Veronica Chambers, author of
Having It All? Black Women and Success
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Divided Lives
American Women in the Twentieth Century
Rosalind Rosenberg
Hill and Wang
"Historians of women have been predicting all along that retrieving women's past would eventually alter the dominant narrative in American history. In this clear, concise, and readable volume, Rosalind Rosenberg has brought her considerable abilities to bear on the task of revising mainstream accounts. She gives voice not just to gender issues but also to those of race and class, and strives mightily to include a widely diverse collection of individuals and groups. Telling a story sensitive to difference, but mindful of commonalities,
Divided Lives
is a truly admirable achievement."—
Regina Morantz-Sanchez, University of Michigan
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Mississippi Sissy
Kevin Sessums
Picador
"Kevin Sessums is a brilliant writer. He is also a courageous one.
Mississippi Sissy
is beautifully told—hilarious yet harrowing, tragic yet inspiring. This book will deeply touch anyone who has ever felt different, which means every single one of us."—
E. Lynn Harris
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Reborn
Journals & Notebooks, 1947--1963
Susan Sontag; Edited by David Rieff
Picador
"Sontag's
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
, edited by her son, David Rieff, is a fascinating document of her apprenticeship, charting her earnest quest for education, identity, and voice. The volume takes us from her last days at North Hollywood High School to the year that, now living in New York, she published her first novel, The Benefactor."—
Darryl Pinckney,
The New Yorker
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Taking Back God
American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality
Leora Tanenbaum
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"At the outset of this well-written book, Tanenbaum tells her own story to the reader, as she has told it to the many women she interviewed, to provide a context to her own quest . . . She describes herself as an observant Jew who 'respects Jewish law and adheres to it to the fullest of my abilities. Jewish law guides many, if not most, of the small and large actions I take every single day.' A proud feminist . . . She admits to days filled with contradictions in a life that is both modern and preserving of Jewish traditions. As she takes Jewish law seriously, she also leaves open the opportunity to struggle with the law. While Tanenbaum attends Orthodox services, she doesn’t appreciate sitting upstairs and separate, far from the action. But she says she gains spiritual strength from many aspects of the service, and also attends a monthly partnership minyan near her home on the Upper East Side where women have opportunities to have a role in leading the service. Tanenbaum sees her own struggle as mild in comparison to what others face. The author and her subjects seem to connect, as fellow travelers along paths of faith, even as their paths diverge. Women were very open with her, welcoming her into their places of worship and their public and private conversations. She had no problem finding women to interview; she went to conferences, made connections, and then was linked to other women. 'Dissatisfied people,' she notes, 'want to talk.' She found that the Muslim women in particular wanted to be heard, and appreciated the opportunity to talk to someone who would listen to them respectfully and without judgment. Frequently, the curiosity was reciprocal. She noticed that people who are devout want to know about other faiths . . . Muslim women talked to her about their longings for and efforts at women-led prayer, and also about their frustrations with having to enter their places of worship through a back door; one woman told of hearing a visiting imam preach about the permissibility of wife beating. These women . . . are confident that the egalitarian impulse and gender justice are there, within Islam. They also spoke candidly about how they feel about covering themselves with the traditional hijab . . . Tanenbaum’s chapters on Jewish women are incisive, providing some of the best concise explanations of Jewish rituals and practice, and Orthodox feminists’ perspectives . . . Books change their writers as well as their readers, and Tanenbaum admits that writing this book broadened her outlook."—
Sandee Brawarsky,
The Jewish Week
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
The American Portraits Series
Camilla Townsend
Hill and Wang
"Townsend provides students with a model for how to tease meaning out of a fragmentary and intensely biased historical record. I look forward to having an opportunity to assign her book to my students and anticipate that it will work both in the American history survey course and in upper-division courses in early America."—
Michael Leroy Oberg,
The Journal of American History
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Queen of Fashion
What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
Caroline Weber
Picador
"In
Queen of Fashion
, her suspenseful, remarkably well-documented and surprisingly humanizing account of the role style played in Marie Antoinette's fate and legacy, Caroline Weber, who teaches at Barnard College and is an expert on the Terror, adds texture, shimmer and depth to an icon most of us thought we knew already."—
Liesl Schillinger,
The New York Times Book Review
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Pedro and Me
Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned
Judd Winick
Henry Holt and Co.
"In this powerful and captivating graphic novel, Winick, a professional cartoonist and cast member of MTV's
The Real World 3: San Francisco
, pays tribute to his Real World housemate and friend Pedro Zamora, an AIDS activist and educator who died of the disease in 1994. Striking just the right balance of cool and forthrightness sure to attract a broad cross section of teens, twenty-somethings and beyond, Winick describes the special bond he developed with Zamora and shares some of his own journey to enlightenment about AIDS awareness. From Winick's initial preconceptions about the disease to the ultimate moments of heartbreaking loss, the author bravely invites readers into a life-altering experience. The result is never mawkish: Winick speaks of his friend not with otherworldly awe, but with palpable love and warmth and profound admiration . . . Winick imbues deceptively simple black-and-white comic-strip art with a full spectrum of emotion, and his approach is particularly adept at conveying Zamora's mind-set . . . Throughout, Winick depicts Zamora as a vital force, a tireless teacher using frank language to relate facts about how people contract the virus that causes AIDS, how they can prevent it and how they can live with it. An innovative and accessible approach to a difficult subject."—
Publishers Weekly
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Harvard's Secret Court
The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
William Wright
St. Martin's Griffin
"An excellent book . . . a riveting account of a sordid episode in Harvard's history. For those who would like to see gay Americans pushed back out of public view, William Wright has provided a chilling glimpse of the horrors that lurk in the closet."—
Barbara Ehrenreich, bestselling author of
Nickel and Dimed
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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
Picador
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."—
Ms.
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A Perfect Union
Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
Catherine Allgor
Holt Paperbacks
"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
, her delightful and discerning biography, with that very scene . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the 'first lady' role, comes vividly to life."—
Mary Beth Norton,
The New York Times Book Review
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My Name Is Iran
A Memoir
Davar Ardalan
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“Ardalan’s testimony to the feminist spirit of the pioneering women in her family, and in the face of centuries-long strictures against the advancement of...
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Through the Narrow Gate, Revised
A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
Karen Armstrong; With a New Introduction by the Author
St. Martin's Griffin
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."—
Kirkus Reviews
ALA Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book - Nonfiction
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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 Press
In a world where eye cream is made from placenta, Gina Barreca is the lone voice calling out “But wait, whose placenta is it?” She asks the crucial questions:...
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To Tell the Truth Freely
The Life of Ida B. Wells
Mia Bay
Hill and Wang
"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
St. Martin's Griffin
Army Wives goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life to bring readers into the hearts and homes of today's military wives. Biank tells...
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Virgin
The Untouched History
Hanne Blank
Bloomsbury USA
“A well-researched history of virginity…In an era marked by a ‘chaotic maelstrom of virginities,’ Blank’s book is a useful…antidote to our confusion.”—New York...
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