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Alpha Girls
Understanding the New American Girl and How She Is Changing the World
Dan Kindlon, PhD
Rodale Books
“ A must-have for anyone looking to understand the upcoming generation’s driven, confident, and successful females.”—Publishers Weekly There’s a new type of...
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And the Band Played On
Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
Randy Shilts
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"A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history."—
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Annie on My Mind
Nancy Garden; With an interview by Kathleen T. Horning
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This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family...
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Army Wives
The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage
Tanya Biank
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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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Astro Turf
The Private Life of Rocket Science
M.G. Lord
Walker & Company
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works well as a brief, clear history of a field and the lab that embodied it. It works even better as a piece of cultural criticism. [It] works best of all, though, as a moving memoir of the difficult love between a daughter and father."—
The New York Times Book Review
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Avoidance
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Michael Lowenthal
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Jeremy struggles to write his dissertation on the Amish and the laws of expulsion. How does someone, excluded entirely from the only community they have ever...
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Beggars and Choosers
How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States
Rickie Solinger
Hill and Wang
"With passion and verve, Rickie Solinger defends motherhood, no matter a woman's class, race, or marital status, against those who would limit feminism to the marketplace of choice. Her brilliant interweaving of the histories of adoption, abortion, and welfare since the 1960s is must reading for untangling today's politics of family, poverty, and women's rights."—
Eileen Boris
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University of California
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Being Good
Women's Moral Values in Early America
Martha Saxton
Hill and Wang
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Being Good
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Richard Bushman, Columbia University
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Bella Abzug
How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way
Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"Abzug was certainly a major player in our change in attitudes in the second part of the past century [and] Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom give us a fascinating glimpse into [an] inspirational but undeniably peculiar period that is receding, all too quickly, into the past."—
Carolyn See,
The Washington Post
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The Belles of New England
The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove
William Moran
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"This is a compelling narrative of America's first industrial revolution. Moran has written a comprehensive, passionate tribute to the textile workers and the world that they made."—
Michael Kazin
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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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ALA Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book - Nonfiction
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BITCHfest
Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
Edited by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler; Foreword by Margaret Cho
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"As delicious as a day spent with your funniest, smartest friend, this collection is also a call to action, inspiring readers to fight the fear of female power. As the many writers in here show, few wrongs are righted without a bitchfest first."—
Cristina Page, author of
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex
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Bliss
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O. Z. Livaneli
St. Martin's Griffin
Fifteen-year-old Meryem lives in a rural village in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Her simple, conventional way of life changes dramatically after her uncle, a...
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Bodies
Big Ideas/Small Books
Susie Orbach
Picador
"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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Bone Black
Memories of Girlhood
bell hooks
Holt Paperbacks
Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing...
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Boy Culture
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Matthew Rettenmund
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X a wily hustler, has a dilemma. The object of his affections is his roommate Andrew, who is confused about his sexuality. Meanwhile, X's other roommate--a...
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The Breaking Point
How Today's Women Are Navigating Midlife Crisis
Sue Shellenbarger
Holt Paperbacks
"Every once in a while you read a book that transforms you. Like the shift of a kaleidoscope, it reconfigures your view of life's journey. This is such a book. It may stimulate you to change directions, perhaps even enable you to find life's greatest joy: fulfillment. An invigorating read."—
Helen Fisher, Author of
Why We Love
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Bright-sided
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan Books
“In this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, America’s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.”—
Michael Shermer, author of
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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Burning Fence
A Western Memoir of Fatherhood
Craig Lesley
Picador
A memoir of startling emotion and grace, Burning Fence is the story of the men in Craig Lesley's family: absent father, Rudell, tough stepfather, Vern, adopted...
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By Herself
Women Reclaim Poetry
Edited by Molly McQuade
Graywolf Press Paper
Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In By Herself: Women Reclaim...
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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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Charlotte
Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World
Kathryn Shevelow
Picador
Charlotte Charke's father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth-century's great actor/playwrights--and it was thought that the comedically gifted young...
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City Boy
My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
Edmund White
Bloomsbury USA
An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City’s cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from...
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Cleopatra's Nose
39 Varieties of Desire
Judith Thurman
Picador
A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 Cleopatra's Nose is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles, representing twenty years of Judith Thurman's...
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