Women's Studies
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
$21.99 Add to cartAn updated, third edition of the renowned feminist’s most diverse and timeless collection of essays, with a new foreword by Emma Watson.
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions has sold over half a m- Author: Steinem, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1250204860
- Language: English
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Everyday Sexism
$28.00 Add to cartThe Everyday Sexism Project was founded by writer and activist Laura Bates in April 2012. It began life as a website where people could share their experiences of daily, normalized sexism, from street
- Author: Bates, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1250100186
- Language: English
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Sex Cells: The Fight to Overcome Bias and Discrimination in Women’s Healthcare
$26.99 Add to cartSex Cells is a clear-eyed report on the still-pitched battle to get the scientific and medical world to recognize that women are not small men.
The idea that our biological sex impacts our health see- Author: Greenberger, Phyllis E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887700205
- Language: English
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Nike Is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports
$17.00 Add to cartRecent years have seen a huge explosion in the popularity and commercial viability of women’s sports – with new professional leagues for women to play in, new magazines to cover them, and recognition … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Lissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 09 1999
- ISBN10: 0871137615
- Language: English
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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
$17.99 Add to cartFatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as “enchanting” (The New York Times Book Review), “exubera… [more below]
- Author: Mernissi, Fatema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0743412435
- Language: English
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$21.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
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Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well
$18.99 Add to cartFor women contemplating divorce or for those who have already divorced, Ashton Applewhite’s insightful book sheds light on what to consider before making the decision to end your marriage, how to prot
- Author: Applewhite, Ashton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0062680706
- Language: English
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Wild Words for Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations and Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots (Girls Run the World, Nasty Women, A
$16.99 Add to carthis ribald compilation of powerful women quotes everything from bras to babies, menopause to men, and politics to parties. Featuring historically nasty women like Jane Austen and Billie Jean King, the… [more below]
- Author: Stephens, Autumn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684810035
- Language: English
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Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture Under Late Capitalism
$16.95 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 COLE FOUNDATION PRIZE FOR TRANSLATION
A nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
As Daph
- Author: B, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1552454290
- Language: English
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A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
$17.99 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detour… [more below]
- Author: Colwell, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1501181297
- Language: English
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Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women–And What We Can Do about It
$18.95 Add to cart” A] powerful account of the sexism cooked into medical care … will motivate readers to advocate for themselves.”–Publishers Weekly STARRED Review
A groundbreaking and feminist work of investigative
- Author: Jackson, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1771647167
- Language: English
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Contraception: A Concise History
$15.95 Read moreThe development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.
The beginning of the modern contra
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Drucker, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538423
- Language: English
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Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement
$18.95 Read moreContraception and abortion were not originally part of the 1960s women’s movement. How did the women’s movement, which fought for equal opportunity for women in education and the workplace, and the se
- Author: Browder, Sue Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1621643212
- Language: English
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First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy
$25.95 Add to cartWhen Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the … [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Disher, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: July 31 2013
- ISBN10: 1591142164
- Language: English
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Wicked Women of Missouri
$23.99 Add to cartMarauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of “Outlaw State,” but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle “Queen of the Bandits” Starr and C… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Wood, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119660
- Language: English
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The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
$18.00 Add to cartA distinguished anthropologist-who is also an initiated shaman-reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this anci… [more below]
- Author: Tedlock, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0553379712
- Language: English
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The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body
$23.99 Add to cartInternationally bestselling author and world-famous human behaviorist Desmond Morris turns his attention to the female form, taking the reader on a guided tour of the female body from head to toe. Hig
- Author: Morris, Desmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0312338538
- Language: English
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We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
$21.99 Add to cartWhy couldn’t the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can’t shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes.
What does a Southern woman consider g- Author: Rivenbark, Celia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 031231244X
- Language: English
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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one o… [more below]
- Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593244117
- Language: English
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Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
$26.95 Add to cartThe editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and p… [more below]
- Author: Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0822362953
- Language: English
