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The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women is "an informative and thought-provoking book for anyone--not just the single ladies--who want to gain a greater understanding of this pivotal moment in the history of the United States" (The New York Times Book Review).

In 2009, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Si...
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Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction

By: Ferriss, Suzanne, Young, Mallory

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Routledge: October 2005

Seller ID: 121223

ISBN: 0415975034

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre. Not surprisingly, some highbrow critics have dismissed chick lit as trashy fiction, but fans have argued that it is as empowering as it is entertaining.
This is the f...
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Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond

By: Lilly Ledbetter, Lanier Scott Isom

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: February 2013

Seller ID: 119196

ISBN: 0307887944

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The inspiring story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation

Lilly Ledbetter always knew that she was destined for something more than what she was born into: a house with no running water or electricity in the small town of Possum Trot, Alabama. In 1979, when Lilly applied for her dream job at the Goodyear tire factory, she got the job. She was one of the first women hired at the management...
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The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock

By: Tanya Selvaratnam

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Prometheus Books: January 2014

Seller ID: 175510

ISBN: 1616148454

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, spine strong, light wear.
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The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause

By: Greer, Germaine

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Alfred A Knopf: September 1992

Seller ID: 290261

ISBN: 0394582691

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In this compulsively readable, fascinating account of menopause, renowned feminist and author Germaine Greer gives us so much more than the medical facts. She has gone back into history, read textbooks, explored novels and poems, and has written a wholly extraordinary account of women and their changes in life.
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
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The Grounding of Modern Feminism

By: Cott, Nancy F.

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: September 1989

Seller ID: 288198

ISBN: 0300042280

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"The time has come to define feminism; it is no longer possible to ignore it." The Century Magazine, 1914
In this landmark addition to scholarship, Nancy F. Cott, author of The Bonds of Womanhood, offers a new interpretation of American feminism during the early decades of this century--a period traditionally viewed as on in which women won the right to vote and then lost interest in feminist issues. Cott argues instead that his period was a time of crisis and transition from the nineteenth-century "woman movement' to the beginning of modern feminism. Many of the issues that a...
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Woman in the Shade of Islam

By: Al-Sheha, Abdul Rahman

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Islamic Educational Center: December 1999

Seller ID: 122051

ISBN: 9960800237

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Women in Shadow and Light: Journeys from Abuse to Healing

By: Goff-LaFontaine, Jan

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Beagle Bay Inc: March 2005

Seller ID: 278604

ISBN: 0974961051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Women in Shadow and Light offers an intimate glimpse of forty women?ages nineteen to ninety-five?who found the courage to triumph over trauma. Photographs combine with text to portray the essence of each woman's journey from the violence of sexual and physical abuse to transformation and healing. Jan Goff-LaFontaine's original photography exhibit, Out of the Shadows, started in rural Door County, Wisconsin, but eventually led her to subjects across the nation as she sought to complete this book. Each woman helped create her own portrait as a personal symbol of healing, often focusing on one as...
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