This book explores women's desire for women as it is located in examples of twentieth-century British and American women's writing, including fiction, memoir, and poetry by such writers as Virginia Woolf, Vivian Gornick, Dorothy Allison, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marilyn Hacker, and Audre Lorde. Suzanne Juhasz discusses how literary writing functions to enact and negotiate a series of relationships between women: daughter-mother, mother-daughter, lesbian lover-lesbian lover, writer-reader, and reader-writer. She shows how writing is a component of interpersonal relationships and how relation...
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A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women

By: Suzanne Juhasz

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Rutgers University Press: July 2003

Seller ID: 121266

ISBN: 0813532744

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A Room of One's Own

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Harvest Books: September 1989

Seller ID: 67991

ISBN: 0156787334

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister--a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around h...
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A Room of One's Own

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harvest Books: September 1989

Seller ID: 109626

ISBN: 0156787334

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society

A Room of One's Own

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harvest Books: September 1989

Seller ID: 225566

ISBN: 0156787334

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: February 2009

Seller ID: 222255

ISBN: 019955546X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in the political and social life of the nation and her growing awareness of the relationship between politics and economics and between political institutions and the individual. In personal terms, the works show her stru...
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African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas (African American Life Series)

By: N/A

Price: $22.98

Publisher: Wayne State University Press: June 1995

Seller ID: 158457

ISBN: 0814325300

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This work contains reflections as well as in-depth analyses by African American women scholars and writers on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas confrontation over sexual harassment. It also looks at the case's broader meaning for the African American community.
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An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Vintage: August 1995

Seller ID: 226529

ISBN: 0679752560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The acclaimed author of Refuge here weaves together a resonant and often rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves, combining the power of her observations in the field with her personal experience--as a woman, a Mormon, and a Westerner. Through the grace of her stories we come to see how a lack of intimacy with the natural world has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other.

Williams shadows lions on the Serengeti and spots night herons in the Bronx. She pays homage to the rogue spirits of Edward Abbey and Georgia O'Keeffe, contemplates the unfathomable wildness...
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Back Rooms Voices From the Illegal Abortion Era

By: Ellen Messer

Price: $21.99

Seller ID: 218042

ISBN: 9110032401

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Condition: New

Back Rooms Voices From the Illegal Abortion Era

By: Ellen Messer

Price: $15.98

Seller ID: 226652

ISBN: 9110032401

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Back Rooms Voices From the Illegal Abortion Era

By: Ellen Messer

Price: $11.00

Seller ID: 256721

ISBN: 9110032401

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Back Rooms: Voices from the Illegal Abortion Era

By: Ellen Messer, Kathryn E. May, May. Kathryn E.

Price: $21.99

Publisher: Prometheus Books: March 1994

Seller ID: 90757

ISBN: 0879758767

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

2016 reprint
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

By: Susan Faludi

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Anchor: October 1992

Seller ID: 32185

ISBN: 0385425074

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is "as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The "Second Sex" and Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique,"" -- "Newsweek,"
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Bad Girls Throughout History

By: Ann Shen

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Chronicle Books: September 2016

Seller ID: 155324

ISBN: 1452153930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, delivers on both counts. Featuring 100 women who made history, it's a book you can be proud to display in your home.

Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, women's rights activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer. Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Joan Jett, godmother of punk. The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book were bad in...
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Becoming: A Gender Flipbook

By: Yishay Garbasz

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher: November 2010

Seller ID: 187306

ISBN: 1935613006

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

With "Becoming," artist Yishay Garbasz courageously explores one of society's most taboo subjects - the unmaking of a gendered body and the creation of another. Garbasz courageously documents two years of the physical changes she underwent to change from male to female. With unprecedented honesty and directness, the artist photographed her body every week, chronicling its gradual transformation. "Becoming"'s flip book format makes visible and immediate time and its integral role throughout this process.
Yishay Garbasz was born in Israel in 1970 and studied photography in New York at Bard ...
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Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationships

By: Jill McLean Taylor, Carol Gilligan, Amy Sullivan

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press: October 1997

Seller ID: 194999

ISBN: 0674068807

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

More than any other psychologist, Carol Gilligan has helped us to hear girls' voices just when they seem to be blurring and fading or becoming disruptive during the passage into womanhood. When adolescent girls--once assured and resilient--silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed, and develop eating disorders or other psychological problems. But when adolescent girls remain outspoken it is often difficult for others to stay in relationship with them, leading girls to be excluded or labeled as troublemakers. If this is true in an affluent suburban s...
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BITCH.

By: Elizabeth Wurtzel

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Quartet Books Ltd: January 1998

Seller ID: 258395

ISBN: 0704380684

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

By: Sarah Hepola

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: June 2016

Seller ID: 85248

ISBN: 1455554588

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty-first-century woman.
But there was a price. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. Mornings became detective work on her own life. What did I say last night? How did I meet that guy? She apologized for things she couldn't remember doing, as though...
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Bodily Discursions: Genders, Representations, Technologies (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)

By: N/A

Price: $19.50

Publisher: State University of New York Press: February 1997

Seller ID: 26921

ISBN: 0791431886

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Bodily Discursions offers a multiplicity of feminist perspectives on the body, especially the female body, from a variety of disciplines: literary history, social theory, art history, cultural studies, the history of rhetoric, film, and literary criticism among others. Subjects range from public punishment of outspoken women during the English Renaissance to current responses to the AIDS pandemic in the popular media. Contributors include Alice E. Adams, Susanmarie Harrington, Catherine Hobbs, Cynthia Huff, Cathy Peppers, Roberta Schreyer, Julie Shaffer, Torri L. Thompson, Angela Wall, Deborah...
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Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 (Gender and American Culture)

By: Annelise Orleck

Price: $9.98

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press: May 1995

Seller ID: 248141

ISBN: 0807845116

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Common Sense and a Little Fire traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely had more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women's movement. Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit...
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Composing a Life

By: Bateson, Mary Catherine

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Grove Press: May 2001

Seller ID: 276204

ISBN: 0802138047

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Mary Catherine Bateson has been called "one of the most original and important thinkers of our time" (Deborah Tannen). Grove Press is pleased to reissue Batesoh's deeply satisfying treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women. Using their personal stories as her framework, Dr. Bateson delves into the creative potential of the complex lives we live today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities. With balanced sympathy and a candid approach to what makes these women inspiring, examples of the newly fluid movement of adaptation -- their relatio...
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Composing a Life

By: Bateson, Mary Catherine

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Grove Press: May 2001

Seller ID: 276840

ISBN: 0802138047

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Compulsion to Create

By: Kavaler-Adler, Susan

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Other Press Professional: January 2000

Seller ID: 121267

ISBN: 189274659X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In psychobiographies of six famous women writers, the founder of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis analyzes the role of the idealized male muse (often the Oedipal father) in the creativity of Nin, Plath, Charlotte and Emily Brontd, Dickinson, and Sitwell. First publ
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Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women

By: Hansen, Joseph,Reed, Evelyn,Waters, Mary-Alice

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY): March 1993

Seller ID: 293773

ISBN: 0873486595

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

How big business promotes cosmetics to generate profits and perpetuate the inferior status of women. In her introduction, Mary-Alice Waters explains how the entry of millions of women into the workforce during and after World War II irreversibly changed U.S. society and laid the basis for the advances women have won through struggle over the last three decades.
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Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing

By: N/A

Price: $19.98

Publisher: State University of New York Press: December 1997

Seller ID: 181600

ISBN: 0791435644

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing defines the role of women's writing in the face of violence and suggests the degree to which violence has affected women from diverse periods, places, and social backgrounds. The book examines the ways in which women use their writing to redefine their experiences of abuse, to give themselves a voice in order to break the silence imposed on women in patriarchal society, and to start challenging and changing a culture that objectifies, degrades, and destroys women.

The women discussed in the book include established authors, such as Virginia...
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Image for Creation and Procreation: Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition (Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series)

Creation and Procreation: Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition (Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series)

By: Marta Weigle

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr: November 1989

Seller ID: 57133

ISBN: 0812280962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Crossing the Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest

By: Melba Wilson

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Seal Press: February 1994

Seller ID: 38935

ISBN: 1878067427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Danger: Divorce in Progress

By: MacDonald, Cathryn

Price: $23.95

Publisher: Ocean Tree Publications: May 1998

Seller ID: 26857

ISBN: 0966156307

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Deadly Desires: A Psychoanalytic Study of Female Sexual Perversion and Women's Writing

By: Lokis-Adkins, Julie

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Karnac Books: May 2013

Seller ID: 27245

ISBN: 1780491387

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

During the fin-de-siecle, stories about hysterical women filled the air of Paris and the novels emerging during this era conveyed this hysteria and openly portrayed the symptoms of the women being treated at the Salpetiere. This book examines the emergence of hysterical discourse and its influence on women's writing, specifically focusing on the presentation of female sexuality in three different narratives.
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

By: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Anchor: May 2018

Seller ID: 291101

ISBN: 0525434801

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A powerful statement about feminism today from "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama), the author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions--direct, wryly funny, and perceptive--for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advi...
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Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

By: Michele Barrett, Anne Phillips

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Stanford University Press: July 1992

Seller ID: 6762

ISBN: 0804720304

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

In the past decade the central principles of western feminist theory have been dramatically challenged. many feminists have endorsed post-structuralism's rejection of essentialist theoretical categories, and have added a powerful gender dimension to contemporary critiques of modernity. Earlier 'women' have been radically undermined, and newer concerns with 'difference', 'identity', and 'power' have emerged. Destabilizing Theory explores these developments in a set of specially commissioned essays by feminist theorists. Does this change amount to a real shift within feminist theory, or will fem...
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DISCONTENTED DISCOURSES: Feminism/Textual Intervention/Psychoanalysis

By: N/A

Price: $29.95

Publisher: University of Illinois Press: December 1988

Seller ID: 47122

ISBN: 0252060237

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Doing Feminist Research

By: N/A

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books: June 1981

Seller ID: 19337

ISBN: 0710007728

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Domestic Violence: Women's Way Out

By: Elizabeth Shrader, Monserrat Sagot

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Pan American Health Organization: May 2000

Seller ID: 43852

ISBN: 9275122822

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This publication sets out a conceptual framework and detailed research protocol for investigating how women who are victims of domestic violence go about seeking help. It aims to show how research data can be used to improve existing services and develop better policies for prevention."
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Earth Muse: Feminism, Nature, and Art

By: Carol Bigwood

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Temple University Press: February 1993

Seller ID: 49754

ISBN: 0877229864

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

very good copy...no dust jacket...
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Elizabeth Gaskell (Key Women Writers)

By: Patsy Stoneman

Price: $2.98

Publisher: Indiana University Press: June 1987

Seller ID: 103466

ISBN: 0253254531

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

As the author of domestic and political novels, Elizabeth Gaskell hasa divided image. Patsy Stoneman's pioneering feminist study looks closely at thereason for this split, seeing it as the result of treating class and gender asseparate issues, and offers a radical rereading by considering them in conjunction.Though her work displays little rage and rebellion, Gaskell is shown to maintainan informed and steady resistance to aggressive authority, advocating the importanceof female friendship, rational motherhood, and the power of speech as forces forsocial change.
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Image for Empowering Adolescent Girls: Examining the Present and Building Skills for the Future with the 'Go Girls' Program (Norton Professional Books)

Empowering Adolescent Girls: Examining the Present and Building Skills for the Future with the 'Go Girls' Program (Norton Professional Books)

By: Janice Daley, Craig Winston Lecroy

Price: $16.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: May 2001

Seller ID: 183114

ISBN: 0393703479

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia awakened the social service and education communities to the need for gender-specific programs tailored to the unique issues girls face. LeCroy and Daley provide a systematic approach to addressing those issues. Their framework incorporates new information and research about adolescent girls and conceptualizes gender-specific developmental tasks as part of a Go Girls curriculum. These developmental tasks for girls in early adolescence include: achieving a competent gender role identification, establishing an acceptable body image, developi...
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Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman

By: Brooke Hauser

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks: April 2017

Seller ID: 116253

ISBN: 0062342673

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor's rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman.

In the mid-Sixties, Helen Gurley Brown, author of the groundbreaking Sex and the Single Girl, took over the ailing Cosmopolitan magazine and revamped it into one of the most successful brands in the world. At a time when magazines taught housewives how to make the perfect casserole, Helen reimagined Cosmo and womanhood itself, championing the indepe...
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Equal Value: An Ethical Approach to Economics and Sex

By: CAROL ROBB, Carol S. Robb

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Beacon Press (MA): January 1996

Seller ID: 35626

ISBN: 0807065048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New