General Books


Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century LivesWomen on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives
Best Price: $17.50
Davis takes the reader deep into the lives of three quite different European women of the 1600s,...
On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and LifeOn Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life
Best Price: $1.47
I can't tell you how touched I am by this book. Here is Ms. Huffington, a woman known for her...
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial AdoptionOutsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption
Best Price: $11.25
This book provides an excellent insight into the special needs of transracially adopted...
Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's LiberationBeyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
Best Price: $14.75
This book, along with many of the attempts to disuade seekers from using traditional language...
Women, Culture, & Society / A ReaderWomen, Culture, & Society / A Reader
Best Price: $69.95


Wild Swans: Three Daughters of ChinaWild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Best Price: $3.94
Wild Swans is an amazing, eye-opening look at China's past and reveals much about why China is...
Georgia O'Keeffe: A LifeGeorgia O'Keeffe: A Life
Best Price: $12.00
This is a very comprehensive biography of Georgia O'Keefe. It is difficult however to keep...
Women in the Material WorldWomen in the Material World
Best Price: $11.95
i bought this book for my aunt who is a single, middle-aged, jouyful southern woman. she is an...
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and RapeAgainst Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
Best Price: $6.49
Funny how all the single star reviews come from men - truth hurts doesn't it? Rape is not a...
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and Society Series)The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and Society Series)
Best Price: $12.95
I was hoping to find out about the remarkable life of Veronica Franco but instead was pummeled...


Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-hop Feminism AnthologyHome Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-hop Feminism Anthology
Best Price: $10.85
The essays are excellent. These young women have brought to light how young black females are...
Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox JudaismTradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism
Best Price: $18.79
people who haven't been exposed to Orthodoxy very much. Just to sum up briefly: the modern...
The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations, and RitualsThe Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations, and Rituals
Best Price: $4.75
This book is a good intro to goddess spirituality. It has nice ritual idea's, activities, and...
Women, Gender, Religion: A ReaderWomen, Gender, Religion: A Reader
Best Price: $37.95
Interdisciplinary and multi-traditional, these essays highlight the contributions that various...
Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Plus)Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Plus)
Best Price: $8.83
a friend recommended this book for me. I thought it sounds good and i bought it.. i read the...

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Best Price: $4.95
I agree with most people who read this book in saying that Barbara only gave us a glimpse into...
Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women ExecutivesCompeting Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives
Best Price: $14.95
As a woman with a family and a busy career, I appreciated this insightful study of the cultures...
Sex and The Single Girl: Before There Was Sex in the City, There Was (Cult Classics)Sex and The Single Girl: Before There Was Sex in the City, There Was (Cult Classics)
Best Price: $3.98
I well remember when this book came out and caused an instant sensation and plentiful moral...
What Women Want: The Life You Crave and How God SatisfiesWhat Women Want: The Life You Crave and How God Satisfies
Best Price: $6.50
I've only read a few chapters of this book so far....I am really trying to give it a fair...
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves : 1894-1994Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves : 1894-1994
Best Price: $8.00
In the last decade of the 1800s, lynching, mob violence, and segregation were well-entrenched...

Embrace GraceEmbrace Grace
Best Price: $1.55
This is a very encouraging and inspirational little book. Read a bit a day to help energize and...
Butch Is a NounButch Is a Noun
Best Price: $16.95
This book was recommended to me and i enjoyed reading it. I would definately recommend it.
Secure in Heart: Overcoming Insecurity in a Woman's LifeSecure in Heart: Overcoming Insecurity in a Woman's Life
Best Price: $8.92
Robin has written a very insightful and very helpful book for women. I could only hope that all...
First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the PresidentsFirst Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents
Best Price: $1.58
I enjoyed this book very much and have passed it on to my Grand Daughter to read since we have a...
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American Culture)Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American Culture)
Best Price: $11.63
While the book is interesting, it has some real editing problems with free standing quotes that...

Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Theories of Representation and Difference)Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Theories of Representation and Difference)
Best Price: $14.00
I have not yet read this book, but I just finished a class Ms. Grosz taught on Sigmund Freud,...
The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in WarThe Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War
Best Price: $2.69
The book devotes one or more chapters to individual female leaders throughout history. The first...
What Would Wonder Woman Do?: An Amazon's Guide to the Working WorldWhat Would Wonder Woman Do?: An Amazon's Guide to the Working World
Best Price: $6.22
The cover of the book features the more modern comic book Wonder Woman. The majority of the...
Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to MotherhoodMisconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
Best Price: $3.50
Ms. Wolf thoughtfully captures many of the emotions that pregnant and new moms encounter...
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They InspiredThe Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
Best Price: $2.46
Prose's writing here is, as always, enjoyable, but despite all the awards this book has...

Men and Women of the Corporation: New EditionMen and Women of the Corporation: New Edition
Best Price: $15.00
In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss...
Miriam's Song: A MemoirMiriam's Song: A Memoir
Best Price: $3.26
This book was really good and an eyeopener in many ways. Sometimes it is hard to believe the bad...
Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic WorkServants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work
Best Price: $15.00
Parre?as, a scholar admired by many whose academic training, coupled with her linguistic skills,...
Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in TranslationWomen's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
Best Price: $14.59
This is a magnificent book if you are looking to find out what men wrote about women in the...
More: Population, Nature, and  Women WantMore: Population, Nature, and Women Want
Best Price: $10.97
Engelman demonstrates that providing women a basic level of health care, including effective...

More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The MicrowaveMore Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
Best Price: $20.25
When one thinks of industrialization, the image of a factory comes to mind. However, Cowan looks...
Our Voices: Psychology of WomenOur Voices: Psychology of Women
Best Price: $56.24
This book is well written and offers a great compilation of several studies associated with the...
Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on CampusFraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
Best Price: $12.94
While not a light subject by any means, this was the first book of its kind I could ever find. ...
The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her FamilyThe Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family
Best Price: $6.97
This book about Japanese society is written from the point of view of an American. It is highly...
States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and MoroccoStates and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
Best Price: $19.40
At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a...

The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (Crossing Press Feminist Series)The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Best Price: $7.50
frye is an amazing writer that discusses theory in an interesting way that interacts with the...
Counseling WomenCounseling Women
Best Price: $14.50
It has been about twenty years since I have journeyed into pastoral counseling approaches to the...
Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed WorldFlux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World
Best Price: $4.44
A very self-indulgent look at a slice of the spoilt American female middle class who seem, in...
Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi, Bilingual edition (Biblioteca Italiana, 9)Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi, Bilingual edition (Biblioteca Italiana, 9)
Best Price: $18.00
This primary source is one of the most amazing I've ever seen. Of the 72 known letters written...
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in AmericaShifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Best Price: $3.68
This is an excellent book that deals with the realities of black women's lives. It successfully...

Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart DisappearanceFinding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance
Best Price: $13.41
Ric Gillespie has clearly presented the never-before accumulation and coordination of the many...
Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant WorkersMaid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers
Best Price: $16.25
As middle-class Chinese women have entered the Hong Kong work force in unprecedented numbers...
Love, Loss, and What I WoreLove, Loss, and What I Wore
Best Price: $6.11
This book is a little gem. It is one of a kind. There is no other book like this on the...
The Language of the GoddessThe Language of the Goddess
Best Price: $14.85
Professor Gimbutas has provided an excellent, richly detailed and scrupulously referenced...
The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (Sight: Visual Culture)The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (Sight: Visual Culture)
Best Price: $37.50
Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized...

Long Journey Home: Revisioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our TimeLong Journey Home: Revisioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time
Best Price: $17.88
The story of the mother-and-daughter goddesses Demeter and Persephone has seized the imagination...
Surviving Saturn's Return: Overcoming the Most Tumultuous Time of Your LifeSurviving Saturn's Return: Overcoming the Most Tumultuous Time of Your Life
Best Price: $8.99
I thought the book was very informative and an easy read. It helps put things into perspective...
Eugenie: The Empress and Her EmpireEugenie: The Empress and Her Empire
Best Price: $4.94
capturing napoleon iii heart and becoming empress of france would lead you to think her life...
Multitude: Cross-Cultural Readings for WritersMultitude: Cross-Cultural Readings for Writers
Best Price: $13.95
prose and poetry from authors of many traditions. Each comes complete with questions for...
Early American Women: A Documentary History, 1600 - 1900Early American Women: A Documentary History, 1600 - 1900
Best Price: $50.00
Its a shame that in many history classes, half of the human experience is virtually ignored. ...

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion ServiceThe Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
Best Price: $13.00
Though clearly romanticized and seen through the rose-colored glasses of hindsight, The Story of...
For Girls Only: Wise Words, Good AdviceFor Girls Only: Wise Words, Good Advice
Best Price: $4.25
When it is good (and beautifully written) advice is something you can never get enough of, and...
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839(Brown Thrasher Books) (Brown Thrasher Books)Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839(Brown Thrasher Books) (Brown Thrasher Books)
Best Price: $7.21
Imagine that you are an educated, early-19th century British woman who marries a cultured,...
  
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