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Reviving
Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine Reader's
Circle) by Mary Bray Pipher | ||
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ships in 24 hours Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) Paperback - 304 pages Reissue edition (March 1995) |
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| Amazon.com At adolescence, says Mary Pipher, "girls become 'female impersonators' who fit their whole selves into small, crowded spaces." Many lose spark, interest, and even IQ points as a "girl-poisoning" society forces a choice between being shunned for staying true to oneself and struggling to stay within a... Read more | ||||
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Women
by Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag | ||
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ships in 24 hours Random House Hardcover - 239 pages 1 Ed edition (November 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie Leibovitz for her book Women stands on its own. Looked at together, these "photographs of people with nothing more in common than that they are women (and living in America at the end of the twentieth century), all--well almost... Read more | ||||
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Wild
Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang | ||
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ships in 24 hours Anchor World Views Paperback - 524 pages Reprint edition (November 1992) |
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| Amazon.com In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with... Read more | ||||
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I
Know Just What You Mean : The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives
by Ellen Goodman, Patricia O'Brien | ||
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ships in 24 hours Simon & Schuster Hardcover - 300 pages (May 2000) |
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| Amazon.com Sometimes timing is the difference between a friendship that lasts a lifetime and one that fades, but as everyone who has let a friendship lapse knows, it's also a matter of effort. A friendship is a lot like romance--in the beginning all chemistry and luck, but then come commitment and... Read more | ||||
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Self-Nurture
: Learning to Care for Yourself As Effectively As You Care for Everyone
Else by Alice D. Domar, Henry Dreher | ||
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ships in 2-3 days Viking Pr Hardcover - 306 pages (December 27, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com One of the greatest challenges women face is learning how to nurture themselves. The tendency, of course, is for women to put themselves last on the list--taking care of everyone and everything else before they tend to their own emotional, physical, or spiritual needs, according to author Alice D.... Read more | ||||
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The
Dance of Anger : A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate
Relationships by Harriet Lerner | ||
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ships in 24 hours HarperCollins (paper) Paperback - 239 pages Reissue edition (1997) |
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| Book Description
"Anger is a signal and one worth listening to," writes Dr. Harriet Lerner in her renowned classic that has transformed the lives of millions of readers. While anger deserves our attention and respect, women still learn to silence our anger, to deny it entirely or to vent it in a way that leaves us... Read more | ||||
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Secrets
of Sensual Lovemaking : The Ultimate in Female Ecstasy by Tom Leonardi | ||
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ships in 24 hours Signet Mass Market Paperback - 160 pages (February 1998) |
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Sizzling with sensuality and expertise, this definitive guide shows you how to give the women in your life the best loving she's ever had. With surefire secrets to finding the elusive "G-Spot," and information on how to make monogamy and safe sex sexy, this one-of-a-kind book will make you wonder... Read more | ||||
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Necessary
Journeys: Letting Ourselves Learn From Life by Nancy L., Md Snyderman, Peg Streep | ||
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ships in 24 hours Hyperion Hardcover - 248 pages 1 Ed edition (May 2000) |
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| Amazon.com "I never expected life to be so messy," says Nancy Snyderman, medical news correspondent for Good Morning America, 20/20, and ABC News, in the opening to Necessary Journeys. Here she tells her own story--not a glittery story of a woman's achievements (though she could have written that story... Read more | ||||
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Woman
: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier | ||
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ships in 24 hours Anchor Paperback - 438 pages 1 Anchor edition (February 15, 2000) |
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| Amazon.com Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, as far as the health care profession is concerned the standard operating design of the human body is male. So when a book comes along as beautifully written and endlessly informative as Natalie Angier's Woman: An Intimate Geography, it's a cause for major... Read more | ||||
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EVEolution
: The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women by Faith Popcorn, Lys Marigold | ||
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ships in 24 hours Hyperion Hardcover - 272 pages (June 2000) |
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| Amazon.com Faith Popcorn isn't shy about telling you who she is or what she can share with you: "I am a futurist. A trend-spotter. A cultural detective." Nor does she beat around the bush in relaying the importance of her theory: "Understanding EVEolution and implementing it ... means the difference between... Read more | ||||
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The
Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem | ||
| Villard Books Paperback - 118 pages 1 Ed edition (February 1998) |
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| Amazon.com "I say vagina because I want people to respond," says playwright Eve Ensler, creator of the hilarious, disturbing soliloquies in The Vagina Monologues, a book based on her one-woman play. And respond they do--with horror, anger, censure, and sparks of wonder and pleasure. Ensler is on a... Read more | ||||
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Five
Minutes to Orgasm Every Time You Make Love-For Women Only
by D. Claire Hutchins | ||
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| Book Description Is sex more trouble than it's worth? Are you too slow? Do you rely excessively on prolonged (even painful) intercourse, oral sex or vibrators? Is your orgasm hit or miss? Now with this bold but simple 3 step program, any woman - YOU - can achieve orgasm without difficulty during sex. IMPOSSIBLE? Not... Read more | ||||
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Ten
Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives by Laura Schlessinger, Dr. Laura Schlessinger | ||
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ships in 24 hours Harperperennial Library Paperback - 256 pages Reprint edition (February 1995) |
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| Book Description Dr. Laura Schlessinger is the incredibly popular and controversial psychotherapist who hosts a nationally syndicated, top-rated midday radio talk show. She has strong convictions and doesn't hesitate to voice them to callers. She urges women emphatically to lose a domineering jerk of a lover and... Read more | ||||
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Mother
Nature : A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy | ||
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ships in 24 hours Pantheon Books Hardcover - 723 pages 1 Ed edition (October 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection should be required reading for anyone who happens to be a human being. In it, Hrdy reveals the motivations behind some of our most primal and hotly contested behavioral patterns--those concerning gender roles, mate choice, sex,... Read more | ||||
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Ophelia
Speaks : Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self
by Sara Shandler | ||
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ships in 24 hours Harperperennial Library Paperback - 285 pages (June 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler is a clever response to Mary Pipher's bestselling Reviving Ophelia. Shandler reveals telling portraits of teenage girls in this book, a compilation of essays, poems, and true-grit commentary from a cross section of teenage girls (or Ophelias), throughout the country.... Read more | ||||
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The
Courage to Heal : A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual
Abuse by Ellen Bass(Preface), Laura Davis(Preface) | ||
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ships in 24 hours Harperperennial Library Paperback - 608 pages 3Rd/Rev/up edition (July 1994) |
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| Book Description An updated and revised edition of the classic bestselling guide (more than 700,000 copies sold) that has inspired millions of women survivors of child sexual abuse and helped them down the road to recovery. Read more | ||||
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Flux
: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love, and Life in a Half-Changed World
by Peggy Orenstein | ||
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ships in 24 hours Doubleday Hardcover - 304 pages (May 16, 2000) |
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| Amazon.com After the release of her bestselling title, Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap, Peggy Orenstein toured the country talking to groups of parents, teachers, and girls. It was after one of these teen town hall meetings that she decided to write about the crucible of... Read more | ||||
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The
Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
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ships in 2-3 days Vintage Books Paperback - 209 pages Reissue edition (May 1989) |
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| Amazon.com The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only... Read more | ||||
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Nine
and Counting: The Women of the Senate by Barbara Mikulski(Editor), et al | ||
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ships in 24 hours William Morrow & Co Hardcover - 238 pages 1 Ed edition (July 25, 2000) |
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| Amazon.com It's hard to imagine nine United States senators whose politics span the spectrum sitting down to dinner together on a regular basis--unless they're the nine women who currently call the Senate home. Barbara Mikulski, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, Olympia... Read more | ||||
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Woman:
An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier | ||
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ships in 24 hours Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd) Hardcover - 398 pages (April 1, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, as far as the health care profession is concerned the standard operating design of the human body is male. So when a book comes along as beautifully written and endlessly informative as Natalie Angier's Woman: An Intimate Geography, it's a cause for major... Read more | ||||
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Forbidden
Flowers : More Women's Sexual Fantasies by Nancy Friday | ||
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ships in 24 hours Pocket Books Mass Market Paperback Reissue edition (January 1993) |
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| Synopsis Nancy Friday's second collection of sexual fantasies is even more explicit and outspoken than her erotic masterpiece, "My Secret Garden". The constant refrain from the thousands of women across America who read "My Secret Garden" was, "Thank God I'm not the only one..." who had those wild, exciting,... Read more | ||||
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Passionate
Minds : Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont | ||
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ships in 24 hours Knopf Hardcover - 298 pages (February 29, 2000) |
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| Amazon.com In Passionate Minds, Claudia Roth Pierpont lifts several artists out of their hagiographical limbo and eases others (even Mae West and Margaret Mitchell) away from cliché and the condescending chortle. Her 11 essays offer a fascinating mix of biography, analysis, and elegant aphorism. Yet... Read more | ||||
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Women
Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman
Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes | ||
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ships in 24 hours Ballantine Books Mass Market Paperback - 579 pages (January 1997) |
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| From Kirkus Reviews
, May 15, 1992 A feminist counterpart to Iron John--or, how ``a healthy woman is much like a wolf.'' Est‚s, a Jungian analyst, believes that a woman's wholeness depends on her returning to the sources of her repressed instinctual nature. To illustrate the ways of the ``wild woman,'' the author draws on myths,... Read more | ||||
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The
Last Madam : A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Chris Wiltz, Christine Wiltz | ||
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ships in 24 hours Faber & Faber Hardcover - 288 pages 1 Ed edition (January 2000) |
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| Amazon.com Actually, they called themselves "landladies" in New Orleans, though that didn't change the nature of their business: running houses of prostitution in the city's wide-open French Quarter. Beginning in 1920, when she was still in her teens, Norma Wallace managed a high-class bordello for an affluent... Read more | ||||
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The
Alphabet Versus the Goddess : The Conflict Between Word and Image
by Leonard Shlain | ||
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ships in 24 hours Arkana Paperback - 464 pages (September 1999) |
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| Amazon.com "Literacy has promoted the subjugation of women by men throughout all but the very recent history of the West," writes Leonard Shlain. "Misogyny and patriarchy rise and fall with the fortunes of the alphabetic written word." That's a pretty audacious claim, one that The Alphabet Versus the Goddess... Read more | ||||
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