A Room of One's Own
The Second Sex
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of woman, and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness This long awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French
The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women s Rights Opting out, security moms, desperate housewives, the new baby fever the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling
The Beauty Myth
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity In today s world, women have power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before Alongside the evident progress of the women s movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas
All About Love: New Visions
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early
The Color Purple
The Color Purple is a classic With over a million copies sold in the UK alone, it is hailed as one of the all time greats of literature, inspiring generations of readers Set in the deep American South between the wars, it is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath s shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under maybe for the last time In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller shows how women s
The Vagina Monologues
I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologuesAt first women were reluctant to talk They were a little shy But once they got going, you couldn t stop them Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas They get very excited, mainly
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Friedman and Full Frontal Feminism and He s A Stud, She s A Slut author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
An analysis of Victorian women writers, this pathbreaking book of feminist literary criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that the personal was the political, the
The Feminine Mystique
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique Published in 1963, it gave a pitch perfect description of the problem that has no name the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women s
How to Be a Woman
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven t been burned as witches since 1727, life isn t exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women They are beset by uncertainties and questions Why are they supposed to get Brazilians Why do bras hurt Why the incessant talk about babies And do
Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save The World!
Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality Not a single country anywhere in the world has achieved gender equality In than a few countries, progress for women has stalled or is reversing Voters in the