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Women of the Year Jersey Girls | Jessica Seigel Samanta Power | Catherine Orenstein Betty Dukes | Ellen Hawkes Saudatu Mahdi | Stephanie Nolen Kathy Najimy | Ellen Snortland Maxine Waters | Lisa Armstrong Lisa Fernandez | Michele Kort |
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MUST READ | winter 2004
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A collection of short fiction from writers such as Margaret Atwood, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag and others. The entire proceeds of this book’s sales go to benefit HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment in southern Africa.
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A delightful array of observations, reminiscences, anecdotes and commentaries by renowned columnist Patricia Williams. She relates stories about the many facets of her life — as a lawyer, scholar, writer, African American, descendant of slaves, mother, and single, fifty-something woman.
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This collection of very accessible and fascinating essays links pornography to the avant-garde and modern sex scandals, tracing its roots from early stag films and making a connection between war machinery and the pinup girls of WWII.
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Author Hernandez worked at a Detroit Cadillac plant for 21 years, observing everything from the women on the timing chain line to specific characters like Abbie, re-created in this novel-in-stories. Her writing is lyrically reminiscent of Octavio Paz and Isabel Allende.
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A complete story of the ultimate self-made woman. Dearborn’s incredible access to the Guggenheim estate allowed for an in-depth, fascinating portrait of this rags-to-riches art-world maven.
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In a follow-up to 1998’s photo and essay book Legends, this sequel includes many more influential women writers on legendary women, such as Gail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton, Claudia Dreyfuss on Toni Morrison, Susan Orlean on Joan Didion, Roseanne Cash on Patsy Cline, and Patricia Bosworth on Diane Arbus.
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This collection includes new translations and newly discovered writings of de Beauvoir that challenge the assumption that she was merely an echoing protégé of Sartre. Here are her own ideas, and this collection continues to prove her an autonomous philosopher of renown.
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A not-to-be-missed, witty debut novel about the South from the acclaimed creator of television shows such as Designing Women and Evening Shade.
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The first story collection in over a decade from the author, these 12 stories about death in the family and loss, set all over North and South America, are written in a darkly comic style.
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With beautiful visuals inspired by nature, this collection of poetry centers on the theme of the human heart as both life-giving organ and metaphorical agent of passion, especially within the poet.
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This debut novel centers on the tidal shifts present within a small coastal town, and is narrated by a dreamy, yet resilient, young girl who was left by a father and neglected by a mourning mother.
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Baumgardner and Richards answer the oft-posed question “What can I do?” in this collection of writing, resources and instruction. They tackle everything from speaking out to friends to starting a revolution in this activists’ handbook.
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