#hardcover #criminaljustice #nonfiction #jorjaleap #incarceration #womensstudies 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures after Incarceration

Through oral histories, interviews, embedded observation, and research, the daily struggles of women returning to life after incarceration and concrete solutions to the seemingly hopeless issue.

At the end of 2019 in the United States, women comprised the fastest growing population within the criminal justice system. Despite this fact, their journey through this system has not received extensive attention; it is only beginning to be documented. As a result, the impact of women's incarceration and reentry-both on their own lives and in the lives of their children and their families-is neither well understood nor effectively confronted.

Anthropologist Jorja Leap argues that all aspects of these women's journey must be illuminated to fully grasp the issues. Leap explores first the traumas girls and women suffer, then the particular challenges faced by women in the criminal justice system, in incarceration, and throughout the reentry process. Leap tells the stories of women who suffer childhood abuse and neglect, including for example, Clara, who suffered twice-once as a child within the welfare system and then as a mother whose children were removed from her care and placed within the system-highlighting the ways the system fails women in particular. She finds that the lack of reentry programs is directly related to rates of recidivism, concluding that the cycle of trauma is the embedded in the system of reentry.

Having spent countless hours embedded in the reentry programs that do currently exist, including Susan Burton's A New Way of Life, Leap tells the dramatic stories of many women caught in the system. She closes with several future-facing chapters. The experiences of formerly incarcerated women must be translated into lasting structural change through the development of meaningful programs and policies. Leap delves into pilot programs that offer meaningful models for changing the cycles of abuse and trauma in the lives of women.

Entry Lessons

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#hardcover in excellent condition. Has handwritten inscription. Otherwise in pristine condition. #womensstudies #feminist #nonfiction #quotations 

New York

Featuring more than 2,000 quotations from notable women ranging from Mary Shelley to Courtney Love, this entertaining feast of passionate women's words offers a breadth of emotion and thought from rage and fire to wit and desire. This collection contains pieces from some of the funniest, wisest, and most outspoken women in history. From Anna Quindlen's "Have you ever noticed that what passes as a terrific man would only be an adequate woman?" to Gilda Radner's "I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch," these quick quips explore the meaning of life, love, and laughter from a woman's perspective. Spotlighting sex, money, men, and the government, these quotations include some of the most acerbic retorts, sharpest humor, and most righteous wit imaginable. From Dorothy Parker to Susan Sarandon, this highly entertaining collection contains classic one-liners, laugh-out-loud turns of phrase, and uncommon pearls of truth.


Women's Wicked Wisdom

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#nonfiction #paperback #biography #feminism #womensstudies #socialscience

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

Making a Life of One's Own

First paperback edition includes "extra libris" (an additional essay by the author, recommended reading, and a reader's guide).

Spinster

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#paperback #literarycriticism #womensstudies #womensempowerment This is such a fascinating book about the relationship between women from a scholarly lens.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Among Women 

#nonfiction #psychology #hardcover #socialmedia #teenager #Parenting #NancyJoSales #comingofage #womensstudies                  A New York Times Bestseller

Award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales crisscrossed the country talking to more than two hundred girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen about their experiences online and off. They are coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. 
 
The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media: Instagram, Whisper, Vine, Youtube, Kik, Ask.fm, Tinder. 

Provocative, explosive, and urgent, American Girls will ignite much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate the new social and sexual norms that govern their lives.

New Jersey

social media and the secret lives of teenagers

American girls 

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#paperback #nonfiction #autobiography #history #biography #pulitzer-prize #touching #memoir #womensstudies #journalism

Michigan

The longtime owner of the Washington Post recounts her experiences, including how she rebounded from her husband's suicide to command the Post during Vietnam and Watergate

Personal History

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#paperback #nonfiction #womensstudies #womensrights #feminism #women 

North Dakota

A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters

Newly revised and updated, the #1 must-read book for a new generation of feminists who refuse to accept anything less than equality and justice for all women Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism embodies the forward-looking messages that bestselling author Jessica Valenti propagated as founder of the popular website, Feministing.com. Smart and relatable, the book serves as a complete guide to the issues that matter to today's young women, including health, equal pay, reproductive rights, violence, education, relationships, sexual independence and safety, the influence of pop culture, and more. Chapters include: You're a Hardcore Feminist. I Swear. Feminists Do It Better (and Other Sex Tips) Pop Culture Gone Wild The Blame (and Shame) Game If These Uterine Walls Could Talk Material World My Big Fat Unnecessary Wedding and Other Dating Diseases "Real" Women Have Babies I Promise I Won't Say "Herstory" Boys Do Cry Beauty Cult Sex and the City Voters, My Ass A Quick Academic Aside Get to It Since its original publication, Full Frontal Feminism has informed, inspired, and assured readers with the ultimate message of truth: You a feminist, and that's pretty cool.

Full Frontal Feminism

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#paperback #socialscience #currentaffairs #womensstudies #pakistan 

West Virginia

Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District

An unforgettable and compassionate look at the lives of the residents of Lahore's pleasure district

The Dancing Girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond District in the shadow of a great mosque. The 21st century goes on outside the walls, this ancient quarter, but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: beloved by sultans, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are, unclean, and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it.

Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of one Lahori courtesan. Beautifully understated, it turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, at fourteen a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to the Sultan of Dubai; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the Sultan come calling once more.

The Dancing Girls of Lahore

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No writing inside. Some minor flaws are pictured. #hardcover #nonfiction #threewomen #biography #realwomen #sex #womensstudies #feminism #sexuality #memoir

Arkansas

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE NEXT PICK A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post * NPR * The Atlantic * New York Public Library * Vanity Fair * PBS * Time * Economist * Entertainment Weekly * Financial Times * Shelf Awareness * Guardian * Sunday Times * BBC * Esquire * Good Housekeeping * Elle * Real Simple “THIS IS THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. This is it. This is the one...It blew the top of my head off and I haven’t been able to stop thinking or talking about it since.” —Elizabeth Gilbert “Taddeo spent eight years reporting this groundbreaking book...Breathtaking...Staggeringly intimate.” —Entertainment Weekly “A breathtaking and important book…What a fine thing it is to be enthralled by another writer’s sentences. To be stunned by her intellect and heart.” —Cheryl Strayed A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. Hailed as “a dazzling achievement” (Los Angeles Times) and “riveting page-turner that explores desire, heartbreak, and infatuation in all its messy, complicated nuance” (The Washington Post), Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women has captivated readers, booksellers, and critics—and topped bestseller lists—worldwide. In suburban Indiana we meet Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion. Starved for affection, Lina battles daily panic attacks and, after reconnecting with an old flame through social media, embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming. In North Dakota we meet Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school student who allegedly has a clandestine physical relationship with her handsome, married English teacher; the ensuing criminal trial will turn their quiet community upside down. Finally, in an exclusive enclave of the Northeast, we meet Sloane—a gorgeous, successful, and refined restaurant owner—who is happily married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. Based on years of immersive reporting and told with astonishing frankness and immediacy, Three Women is both a feat of journalism and a triumph of storytelling, brimming with nuance and empathy. “A work of deep observation, long conversations, and a kind of journalistic alchemy” (Kate Tuttle, NPR), Three Women introduces us to three unforgettable women—and one remarkable writer—whose experiences remind us that we are not alone.

Three Women

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#paperback #nonfiction #weshouldallbefeminists #politicalscience #chimamandangoziadiche #womensstudies 

Florida

Offers an updated definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.

We Should All Be Feminists

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#hardcover #history #womensstudies #civilwar

Wyoming

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The fought like demons


 #family #relationships #womensstudies #girls #selfhelp #bestseller #feminism

Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence--from undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment in elementary school--cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self-esteem. Yet girls often blame themselves or their families for this "problem with no name" instead of looking at the world around them.   Here, for the first time, are girls' unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias' lost sense of self.

saving the selves of adolescent girls

Reviving Ophelia

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Interior highlighting #fiction #paperback #ageism #nursinghome #womensstudies 

Massachusetts

A Novel

An old woman, placed in a country nursing home by her brother, struggles to maintain her sanity and dignity by expressing her thoughts in a notebook

As We are Now

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Bought this secondhand, it has a note on the inside cover #paperback #genderstudies #nonfiction #poetry #womensstudies 

Ohio

Poetry. Frances Driscoll's RAPE POEMS sink into the horror and beauty of memory without attention to pretense. The poems refuse to relent from the poet's sense of unshakable reality and do not belabor themselves with the trivialities of a misunderstanding world. Described as a "compelling...rare" collection, THE RAPE POEMS is personal reportage in common language with alarmingly precise composition and artistry. "Harrowing and obsessively skeptical, tender and private and hugely humane, these unsettling poems arrive like dispatches from the very source of our wounds" --Ralph Angel.

The Rape Poems

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#hardcover #nonfiction #autobiography #biography #women #womenshistory #youngadultnonfiction #womensstudies #fridakahlo #venuswilliams 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women A-Z, comes a bold new collection of 40 biographical profiles, each accompanied by a striking illustrated portrait, showcasing extraordinary women from around the world. In Rad Women Worldwide, writer Kate Schatz and artist Miriam Klein Stahl tell fresh, engaging, and inspiring tales of perseverance and radical success by pairing well researched and riveting biographies with powerful and expressive cut-paper portraits. Featuring an array of diverse figures from Hatshepsut (the great female king who ruled Egypt peacefully for two decades) and Malala Yousafzi (the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize) to Poly Styrene (legendary teenage punk and lead singer of X-Ray Spex) and Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (polar explorers and the first women to cross Antarctica), this progressive and visually arresting book is a compelling addition to women's history.

Rad Women Worldwide

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“Combining detailed narrative history -- economic, ideological, and esthetic -- with thought-provoking analysis, this study provides extensive coverage of cinema in the Arab world.” Previous library book in excellent used condition! #cinema #movies #educational #arts #filmstudies #womensstudies #genderstudies #arabstudies

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

History and Cultural Identity 

Arab Cinema

Authored by the journalist and activist who was one of the leaders of second-wave feminism. A nice companion book to my autographed “Moving Beyond Words.” First edition, twelfth printing. Solid copy with clean pages, no writing. DJ shows some wear and has a 1/2” tear on the backside. Inside flaps sunned at edges. #women #feminism #self-esteem #self-respect #nonfiction #hardcover #firstedition #womensstudies (Shelf 2F)

A Book of Self-Esteem

Revolution from Within

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#womenshealth #womensstudies #feminism #paperback 

Revised and Updated

One of our bestselling and most respected cultural critics, Naomi Wolf, acclaimed author of The Beauty Myth and The End of America, brings us an astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we understand the vagina--and, consequently, how we understand women.

A "New Biography," Vagina is at once serious, provocative, and immensely entertaining--a radical and endlessly fascinating exploration of the gateway to female consciousness from a remarkable writer and thinker at the forefront of the new feminism.

Vagina

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New, never opened #paperback #bestseller #womensstudies #genderstudies #historicalfiction #booktoscreen #movie 

Washington

IN THE RED TENT--NOW A MAJOR LIFETIME MINISERIES EVENT STARRING MINNIE DRIVER, DEBRA WINGER, AND MORENA BACCARIN--ANITA DIAMANT BRINGS THE FASCINATING BIBLICAL CHARACTER OF DINAH TO VIVID LIFE. Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis. In The Red Tent, Anita Diamant brings this fascinating biblical character to vivid life. Told in Dinah's voice, the novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of Dinah's mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. With over 3.3 million copies sold, The Red Tent is a modern classic loved throughout the world, and now on screen as an A&E/Lifetime mini-series.

The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition

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#paperback #biography #memoir #womensstudies


Of the six Impressionist painters whose first exhibition scandalized and fascinated Paris in 1874, Berthe Morisot was the only woman. She reached a pinnacle of artistic achievement despite the restraints society placed on her sex, adroitly combining her artistic ambitions with a rewarding family life. Anne Higonnet brings fully to life an accomplished artist and her world.

Berthe Morisot

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#paperback #elizabethwurtzel #womensstudies

In Praise of Difficult Women

In an entertaining feminist manifesto, the author of Prozac Nation explores the history of famous and infamous manipulative women and describes the motivations for and implications of their behavior. Reprint.

Bitch

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#hardcover #nonfiction #gloriasteinem #feminism #history #womensstudies 

Oregon

Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

A beautifully illustrated collection of Gloria Steinem’s most inspirational and outrageous quotes, with an introduction and essays by the feminist activist herself “A fearless book full of passion, resolute perspective, and unbiased hope for the future.”—Janelle Monáe For decades—and especially now, in these times of crisis—people around the world have found guidance, humor, and unity in Gloria Steinem’s gift for creating quotes that offer hope and inspire action. From her early days as a journalist and feminist activist, Steinem’s words have helped generations to empower themselves and work together. Covering topics from relationships (“Many are looking for the right person. Too few are trying to be the right person.”) to the patriarchy (“Men are liked better when they win. Women are liked better when they lose. This is how the patriarchy is enforced every day.”) and activism (“Revolutions, like trees, grow from the bottom up.”), this is the definitive collection of Steinem’s words on what matters most. Steinem sees quotes as “the poetry of everyday life,” so she also has included a few favorites from friends, including bell hooks, Flo Kennedy, and Michelle Obama, in this book that will make you want to laugh, march, and create some quotes of your own. In fact, at the end of the book, there’s a special space for readers to add their own quotes and others they’ve found inspiring. The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off! is both timeless and timely. It is a gift of hope from Steinem to readers, and a book to share with friends.

The Truth Will Set You Free, but First It Will Piss You Off!

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#hardcover #allthesingleladies #feminism #rebeccatraister #women #womensstudies 

California

Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

A nuanced investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America, this “singularly triumphant work” (Los Angeles Times) by Rebecca Traister “the most brilliant voice on feminism in the country” (Anne Lamott) is “sure to be vigorously discussed” (Booklist, starred review). In 2009, the award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies—a book she thought would be a work of contemporary journalism—about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below fifty percent; and the median age of first marriages, which had remained between twenty and twenty-two years old for nearly a century (1890–1980), had risen dramatically to twenty-seven. But over the course of her vast research and more than a hundred interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change—temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more. Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a “dramatic reversal.” All the Single Ladies is a remarkable portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman. Covering class, race, sexual orientation, and filled with vivid anecdotes from fascinating contemporary and historical figures, All the Single Ladies is destined to be a classic work of social history and journalism. Exhaustively researched, brilliantly balanced, and told with Traister’s signature wit and insight, this book should be shelved alongside Gail Collins’s When Everything Changed.

All the Single Ladies

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#fiction #paperback #womensstudies #biography #nativeamericans #americana #history #novel

Jorja Leap

Entry Lessons

Michelle Lovric

Women's Wicked Wisdom

Kate Bolick

Spinster

Louise Bernikow

Among Women

Nancy Jo Sales

American girls

Katharine Graham

Personal History

Jessica Valenti

Full Frontal Feminism

Louise Brown

The Dancing Girls of Lahore

Lisa Taddeo

Three Women

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists

DeAnne Blanton

The fought like demons

Mary Bray Pipher

Reviving Ophelia

May Sarton

As We are Now

Frances Driscoll

The Rape Poems

Kate Schatz; Miriam Klein Stahl (Illustrator)

Rad Women Worldwide

Viola Shafik

Arab Cinema

Gloria Steinem

Revolution from Within

Naomi Wolf

Vagina

Anita Diamant

The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition

Anne Higonnet

Berthe Morisot

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Bitch

Gloria Steinem; Samantha Dion Baker (Illustrator)

The Truth Will Set You Free, but First It Will Piss You Off!

Rebecca Traister

All the Single Ladies

Lynn Andrews

Medicine Woman