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  • Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England

    Edited by Jennifer Richards, Alison Thorne ...
    Rhetoric has long been a powerful and pervasive force in political and cultural life, yet in the early modern period, rhetorical training was generally reserved as a masculine privilege. This volume argues, however, that women found a variety of ways to represent their interests persuasively, and that by looking more closely at the importance of rhetoric for early modern women, and their ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

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    The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men

    by Helen Gurley Brown ...
    The trailblazing book that jump-started the sexual revolutionHelen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor in chief of Cosmopolitan for thirty-two years, is considered one of the most influential figures of Second Wave feminism. Her first book sold millions of copies, became a cultural phenomenon, and ushered in a whole new way of thinking about work, men, and life. Feisty, fun, and totally frank, Sex and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So Sad Today

    Personal Essays

    by Melissa Broder ...
    "These essays are sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous. They reveal so much about what it is to live in this world, right now." —Roxane Gay, New York Times–bestselling author of Bad FeministFrom acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes a brutally honest collection of essays "at once devastating and delightful . . . as raw as it is funny" ( ... Read more

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  • Fighting on the Home Front

    The enthralling and unputdownable true story of women in World War One and their legacy today

    by Kate Adie ...
    The fascinating and enjoyable account of the lives of women during World War One from bestselling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie.'5 stars are nowhere near enough. A fabulous book in every respect!' - READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A lucid, compelling and highly readable examination of the Great War but from a totally different angle. Highly recommended.' - READER ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • The Female Thing

    Dirt, envy, sex, vulnerability

    by Laura Kipnis ...
    From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century.Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing an injured party and claiming independence. Rather than blaming the usual ... Read more

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  • Click

    When We Knew We Were Feminists

    by J. Courtney Sullivan, Courtney E. Martin ...
    When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a range of women—including Jessica Valenti, Amy Richards, Shelby Knox, Winter Miller, and Jennifer Baumgardner—who share stories about ... Read more

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  • Writing Caste/Writing Gender

    Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonies

    by Sharmila Rege ...
    The women tell it like it is... So riveting is the narration that it is difficult to put down the book until their stories are finished. For a non-fiction academic work this is no small feat.’ — The Hindu Sharmila Rege’s path breaking study of Dalit women’s writings and lives offers a powerful counter-narrative to the mainstream assumptions about the development of feminism in India in the 20th ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Other Powers

    The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

    by Barbara Goldsmith ...
    From the author of Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, a stunning combination of history and biography that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again.This is history at its most vivid, set amid ... Read more

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  • Penny Red

    Notes from the New Age of Dissent

    by Laurie Penny ...
    In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppressive UK government.Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent collects Penny's writings on youth politics, resistance, feminism and culture. Her ... Read more

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  • The New Victorians

    A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order

    by Rene Denfeld ...
    Journalist Rene Denfeld explains why her generation has become alienated from the women's movement, maintaining that the actions of the movement's current leadership have actually encouraged a return to the kind of sexual repression and political powerlessness challenged by feminists in the 1970s. Here she offers a practial battle plan which includes confronting the issues of child care and birth ... Read more

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  • Rape

    The Politics of Consciousness

    by Susan Griffin ...
    A powerful feminist examination of the deeply ingrained roots of rape in our shared cultural valuesRape is the most frequently occurring violent crime in America. In this courageous, controversial, and groundbreaking work, the poet, feminist, and philosopher Susan Griffin examines rape as an inevitable result of a culture that celebrates and rewards aggressive sexual behavior in men, and one in ... Read more

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  • Transnational America

    Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms

    by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes unilateral political power in the world, Grewal analyzes how the concept of “America” functions as ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD