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Breakups Suck

It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken

There's no doubt about it - breakups suck. But in the first few hours or days or weeks that follow, there's one important truth you need to recognize: Some things can't and shouldn't be fixed, especially that loser who dumped you or forced you to dump him.

It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken

Skin care

Trish McEvoy has created one of today's most successful skin care and makeup brands by relying on her instincts and the feedback of thousands of women who attend her workshops.

Power of Makeup

Fashion as Communication

What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm Barnard introduces fashion and clothing as ways of communicating and challenging class, gender, sexual and social identities.

Fashion as Communication

Pregnant Bodies

They must make mature decisions before they are out of school, take on adult responsibilities before they have left home, and care for their children before they have completed their own childhood. One of today's greatest social issues, pregnant teens walk the boundary between childhood and adulthood, no longer able to reside in one world, and unprepared for the next.

Pregnant Bodies

Mother-Daughter Wisdom

The bonds are laid down in the womb, passed from generation to generation; they continue throughout life, shaping our physical, mental, and spiritual well being. By understanding these mother-daughter bonds, we can rebuild our own health, whatever our age, and insure a healthy future for our daughters. This is the extraordinary scope and promise of Dr. Christiane Northrup's challenging new book.

Mother-Daughter Wisdom

Traveling Mercies

A chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny. Anne Lamott claims the best two prayers she knows are Help me, help me, help me and Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Traveling Mercies

Unexpected Blessings

From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a blockbuster novel featuring a new generation of remarkable women in the Harte family. Linnet, Tessa, India and Evan: four remarkable women.

Unexpected Blessings

The Mommy Myth

Susan Douglas first took on the media's misrepresentation of women in her funny, scathing social commentary Where the Girls Are. Now, Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels, have turned a sardonic (but never jaundiced) eye toward the cult of the new momism: a trend in American culture that is causing women to feel that only through the perfection of motherhood can true contentment be found.

The Mommy Myth

Josephine Bonaparte

This evocative biography tells the extraordinary story of Josephine Bonaparte. One of the most potent icons of female sexuality, Josephine has largely been reduced to an empty cipher, the butt of one of the oldest jokes around.

Josephine Bonaparte

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Are Men Necessary?

Four decades after the sexual revolution, nothing has worked out the way it was supposed to. The sexes are circling each other as uneasily and comically as ever, from the bedroom to the boardroom to the Situation Room. New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for saucy and incisive commentary about the roundelay of Bill, Monica, Hillary, and Ken Starr digs into the Y and X files, exploring the mysteries and muddles of sexual combat in America.

Are Men Necessary?

Feminism in Our Time

From Simone de Beauvoir to Susan Faludi, from the ERA to Anita Hill, a historically informed sourcebook that defines the intellectual and political underpinnings of contemporary feminism.

Feminism in Our Time

Women's America

Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its sixth edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent events in American women's history.

Women's America

How Women Changed America

As recently as 1960 few women worked outside the home, married women could not borrow money in their own names, schools imposed strict quotas on female applicants, and sexual harassment did not exist as a legal concept.

How Women Changed America

Feminism and Method

Nancy A. Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over objectivity, the paradox of discourse, the dilemma of standpoint, and the challenges of activist research.

Feminism and Method

Feminism and Suffrage

In the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patterns have focused renewed attention on an issue general perceived as nineteenth-century.

Feminism and Suffrage

Manifesta

Young women today live by feminism's goals. Yet feminism itself is undeniably at a crossroads. Girl power feminists appear to be obsessed with personal empowerment at the expense of politics, while political institutions such as Ms. and now are so battle weary they've lost their ability to speak to a new generation.

Manifesta

African feminism

African feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large, concerned with issues such as female control over reproduction or variation and choice within human sexuality, nor with debates about essentialism, the female body, or the discourse of patriarchy. The feminism that is slowly emerging in Africa is distinctly heterosexual, pronatal, and concerned with "bread, butter, and power" issues.

African Feminism

Marie Curie

Marie Curie: While her work won her two Noble Prizes and transformed our world, it did not liberate her from the prejudices of either the male-dominated scientific community or society.

Marie Curie: Obsessive Genius

Lipstick Jihad

Azadeh Moaveni was born in Palo Alto, California, into the lap of an Iranian diaspora community awash in nostalgia and longing for an Iran many thousands of miles away. As far back as she can remember she felt at odds with her tangled identity.

Lipstick Jihad