Avon Books, October 1990. Trade Paperback. In this landmark study, sociologist Arlie Hochschild takes us into the homes of two-career parents to observe what really goes on at the end of the "work day." Overwhelmingly, she discovers, it's the working mother who takes on the second shift. Hochschild finds that.....

Reaktion Books, December 2008. Trade Paperback. The Origin of the World is a revealing, intimate, and ultimately liberating study of female sexuality at its heart: the vagina. Working from the assumption that sex is pleasurable and fulfilling insofar as its participants fully understand how it works, sexologist Jelto Drenth gives.....

Ballantine Books, April 1991. Paperback. First page (reviews) torn out; some underlining. First page (reviews) torn out; some underlining. "The most stimulating and thought-provoking book on India in a long time..Bumiller has made India new and immediate again." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD In a chronicle rich in diversity, detail.....

Seal Press, January 2020. Hardcover. What would happen if we believed women? A groundbreaking anthology offers a potent rallying cry and theory of change Harvey Weinstein. Brett Kavanaugh. Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump. The most infamous abusers in modern American history are being outed as women speak up to publicly expose.....

Knopf, October 1996. Hardcover. In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual.....

Harper Perennial, October 2008. Paperback. For several years, Wally Lamb, the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, has run a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only maximum-security prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to face their.....

Little, Brown and Company, October 2009. Hardcover. Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People). When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women had to get.....

Mariner Books, April 1982. Paperback. In a rich blend of memoir and meditation, Abbott focuses her graceful and witty attention on mothers and daughters of the South. Theirs is a world of red dirt and backbreaking chores and roof-raising revival meetings - a far cry from the magnolias and mint.....

Harper Perennial, August 2014. Trade Paperback. "Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there." -- Sheila Heti, author of How Should a......

HarperOne, October 1991. Paperback. An urban Californian vividly describes her sojourn with the Amish that changed her outlook and values and healed her fragmented life--complemented with her evocative drawings of Amish life, artifacts, and designs.

SUNY Press, March 1999. Hardcover. A unique memoir that interweaves poetry, narrative, meditation, and social history, A Spiritual Life explores the complex facets of a Jewish woman's spiritual coming-of-age, capturing the emotional and spiritual reality of contemporary Jews as well as religious seekers of all types. From the experiences of.....

Vintage, June 1994. Paperback. Beginning with the trailblazing works of Simone de Beauvoir, Doris Lessing, and Betty Friedan, this profound volume charts the development of the women's movement to the present day, with statements by Anita Hill and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Includes samples from classic works by Kate Millett, Adrienne.....

Penguin Books, January 1991. Paperback.