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Africana Woman: Her Story Through Time by Cynthia Jacobs Carter  
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks  
Asian American Biography by Susan B. Gall /Helen Zia  
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi  
Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking by Elizabeth M. Schneider  
Black Interior by Elizabeth Alexander  
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge by Ellis Cose  
But Some of Us Are Brave by Gloria T. Hull (editor), Patricia Bell Scott (editor), Barbara Smith (editor)  
Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by Howard W. French  
Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics by Donna Brazile  
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace by Vandana Shiva  
Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream by Sheryll Cashin  
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser  
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks  
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law by Catharine A. MacKinnon  
Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism by Josephine Donovan  
First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy by Sharon Hanley Disher  
Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform by Sharon Hays  
Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities by David Levithan / Billy Merrell  
Great Women Leaders by Heather Ball  
Heartbreak by Andrea Dworkin  
History of Woman Suffrage - Rare Books on CD by  
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan  
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A Jacobs  
Kalakuta Republic: A Book of Poetry by Chris Abani  
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton  
Never Again?: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism by Abraham Foxman  
Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate by Barbara Boxer, Catherine Whitney, Susan Collins, Barbara Mikulski, Dianne Feinstein  
Nisei Daughter by Monica Itoi Sone  
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein  
Notable Asian Americans by Susan B. Gall / Helen Zia  
Position of Women in Islam: A Progressive View by Mohammad Ali Syed  
Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare and Poverty by Jody Raphael  
Segu by Maryse Conde  
Sex and Social Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum  
Shattered Bonds by Dorothy Roberts  
Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech by Graham J. White/ Shane White  
Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Nan Richardson (Editor), Eddie Adams (Photographer)  
Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism by Medea Benjamin  
Strangers in the Senate: Politics and the New Revolution of Women in America by Barbara Boxer / Nicole Boxer  
Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights: Milestones to Equality by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, et al  
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston  
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg  
Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon  
W Effect: Bush's War on Women by Laura Flanders  
With Billie by Julia Blackburn  
Woman: Her History - Rare Books on CD by  
Women's Lives, Men's Laws by Catharine A. MacKinnon  
World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America by Ruth Rosen  

 

 

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