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1	Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide more books like this by Nicholas D Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn add to wishlist Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. see all copies from $14.98! new only from $14.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam more books like this by Ayaan Hirsi Ali add to wishlist A world-renowned activist and feminist pulls no punches in her efforts to reform Islam in this international bestseller, available for the first time in English. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Breadwinner more books like this by Deborah Ellis add to wishlist In this novel set in war-torn Afghanistan, an 11-year-old girl named Parvana takes desperate measures to help her family survive. Because Afghanistan's Taliban regime has ruled that only men may work or earn money--and that women may not even venture out of their homes unless they are accompanied by a male relative--Parvana takes the extreme step ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.52! \| signed copies \| SVS
4	On Liberty and Other Essays more books like this by John Stuart Mill, John Gray (Editor) add to wishlist ON LIBERTY, written in 1859, is Mill's formulation for a liberal, democratic, and egalitarian state. It's influence on contemporary politics can not be understated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.93! \| SVS
5	Vindication of the Rights of Woman more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft add to wishlist Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	On Liberty and the Subjection of Women more books like this by John Stuart Mill add to wishlist A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work, "On Liberty" argues lucidly that any democracy risks becoming a tyranny ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| SVS
7	J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings more books like this by John Stuart Mill, Stefan Collini (Editor), Raymond Geuss (Editor) add to wishlist On Liberty has become celebrated as the most powerful defence of the freedom of the individual, and is now widely regarded as the most important theoretical foundation for Liberalism as a political creed. The Subjection of Women is a powerful indictment of the political, social, and economic position of women. This edition brings together these ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
8	No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women more books like this by Estelle B Freedman add to wishlist Drawing examples from a variety of countries and cultures, from the past as well as from the present, this inspiring narrative examines the historical forces that have fueled the feminist movement over the past 200 years. see all copies from $4.93! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective more books like this by Shawn Meghan Burn add to wishlist This text examines the role that culture plays in women's past oppression and future equality, but argues that the most important issue facing women - their lower status and power - is universal. After a thorough explanation of why women lack equal power, Burn suggests what we might do to change this condition. This activist perspective offers the ... see all copies from $7.07! new only from $38.03! \| SVS
10	The 51% Minority: How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do about It more books like this by Lis Wiehl add to wishlist "Lis Wiehl tells us where the law protects us, and where it is letting us down. And as a bonus she gives us the tools to make change happen! If you care about where we are going, you have to read this book." -Rita Cosby, Emmy Award-winning TV host Women make up 51% of the American population, yet still aren't treated equally to men in areas that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.38! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change? more books like this by Gerald N Rosenberg add to wishlist In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald N. Rosenberg's critics - not to mention his supporters - have spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward in "The Hollow Hope". With this substantially expanded second edition of his landmark work, Rosenberg himself steps ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.93! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Subjection of Women more books like this by John Stuart Mill add to wishlist In THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN, written in 1869, Mill addresses individual rights in a democratic state, particularly as they affected women at the time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory more books like this by Linda Nicholson (Editor) add to wishlist This volume collects many of the major essays of feminst theory of the past 40 years. The essays included here are those which have made key contributions to feminist theory during this period and which have generated extensive discussion. The collection situates particular debates within their historical contexts and provides a sense of why ... see all copies from $10.35! new only from $45.75! \| first editions
14 view cover	Women Who Make the World Worse: And How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports more books like this by Kate O'Beirne add to wishlist A top conservative writer takes on America's leading feminists, confronting them with hard evidence of how women like them have done more harm than good over the last four decades. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Peace and Power: Creative Leadership for Building Community more books like this by Peggy L Chinn add to wishlist see all copies from $13.14! new only from $13.14! \| SVS
16 view cover	Women and the National Experience: Primary Sources in American History more books like this by Ellen Skinner add to wishlist This brief, affordable primary source reader contains more than one hundred different sources that describe the history of women in the United States. Women and the National Experience, 2/e, is part of the Primary Sources in American History Series, which provides students with inexpensive collections of thought-provoking primary sources. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| SVS
17 view cover	Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 more books like this by Alice Echols, Ellen Willis (Foreword by) add to wishlist "A fine introduction to the bold, contentious, complicated women who categorically refused to be good little girls, and thereby changed the way our culture defines male-female relations".--Voice Literary Supplement. see all copies from $3.38! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Grounding of Modern Feminism more books like this by Professor Nancy F Cott add to wishlist Examines changes in the women's movement in the twenty years following women's suffrage, and describes the complex issues of that period. see all copies from $3.82! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Equal: Women Reshape American Law more books like this by Fred Strebeigh add to wishlist Strebeigh tells the dramatic, untold story of how women throughout the 1960s and beyond battled blatant inequities in America's legal system in order to make the law equal and just for all. see all copies from $14.71! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Seneca Falls Inheritance more books like this by Miriam Grace Monfredo add to wishlist Amidst the bustle of the Women's Rights Convention of 1848, free-thinking town librarian Glynis Tryon is called upon by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to help organize the historic event. But when a body turns up in the canal, Glynis puts history on hold and uses her talent for detection to catch a murderer. Martin's. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Oxford World's Classics more books like this by John Stuart Mill, John Gray (Editor) add to wishlist Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir more books like this by Alice S Rossi (Editor) add to wishlist "Here are, as Alice Rossi claims in her well-written preface, 'the essential works of feminism, ' published over a period of 200 years. Her introductions to each section are informative and written with nonpolemical grace." -- Doris Grumbach, New Republic see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.98! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	In the Name of Honor: A Memoir more books like this by Mukhtar Mai, Linda Coverdale (Translator), Marie-Therese Cuny add to wishlist This rousing account is the exclusive, authorized memoir of international rights icon Mukhtar Mai, whose courageous struggle for justice earned her acclaim as "the Rosa Parks of Pakistan." see all copies from $4.45! new only from $5.61! \| first editions
24 view cover	Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement more books like this by Rosalyn Baxandall (Editor), Linda Perlman Gordon (Editor) add to wishlist This rich collection of original materials provides a lens through which to view women's liberation, the most influential social movement in the history of the United States.. Today's women are so comfortable in their authority that they often forget to credit the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s for paving the wayfrom the ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $3.07! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton more books like this by Vivian Gornick add to wishlist In these essays on the 19th-century American feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, journalist Vivian Gornick places the great radical thinker and orator in her own historical context, assessing Stanton's importance in the struggle for universal rights. Gornick's title comes from the title of Stanton's famous speech on solitude and the self. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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