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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Officeby Lois P. Frankel
Warner Business 2004; US$ 9.99If you work nonstop without a break...worry about offending others and back down too easily...explain too much when asked for information....or "poll" your friends and colleagues before making a decision, chances are you have been bypassed for promotions and ignored when you expressed your ideas. Although you may not be aware of it, girlish behaviors such as these are sabotaging your career! Dr. Lois Frankel reveals why some women roar ahead in their careers while others stagnate. She's spotted a unique set of behaviors--101 in all--that women learn in girlhood that sabotage them as adults. Now, in this groudbreaking guide, she helps you eliminate these unconscious mistakes that could be holding you back--and offers invaluable coaching... more...
The Journal of Helene Berrby Helene Berr
Weinstein Publishing 2008; US$ 17.99Hélène Berr is being called the Anne Frank of France. Like Anne Frank, she was a young Jewish woman living in Europe during the Nazi occupation who kept a diary. Unlike her younger counterpart, however, she was French and did not live in hiding. A gifted young student at the Sorbonne and daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Berr lived with her parents in their Parisian home until March 1944, when they were arrested and sent to their deaths in concentration camps.   more...
In the Land of Invisible Womenby Qanta A. Ahmed
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008; US$ 14.99The decisions that change your life are often the most impulsive ones. more...
Emmeline Pankhurstby June Purvis
Routledge 2003; US$ 32.95An absorbing biography, the first for seventy years, of one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. more...
Reading Lolita in Tehranby Azar Nafisi
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 11.99We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about... more...
Promises I Can Keepby Kathryn Edin
University of California Press 2004; US$ 12.95Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? Over a span of five years, sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how they think about marriage and family. Promises I Can Keep offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the... more...
Smashedby Koren Zailckas
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 12.99Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. Eye- opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas?s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics?yet?but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment. With one stiff sip of Southern Comfort at the age of fourteen, Zailckas is initiated into the world of drinking. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. In high school, her experimentation will lead to a stomach pumping. In college, her excess will give way to a pattern of self-poisoning that will grow more destructive each year. At age twenty-two,... more...
Women in the Khrushchev Eraby Melanie Ilic; Susan E. Reid; Lynne Attwood
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 115.00Exploring diverse subjects - housing, space flight, women workers, cinema, religion and consumption - this volume places the analysis of specific events or issues within a broader discussion of economic, political, ideological and international developments to provide a full analysis of the era. more...
The Beauty Mythby Naomi Wolf
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99The bestselling classic that redefined our view od the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty." more...
Gender & Sexualityby Chris Beasley
Sage Publications Ltd. 2005; US$ 53.00Draws together all the important strands of gender analysis in a timely and impressive overview that is invaluable to students and academics taking courses on gender and feminist theory, sexuality and masculinity. more...









