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carrie-kabak's picture
Apr.27.2011
HE SAID WHAT? Women Write About Moments When Everything Changed I love you. The meeting ran late. I want a divorce. One little word, one casual lie, one devastating announcement—and our lives are turned upside down forever. In He Said What?, twenty-six gifted women writers share profoundly...
carrie-kabak's picture
Apr.27.2011
Nearly every aging woman has a complicated relationship with her body. For Keeps, an inspirational collection of personal essays from writers on their ever-changing bodies, will resonate with every maturing woman. Editor Victoria Zackheim brings together women with unique voices who have all...
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Mar.04.2011
I love you. The meeting ran late. I want a divorce. One little word, one casual lie, one devastating announcement—and our lives are turned upside down forever. In He Said What?, twenty-six gifted women writers share profoundly personal moments in which a man in their life said something—good or...
gloria-feldt's picture
Jul.19.2010
In No Excuses, feminist icon Gloria Feldt argues that the most confounding problem facing women today isn’t that doors aren’t open, but that not enough women are walking through them. From the boardroom to the bedroom, public office to personal relationships, she asserts that nobody is keeping...
joan-price's picture
Sep.28.2009
Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty is an upbeat, frank, woman-to-woman friendly book that acknowledges the challenges and celebrates the delights of older-life sexuality. Yes, there are challenges to sex after sixty, but there are also creative solutions. There's...
melissa-m-hart's picture
May.16.2009
Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s Southern California, Gringa is the story of a young girl conflicted by two extremes. On the one hand...
ariel-gore's picture
Apr.24.2009
It’s been over a decade since Ariel Gore, in a caffeine-induced brainstorm, invented Hip Mama as her senior project in college. The zine that has grown up alongside Gore’s daughter, has covered subjects from weaning to home schooling with a political edge and a puckish sense of humor. The Essential...
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Apr.24.2009
Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers is the groundbreaking Gen X collection edited by Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender.
ariel-gore's picture
Apr.24.2009
The Mother Trip: Hip Mama's Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood is Ariel's classic on, well, staying sane. Harriet Lerner called it "Brave, wise, and absolutely original."