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  • Learning to Drive (Movie Tie-in Edition)

    And Other Life Stories

    by Katha Pollitt ...
    Learning to Drive • Now a major motion picture starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben KingsleyCelebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection of essays drawn from the author’s own life.With deep feeling and sharp insight, Pollitt writes about the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

    by Mary Wollstonecraft ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Presented here in a stunning hardcover edition with an introduction by Barbara Taylor, this first great manifesto of women’s rights, published in 1792 and an immediate best seller, made Mary Wollstonecraft the toast of radical circles and the target of reactionary ones.Writing just after the French and American revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft firmly established the demand for women’s emancipation ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Room of One's Own

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series series Essentials Classics
    Virginia Woolf’s beloved classic, with a new forewordA Room of One’s Own is an American classic that has been inspiring readers since its initial publication in 1929. Based on two lectures that Woolf delivered at the University of Cambridge, this collection of extended essays highlights the importance of education and independence for aspiring writers. Woolf calls for the inclusion of more female ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Mary Olivier

    A Life

    by May Sinclair ...
    Originally published alongside Ulysses in the pages of the legendary Little Review, Mary Olivier: A Life is an intimate, lacerating account of the ties between daughter and mother, a book of transfixing images and troubling moral intelligence that confronts the exigencies and ambiguities of freedom and responsibility with empathy and power. May Sinclair’s finest novel stands comparison with the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Radicals, Volume 2: Memoir, Essays, and Oratory

    Audacious Writings by American Women, 1830-1930

    Edited by Meredith Stabel, Zachary Turpin ...
    Emily Dickinson on sex, desire, and “the chapter . . . in the night.” Emma Goldman against the tyranny of marriage. Ida B. Wells against lynching. Anna Julia Cooper on Black American womanhood. Frances Willard on riding a bicycle. Perhaps the first of its kind, Radicals is a two-volume collection of writings by American women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with special attention ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Understanding Inequality

    The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

    by Barbara A. Arrighi, Judi Addelston, Derrick Bell, Karen Blumenthal, Judith Butler, Jane Jerome Camhi, William J. Chamblis, Marc Cooper, Sally Ann Davies-Netzley, Simone de Beauvoir, G William Domhoff, Susan J. Douglas, Wright Dziech, Susan Estrich, Lawrence Otis Graham, Billie Michelle Fine, Judith Lorber, Arturo Madrid, Julia Marusza, Fatema Mernissi, John Stuart Mill, Timothy Nonn, Katha Pollitt, Mary F. Rogers, Kathleen Rowe, Leslie Marmon Silko, Laureen Snider, Haya Stier, Deborah Tannen, Marta Tienda, Stephen Worchel, Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Walda Katz-Fishman, Michael Kimmel, Charles Lemert, Diane Reay, Edward H. Thompson,Jr., Lois Weis ...
    As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Pro

    Reclaiming Abortion Rights

    by Katha Pollitt ...
    A New York Times Book Review Notable BookFrom noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights presents a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good. As the Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide, this urgent, controversial book reframes abortion as a ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Who is Hillary Clinton? Two Decades of Answers from the Left

    by Introduction by Katha Pollitt, Edited by Richard Kreitner ...
    Who is Hillary Clinton? is a fascinating time-lapse depiction of the leading Democratic presidential candidate as seen from the left. But it is also much more than that. A carefully-edited anthology of The Nation’s coverage of Clinton’s career, it’s a rigorous and painstaking study of one our most enigmatic public figures. It is a history of our time, and a must-read for the 2016 election season ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Subject to Debate

    Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture

    by Katha Pollitt ...
    Subject to Debate, Katha Pollitt's column in The Nation, has offered readers clear-eyed yet provocative observations on women, politics, and culture for more than seven years. Bringing together eighty-eight of her most astute essays on hot-button topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school vouchers, this selection displays the full range of her indefatigable wit and brilliance. Her ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Virginity or Death!

    And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time

    by Katha Pollitt ...
    “As this book, which is greater than the sum of its brilliant parts makes clear, Katha Pollitt, who is famously a feminist, is also a humorist, a moralist and a most hilarious, wise, and incisive observer.”–Victor Navasky, author of A Matter of OpinionThrough presidential administrations Democratic and Republican, Katha Pollitt has observed and exposed the inconsistencies and illogic of those who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Mind-Body Problem

    Poems

    by Katha Pollitt ...
    In The Mind-Body Problem, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life–her own and others’–and turns them into brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Pollitt’s imagination is stirred by conflict and juxtaposition, by the contrast (but also the connection) between logic and feeling, between the real and the transcendent, between our outer and inner ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Green Girl

    A Novel

    by Kate Zambreno ...
    With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched portrait of a young woman navigating the spectrum between anomie and epiphany.First published in 2011 in a small press edition, Green Girl was named one ... Read more

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