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  • Women and Madness

    Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly 50 years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this seminal book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print this completely revised and updated edition from 2005 adds to her original research and ... Read more

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  • Woman's Inhumanity to Woman

    Drawing on the most important studies in psychology, human aggression, anthropology, and primatology, and on hundreds of original interviews conducted over a period of more than 20 years, this groundbreaking treatise urges women to look within and to consider other women realistically, ethically, and kindly and to forge bold and compassionate alliances. Without this necessary next step, women will ... Read more

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  • Requiem for a Female Serial Killer

    This psychological crime thriller takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer, a prostitute who murdered seven adult men-a case with which the author was intimately involved. The issues raised by this high-profile criminal case remain unresolved to this day.Women, even prostitutes, have the right to self-defense in theory, but in practice, the story is more complicated.This book will ... Read more

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  • Mothers on Trial

    The Battle for Children and Custody

    Completely updated and revised for the twenty-first century, Mothers on Trial remains the bible for all women facing a custody battle, as well as the lawyers, psychologists, and others who support them. This landmark book was the first to break the false stereotype about mothers getting preferential treatment over fathers when it comes to custody. In this new edition, Chesler shows that, with few ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Feminist

    A timeless guide to feminism for a new generation. In Letters to a Young Feminist, Phyllis Chesler, a pioneering voice in the women's liberation movement, offers invaluable insights and advice to young feminists navigating today's complex world. This book is for anyone seeking to understand the history and relevance of feminism, and to find the courage to challenge societal norms and build a ... Read more

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  • An American Bride in Kabul

    A Memoir

    Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Chesler was now the ... Read more

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  • With Child

    A Diary of Motherhood

    This diary of acclaimed psychologist and radical feminist Phyllis Chesler was a pioneering work when it was first published in 1979, and it still resonates today. It is a look into the second wave of feminism in the 1970s and the changing attitudes towards motherhood and pregnancy at the time. ... Read more

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  • Women of the Wall

    Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site

    Edited by Phyllis Chesler, Rivka Haut ...
    An Inspiration to All Who Struggle for Religious and Gender Equality“Our souls yearn to pray, in peace, in the sacred place, to read from our holy Torah, together with other Jewish women.”—from theIn Israel today, the historic Western Wall, known as the Kotel, a holy site for Jewish people, is under the religious authority of the Orthodox rabbinate. Women have only limited rights to practice ... Read more

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  • Dear Dawn

    Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words

    The chilling autobiography of Aileen Wuornos, the notorious female serial killer who was the subject of an Investigation Discovery special and the Oscar-winning film starring Charlize Theron, MonsterBetween 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, she was condemned to death on six separate counts and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Women of the Wall

    Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site

    "This passionate book documents the legendary grassroots and legal struggle of a determined group of Jewish women from Israel, the United States, and other parts of the world—known as the Women of the Wall—to win the right to pray out loud together as a group, according to Jewish law; wear ritual objects; and read from Torah scrolls at the Western Wall. Eyewitness accounts of physical violence and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Feminist Foremothers in Women's Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health

    Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy, feminist psychology, and women’s mental health as they exist today. The 48 women share their life ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Politically Incorrect Feminist

    Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women

    Narrated by Phyllis Chesler ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    **This program is read by the author.A powerful and revealing memoir about the pioneers of modern-day feminism.**Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1972-1975 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on behalf of economic discrimination, opened rape crisis lines and shelters for battered women, held marches and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD