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  • Men and Menstruation

    A Social Transaction

    by David Linton ...
    Series Book 8 - Visual Communication
    What’s with the men in menstruation? This is the question Men in Menstruation: A Social Transaction sets out to answer. From earliest times men have been puzzled and perplexed by the menstrual cycle and have constructed elaborate taboos, superstitions, and practices attempting to explain why women have a periodical emission of a fluid that resembles blood but is not the result of an injury or ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Argonauts

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and familyMaggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Book of Jezebel

    An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things

    Edited by Anna Holmes ...
    From Jezebel.com, the popular website for women, comes a must-read encyclopedic guide to pop culture, feminism, fashion, sex, and much more.Within months of Jezebel's May 2007 appearance on the new media scene, fans of the blog began referring to themselves as "Jezzies" in comment threads and organizing reader meet-ups in cities all over the world. By 2008, the devotion of the self-appointed ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Genetic Function and Nature of LIterature

    by R. D. Hood ...
    Literature is found in many primitive and modern cultures, and it does have group survival advantages, and so, according to sociobiological theory, the evidence is strong that literature has a genetic base. ... Read more

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  • Pregnant Butch

    Nine Long Months Spent in Drag

    by A. K. Summers ...
    First pregnancy can be a fraught, uncomfortable experience for any woman, but for resolutely butch lesbian Teek Thomasson, it is exceptionally challenging.Teek identifies as a masculine woman in a world bent on associating pregnancy with a cult of uber-femininity. Teek wonders, Can butches even get pregnant?”Of course, as she and her pragmatic femme girlfriend Vee discover, they can. But what ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Been There, Done That

    A Rousing History of Sex

    A rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to Hildegard von Bingen’s treatise on the female orgasm, demystifying plenty of urban legends along the way.Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical treatments for erectile dysfunction included goat testicle ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Flow

    The Cultural Story of Menstruation

    "A normally taboo topic claims attention with the surprising—and sometimes horrifying—history of cultural reactions to menstruation." — Publishers WeeklyIn this hip, hilarious and truly eye-opening cultural history, menstruation is talked about as never before. Flow spans its fascinating, occasionally wacky and sometimes downright scary story: from mikvahs (ritual cleansing baths) to menopause, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Get Me Out

    A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank

    "[An] engrossing survey of the history of childbirth." —Stephen Lowman, Washington PostMaking and having babies—what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver—have mystified women and men throughout human history. The insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science. Here is an entertaining must-read—an enlightening ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Don't Call Me Princess

    Essays on Girls, Women, Sex and Life

    The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays—funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.”Named one of the “40 women who changed the media business in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Art of Waiting

    On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood

    by Belle Boggs ...
    A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertilityWhen Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and a spot at the intersection of "highbrow" and "brilliant" in New York magazine's "Approval Matrix."In that heartbreaking ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Femininity

    With intelligence and humor, Susan Brownmiller explores the history and unspoken rules of the burden of "feminine perfection"What is femininity? How is it measured? What are its demands? How are women meant to dress, look, think, act, feel, and be, according to the mores of society?Susan Brownmiller offers a witty and often pointed critique of the concept of femininity in contemporary culture and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cunt (20th Anniversary Edition)

    A Declaration of Independence

    by Inga Muscio ...
    Series series Live Girls
    The twentieth-anniversary edition of the original women’s empowerment manifestoAn ancient title of respect for women, the word ‘cunt’ long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim ‘cunt’ as a positive and powerful force in their lives.In Cunt, she explores, with candidness and humor, such traditional ... Read more

    $12.99 USD