Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
By: Kate Bornstein
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to …
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1. The Million Dollar Mermaid
By: Esther Williams , Digby Diehl
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
During Hollywood's heyday, big studios battled over the next box-office attraction. While Gene Kell… read more
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- nonfiction
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2. The Glass Eye: A Memoir
By: Jeannie Vanasco
3.95
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
The night before her father dies, eighteen-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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- memoir
- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
4. Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein
By: Jean Sasson
3.00
Format: 508 pages,
Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
5. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
By: Kate Bornstein
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to … read more
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- memoir
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
6. An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
By: Lillian Hellman , Wendy Wasserstein
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
"[France] may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant."-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
"As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain."-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
"I found that Dottie's middle age, old age, made rock of much that had been fluid, and eccentricities once charming became too strange for safety or comfort."-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
"Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good."-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)
7. Appetites: Why Women Want
By: Caroline Knapp
4.41
Format: None pages,
"Where are the lines between satisfaction and excess, between restraint and indulgence, between ple… read more
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8. Speaking Truth to Power
By: Anita Hill
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Paperback
After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private … read more
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9. The Ugly Daughter
By: Julia Legian , Dawn Burke
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
The Ugly Daughter is a thrilling memoir, the gripping true story of a young girl who witnessed horr… read more
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- memoir
10. Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22
By: MariNaomi
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine… read more
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11. Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage
By: None
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Berkeley peace activist Sophia Raday never imagined she would fall in love with an Oakland police o… read more
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12. By Myself
By: Lauren Bacall
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The classic first autobiography of one of Hollywood's classic actresses, reissued to coincide with … read more
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13. The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst
By: Marion Davies
4.32
Format: 480 pages,
The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of Amer… read more
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14. Knee Deep in Paradise
By: None
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
The star of the popular ABC-TV series Grace Under Fire recounts her childhood in the South as the d… read more
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15. Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge
By: Valerie Bertinelli
3.64
Format: None pages,
A humorous and highly personal tale of a continuing search for answers to life's big questions, an … read more
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16. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind
By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon
4.29
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
By: Anne Michaud
4.29
Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more
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- nonfiction
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
18. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov
4.30
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more
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"#metooasachild"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
"We can be beacons of light"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
"Unconditional Love conquers all!"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love
19. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
20. Dreaming Me: An African-American Woman's Buddhist Journey
By: Janice Dean Willis
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An American Buddhist scholar recalls her incredible journey from an impoverished, segregated mining… read more
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- memoir
21. The Places Left Unfilled
By: M.C. Cauley
4.09
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
My dressed up corpse and this secret; those were the two things I knew for certain I'd take to my g… read more
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- memoir
