| 1. The Yellow Wall-Paper | 
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By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
September 01, 1996
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A young family goes to a country home in a small American town for the summer. The husband is a physician who hopes that being in the country will help his wife over her currently unhappy state. The wife is probably suffering from what we would call postpartum depression. She often feels tired, and her physician husband's cure for this is to isolate her in the attic of their rented... more
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| 2. The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science (Women Writing Science) |
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By: Julie Des Jardins
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
March 01, 2010
Every day at the bookstore where I work I have to stare at the cover with a photograph of Francis Crick. I do not enjoy it. If you do not know who Francis Crick is then you should read The Madame Curie Complex. Francis Crick is only a small part (ultimately in the history of science a big part) of one of the many stories of men getting credit for women's work and great women scientists who were undermined... more
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| 3. The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind | 
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By: Safiya Bukhari
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
February 01, 2010
Featuring a preface by Safiya's daughter and an afterword by death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, & Fighting for Those Left Behind is the personal testimony of Safiya Bukhari, who has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of the oppressed. born in the Bronx, Safiya joined the Black Panther Party in... more
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| 4. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq |
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By: Riverbend
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
April 01, 2005
I came across this wonderful book by accident. I forgot that in this day and age, we could still glimpse into a world other than the one media feeds to the public. This book is a collection of blogs from a young woman living with her family in Baghdad. It's an eyewitness account of how it is to be living in the center of bombing when the American forces (along with other unfortunate nations) begin... more
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| 5. The Wide, Wide World |
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By: Susan Warner
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
January 01, 1993
thats for sending it even thought it took longer than expected, but then again ive never used fast shipping before. so i guess that would take one week and 1/2... more
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| 6. Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets) | 
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By: Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
January 01, 1993
this is the book that clarified my thoughts around gender and medical professions in the United States. I'm now in school for midwifery, in no small part due to Ehrenreich's analysis in this book. totally inspiring and gives you the pieces to understand why our "healthcare system" is so sexist, among other problems... more
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| 7. Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered | 
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By: Ruth Kluger
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
November 01, 2001
Reading *Still Alive* was like having a conversation with someone I like and admire. A one-sided conversation, one might say, since Kluger was doing all the talking, and I was contributing nothing but my interpretation of her words. But Kluger answered many of the questions I would have asked, had she been sitting across from me. "What was it like after you escaped, when you were thrown in with Germans... more
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| 8. Touba and the Meaning of Night (Women Writing the Middle East) |
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By: Shahrnush Parsipur
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
January 01, 2008
This book is for anyone interested in Iranian history, culture, or women. Taking place throughout the 1900's in Iran, the book follows the life of a woman who wishes deep in her heart to seek truth, but is caught in a patriarchal society that forces her to follow a life taking care of family, household, and a small business. Parsipur, the author, is incredibly adept at demonstrating the oppression... more
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| 9. Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran |
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By: Shahrnush Parsipur
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
March 01, 2004
Dear fellow readers,
I have become a personal friend of the author, Shahrnush Parsipur recently as fortunately we both reside in Northern California now. We have common interests as I am an Anglo American who lived in Iran before,during and four months after the revolution and really didn't want to leave. I have some understanding of the complexity of Iranian society. There have been a... more
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| 10. Not So Quiet...: Stepdaughters of War (Women & Peace) |
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By: Helen Zenna Smith
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
January 01, 1993
I found this book to be absolutely riveting. I have always been interested in female involvement in World War I, and this book tells in a very accessible way what it was like to be in the "Forbidden Zone" during this truly horrific war. It reminds me of Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun in that we see the VAD's struggling to keep their sanity in terrible circumstances. Well worth reading... more
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