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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to eras...
Emma Watson
Sep 09, 2017Also recommended by
Gretchen RubinPink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pinkall shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and Im not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the jou...
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Sep 09, 2017The Handmaid's Tale
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Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaids Tale: an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction (New York Times).The Handmaids Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was...
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Apr 17, 2017Also recommended by
Jenn ImThe Constant Princess
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Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from the internationally bestselling author, Philippa Gregory, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon.We think of Katherine of Aragon as the barren wife of a notorious king; but behind this legacy lies a fascinating story.Katherine of Aragon is born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, to parents who are ...
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Mar 08, 2017Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller shows how women's vitality can be restored through what she calls "psych...
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Feb 27, 2017A landmark in women's empowerment--as relevant as ever in the age of #MeToo--that honors female sexuality in all its complexityIt's been more than twenty years since Eve Ensler's international sensation The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V-Day, the radical, global grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls. This special edition fe...
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Dec 15, 2016Mom & Me & Mom
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For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence absent during much of Angelou’s early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their ...
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Alice WalkerThe Complete Persepolis
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Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir.Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; ...
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May 16, 2016Also recommended by
Daniel Goleman#1 National BestsellerFrom two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our eras most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the ext...
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Apr 16, 2016How to Be a Woman
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Baksidestext: Det har aldrig varit lättare att vara kvinna. Vi har rösträtt och p-piller och vi har inte blivit brända som häxor sedan 1700-talet. Men det återstår några små frågor ...Varför måste vi ta bort allt hår på kroppen? Varför är bh:n så obekväm? Och varför frågar alla när man ska skaffa barn?Boken börjar på Caitlin Morans bedrövliga 13-år...
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Mar 21, 2016Rookie Yearbook Four
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"Stories and inspiring visuals for girls with old souls." --Entertainment Weekly Rookiemag.com is a website created by and for young women to make the best of the beauty, pain and awkwardness of being a teenager. When it becomes tough to appreciate such things, we have good plain fun and visual pleasure. When youre sick of having to be happy all th...
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Nov 18, 2015A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Torch by Cheryl Strayed
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Magus by John Fowles
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
Quiet by Susan Cain
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón