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Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

by Melinda Chateauvert

Published: 2015-03-10

Paperback: 272 pages

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A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom  Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism...

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Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights

by Molly Smith, Juno Mac

Published: 2018-11-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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How the law harms sex workers—and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective t...

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Lean Out

by Dawn Foster

Published: 2016-01-19

Paperback: 87 pages

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Sheryl Sandberg’s business advice book, Lean In, was heralded as a defining moment in attitudes to women in business. But for all its commercial success, it proposed a model of feminism that was individualistic and unthreatening to capital.In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed j...

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It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

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When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? 'Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . courageous' ObserverIn 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the 'traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty...

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West of Eden: An American Place

by Jean Stein

Published: 2017-02-21

Paperback: 352 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic EdieJean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar”...

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One for the Money (1) (A Stephanie Plum Novel)

by Janet Evanovich

Published: 2018-07-31

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

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Discover where it all began—#1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich’s first “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who “comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air” (...

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Speaking of Summer: A Novel

by Kalisha Buckhanon

Published: 2019-07-30

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"Speaking of Summer gives us a powerful song about what it means to survive as a woman in America.” ?Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing "Raise[s] universal questions about mental illness, racism, and love . . . Fiercely astute."?Tayari Jones, O, Th...

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The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised

by Michael B. Katz

Published: 2013-10-31

Paperback: 368 pages

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First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will...

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When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor

by William Julius Wilson

Published: 1997-07-29

Paperback: 322 pages

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Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and wom...

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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

by Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton

Published: 1993

Paperback: 312 pages

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This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twen...