A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
10 best books like A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue (Wendy Shalit): African Myths of Origin, Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century, Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!), America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation, Memoirs of a Bookbat, A Single Voice, The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life, Angry Women, Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature ... America (or at least the Republican Party), Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140449450 |
Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From impassioned descriptions of animal-creators...
Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
| Author | Betsy Israel |
| ISBN | 0380976498 |
In this lively and colorful book of popular history, journalist Betsy Israel shines a light on the old stereotypes that have stigmatized single women for years and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to...
Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!)
| Author | Carol Platt Liebau |
| ISBN | 1599956837 |
A magazine (Cosmo GIRL!) aimed at 10 year olds should NOT be telling girls what jeans to wear to make their 10 year old butts look hot. Nor do I think 9 year old girls need to wear thongs. This is pretty much where I end my agreement with the author. While she makes some valid points on the horrifying sexualization...
| Author | Elaine Tyler May |
| ISBN | 0465011527 |
In 1960, the FDA approved the contraceptive commonly known as “the pill.” Advocates, developers, and manufacturers believed that the convenient new drug would put an end to unwanted pregnancy, ensure happy marriages, and even eradicate poverty. But as renowned historian Elaine Tyler May reveals...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0152012591 |
Harper Jessup is an avid reader, and when her parents become “migrants for God” she must keep her books secret. As Harper grows older and realizes how valuable reading is to her, she comes to understand that her parents’ radical efforts in favor of educational censorship are related to a quest...
| Author | Kristen McMain Oaks |
| ISBN | 1590388593 |
"Being alone is never easy, but being single in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints is a unique challenge," writes Kristen M. Oaks, wife of Elder Dallin H. Oaks. Whether they are nevermarried, divorced, or widowed, singles can often feel discounted and discouraged in a family- focused community....
From the celebrated author of The Dance of Anger comes an extraordinary book about mothering and how it transforms us -- and all our relationships -- inside and out. Written from her dual perspective as a psychologist and a mother, Lerner brings us deeply personal tales that run the gamut from the hilarious...
| Author | V. Vale |
| ISBN | 0940642247 |
DIAMANDA GALAS: The original nature of woman's voice has always been tied to witches and the shamanistic experience--the witch as transvestite/transsexual having the power of both male and female.
LYDIA LUNCH: They're killing too much of the earth and not enough of the people! Another reversal...
| Author | Rod Dreher |
| ISBN | 1400050642 |
Well, I did it. I finally read Crunchy Cons. I'd been delaying this for a while, not because I don't appreciate Dreher's work (I am a faithful follower of his blog) but because I felt that I knew the book already. Among the people I run with, Crunchy Cons has approached the level of semi-holy writ. I resisted...
Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
| Author | Bobbi S. Low |
| ISBN | 0691089752 |
Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the...
| Author | Hemant Mehta |
| ISBN | 1400073472 |
Unique insights from an atheist's Sunday-morning odyssey.
When Hemant Mehta was a teenager he stopped believing in God, but he never lost his interest in religion. Mehta is “the eBay atheist,” the nonbeliever who auctioned off the opportunity for the winning bidder to send him to church....
Unhooked Generation: The Truth About Why We're Still Single
| Author | Jillian Straus |
| ISBN | 1401301320 |
"If every man and woman under 40 who is not in a happy, committed relationship reads Jillian Straus's shocking, heartbreaking, and persuasive exploration of love among the Unhooked Generation, far fewer romances will end in tears. This book will give readers the aha! of recognition they have been...
Do you sometimes wonder if your little efforts could possibly make any difference at all? Consider a simple example from nature.
Honey is “one of the foods that includes all the substances— enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water—necessary to sustain life,” writes Elder M. Russell...
Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both
| Author | Laura Sessions Stepp |
| ISBN | 1594489386 |
An eye-opening examination of the hookup culture, seen through the personal experiences of high school-and college-age women who confront the hard lessons of dating, love, and sex. We're living in an increasingly sexualized world, and it's the young-particularly young women-who must deal with...
Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality
| Author | Deborah L. Tolman |
| ISBN | 0674018567 |
Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't be a slut. These are the cultural messages that barrage teenage girls. In movies and magazines, in music and advice columns, girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone else's desire--but virtually never as someone with acceptable sexual...
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
| Author | Danielle Crittenden |
| ISBN | 0684859599 |
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us. To put things simply: If women today were happy, "Ally McBeal" would not be such a huge TV hit a television phenomenon that not only provokes endless discussion nationwide but also has the distinction of mention in a Time Magazine cover story addressing the state of...
Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
| Author | Pamela Paul |
| ISBN | 0805077456 |
"Strips porn of its culture-war claptrap . . . Pornified may stand as a Kinsey Report for our time."--San Francisco Chronicle
Porn in America is everywhere--not just in cybersex and Playboy but in popular video games, advice columns, and reality television shows, and on the bestseller lists....
Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
| Author | Miriam Grossman |
| ISBN | 1595230254 |
How the PC agenda on college campuses is endangering millions of students
Radical social agendas have taken over campus health and counseling, and it’s making students sick. Dr Anonymous should know: she’s treated over 2000 students at a prestigious university, and seen first hand...
Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity
| Author | Lauren F. Winner |
| ISBN | 1587431971 |
Sex Splashed across magazine covers, billboards, and computer screens-sex is casual, aggressive, and absolutely everywhere. And everybody's doing it, right? In Real Sex, heralded young author Lauren F. Winner speaks candidly to Christians about the difficulty—and the importance—of sexual...
The Privilege Of Being A Woman
| Author | Alice von Hildebrand |
Women historically have been denigrated as lower than men or viewed as privileged. Dr. Alice von Hildebrand characterizes the difference between such views as based on whether man's vision is secularistic or steeped in the supernatural. She shows that feminism's attempts to gain equality with men...
The Catholic Girl's Survival Guide for the Single Years: The Nuts and Bolts of Staying Sane and Happy While Waiting for Mr. Right
Finding a spouse has never been easy. But, it’s also never been quite so hard, especially for good Catholic girls intent on having strong Catholic marriages to nice Catholic boys.
So what are all those good Catholic girls to do? How do they navigate the increasingly long (and usually trying)...
| Author | Edith Schaeffer |
| ISBN | 0801083656 |
I loved this book! Mrs. Schaeffer’s writing style is vivid and poignant. I was immediately drawn into the very scenes she described, watching their family dynamics unfold before me. She captures the essence of family life and the purpose of family in a way I’ve never contemplated before. Each chapter...
America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty
President George W. Bush says that, In our free society, people have the right to choose how they live their lives. But our government and the Religious Right are successfully censoring what you read, hear, and see; limiting your access to contraception; legislating good moral values; and brainwashing...
Style on a Shoestring: Develop Your Cents of Style and Look Like a Million Without Spending a Fortune
| Author | Andy Paige |
| ISBN | 0071492844 |
Bag the bargains and glam it up--go from frumpy to fabulous style without wounding your wallet!
Everyone knows a woman who turns heads with her captivating style. Her clothes fit her body perfectly, her use of color is compelling, her shoes are to die for, and her accessories make her whole outfit...
| Author | Elizabeth Abbott |
| ISBN | 0306810417 |
Celibacy is a worldwide practice that is often adopted, rarely discussed. Now, in Elizabeth Abbott's fascinating and wide-ranging history, it is examined in all its various forms: shaping religious lives, conditioning athletes and shamans, surfacing in classical poetry and camp literature,...
