Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
10 best books like Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement (Sarah Erdreich): Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men's Violence and Women's Lives, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, Alice Paul: Claiming Power, Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex, The Riot Grrrl Collection, Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America, A Little F'd Up: Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word, The V Book: A Doctor's Guide to Complete Vulvovaginal Health, Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy
| Author | Dee L.R. Graham |
| ISBN | 0814730582 |
Have you wondered: Why women are more sympathetic than men toward O. J. Simpson? Why women were no more supportive of the Equal Rights Amendment than men? Why women are no more likely than men to support a female political candidate? Why women are no more likely than men to embrace feminism--a movement...
| Author | Chuck Thompson |
| ISBN | 1451616651 |
Dubbed “savagely funny” (The New York Times) and “wickedly entertaining” (San Francisco Chronicle), acclaimed travel writer Chuck Thompson embarks on a controversial road trip to prove that both sides might be better off if the South were to secede once and for all.“He’s a travel writer...
| Author | J.D. Zahniser |
| ISBN | 0199958424 |
Alice Paul redirected the course of American political history. Raised by Quaker parents in Moorestown, New Jersey, she would become a passionate and outspoken leader of the woman suffrage movement. In 1913, she reinvigorated the American campaign for a constitutional suffrage amendment and,...
| Author | Doris Stevens |
| ISBN | 0939165252 |
A firsthand account of the National Woman’s Party, which organized and fought a fierce battle for passage of the 19th Amendment. The suffragists endured hunger strikes, forced feedings, and jail terms. First written in 1920 by Doris Stevens, this version was edited by Carol O’Hare. Includes...
| Author | Cristina Page |
| ISBN | 0465054900 |
this book made me really angry. like gripping the book so hard that my knuckles turned red angry. so i think page accomplished her goal. it's a look at the measures that the anti-choice movement goes to to prevent access to contraceptives. of course, there is a talk on abortion but it's main focus is birth...
| Author | Lisa Darms |
| ISBN | 1558618236 |
For the past two decades, young women (and men) have found their way to feminism through Riot Grrrl. Against the backdrop of the culture wars and before the rise of the Internet or desktop publishing, the zine and music culture of the Riot Grrrl movement empowered young women across the country to speak...
| Author | Andrea Tone |
| ISBN | 0809038161 |
From thriving black market to big business, the commercialization of birth control in the United States
In Devices and Desires, Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to buy, produce, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change....
Young women today have a bad reputation, and for good reason: They’re sexting their classmates, they spend more time on FaceBook than they do in class, and their appetite for material possessions and reality TV is matched only by their overwhelming apathy about important social and political issues....
| Author | Elizabeth G. Stewart |
| ISBN | 0553381148 |
The Groundbreaking Guide Every Woman Needs
With The V Book, women will learn everything they need to know about the basics of vulvovaginal—or “V”–health, an essential yet often overlooked area of women’s health. Dr. Elizabeth G. Stewart, the nation’s foremost expert in...
Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy
| Author | Shmuley Boteach |
| ISBN | 0385494661 |
In Kosher Sex, Rabbi Boteach pioneers a revolutionary approach to sex, marriage, and personal relationships, drawing on traditional Jewish wisdom. Using his experiences counseling individuals and couples, the author breaks down sexual taboos and openly, yet respectfully, discusses the meanings,...
| Author | Laura Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0226424219 |
"In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, most women determined to get abortions had to subject themselves to the power of illegal, unregulated abortionists...But a Chicago woman who happened to stumble across a secret organization code-named 'Jane' had an alternative....
Crow After Roe: How "Separate But Equal" Has Become the New Standard in Women's Health and How We Can Change That
| Author | Jessica Mason Pieklo |
| ISBN | 1935439790 |
2013 will mark the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, one of the most divisive rulings ever to shape American politics. In recent years, attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade have reached a fevered pitch. Since 2010 hundreds of bills banning or creating roadblocks to abortion access, contraception, and...
| Author | Jennifer Baumgardner |
| ISBN | 1933354593 |
“In her role as author and activist, Jennifer Baumgardner has permanently changed the way people think about feminism . . . and will shape the next hundred years of politics and culture.”—The Commonwealth Club of California, hailing Baumgardner as one of Six Visionaries for the Twenty-First...
| Author | Stephen Singular |
| ISBN | 0312625057 |
The New York Times bestselling author offers an in-depth account of the life and death of a controversial doctor, the debate that sparked his assassination, and the place where two Americas collide On May 31, 2009, Scott Roeder walked into a Wichita church, drew a pistol, and shot Dr. George Tiller...
| Author | David S. Cohen |
| ISBN | 0199377553 |
Abortion is a legal, common, and safe medical procedure that one in three American women will undergo. Yet ever since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, anti-abortion forces have tried nearly every tactic to eliminate it. Legislative and judicial developments dominate the news, but a troubling and all-too-common...
| Author | Heather Hansen |
| ISBN | 9781594858 |
Anyone who has stood beneath a redwood, neck craned to see its top rising far above; or who has heard ghostly whispers of residents long-past among the burnt-red cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde; or who has climbed the stairs to gaze out from the Statue of Liberty’s crown, would agree that our National...
| Author | Meghan Mccarthy |
| ISBN | 1442422629 |
A riveting picture book biography of Betty Skelton, aviation and auto racing pioneer, from award-winning author/illustrator Megan McCarthy.
In the 1930s most girls were happy playing with dolls. But one girl, Betty Skelton, liked playing with airplanes, watching them fly around outside,...
Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law
| Author | Alison Bass |
| ISBN | 1611686342 |
Alison Bass weaves the true stories of sex workers with the latest research on prostitution into a gripping journalistic account of how women (and some men) navigate a culture that routinely accepts the implicit exchange of sex for money, status, or even a good meal, but imposes heavy penalties on those...
| Author | Carol Dyhouse |
| ISBN | 1780324936 |
Horror, scandal and moral panic! The popular fascination with the moral decline of young women has permeated society for over a hundred years. Be it flappers, beat girls, dolly birds or ladettes, public outrage at girls' perceived permissiveness has been a mass-media staple with each changing generation....
| Author | Angela Shelton |
| ISBN | 0696239418 |
Years after seeing the documentary Searching For Angela Shelton, I now have a much better understanding of the filmmaker's life before, during, and since she made the movie. The book is a nonlinear memoir that includes scenes of her father sexually and physically abusing her & her siblings. It...
| Author | عنبرة سلام الخالدي |
| ISBN | 0745333567 |
Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist is the first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab feminist. At a time when women are playing a leading role in the Arab Spring, this book brings to life an earlier period of social turmoil and women's activism through one remarkable...
| Author | Lauren Pressley |
| ISBN | 0980200482 |
Librarians tend to love their work and consider librarianship a great career. This book is by a talented librarian who wants to introduce people, especially people searching for the right career, to the profession. It answers such questions as: What do librarians do? What are the different types of...
| Author | Paul Starr |
| ISBN | 0300171099 |
In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became...
Mental Floss Presents Be Amazing: Glow in the Dark, Control the Weather, Perform Your Own Surgery, Get Out of Jury Duty, Identify a Witch, Colonize a Nation, ... Girl, Make a Zombie, Start Your Own Religion
| Author | Maggie Koerth-Baker |
| ISBN | 0061251488 |
Be amazing
Who says you can't? It's time to get off the couch and take your life to the next level.
Step one: stand on the shoulders of geniuses
What good are the world's greatest geniuses if you can't muddy their shoulder pads and use their accomplishments as a step stool? mental_floss...
| Author | Maria San Filippo |
| ISBN | 0253008859 |
Often disguised in public discourse by terms like "gay," "homoerotic," "homosocial," or "queer," bisexuality is strangely absent from queer studies and virtually untreated in film and media criticism. Maria San Filippo aims to explore the central role bisexuality plays in contemporary screen...
