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Book Club

The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business that Works for You
by Adelaide Lancaster & Amy Abrams
Website  | Look for the review coming soon in our Winter 2011 newsletter!

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Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room
by Merle Hoffman
Website

Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself
by Rachel Lloyd
About the book | GEMS website

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Sand Queen: A Novel
by Helen Benedict
About the book

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Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
by Rebecca Traister
About the book

Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV
by Jennifer Pozner
Website

No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power
by Gloria Feldt
Website

Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists
by Courtney Martin
Website

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Bitch is the New Black: A Memoir
by Helena Andrews
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At the End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, Resistance -- A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
by Danielle L. McGuire
Website

 

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The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women
by Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, and Rhonda Joy McClean
NOW-NYC Event with all authors | NOW-NYC Event with author Elaine | Website
Read more about the authors in the NOW-NYC Fall 2010 Newsletter!

 

 

 

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Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality 
by Gail Dines
Website | NOW-NYC Event

 
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Sexism in America: Alive, Well and Ruining Our Future
by Barbara Berg
NOW-NYC Event | Website | Read the review in NOW-NYC's Winter 2009 Newsletter!

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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to Present
by Gail Collins
Website

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The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
by Deborah L. Rhode
Website | Read the Review from our newsletter: whatNOW!

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Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work is Done
by Susan J. Douglas
Website

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Ambition Is Not a Dirty Word
by Dr. Debra Condren
NOW-NYC Event | Website

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 Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists
 Edited by Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan
 Website 

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Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
by Michael Kimmel
Website

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Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
by Helen Thorpe
Website | Read the book review in NOW-NYC's Fall 2010 Newsletter!








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Flow: The Cultural Story of Mensturation
by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim
Website | Read the book review in NOW-NYC's Spring 2010 Newsletter!







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Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York
by Jane LaTour
Website | Read the book review in NOW-NYC's Winter 2009 Newsletter!

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Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World
by Linda Tarr-Whelan
Website | NOW-NYC event with author
Read the book review in NOW-NYC's Winter 2009 Newsletter!

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Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Women's Lives Aren't Getting Any Easier--And How We Can Make Real Progress For Ourselves and Our Daughters
by Carolyn Maloney
Website | NOW-NYC Event with author

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Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America
by Jeanne Flavin
Website | Read the book review in NOW-NYC's Spring 2009 Newsletter!

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