false 22393 39926 0060512180 9780060512187 170 <![CDATA[The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256164775m/39926.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256164775s/39926.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39926.The_Beauty_Myth_How_Images_of_Beauty_Are_Used_Against_Women 3.88 1533 In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

]]> 22393 3.86 3794 660 1991 503432 1933392797 9781933392790 244 <![CDATA[The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175299487m/503432.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175299487s/503432.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/503432.The_End_of_America_A_Letter_of_Warning_To_A_Young_Patriot 4.03 775 The book cuts across political parties and ideologies and speaks directly to those among us who are concerned about the ever-tightening noose being placed around our liberties.
In this timely call to arms, Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our free America is under assault. She warns us-with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlets-that we have little time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom.
“Recent history has profound lessons for us in the U.S. today about how fascist, totalitarian, and other repressive leaders seize and maintain power, especially in what were once democracies. The secret is that these leaders all tend to take very similar, parallel steps. The Founders of this nation were so deeply familiar with tyranny and the habits and practices of tyrants that they set up our checks and balances precisely out of fear of what is unfolding today. We are seeing these same kinds of tactics now closing down freedoms in America, turning our nation into something that in the near future could be quite other than the open society in which we grew up and learned to love liberty,” states Wolf.
Wolf is taking her message directly to the American people in the most accessible form and as part of a large national campaign to reach out to ordinary Americans about the dangers we face today. This includes a lecture and speaking tour, and being part of the nascent American Freedom Campaign, a grassroots efforts to ensure that presidential candidates pledge to uphold the constitution and protect our liberties from further erosion.
The End of America will shock, enrage, and motivate-spurring us to act, as the Founders would have counted on us to do in a time such as this, as rebels and patriots-to save our liberty and defend our nation.]]> 22393 3.86 3794 660 2007 102359 0385497458 9780385497459 102 <![CDATA[Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171485164m/102359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171485164s/102359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102359.Misconceptions_Truth_Lies_and_the_Unexpected_on_the_Journey_to_Motherhood 3.85 450 The Beauty Myth the fearless Naomi Wolf revolutionized the way we think about beauty. In Misconceptions, she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence, ultrasounds tested her commitment to abortion rights, and the keepers of the OB/GYN establishment lacked compassion. The weeks after her first daughter’s birth taught her how society, employers, and even husbands can manipulate new mothers. She had bewildering post partum depression, but learned that a surprisingly high.percentage of women experience it.
Wolf’s courageous willingness to talk about the unexpected difficulties of childbirth will help every woman become a more knowledgeable planner of her pregnancy and better prepare her for the challenges of balancing a career, freedom, and a growing family. Invaluable in its advice to parents, Misconceptions speaks to anyone connected–personally, medically, or professionally–to a new mother.]]> 22393 3.86 3794 660 2002 622683 0449907643 9780449907641 44 <![CDATA[Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176408645m/622683.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176408645s/622683.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/622683.Promiscuities_The_Secret_Struggle_for_Womanhood 3.68 435 Promiscuities is Naomi Wolf's (author of The Beauty Myth and Fire with Fire) perspective on the confusion surrounding female sexuality. According to Wolf, promiscuous is "a word that holds within it the mixed message girls today are given about sex: 'You're promiscuous if you do anything, but you are a prude if you do nothing.'" Thus, still polarized on the spectrum between virgin and whore, adolescent girls are allowed little information and even fewer healthy outlets for their normal sexual desires. Wolf shatters the illusion that good girls and professional women are not sexual, and boldly embarks on redefining female sexuality outside of men's experience and assumptions. Wolf's own coming of age in the post-sexual revolution of Haight-Ashbury, serves as an evocative tool for revealing the naked and admirable truth of female sexuality. ]]> 22393 3.86 3794 660 1997 3555337 1416590560 9781416590569 29 <![CDATA[Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256164785m/3555337.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256164785s/3555337.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3555337.Give_Me_Liberty_A_Handbook_for_American_Revolutionaries 3.91 118 Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the breathtaking changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation.]]> 22393 3.86 3794 660 2008 494636 0099329611 9780099329619 5 <![CDATA[Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How to Use It]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175216440m/494636.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175216440s/494636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/494636.Fire_with_Fire_The_New_Female_Power_and_How_to_Use_It 3.63 76 22393 3.86 3794 660 1994 102354 074324978X 9780743249782 12 <![CDATA[The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171485160m/102354.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171485160s/102354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102354.The_Treehouse_Eccentric_Wisdom_from_My_Father_on_How_to_Live_Love_and_See 3.44 59 The Treehouse, her most personal book yet, Naomi Wolf outlines her father's lessons in creating lasting success and happiness, and offers inspiration for the artist in all of us.

Drawn from Leonard's lecture notes, the chapters of The Treehouse remind us to "Be Still and Listen," "Use Your Imagination," and "Do Nothing Without Passion," and that "Your Only Wage Will Be Joy" and "Mistakes Are Part of the Draft." This is

a journey of self-discovery in which the creative endeavor is paramount.

The Treehouse is a stirring personal history, a meditation on fathers and daughters, an argument for honoring the creative impulse, and a unique instruction in the art of personal happiness.

]]> 22393 3.86 3794 660 2005 284314 0786716673 9780786716678 9 <![CDATA[Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173406857m/284314.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173406857s/284314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284314.Journalistas_100_Years_of_the_Best_Writing_and_Reporting_by_Women_Journalists 4.10 31 Journalistas feel almost unsettlingly relevant today—the conclusions Emma "Red" Goldman drew in her 1916, "the Social Aspects of Birth Control," Maddy Vegtel's 1930s article about becoming pregnant at forty, and Eleanor Roosevelt's call for greater tolerance after America's race riots in 1943. Many have pushed other limits: Naomi Wolf's Beauty Myth brought feminism to a new generation; Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones caused a media revolution: Ruth Picardie's unflinchingly honest column about living with cancer in 1997 brought a wave of British candor and a host of imitators; and when two iconic women come face to face, we have at one end, Dorothy Parker on Isadora Duncan (1928), and at the other, Julie Burchill on Margaret Thatcher (2004).</div>]]> 22393 3.86 3794 660 2005 5111581 3980492540 9783980492546 0 <![CDATA[Quo vadis, Amerika?: Die Welt nach Bush]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5111581.Quo_vadis_Amerika_Die_Welt_nach_Bush 4.50 2 21880 4.50 2 0 6356 3.87 27666 6157 808214 4.33 3 0 186649 4.67 3 0 165777 3.83 202 47 143011 3.47 15 2 129119 3.52 88 19 80026 4.24 569 190 50363 3.63 116 12 30957 3.79 298 27 22393 3.86 3794 660 9883 3.50 353 58 6499 3.65 492 109 1474921 4.50 2 0 2008 6978351 0701140240 9780701140243 0 <![CDATA[Promiscuities: Cultural History Offemale Sexuality]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6978351-promiscuities 3.00 1 22393 3.86 3794 660 7168531 1400110726 9781400110728 0 <![CDATA[Give Me Liberty]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7168531-give-me-liberty 0.0 0 22393 3.86 3794 660 2008 2595080 3499224992 9783499224997 0 <![CDATA[Große Gefühle, kleine Katastrophen. Geschichten vom ersten Mal.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595080.Gro_e_Gef_hle_kleine_Katastrophen_Geschichten_vom_ersten_Mal_ 0.0 0 22393 3.86 3794 660 23511 3.69 14812 1008 114443 3.51 526 127 122511 3.14 506 88 227152 3.61 54 5 239216 3.47 19 4 300934 3.50 2 2 352228 3.46 41 7 391073 3.23 13 0 436954 4.00 4 0 540755 4.00 2 1 728381 3.75 8 1 762204 0.0 0 0 864368 4.00 1 0 3050657 0.0 0 0 3050658 0.0 0 0 1999 5867868 1934441058 9781934441053 0 <![CDATA[The Inner Compass of Ethics and Excellence (Wired to Connect, 6)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5867868.The_Inner_Compass_of_Ethics_and_Excellence 0.0 0 22393 3.86 3794 660 829 3.81 3121 478 2008 2595082 3426651092 9783426651094 0 <![CDATA[Die Stärke der Frauen. Gegen den falsch verstandenen Feminismus.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595082.Die_St_rke_der_Frauen_Gegen_den_falsch_verstandenen_Feminismus_ 0.0 0 22393 3.86 3794 660 1993 7168530 1400140722 9781400140725 0 <![CDATA[Give Me Liberty]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7168530-give-me-liberty 0.0 0 22393 3.86 3794 660 2008 4122076 039425757X 9780394257570 0 <![CDATA[AT RANDOM NO. 6 FALL 1993 - VOLUME 2 NUMBER 3 [BOOKS AND BOOKPEPOLE FROM RANDOM HOUSE]]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4122076.AT_RANDOM_NO_6_FALL_1993_VOLUME_2_NUMBER_3_BOOKS_AND_BOOKPEPOLE_FROM_RANDOM_HOUSE_ 0.0 0 844216 4.80 5 1 7565 4.01 9030 859 22393 3.86 3794 660 1993