Knowing Women

A study of same-sex passion, desire, and intimacy among working-class women who love women in West Africa.

"Despite the progress of the women's movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. This moving and insightful bestseller, based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, explains"

Knowing Women explores some of the most exciting and new developments in feminist theory, engaging the reader as an active participant in critical debates concerning the status of women as both objects and subjects of knowledge. The book introduces and reappraises key feminist questions concerning sex and gender, biology and the body, sexuality and motherhood. Various psychoanalytical perspectives are critically examined for the light they throw on the social and symbolic constructions of femininity. Later chapters explore theories of the subject and subjectivity, the place of language in the construction of social identities and the relation between discourse, power and knowledge. A concluding chapter focuses on the debate between feminism and post-modernism, stressing the political nature of the feminist project. The debates are presented in a way that will make them accessible to students. Introductions to each chapter lay out the main issues and introduce readings chosen for their clarity and accessibility. Ideal as an introductory textbook in feminism and women's studies, Knowing Women will also appeal to a wide readership interested in current debates in feminist theory.

From the rising star of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and "New York Times"-bestselling author of "All Things at Once" comes a timely and powerful look at women's value in the workplace.

"Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up." (Margaret Atwood)"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." (Dorothy Parker)With a fresh, fun and contemporary design, "Women Know Everything!" will become a perennial gift-book favourite. It features more than 3,000 quotes by women on virtually every subject imaginable: art, business, dating, family, sex, writing and more. Women like Oprah Winfrey, Zadie Smith, Ani DiFranco, Arundhati Roy, Madonna, Frida Kahlo, Angelina Jolie, Ursula LeGuin, Zora Neale Hurston, Sojourner Truth and Mother Teresa share inspiring, smart and funny truths.

Fully reveals the shocking truth! --Daily News * A landmark book completely revised and updated to reveal what men really know about the opposite sex. In a little more than 100 pages, Dr. Alan Francis distills years of research and thousands of interviews to reveal the most comprehensive understanding of men's knowledge and understanding of the opposite sex in Everything Men Know About Women. * Fiercely frank and insightfully funny, Dr. Francis literally spells out everything men know on topics ranging from making friends with women to satisfying women in bed. To quote directly from famed Dr. Francis, men already know, about women and this book will teach them. * That's right, between the pages of this telling tome, readers will find 128 blank pages. Because in reality, what do men really know about women?

Provides a close-up look at five traps that can compromise happiness and hinder a woman's quest for a better life, drawing on the latest research to furnish a set of helpful tools, techniques, and strategies designed to help women accept the past and move toward a happier future of their own choice. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.