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Getting Our Fair Share Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men–and What To Do About It By Evelyn Murphy with E. J. Graff
Reviewed by Alice Kessler-Harris

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Interview The Tax on Being Female: Media critic Jennifer L. Pozner talks with Evelyn Murphy and
E.J. Graff

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Stories From The Big House A World Apart: Women, Prison and Life Behind Bars By Cristina Rathbone
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated By Nell Bernstein
Reviewed by Jean Trounstine

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Reconfiguring The World Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis By Mary Felstiner
All in My Head: An Epic Quest To Cure An Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, And Only Slightly Enlightening HEADACHE By Paula Kamen
My Body Politic By Simi Linton
Reviewed by Debra Spark

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Of The People, By The People Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty By Annalise Orleck
Reviewed by Rebecca Johnson

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Photography Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons By Florence Ladd

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Essay Books Matter By Jean Hardisty

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Following The Money Women and the U.S. Budget: Where the Money Goes and What You Can Do About It By Jane Midgley
Reviewed by Randy Albelda

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Obituary Octavia E. Butler By Susanna Sturgis

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Poetry “For Johnny, My Sick Dog” “Tuning Our Guitars” By Laura White

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Field Notes Fiction White Spirit By Paule Constant, translated by Betsy Wing
Midnight at the Dragon Café By Judy Fong Bates
Torch By Cheryl Strayed
Reviewed by Trish Crapo

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An Acrobat Of The Imagination Monologue of a Dog By Wislawa Szymborska
Reviewed by Claire Keyes

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Essay Yaoi 101: Girls Love “Boys’ Love” By Cathy Camper

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Strangers To Themselves The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai
Reviewed by Mandira Sen

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The Right Woman Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade By Donald T. Critchlow
Reviewed by Marie Shear

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On My Bookshelf By E.J. Graff