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Product Description: Updated and revised with seven new chapters, a new introduction, and a new resources section, this landmark book is invaluable for women facing a custody battle. It was the first to break the myth that mothers receive preferential treatment over fathers in custody disputes...read more
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9780070107014 | McGraw-Hill, March 1, 1986, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A renowned psychologist examines the historical, cultural, and psychological bases for a mother's custody of her child and the emotional consequences on mother and child when custody is awarded to the father

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9781556529993 | 2 rev upd edition (Lawrence Hill Books, July 1, 2011), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Updated and revised with seven new chapters, a new introduction, and a new resources section, this landmark book is invaluable for women facing a custody battle.
9780156621670 | Reprint edition (Harcourt, April 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A renowned psychologist examines the historical, cultural, and psychological bases for a mother's custody of her child and the emotional consequences on mother and child when custody is awarded to the father

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Product Description: Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, but the jury had little sympathy. Condemned to death on six separate counts, she was executed by lethal injection in 2002...read more
By Phyllis Chesler (foreword by)
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9781593762902 | Soft Skull Pr, March 30, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations.

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Product Description: “Man’s inhumanity to man”--the phrase is all too familiar. But until Phyllis Chesler's now-classic book, a profound silence prevailed about woman’s inhumanity to woman. Women's aggression may not take the same form as men's, but girls and women are indeed aggressive, often indirectly and mainly toward one another...read more
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9781560253518 | Nation Books, February 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Why do contemporary women often have such a hard time getting along with each other, at work, and within the family?

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9781556529467 | Lawrence Hill Books, May 1, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: “Man’s inhumanity to man”--the phrase is all too familiar.
9780452284081 | Reprint edition (Plume, February 1, 2003), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In a groundbreaking study, the author of Women and Madness explores the controversial issue of women's aggression toward one another, both at home and in the workplace, revealing how women whose longing for friendship, approval, and support is thwarted by dislike, mistrust, envy, and competition.

Miscellaneous:

9781569762769 | Lawrence Hill Books, May 1, 2009, cover price $12.95

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A call-to-arms by the author of Women and Madness and The New Anti-Semitism explains how modern feminists are being forced to compromise their beliefs in capitalism, religion, and patriotism in order to retain feminist power, in a critical analysis that urges women to band together in a pro-individualist form of feminism. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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9781403968982 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 5, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A call-to-arms by the author of Women and Madness and The New Anti-Semitism explains how modern feminists are being forced to compromise their beliefs in capitalism, religion, and patriotism in order to retain feminist power, in a critical analysis that urges women to band together in a pro-individualist form of feminism.

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9781403975102 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 31, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A call-to-arms by the author of Women and Madness and The New Anti-Semitism explains how modern feminists are being forced to compromise their beliefs in capitalism, religion, and patriotism in order to retain feminist power, in a critical analysis that urges women to band together in a pro-individualist form of feminism.

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A fully revised and updated edition of a best seller first published in 1972 argues that sex-role stereotypes are used in determining who is mentally ill, and suggests women are punished for independent, creative, or self-assertive behavior. Original.
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9780385026710 | Doubleday, October 1, 1972, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Hardcover.

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9781403968975 | Rev upd edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 5, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A fully revised and updated edition of a best seller first published in 1972 argues that sex-role stereotypes are used in determining who is mentally ill, and suggests women are punished for independent, creative, or self-assertive behavior.
9781568580968 | Reprint edition (Thunder''s Mouth Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Originally published in 1972, Women and Madness was met with great acclaim--and controversy.
9780156982955 | Reprint edition (Harcourt, December 1, 1989), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Argues that sex-role stereotypes are used in determining who is mentally ill, and suggests women are punished for independent, creative, or self-assertive behavior

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Product Description: In this intensely passionate and compelling book, the best-selling feminist and Jewish writer Phyllis Chesler demonstrates how old-fashioned anti-Semitism has become newly fashionable, even politically correct, and how this plague threatens the Jews of the world, America, and Western civilization...read more
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9780787968519 | 1 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, July 24, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Argues that the re-emergence of anti-Jewish hatred, disguised as political correctness, threatens Jews and all of Western civilization, unless this anti-Zionist movement is stopped.

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9780787978037 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, January 11, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this intensely passionate and compelling book, the best-selling feminist and Jewish writer Phyllis Chesler demonstrates how old-fashioned anti-Semitism has become newly fashionable, even politically correct, and how this plague threatens the Jews of the world, America, and Western civilization.

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Documents the legendary grassroots and legal struggle of a determined group of Jewish women from Israel, America, and other parts of the world--known as the Women of the Wall--to win the right to pray together as a group out loud, wear ritual objects, and read from Torah scrolls at Israel's Western Wall, a right extremely limited now.
By Phyllis Chesler (editor) and Rivka Haut (editor)
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9781580231619 | Jewish Lights Pub, December 1, 2002, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Documents the legendary grassroots and legal struggle of a determined group of Jewish women from Israel, America, and other parts of the world--known as the Women of the Wall--to win the right to pray together as a group out loud, wear ritual objects, and read from Torah scrolls at Israel's Western Wall, a right extremely limited now.

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Product Description: Phyllis Chesler's Letters to a Young Feminist is a visionary call to action from a leading feminist revolutionary. Weaving personal experiences into her account of the movement's history, Chesler discusses the fundamentals of feminism, assesses the accomplishments and failures of her generation, and encourages the inheritors of the movement to tackle all that remains to be done...read more
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9781568580937 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Examines the history of the women's movement and the accomplishments of contemporary feminists, and offers suggestions for the next generation of women's rights activists

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9781568581514 | Seal Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Phyllis Chesler's Letters to a Young Feminist is a visionary call to action from a leading feminist revolutionary.

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Chesler writes of her experiences of pregnancy and motherhood and her attempts to understand just what she is looking for in her child
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9781568580951 | Reprint edition (Thunder''s Mouth Pr, May 1, 1998), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Chesler writes of her experiences of pregnancy and motherhood and her attempts to understand just what she is looking for in her child
9780690018356, titled "With Child, a Diary of Motherhood" | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: A leading feminist, Chesler writes openly and candidly of her experiences, at age thirty-seven, of pregnancy and motherhood and her attempts to understand just what she is looking for in the child she has brought into the world
9780425048344 | Berkley Pub Group, April 1, 1981, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: A leading feminist, Chesler writes openly and candidly of her experiences, at age thirty-seven, of pregnancy and motherhood and her attempts to understand just what she is looking for in the child she has brought into the world

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Product Description: Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong...read more
By Phyllis Chesler (editor), Ellen Cole (editor) and Esther D. Rothblum (editor)
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9781560247678 | Routledge, October 1, 1995, cover price $114.00 | About this edition: Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong.

Paperback:

9781560230786 | Haworth Pr Inc, December 1, 1995, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong.

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9781567510393 | Common Courage Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $29.95

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9781567510386 | Common Courage Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $11.95

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Examines male images in art, analyzes the author's memories of men she has known, and discusses sexuality, pornography, and male bonding
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9780156026093 | Harcourt, January 1, 1990, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Examines male images in art, analyzes the author's memories of men she has known, and discusses sexuality, pornography, and male bonding

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The author examines the legal, psychological, and ethical questions raised by the headline-making Baby M surrogacy trial between Mary Beth Whitehead and Bill and Betsy Stern
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9780812917451 | Times Books, May 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author examines the legal, psychological, and ethical questions raised by the headline-making Baby M surrogacy trial between Mary Beth Whitehead and Bill and Betsy Stern

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Examines women's attitudes toward, knowledge of, and experiences with money and economic power in contemporary America, constructing a model of the personal and institutional dimensions of the American woman's economic status
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9780688029906 | William Morrow & Co, February 1, 1976, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Examines women's attitudes toward, knowledge of, and experiences with money and economic power in contemporary America, constructing a model of the personal and institutional dimensions of the American woman's economic status

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