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Nothing Sacred

Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror

By Betsy Reed and Katha Pollitt


Long before the White House took notice of the Taliban's brutal treatment of Afghan women, feminists were sounding an alarm about the rise of religious fundamentalism throughout the world and its deadly consequences for women. Yet women's voices have been conspicuously absent from the debate over the new war on terror. Nothing Sacred breaks this silence.

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The Motherhood Manifesto

What America's Moms Want--And What to Do About It

By Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner


The Motherhood Manifesto is a call to arms for working moms and a blueprint for radical change in the attitudes and policies that define parenting and work in the United States.

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Black Women's Lives

Stories of Power and Pain

By Kristal Brent Zook


This book offers poignant accounts of the lives of African-American women, illuminating their diverse social roles and personal destinies.

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Woman's Inhumanity to Woman


By Phyllis Chesler


We are all familiar with the phrase "man's inhumanity to man." Until now, a profound silence has prevailed about woman's inhumanity to woman. This groundbreaking, lucid book breaks that silence.

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Deborah Stone's Book Tour

July 7 - November 2 | Across the United States
Deborah Stone, a Nation Books author, recently published her fourth book, The Samaritan's Dilemma. Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect calls it "a brilliant and persuasive statement of the case for organized compassion—not out of sentimentality but for the viability of society and our own self regard as a decent people." Listen to her on the radio and get a copy of the book signed at a bookstore on Stone's book tour. Find the schedule here.

August 25 - 28
Jeremy Scahill covers DNC for Democracy Now!
(Democracy Now!)
Watch or listen to Institute Fellow and Nation Books author Jeremy Scahill grill lawmakers on everything from private contractors in Iraq to Afghanistan policy at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. For more information on what times the show airs and when to hear it on the radio in your city, go to the Democracy Now! website. MORE

September 13
2008 ELECTION: What's Really at Stake?
(Cooper Union Auditorium, 30 Cooper Square, NYC)
Come listen to Institute Fellows Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill (also a Nation Books author of Blackwater) speak at a benefit for The Indypendent newspaper at Cooper Union Auditorium in New York City. Additional panelists to be announced; meet the speakers at a special pre-event reception. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit indypendent.org or call (212)-221-0521. MORE