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This list is a small sample of suggested reading from my personal library. Links from titles and covers will bring you to Amazon.com. DHW Reviews are links to pages of my comments, review, discussion, etc. Links from authors and publishers lead to their respective web sites. This list includes texts about sexuality, being sex-positive, being a woman, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, personal improvement, deviance and letter writing. I have a number of books on loan right now, so I don't have the information to add them.

The List - By Category • By Author • By Title

Art, Literature, Music & Poetry • Biography/Autobiography • History
Inspiration/Motivation • Philosophy • Regional • Sapphic Epistolary
Sex • Sociology/Antrhopology • Women's Studies/Empowerment

Design Museum: 20^th C Design
Author: Catherine McDermott
Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd.
ISBN 1858687101

Bawdy Ballads and Lusty Lyrics
Edited by: John Henry Johnson
Publisher: Maxwel Droke
©1935

The Book of Vices: A Collection of Classic Immoral Tales
Edited by: Robert J. Hutchinson
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN 1-57322-006-X

Comtemporary American Monologues for Women
Editor: Todd London
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 1-55936-133-6

Erotica
Author: Bernhardt J. Hurwood
Publisher: Paperback Library
©1965

Erotica Universalis
Author: Gilles Neret
Publisher: Benedikt Taschen
ISBN 3-828-8963-6

Plaisir D'Amour
Author: Anee-Marie Villefranche
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
© 1982

Sex & Subterfuge: Women Writers to 1850
Author: Eva Figes
Publisher: Persea Books
ISBN 0-89255-129-1

Story of O
Author: Pauline Réage
Translated from French by Sabine d'Estrée
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN 0-345-30111-0

Girl, Interrupted
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN 0-679-74604-8

Grace Beats Karma
Author: Neal Cassady
Publisher: Blast Books
ISBN 0922233071

My War: A Love Story in Letters and Drawings
Author: Tracy Sugarman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN 0-375-50513-X

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir
Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 0-395-68093-X

The Shaw-Terry Letters
Edited by: Christopher St. John
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
©1931

Truth & Beauty
Author: Ann Patchett
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN 0-06-057214-0

Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Author: John Kobler
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
© 1973

The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America
Author: Debran Rowland, Esq.
Publisher: Sphinx Publishing
ISBN 1-5724-8368-7

Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender
Author: Vivian R. Pollak
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN 0-8014-9370-6

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN 0-06-017586-9

Eccentric Lives, Pecurliar Notions: True Tales of Flat-Earthers, Head Drillers, Ufologists, Frantic Lovers, Welsh Druids, Finders of Lost Tribes, & Other Obsessed Individuals
Author: John Michell
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 1-57912-228-0

History Laid Bare: Love, Sex, and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warran G. Harding
Author: Richard Zacks
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN 0-06-016953-2

A History of Orgies
Author: Burgo Partridge
Publisher: Bonanza Books (mine is a 1960 hardcover copy)
(Reprint ISBN 1853754919 Prion Books 2002)

A History of Sexual Customs
Translated from Eine Weitgeshichte der Sexualität by Alexander Mayce
Author: Richard Lewinsohn
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
(A Hardcover by Studio ISBN 0091850177 is available)

The Nympho and Other Maniacs
Author: Irving Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
(Reprint ISBN 0671207962)

Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History
Author: Paul F. Boller, Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN 0-19-503763-4

They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Mis-Leading Attributions
Authors: Paul F. Boller, John George
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN 0195055411

Wild Women in the White House
Author: Autumn Stephens
Publisher: Conari Press
ISBN 1-57324-069-9

Chicken Soup for the Soul (Series)
Written & Compiled by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Publisher: Health Communications Inc.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit
ISBN 1-55874-262-X
A 2^nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul
ISBN 1-55874-331-6
A 3^rd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul
ISBN 1-55874-379-0
A 4^th Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul
ISBN 1-55874-459-2
Chicken Soup for the Women's Soul
ISBN 1-55874-415-0
Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul
ISBN 1-55874-769-9
Chicken Soup for the Women's Soul At Work
ISBN 1-55874-424-X
Chicken Soup for the Soul Cookbook
ISBN 1-55874-354-5

How to Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
My copy is a 1964 edition ISBN 0-671-35500-7

It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
Author: Robert Fulghum
Publisher: Ivy Books
ISBN 0-8041-0582-0

Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
Author: Robert Fulghum
Publisher: Villard Books
ISBN 0-679-40103-2

Out of My Later Years
Author: Albert Einstein
My copy is a first edition ©1950 by the Philosophical Library
Reprints Available: Gramercy ISBN 0517093804

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures
Notes & Selections by Joel Porte
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN 0940450151

The Te of Piglet
Author: Benjamin Hoff
Publisher: Dutton
ISBN 0-525-93496-0

The Tao of Pooh
Author: Benjamin Hoff
Publisher: Viking Press
ISBN 0140067477
Currently On Loan

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Publisher: Perennial Classics
ISBN 0-06-095832-4

Long Trail Guide
Managing Editor: Sylvia Plumb
Publisher: The Green Mountain Club
ISBN 1-888021-01-2
I highly recommend purchasing this directly from The Green Mountain Club

Between Us: A Legacy of Lesbian Love Letters
Edited by: Kay Turner
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN 0-8118-1442-4

Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend
Author: Janet Flanner
Edited by: Natalia Danesi Murray
Publisher: Random House
ISBN 0-394-52954-5

Dear Juliette: Letters if May Sarton to Juliette Huxley
Edited by: Susan Sherman
Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company
ISBN 0-393-04733-4
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
Edited by: Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell Leaska
Publisher: Clies Press
ISBN 1-57344-136-8

The Maimie Papers
Historical Editor: Ruth Rosen
Textual Editor: Sue Davidson
Publisher: The Feminist Press
ISBN 0-912670-48-7 (This is an older version than currently available)

Moutain Summers: Tales of Hiking and Exploration in the White Mountains from 1878 to 1886 as Seen Through the Eyes of Women
Edited By: Peter Rowan and June Hammond Rowan
Publisher: Gulfside Press
ISBN 0-9648801-0-5
This text is on loan from a friend's library

Private Pages: Diaries of American Women 1830s - 1970s
Edited by: Penelope Franklin
Publisher: Ballentine Books
ISBN 0685137961

Woman to Woman: Letters to Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Friends
Anthology by Michelle Lovric
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 0-8362-6836-9

52 Saturday Nights
Author: Joan Elizabeth Lloyd
Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN 0-7394-0820-8

The Erotic Life of theAmerican Wife
Author: Natalie Gittelson
Publisher: Delacorte Press
©1972

Extraordinary Sex Now
Author: Dr. Sandra R. Scantling
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN 0767905911

Group Sex: An Eyewitness Report on the American Way of Swinging
Author: Gilbert D. Bartell, Ph.D.
Publisher: Signet/New American Library
© October 1971 First Printing

The Group Sex Tapes
Authors: Herbert F. Margolis & Paul M. Rubenstien
Publisher: Paperback Library
© 1972 First Printing

Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible"
Author: Linda Williams
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN 0-520-06652-9

Marriage and its Alternatives
Author: Lucile Duberman
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
©1974

Open Marriage
Author: Nena & George O'Neill
Publisher: M. Evans & Company (mine is original 1972 hardcover copy)
(Reprint ISBN 087131438X M. Evans & Company)

Playing Around: Women and Extramarital Sex
Author: Linda Wolfe
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Inc
Note: The original ISBN was 0-688-00290-0 but that has since been assigned to another book. This text is now available from BackInPrint.com
My copy is the original ©1975 Linda Wolfe

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us
Author: Felice Newman
Publisher: Clies Press
ISBN 1-57344-088-4

13^th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
(America's 13^th Generation Born 1961-1981)
Authors: Neil Howe & Bill Strauss

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Author: Neil Postman
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN 0-14-009438-5

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Author: Charles Mackay, LL. D.
Publisher: Noonday
My copy is the paperback 19^th printing from 1972
(Reprint ISBN 0471133124)

The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
Author: Shere Hite
Publisher: Macmillan
(Reprint ISBN 1583225692)

The Intimate Circle: The Sexual Dynamics of Family Life
Authors: Miriam & Otto Ehrenberg, PhDs
Publisher: Fireside
ISBN 0-671-62854-2

The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior
Authors: Samuel S. Janus, PhD and Cynthia L. Janus, MD
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISBN 0-471-52540-5
(This is the ISBN for the Hardcover)

Masters & Johnson on Sex and Human Loving
Authors: William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, Robert C. Kolodny
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (now Time Warner Books)
ISBN 0-316-54998-3

The Other Side: Perspectives on Deviance
Author: Howard S. Becker
Publisher: Macmillan
©1964

Pink Samurai: Love Marriage & Sex in Contemporary Japan
Author: Nicholas Bornoff
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN 0-671-74266-3

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender & Sexuality
Edited by: Carol Queen & Lawrence Schimel
Publisher: Clies Press
ISBN 1-57344-074-4

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
Authors: Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, Paul H. Gebhard
Publisher: Pocket Books
2^nd Printing April 1966

Where the Girls Are
Author: Susan J. Douglas
Publisher: Random House
ISBN 0-06-057214-0

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

The Dangerous Sex: The Myth of Feminine Evil
Author: Hoffman R. Hays
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition ©1964 (Frequently cited - hard to find)

The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership
Author: Sally Helgesen
Publisher: Currency Paperback
ISBN 0-385-41911-2

In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution
(Advance Uncorrected Galley Proof)
Author: Susan Brownmiller
Publisher: The Dial Press
ISBN 0-385-31486-8

In The Garden of Desire: The Intimate World of Women's Sexual Fantasies
Authors: Wendy Maltz & Suzie Boss
Publisher: Broadway Press
ISBN 0-553-06770-2

Lesbian & Bisexual Identities: Constructing Communities, Constructing Selves
Author: Kristin G. Esterberg
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN 1-56639-510-0

A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America
Author: Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN 0-446-38511-5

Mechina Ex Dea: Feminist Perspectives on Technology
Edited By: Joan Rothschild
Publisher: Pergamon Press
ISBN 0-08-029404-9

My Mother Myself: The Daughter's Search for Identity
Author: Nancy Friday
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN 0-440-06006-0

Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of a Sex-Positive Culture
Author: Carol Queen
Publisher: Clies Press
ISBN 1-57344-166-X

Sex, Art, and American Culture
Author: Camille Paglia
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN 0-679-74101-1

Sexual Ecstasy and the Divine
Author: Yasmine Galnorn
Publisher: The Crossing Press
ISBN 1-58091-113-7

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Author: Camille Paglia
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN 0-679-73579-8

Strong Women Stay Young
Author: Mirian E. Nelson, Ph. D.
Publisher: Bantam Trade Paperback
ISBN 0-553-38077-X

Surpassing the Love of Men
Author: Lillian Faderman
Publisher: Perennial
ISBN 0-688-13330-4


Vamps & Tramps
Author: Camille Paglia
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN 0-679-75120-3