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2. "Full Exposure: Opening Up to Your Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression"
by Susie Bright
In previous books such as "The Sexual State of the Union," Susie Bright has told us about the way things are, and while she continues that mission in "Full Exposure," she also presents an inspiring vision of the way things could be. This is far more than a self-help book; it's a blueprint for cultural revolution, focused on the liberation of erotic expression and, as she puts it, "the creativity it demands, the challenges of sexual candor, and the rewards of coming clean about desire." The personal is always political, goes the adage, but whether she's making readers smile with a reminiscence of her first orgasm or evoking our concern over a bomb threat at one of her college lectures, Bright reminds us that the personal is always personal as well. She also includes a 17-step "sexual manifesto" aimed at enabling readers to reclaim their erotic identities and express desire on their own terms. Very few people are writing about sexuality as honestly and as well as Susie Bright--if you care at all about the subject, you owe it to yourself to read "Full Exposure." Read more

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3. "Apples and Oranges: My Journey Through Sexual Identity"
by Jan Clausen
When longtime lesbian activist and poet Jan Clausen left her lover of 12 years for a man, she was exiled, as she puts it, "from the Garden of Dykedom." Her social circle, her reputation, her writing career--all hinged on her public identity as a lesbian. Clausen casts her dilemma not in personal but in social terms, remarking at one point that people want to know "which version of me is real." In this elegant, sharply focused memoir, she recalls her early sexual life with men, her absorption in radical politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and her gradual cultivation of "protolesbian sentiments." As her feminist poetry gained notice, Clausen found "the promise of inclusion in a tiny, woman-only avant-garde more enticing than membership in an undifferentiated throng." Although she presents this book as an argument against the either/or model of sexuality, it is more an elegy for that lost sense of inclusion in a beleaguered minority. A thought-provoking and seductive work. Read more

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4. "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man"
by Susan Faludi
American men are angry and discontented, argues Susan Faludi, because their sense of what it is to be a man has been destroyed by everything from corporate downsizing and the shrinking military of the post cold war era to the increase in local sports teams leaving town. Whether she's interviewing the teenage male members of Southern California's infamous Spur Posse (who collected "points" for every female they had sex with), Cleveland fans shaken by the departure of the Browns football team, militia movement activists, or Sylvester Stallone, Faludi offers a fascinating slice of male American life "under siege" at the end of the 20th century, demonstrating that the crises of identity that spurred feminist revolution are not unique to women. Read more

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5. "The Whole Woman"
by Germaine Greer
For women born in the immediate postwar period, there were the years BG and AG-- "before Greer" and "after Greer." It's all too easy to underestimate its influence, but the fact is that in 1970 every self-respecting woman on the Left owned a copy of "The Female Eunuch." Thirty years later, Germaine Greer is ready to get angry again. In "The Whole Woman," she analyzes, among other issues, the invasive ways in which the health industry persuades women to have their bodies and reproductive systems "managed." Greer lays out the facts about the high failure rate and devastating side effects of in vitro fertilization and the incongruence between the "success" of breast implants in achieving the "perfect" mammary to please men and the continuing failures in detecting and treating increasingly prevalent breast cancer. Greer's polemic has the confident virtuosity of wit and maturity. Celebrating women's successes, "The Whole Woman" is a more positive book than "The Female Eunuch." Her unique combination of outrageous humor and assertiveness continues to lead the way forward for women who want to take control of their lives. Read more

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HONORABLE MENTION: 1999 also saw the publication of "Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew," a biography by Christine Wallace.

6. "The BUST Guide to the New Girl Order"
by Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stoller
This funky, fabulous, neofeminist manifesto collects the best of BUST ("the magazine for women with something to get off their chests"), including thoughtful articles, personal essays, and racy rants about anything from abortion to the lameness of the Lifetime television network. Debbie Stoller and Marcelle Karp address "that shared set of female experiences that includes Barbies and blowjobs, sexism and shoplifting, Vogue and vaginas" with an in- your-face, grrrl power attitude that alternately taunts, encourages, and calls readers to battle. As the editors warn, "Wake up and smell the lipgloss, ladies: the New Girl Order has arrived." Read more

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7. "Women"
by Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag
Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie Leibovitz for "Women" stands on its own. Together, these "photographs of people with nothing more in common than that they are women (and living in America at the end of the twentieth century), all--well almost all--fully clothed," writes Susan Sontag in the book's preface, form "an anthology of destinies and disabilities and new possibilities." Leibovitz turns her lens on a wide range of ordinary and extraordinary female subjects: coal miners, socialites, first ladies, artists, domestic-violence victims, an astronaut, a surgeon, a maid. What she creates is a reflection of contemporary American womanhood that mirrors both women's accomplishments and the challenges they still face individually and as a group. Read more

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8. "Crossing: A Memoir"
by Deirdre N. McCloskey
"Crossing" chronicles Deirdre McCloskey's transformation from Donald McCloskey, an economist at the University of Iowa and married father of two, into the woman he finally accepted he had always wanted to be. McCloskey had been dressing in women's clothes since he was 11, but after his daughter went to college in 1994, the 52-year-old man grew increasingly aware that he was more than "just a heterosexual crossdresser." The memoir's deeper interest lies in the author's reflections on the nature of gender and identity. Donald was a macho academic who dominated every discussion, viewing conversation as an exercise in one-upmanship. As he surgically altered his appearance and began to take estrogen on the road to "The Operation," he found himself relating to people in a more conventionally female way: listening to others, considering feelings. "The hormones are working, he thought at first. Or was it merely that the real person could now stand up?... Biology or core identity?" There are no final answers to such questions, but McCloskey poses them with sensitivity and insight. Read more

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9. "Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation"
by Leora Tanenbaum
The statistics are daunting: "Two out of five girls nationwide have had sexual rumors spread about them," reports Leora Tanenbaum. "Three out of four girls have received sexual comments or looks, and one in five has had sexual messages written about her in public areas." As such, they became victims of a double standard that winks at sexual promiscuity among teenage boys but insists that young women remain virginal and pure. In addition to insisting that schools get serious about combating sexual harassment, Tanenbaum urges the development of sex education programs that acknowledge responsible alternatives to abstinence, programs that would recognize the sexual desires of young women (and men) without condemnation. Her social critique is solid, but it's the personal accounts of emotional abuse--and, thankfully, perseverance--that will thoroughly convince you that the current tolerance of slut bashing is simply unacceptable. Read more

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10. "Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette"
by Judith Thurman
Judith Thurman shrewdly disentangles fact from legend during the course of Colette's long and turbulent life--male and female lovers, a stint in vaudeville, an affair with her stepson, and a final happy marriage to a younger man--while making it clear that the writer's adored yet dominating mother and exploitative first husband made it difficult for her to conceive of amorous equality. Yet she nonetheless created a satisfying, creative existence, firmly rooted in the senses and filled with artistic achievement. Thurman assesses with equal acuity the bleakness of Colette's world-view and a zest for life that it never seemed to dampen. Read more

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