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If you move in feminist circles

Mary Jane Mossman (York): (Re)Examining Feminism and Justice. Kate Elizabeth Cantrell (QUT): Ladies on the Loose: Contemporary Female Travel as a "Promiscuous" Excursion. A review of Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate by Ann Cudd and Nancy Holmstrom. Gender inequality is an old story — it may be as old as the horse and plough. A review of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance: A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Nancy Gertner; and Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Charlotte Allen on what third world women want — according to first world feminists. Kay Hymowitz on why the gender gap won’t go away — ever: Women prefer the mommy track. Naomi Wolf on America’s reactionary feminists. A look at why brilliant women should be more arrogant. The unbalancing act: How literary periodicals fail to correct gender inequity. Barbara Wootton attended the League of Nations, helped abolish the death penalty and became a magistrate before she was eligible to vote. The stigma of “singlism”: An article on ever-single women’s perceptions of their social environment. From TED, why do we let our anatomy determine our fate? A review of Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine. It's a man's world: The numbers are in, and they show a staggering absence of women in Washington's foreign-policy community; and go inside the gender breakdowns of Washington's premier think tanks. A review of Reshaping the Work-Family Debate by Joan C. Williams. If you move in feminist circles, there's really no choice this summer — you have to read Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Woman. Here are 10 books any self-respecting feminist needs on her shelf.