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Abuse, Violence

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Assertiveness Training and "I" Language

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Beauty and Body Image

Phillips, Jan, Cathy Conheim, LCSW, and Christine Forester. A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind. La Jolla, California: Breakthrough Press, 2000

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Business

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Josefowitz, Natasha. Paths to Power: A Woman's Guide from First Job to Top Executive. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1980.

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Career & Life Planning

Bolles, Richard Nelson. The 1999 What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual For Job-Hunters & Career Changers. Berkeley, California: 10 Speed Press, 1999.

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Emotional Health

Briggs, Dorothy Corkille. Celebrate Your Self: Enhancing Your Own Self- Esteem. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1977.

Burns, David D., M.D. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. New York: Avon Books, 1992.

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Gawain, Shakti. Creative Visualization. New York: Bantam Books, 1982.

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Finances

Bertrand, Marsha. A Woman's Guide to Savvy Investing. New York: Amacom, 1998.

Dowling, Colette. Maxing Out: Why Women Sabotage Their Financial Security. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1998.

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Girls

Briggs, Dorothy Corkille. Your Child's Self-Esteem: Step-Step Guidelines For Raising Responsible, Productive, Happy Children. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1975

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Brown, Lyn Mikel. Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls’ Anger. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998.

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Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving The Selves Of Adolescent Girls. New York: Grosset/Putnam Book, 1994

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Negative Thinking

Bandura, Albert. Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1997.

Seligman, Martin E. P., Ph.D. Learned Optimism. New York: Pocket Books, 1992.

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Pure Enjoyment

Bond, Marybeth. Gutsy Women: Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road. San Francisco: Travelers’ Tales, Inc., 1996.

Kelly, Marcia and Jack. Sanctuaries: A Guide to Lodgings in Monasteries, Abbeys, and Retreats of the United States. New York: Bell Tower, 1992.

Lawlor, Anthony. A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1997.

Madden, Chris Casson. A Room of Her Own: Women’s Personal Spaces. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1997.

Vienne, Veronique. The Art of Doing Nothing: Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourself. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1998.


Spiritual Matters

Cameron, Julia. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam Book, 1992.

Cousineau, Phil. Soul Moments: Marvelous Stories of Synchronicity. Berkeley, California: Conari Press, 1997.

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Moore, Thomas. Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Peck, M. Scott, M.D. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth. Touchstone Books, 1978.


Women

Bateson, Mary Catherine. Composing A Life. New York: Plume Book, 1990

Belenky, Mary Field And Blythe Clinchy, Nancy Golderger, and Jill Tarule. Women's Ways Of Knowing: The Development Of Self, Voice And Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1986.

Cheever, Susan. A Woman's Life: The Story Of An Ordinary American And Her Extraordinary Generation. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1994

Dowrick, Stephanie. Intimacy & Solitude: Balancing Closeness And Independence. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.

Gabor, Andrea. Einstein's Wife: Work And Marriage In The Lives Of Five Great Twentieth-Century Women. New York: Viking, 1995.

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Jack, Dana Crowley. Silencing The Self: Women And Depression. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991

Lerner, Harriet Goldhor. The Dance Of Anger: A Woman's Guide To Changing The Patterns Of Intimate Relationships. New York: HarperCollins, 1985

Lerner, Harriet Goldhor. The Dance Of Deception: Pretending And Truth-Telling In Women's Lives. New York: HarperCollins, 1993

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift From The Sea. New York: Pantheon Books, 1955.

Rubin, Lillian B. Just Friends: The Role Of Friendship In Our Lives. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

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Tavris, Carol. The Mismeasure Of Woman: Why Women Are Not The Better Sex, The Inferior Sex, Or The Opposite Sex. New York: Simon Schuster, 1992.

Vanzant, Iyanla. In the Meantime…finding yourself and the love that you want. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Wolstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women (1792). Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1989.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room Of One's Own. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. 1991.


Women's Health

Benson, Herbert M.D. Beyond the Relaxation Response. New York: Berkley Books, 1985.

Benson, Herbert, M.D. Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief. New York: Scribner, 1996.

Borysenko, Joan, Ph.D. Minding the Body, Mending the Mind. New York: Bantam Books, 1988

Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Our Bodies Ourselves. New York: Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Caplan, Paula J. They Say You’re Crazy: How the World Most Powerful Psychiatrist Decide Who’s Normal. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995

Cousins, Norman. Anatomy of an Illness. New York: Bantam Books, 1985.

Healy, Bernadine, M.D. A New Prescription for Women’s Health: Getting the Best Medical Care in a Man’s World. New York: Viking, 1995.

Hoffman, Eileen, M.D. Our Health, Our Lives: A Revolutionary Approach to Total Health Care for Women. New York, Pocket Books, 1995.

Laurence, Leslie and Beth Weinhouse. Outrageous Practices: The Alarming Truth about How Medicine Mistreats Women. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994.

Litt, Iris, M.D. Taking Our Pulse: The Health of America's Women. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Nolen-Hocksema, Susan. Sex Differences In Depression. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990.

Pelletier, Kenneth. Sound Mind, Sound Body: A New Model for Lifelong Health. New York: A Fireside Book, 1994.

Sheehy, Gail. The Silent Passage: Menopause. New York: Random House, 1992.

Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention. Fresh Start: The Stanford Medical School Health and Fitness Program. San Francisco, California: KQED Books, 1996.


Women's History

Bell, Susan Groag & Karen M. Offen. Women, The Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents. Stanford , California: Stanford University Press, 1983.

Dijkstra, Bram. Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Culture. New York: Owl Book, 1996.

Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-siecle Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Haskell, Molly. From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Kerber, Linda K. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.