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Build Your Library: Sex Education!

Sex Ed Starter Library

If you're seeking amazing editions to add to your sex education library, we've got the mix for you! Featuring a 1949 sex ed guide and a selection of new (some signed!) books, you'll find:

• VINTAGE The Stork Didn't Bring You by Lois Pemberton: Pub. 1949, this historical guide is almost certainly lacking in some areas but DOES feature information about the clitoris! (Or it at least warrants a mention...)
• FIRST EDITION The Hite Report by Shere Hite: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality published in 1976.
• SIGNED Witches, Sluts, Feminists- Conjuring The Sex Positive by Kristen J. Sollee: Pub. 2017 "This innovative primer highlights sexual liberation as it traces the lineage of "witch feminism."
• SIGNED Unscrewed- Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All by Jaclyn Friedman: Pub. 2017 "...Friedman brings her sharp expertise & incisive observations on the state of sexual politics to the fore, sparking a culture-wide rethink about sex, power and what we accept."
• SIGNED Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape by Jessica Luther: Pub. 2016

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SIGNED copy of Witches, Sluts, Feminists

"Witch, Slut, Feminist: these contested identities are informing millennial women as they counter a tortuous history of misogyny with empowerment. This innovative primer highlights sexual liberation as it traces the lineage of "witch feminism." Juxtaposing scholarly research on the demonization of women and female sexuality that has continued since the witch hunts of the early modern era with pop culture analyses and interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and practitioners of witchcraft, this book greatly enriches out current conversations about reproductive rights, sexual pleasure, queer identity, pornography, sex work and more."

SIGNED copy of Unscrewed

"With reportage and verve, Unscrewed builds a searing investigation into the state of sexual power in America, and outlines how to make real progress toward equality. Friedman reveals that the anxiety and fear women in our country feel around issues of their sexuality are not, in fact, their fault, but instead are side effects of what she calls "our era of fauxpowerment," wherein women have the illusion of sexual power, but with little actual power behind it. Exploring the fault lines where media, religion, politics, and education impinge on our intimate lives, Unscrewed breaks down the causes and signs of fauxpowerment, then gives readers tools to take it on themselves."

SIGNED copy of Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape

Football teams create playbooks, in which they draw up the plays they will use on the field. Playbooks are how teams work and why they win. This book is about a different kind of playbook: the one coaches, teams, universities, police, communities, the media, and fans seem to follow whenever a college football player is accused of sexual assault. It’s a deep dive into how different institutions—the NCAA, athletic departments, universities, the media—run the same plays over and over again when these stories break. If everyone runs his play well, scrutiny dies down quickly, no institution ever has to change how it operates, and the evaporation of these cases into nothingness looks natural. In short, this playbook is why nothing ever changes.

Unsportsmanlike Conduct unpacks this societal playbook piece by piece, and not only advocates that we destroy the old plays, but also suggests we replace them with ones that will force us to finally do something about this issue.

Political sportswriter and Edge of Sports imprint curator Dave Zirin (the Nation) has never shied away from criticizing that which die-hard sports fans hold dear. The Edge of Sports titles will address issues across many different sports—football, basketball, swimming, tennis, etc.—and at both the professional and nonprofessional/collegiate levels. Furthermore, Zirin brings to the table select stories of athletes’ journeys and what they are facing and how they evolve both in their sport as well as against the greater backdrop of one’s life’s odyssey.