As bestselling author Suzette Haden Elgin proves, you don't have to live your life on red alert. With her Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense techniques, you'll be able to respond clearly to hostile comments from others--or deliver necessary negative messages of your own--without sacrificing your dign[...]

Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, this novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights and banned from public life. It combines a plot with challenging meditations on the tensions between freedom and control, individuals and[...]