A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore

A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore
307 W. Johnson St.
Madison, WI 53703
Tel: 608-257-7888
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*WE WILL BE OPEN JULY 4th FROM 10am to 2pm*

TITLES ON THIS WEBSITE DO NOT INDICATE IN-STORE STOCK!

USED BOOK SALE!
JULY 17-19th
We are currently taking donations for the book sale! Bring in your used books & cd's and help the bookstore make it through the summer sales slump!

Now more than ever Room needs your help. Please think of us for your book, button, sticker, and greeting card needs!



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MON-FRI 10am - 8pm
SAT 10am - 6pm
SUN 12pm - 5pm



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Recommendations  
Check out what our wise women with wonderful taste have to recommend... (Read More!)

Woman's World Woman's World
by Rawle, Graham
Painstakingly assembled from 40,000 fragments of text snipped from womens magazines, this strange and wonderful novel moves at the breakneck pace of a pulp thriller. A stunning visual tour de force, "Womans World" is also a powerful reflection on societys definition of what it means to be a woman.

Strengthening a Vibrant Local Economy  
Informative titles on the importance of building and strengthening a vibrant local economy. (Read More!)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Kingsolver, Barbara, Kingsolver, Camille
“Tracing the food year, Kingsolver—with her characteristic candor, poetry, and grace—brings us meditations on asparagus, turkeys, tomatoes, and mulch as she and her family try to eat locally as much as they can. This is a distinct hybrid of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Under the Tuscan Sun, and Walden.” —Matt Plies, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR


Store and Local Events

LOOK HERE for exciting upcoming events both here at the store and around town! Find out what the book clubs that meet at our store are reading, as well as information for upcoming community events, area festivals, and other fun and exciting happenings.

Title of Event: National Women's Music Festival
When: Thursday, July 2, 2009 9:00 AM
Location: Madison Marriott West, 1313 John Q. Hammonds Dr., Middleton, WI 53562
Phone: 608-831-2000
Description: The 34th National Women's Music Festival will be held July 2, 2009 – July 5, 2009 at Marriott Madison West Hotel & Conference Center in Middleleton, Wisconsin
1313 John Q. Hammons Dr. Middleton, Wisconsin 53562 Phone: (608) 831-2000

WHAT IS THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL?
The National Women's Music Festival is a four-day musical and cultural extravaganza that incorporates all facets of women’s lives. 
It’s a jam-packed long weekend where choices for things to do range from workshops, concerts, comedy, theatre presentations, a marketplace, newly released films and videos, a live auction, spirituality series, writer’s series, animal lovers series, and much, much more!

Most Festival attendees are women, although men can and do attend.  Attendees come from all walks of life and cultures, cutting across ethnic, racial, sexual, age, and ability boundaries. Likewise, festival programming reflects many points of view; a diversity of ideas and topics are explored and discussed in a safe environment.  Festival is an environment in which philosophies and politics are open for discussion, not mandated or judged.

For more information please visit www.wiaonline.org


This years performers include:
Lucie Blue Tremblay - www.luciebluetremblay.com
Lisa Koch - www.heylisa.com/home.html
Vickie Shaw - www.vickieshaw.com
Roxanna Ward - www.roxannaward.com
Sarah Bettens - www.sarahbettens.com
Erin Mckeown - www.erinmckeown.com
Alix Olson - www.alixolson.com
Patrice Pike - www.patricepike.com
Zoe Lewis - www.zoelewis.com
Pamela Means - www.pamelameans.com
Steff Mahan - www.steffmahan.com
Julie Clark - www.julieclark.net
Maggie Cassella - www.maggiecassella.com
Adrianne - www.adrimusic.com  
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Favorite Feminist Titles

Here are some of the highlights of our Women's Studies section, including some new arrivals! (Read More!)

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape
by Friedman, Jaclyn, Valenti, Jessica
In this groundbreaking work--edited by writer and activist Friedman and "Full Frontal Feminism" author Valenti--the way society views rape in this culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure.



Indie Next List

Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America. (Read More!)

The Lace Makers of Glenmara
by Barbieri, Heather
Would you look for a new beginning in an old country? Kate Robinson does.Exhausted from devastating losses in every aspect of her life, young fashion designer and seamstress, Kate, travels to Ireland, making good on a promise to her dying mother to visit their ancestral home. Sadly unable to make the long planned and hoped for mother-daughter trip any longer, Kate travels alone, trying to outdistance her sadness and anger.Through Kate, the reader is introduced to Glenmara, a tiny, close-knit fishing community of determined inhabitants intent on maintaining their existence and their traditions. Stopping to rest on her pedestrian journey through Ireland, Kate is quickly accepted by the widow Bernie, who is part of a lace making group???caretakers of the hand-made lace craft passed along for generations in their community. As Kate is taught to make lace, she begins to ???pick up the thread??? of her life. Bringing her own talents to the lace makers??? lack of sales of traditional linens, tablecloths and towels, she is able to teach them to reimaging their craft. The reader is drawn into the circumstances of each of the lace makers, who discover that changing the lace, changes their lives.I easily recommend this book to others;??? no needlework experience required. The finely developed characters left this reader hoping for a sequel so that I might continue further into the life of Glenmara and the people that I???d come to know and appreciate.--JK Campbell, Colorado State University Bookstore (Fort Collins, CO)