BOOKS AUTHORED & CO-AUTHORED BY GLORIA FELDT
Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love and Leading Roles, by Kathleen Turner and Gloria Feldt
“Kathleen has always told it like it is. She has good insight, a great sense of humor and Send Yourself Roses is an enjoyable read.”—Michael Douglas
"Send Yourself Roses is an intimate and fun read about an exceptional actress who is also a very gutsy, out-there woman."--Jane Fonda
"Revealing, brutally funny, and loaded with regal wit and charm."--John Waters
Why We'll Win
By Malcolm Friedberg
More Than Two Sides?
I have never agreed that there are just two sides to every story. In fact, reducing debates to two polarized sides can render the debate intractable. Even so, or maybe because of this, I urge you to read the new book by attorney Malcolm Friedberg, to which I contributed an essay. Actually, it's two books and taken together they're ideal for book clubs and civics classes. Both versions start by laying out the current legal status of our most contentous issues in accessible and comprehensible language. The blue version is subtitled The Left's Leading Voices Argue the Case for America's Toughest Issues. The red version subtitle substitutes "Right" for "Left". The book website tells more and even lets you download your opponent's argument free: www.whywellwin.com
The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
by Gloria Feldt
The title says it. The War on Choice lays out in frightening detail the three-dacade campaign to undermine the hard-won laws protecting a women's right to make her own childbearing decisions and reproductive freedom. Isabel Allende said of the book, "With Gloria Feldt's trademark passion for justice and commitment to telling the truth, The War on Choice is an eye-opening account of the right-wing's gradual but steady encroachment on one of our most fundamental human rights--the right to choose." The final chapter is an activists handbook laying out an agenda and advocacy strategies to regain rights lost and secure them for the future.
"A wake up call."--Michael Moore
Behind Every Choice is a Story
by Gloria Feldt
"Moving and momentous."--Liz Smith
Winner of the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer Award; recommended for secondary school libraries by ALA's women's caucus.
Our stories are our truth and our power to make change. My inspiration came from the founder of America's birth control movement. Early in her quest to legalize birth control and bring information to American women, Margaret Sanger wrote Motherhood in Bondage, a collection of letters from desperate women asking her for the secrets of birth control. Behind Every Choice is 21st century women's voices telling our own stories
Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female
Edited by Willa Shalit
Excerpt from my essay: "At twenty, with three children, I was exhausted, and as much as I loved them, I knew another one would do me in. The birth control pill came out at that time, and it saved my life. Somewhere in the back of my mind, Daddy was always saying, “You can do anything your pretty little head desires.” By her example, my grandmother—who had eared a college degree against her family’s wishes and worked as a schoolmistress in Bolshevik Russia after the revolution—told me to get an education, that life could be pretty exciting if you broke the mold. It seemed like a light bulb went off in my head, and I began to see new possibilities for my life—a purpose for the intelligence I’d hidden. I started college and got involved in social-justice work, first as a volunteer then part-time work, then full-time. My strength of character blossomed like a rose whose petals unfurl a bit at a time as it matures."
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
Boston Women's Health Book Collective 
From the publishers of the iconic women's health book that changed how American women interact with the health care system and their own bodies. I co-wrote the concluding chapter entitled "Finding Our Power and Mobilizing for Change". This is a must-have book for all women in or entering mid-life.
Abortion Under Attack: Challenges Facing Choice
Edited by Krista Jacob
Abortion Under Attack addresses a spectrum of personal and social influences, ranging from dealing with remorse to the impact that economics, race, and culture have on a woman's right to choose. Krista Jacob, longtime advocate for reproductive rights and former abortion counselor, has compiled an impressive collection of writings by a diverse group of pro-choice activists who go beyond the same old analysis of reproductive rights to present the current issues facing the pro-choice movement. Foreword by Rebecca Walker, afterword by Gloria Feldt.
