ANDREWS MCMEEL
Believing in Ourselves: A Celebration of Women (Mar., $27.95), edited by Nancy Carson, photos by Jennifer Jones, profiles 35 inspiring women from the U.S. and Canada. 100,000 first printing.
BALLANTINE
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (Mar., $26) by Estelle Freedman posits that feminism has attained irreversible momentum. Advertising. Author publicity.
BASIC BOOKS
Married: The Road Most Traveled (May, $25) by Anne Roiphe defends married life. 50,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour.
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Ten Moral Tales from the Forest (June, $25) by Catherine Orenstein ponders the fairy tale's lessons.
BLOOMSBURY
Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women (Mar., $24.95) by Susan Maushart. The author of The Mask of Motherhood deplores the inequitable divisions of labor between wives and husbands.
BRASSEY'S
Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation (Aug., $26.95) by Eileen F. Lebow details the careers of more than 30 aviators who predated Amelia Earhart.
COOPER SQUARE PRESS
Cooper Square Press Anthology of Women Activists (Mar., $35), edited by Kathryn Cullen-Dupont, includes contributions by women ranging from Abigail Adams and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Alice Walker and Betty Friedan.
CROWN
Girls' Night Out (Aug., $25) by Tamara Kreinin and Barbara Camens profiles 15 women's groups and discusses the importance that they play in women's lives.
FSG/HILL & WANG
Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America (Aug., $30) by Martha Saxton examines 17th-century Boston, 18th-century Virginia and 19th-century St. Louis, contending that women's morals changed as women became less confined and less revered by men.
MULTNOMAH
The Prayer of Jabez for Women (Mar., $9.99) by Darlene Wilkinson comes from Bruce Wilkinson's wife and identifies ministry opportunities for women in God's kingdom.
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV. PRESS
Whores and Thieves of the Worst Kind: A Study of Women, Crime and Prisons (July, $40) by Mara Dodge traces the evolution of women's crime and punishment from 1835 to the present.
RANDOM HOUSE
War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam (Aug., $25) by Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett et al. Nine journalists share professional and personal experiences. Advertising. Author publicity.
RUNNING PRESS
The Counselors: Conversations with 18 Courageous Women Who Have Changed the World (Mar., $24.95) by Elizabeth Vrato profiles 18 accomplished women who address issues relevant to working women. 50,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.
SCRIBNER
Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of Promiscuity (Mar., $22) by Emily White addresses the archetype of the high school slut.
TALK MIRAMAX
Baby Hunger: Why Some Women Who Have It All Don't Have What They Want Most (Mar., $22) by Sylvia Ann Hewlett analyzes data based on the paradoxes of success.
VILLARD
The Territory of Men: A Memoir (July, $22.95) by Joelle Fraser recounts the experiences of the daughter of 'free love' parents in the mid-1960s who came to perceive that life is played out on men's terms.
