{"product_id":"9781101606551","title":"The Feminist and the Cowboy: An Unlikely Love Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dirty Girls Social Club \u003c\/i\u003ereturns with an engrossing memoir about how falling in love with a sexy cowboy turned her feminist beliefs upside down.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeminism was a religion in Alisa Valdes’s childhood home. Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem took the place of Barbies and left Valdes impressed with a feminist ideology that guided a prolific writing career—at twenty-two Valdes was named one of the top feminist writers under thirty by the editor of \u003ci\u003eMs\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet despite her professional success, Valdes hit forty-two a single mom and a serial dater of inadequate men in tweed jackets—until she met the Cowboy. A conservative rancher, the Cowboy held the traditional views on gender roles that Valdes was raised to reject. Yet as she falls head-over-spurs for him and their relationship finds harmony, she finds the strength, peace, and happiness that comes from embracing her femininity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom their first date the Cowboy makes her pulse race, and she discovers that “when men… act like men rather than like emasculated boys, you as a woman will find not only great pleasure in submitting to them but also great growth as a person.”  Told with plenty of humor and candor, \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist and the Cowboy \u003c\/i\u003ewill delight the many readers who made \u003ci\u003eThe Pioneer Woman\u003c\/i\u003e a bestseller—not to mention every woman who dreams of being swept away by a rugged cowboy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple Publications International, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127980835056,"sku":"9781101606551","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101606551_p0.jpg?v=1763688574","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101606551","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}