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Her newest project is "The Goddess Lounge"

Margaret Finnegan is finishing a novel about motherhood, love, and the tension between self-sacrifice and the pursuit of pleasure. Entitled “The Goddess Lounge,” it grapples with the eternal question: why be a hero when you can be a goddess? (Read an excerpt.)

Her essay “A Hero’s Retreat,” was reprinted in "Life as We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com." Edited by Jennifer Foote Sweeney. New York: Washington Square Press, 2003.

Her comprehensive knowledge of this subject matter drew the attention of Oxford University Press, which asked her to write entries for “Consumer Culture” and “Consumer Movement” for the 2001 edition of the “Oxford Companion to United States History.”

After four years of historical research and study, Margaret Finnegan finished her manuscript for “Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women” in 1998. It was published in 1999 by Columbia University Press.