Women
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Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
$16.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE
“Perkins’ richly detailed narrative is a reminder that gender equity has ne
- Author: Gardiner Perkins, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1728234611
- Language: English
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Woman: The American History of an Idea
$25.00 Add to cartA comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
“Exhaustively researched and finely written.”–Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times- Author: Faderman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 030027114X
- Language: English
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Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Women of the Rodeo & Wild West Shows
$18.95 Add to cartIn Along Came a Cowgirl New York Times best-selling author Chris Enss introduces you to the world of early rodeo–and to the stories of the women whose names resounded in rodeo arenas across the natio… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1560378131
- Language: English
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
$35.00 Add to cartNow an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them–women with the courage to stand up to the stat- Author: Clinton, Hillary Rodham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1501178415
- Language: English
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Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
$28.00 Read moreNamed a Most Anticipated Book by Bustle, Esquire, Nylon, and The Millions
“Intimate, thoughtful, and accessible to anyone struggling with the persistent, maddening inequities of contemporary sex.” -Re- Author: Willis Aronowitz, Nona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593182766
- Language: English
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The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
$20.00 Read more“Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every reader”–Hillary Rodham Clinton
Soon to Be a Major Television Event
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American hi… [more below]- Author: Weiss, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 014312899X
- Language: English
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The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
$26.99 Add to cartFor fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who
- Author: Eder, Mari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1728230926
- Language: English
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The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp
$34.99 Read moreDuring World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan’s civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those next to its overseas bases. It did so for a simple reason: to impose the strenuous … [more below]
- Author: Ramseyer, J. Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1641773456
- Language: English
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A Woman’s Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women’s Soccer
$28.00 Add to cartA compelling and comprehensive history charting the rise, fall, and rise again of women’s soccer
Women’s soccer is a game that has so often been relegated to the margins in a world fixated on gender- Author: Wrack, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379336
- Language: English
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The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
$30.00 Read more**SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, “10 BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2022″**
From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura,
**AMAZON, “BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH (Nonfiction)”**
**APPLE, “BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH”**- Author: White, April
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 0306827662
- Language: English
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
$18.99 Add to cart* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY *
The New York Times bestselling investigatio- Author: Traister, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1476716579
- Language: English
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The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years
$19.99 Add to cartThe internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinary female rebels, reactionaries, and trailblazers who left th
- Author: Miles, Rosalind
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0062444034
- Language: English
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Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement
$24.95 Read more“A political combat memoir like no other, suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt takes us to the front lines of the Votes for Women battlefields — in the states and in Congress — as American women figh
- Author: Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 0486842053
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Feminist Saints
$18.00 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated collection honoring one hundred exceptional “feminist saints” throughout history is sure to inspire women and men alike.
“A new set of role models and heroes–‘matron sain- Author: Pierpont, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0399592741
- Language: English
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
$17.00 Add to cart“The true story of women who stood up to huge corporations and won, creating momentous change for all working women.” –Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. magazine
As flying boomed in the 1960s, women- Author: McShane Wulfhart, Nell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 059308229X
- Language: English
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Lady Sapiens: Breaking Stereotypes about Prehistoric Women
$19.99 Read more**As featured on Dan Snow’s History Hit Podcast**
‘Lady Sapiens deserves praise for its willingness to challenge the status quo and present an accessible alternative view of human prehistory’ Science M… [more below]- Author: Cirotteau, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1915054788
- Language: English
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Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
$30.00 Add to cartIn Women Money Power, financial journalist Josie Cox tells the compelling story of women’s fight for financial freedom, the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality―… [more below]
- Author: Cox, Josie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1419762982
- Language: English
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Voyage of the Pleiades
$14.99 Add to cartLondon 1885. Linnea Wren has spent her life defying Victorian societal norms, from masquerading as a male groundskeeper at Kew Gardens, to an expedition leader traveling the world. After a devastating
- Author: Turner, Amy Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218168063
- Language: English
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The Lesbian Avenger Handbook: A Handy Guide to Homemade Revolution
$6.99 Add to cartLaunched in New York City, in 1992, the Lesbian Avengers rejected the picket line and ordinary demo for media-savvy, nonviolent direct action.
They were superheroes arriving “to make the world safe
- Author: Cogswell, Kelly J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736155806
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
$18.99 Add to cartThe term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The fi
- Author: Dreilinger, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021861
- Language: English
