Women's Studies
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A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
$17.99 Add to cartRevised and updated, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty.
When A Retur- Author: Shalit, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1476756651
- Language: English
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Born for Liberty
$22.00 Add to cartThe most concise and comprehensive one-volume history of American women–from the indigenous women of the 16th-century wilderness to the dual-role career women and mothers of contemporary times–this … [more below]
- Author: Evans, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0684834987
- Language: English
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American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn 1607, Powhatan teenager Pocahontas first encountered English settlers when John Smith was brought to her village as a captive. In 1920, the ratification of the 19th Amendment gave women the constit… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ware, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199328331
- Language: English
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El Baile de Las Mujeres Sabias / The Dancing Grandmothers
$19.95 Read moreLa mÃtica autora de Mujeres que corren con los lobos rinde un emotivo homenaje a la madurez femenina.
«Cuando las mujeres que corren con los lobos alcanzan la madurez, empieza el baile de las- Author: Estés, Clarissa Pinkola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 8466673822
- Language: Spanish
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Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle
$26.95 Add to cartRevolutionary Feminists tells the story of the radical women’s liberation movement in Seattle in the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of a founding member, Barbara Winslow. Drawing on her collecti… [more below]
- Author: Winslow, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1478019913
- Language: English
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Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women
$18.99 Read moreCultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hip hop has sidelined Black women’s identity and emotional well-being.
A “ride-or-die chick” is a woma- Author: Hubbard, Shanita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0306874687
- Language: English
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Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls – And How We Can Take It Back
$29.99 Read moreThis essential book is a rallying cry for women to recognize and reject the ways social media is being weaponized against us — and instead wield it to empower ourselves.
In Over the Influence, commun- Author: Alaimo, Kara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639106685
- Language: English
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The Power of Women: A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from
- Author: Mukwege, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1250779456
- Language: English
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Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism
$18.00 Add to cartOklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Indigenous Issues
- Author: Mihesuah, Devon a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282869
- Language: English
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A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$20.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, “A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar… [more below]
- Author: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 04 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733760
- Language: English
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Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body–New Paths to Power and Love
$18.99 Add to cartRiane Eisler shows us how history has consistently promoted the link between sex and violence–and how we can sever this link and move to a politics of partnership rather than domination in all our re
- Author: Eisler, Riane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0062502832
- Language: English
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Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
$17.00 Add to cartA transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communities
While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender- Author: Serano, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1580055044
- Language: English
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America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
$21.99 Add to cartRich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Collins, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061227226
- Language: English
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Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
$19.99 Add to cart“[Beauty Sick] will blow the top off the body image movement…provocative and necessary.” — Rebellious Magazine
An award-winning psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women’s a
- Author: Engeln, Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 17, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062469789
- Language: English
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Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
$28.99 Add to cartAfter years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive surgery, she was perplexed: What had she lost? And ga
- Author: Thornton, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881024
- Language: English
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Great Women of Mackinac, 1800-1950
$37.95 Add to cartGreat Women of Mackinac, 1800-1950 tells the dramatic history of thirteen women leaders on Mackinac Island in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their linked visions of family and community… [more below]
- Author: Croghan, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1611864534
- Language: English
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Composing a Life
$18.00 Add to cartMary Catherine Bateson has been called one of the most original and important thinkers of our time (Deborah Tannen). Grove Press is pleased to reissue Bateson’s deeply satisfying treatise on the impro
- Author: Bateson, Mary Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03, 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138047
- Language: English
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Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
$17.95 Add to cart“An interesting and effective overview. . . . It is to the author’s considerable credit that she is able to re-create the values and behavior of Cherokee women through court records, myths, and observ
- Series: Indians of the Southeast
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803287607
- Language: English
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Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman (for Readers of Crones Don’t Whine or the Twelve Faces of the Goddess)
$22.99 Add to cartActivism for the Modern Day Artemis
From the author dubbed “an Artemis,” by Gloria Steinem, comes Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman, a book dedicated to women with the courage and passion t
- Author: Bolen, Jean Shinoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1573245917
- Language: English
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The Women
$17.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conc
- Author: Als, Hilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0374525293
- Language: English
