Women's Studies
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.” –Marie Claire
The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were dep
- Series: P.S. #1
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0061650714
- Language: English
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Birthing Black Mothers
$27.95 Add to cartIn Birthing Black Mothers Black feminist theorist Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the “Black mother” has become a powerful political category. “Mothering while Black” has become synonymous… [more below]
- Author: Nash, Jennifer C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1478014423
- Language: English
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Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women’s Professional Basketball League, 1978-1981
$24.95 Add to cartAs the popularity of women’s basketball burgeons, Karra Porter reminds us in Mad Seasons that today’s Women’s National Basketball Association, or WNBA had its origins in a ragtag league twenty years e… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Karra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803287895
- Language: English
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Flash Count Diary
$20.00 Add to cart“[Darcey Steinke] has written a searingly intelligent, richly imagined, deeply moving memoir and exploration of menopause . . . I love this book. I admire this book. I want everyone to read this book.
- Author: Steinke, Darcey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1250619688
- Language: English
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Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love
$18.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, in a “bubbly, yet fierce cultural dissection of the groundb… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 150116483X
- Language: English
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Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
$18.00 Read moreMuch has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of the curve-… [more below]
- Author: Paglia, Camille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433864
- Language: English
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Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994
$24.99 Add to cartToo Heavy a Load celebrates this century’s rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against r
- Author: White, Deborah Gray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 039331992X
- Language: English
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The Heart of a Woman
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived … [more below]
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0375500723
- Language: English
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The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
$30.00 Add to cart“An indispensable source work for anyone interested in this very important development of religious ideas.”–Marija Gimbutas. Ranges from the Paleolithic Age to the present-day Gaia Hypothesis.
- Series: Compass
- Author: Cashford, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140192921
- Language: English
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Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism
$44.92 Add to cartA scathing criticism of political and sexual correctness, this thought-provoking and powerfully argued book is sure to incite debate among all concerned with the legacy and future of woman’s rights.
Au… [more below]
- Series: American Intellectual Culture
- Author: Patai, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: June 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0847689883
- Language: English
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Stolen Women: Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives
$14.95 Add to cartSTOLEN WOMEN gives us what Mama couldn’t–a way to be in charge of our own bodies. This probing, fact-based book dissects the myths, discards the stereotypes, and unshackles our minds.–BEBE MOORE CAM… [more below]
- Author: Wyatt, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0471297178
- Language: English
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
$21.00 Add to cartAn investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
“An astonishingly clear picture of this resourceful, i- Author: Nordberg, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0307952509
- Language: English
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Persephone Rising
$15.99 Add to cartNow with an updated preface from the author celebrating this groundbreaking and increasingly relevant book.
Nautilus Award Winner
This revelatory manifesto speaks to the heroine in every woman and man,
- Author: Pearson, Carol S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0062884069
- Language: English
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Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
$27.00 Add to cartOur campuses are steeped in political correctness–that’s hardly news to anyone. But no one realizes that radical social agendas have also taken over campus health and counseling centers, with dire co… [more below]
- Author: Grossman, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 1595230459
- Language: English
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The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West
$17.99 Add to cartThe award-winning history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey’s restaurants along the Santa Fe railway — and went on to shape the American Southwest
From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Ha- Author: Poling-Kempes, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 1994
- ISBN10: 1569249261
- Language: English
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Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
$25.99 Add to cart“[Schulte’s] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America’s leisure time, and how do we get it back?”–Lev Grossman, Time
When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two,- Author: Schulte, Brigid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062381
- Language: English
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Media Racism: The Impact of Media Injustice on Black Women’s Lives
$42.00 Add to cart“A powerful, well-researched indictment of racist media in the United States.“-Kirkus Reviews
https: //www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marquita-m-gammage/media-racism/
As contemporary media continues
- Author: Gammage, Marquita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1942774079
- Language: English
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The Other Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartA lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women’s rights at a vital time in our national history.
The American women who worked for our country’s indepence in 1776 hoped the new Republic wou- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0809016222
- Language: English
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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
$18.99 Add to cartMuslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins’ cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s profound meditation o… [more below]
- Author: Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743288343
- Language: English
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The Jewish Women of Ravensbr?k Concentration Camp
$24.95 Add to cartRavensbr?k was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal inject… [more below]
- Author: Saidel, Rochelle G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: March 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0299198642
- Language: English
