Women's Studies
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$20.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
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Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well
$18.99 Add to cartFor women contemplating divorce or for those who have already divorced, Ashton Applewhite’s insightful book sheds light on what to consider before making the decision to end your marriage, how to prot
- Author: Applewhite, Ashton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0062680706
- Language: English
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Wild Words for Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations and Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots (Girls Run the World, Nasty Women, A
$16.99 Add to carthis ribald compilation of powerful women quotes everything from bras to babies, menopause to men, and politics to parties. Featuring historically nasty women like Jane Austen and Billie Jean King, the… [more below]
- Author: Stephens, Autumn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684810035
- Language: English
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Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture Under Late Capitalism
$16.95 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 COLE FOUNDATION PRIZE FOR TRANSLATION
A nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
As Daph
- Author: B, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1552454290
- Language: English
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A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
$17.99 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detour… [more below]
- Author: Colwell, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1501181297
- Language: English
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Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women–And What We Can Do about It
$18.95 Add to cart” A] powerful account of the sexism cooked into medical care … will motivate readers to advocate for themselves.”–Publishers Weekly STARRED Review
A groundbreaking and feminist work of investigative
- Author: Jackson, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1771647167
- Language: English
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Contraception: A Concise History
$15.95 Read moreThe development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.
The beginning of the modern contra
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Drucker, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538423
- Language: English
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Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement
$18.95 Read moreContraception and abortion were not originally part of the 1960s women’s movement. How did the women’s movement, which fought for equal opportunity for women in education and the workplace, and the se
- Author: Browder, Sue Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1621643212
- Language: English
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First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy
$25.95 Add to cartWhen Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the … [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Disher, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: July 31 2013
- ISBN10: 1591142164
- Language: English
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Wicked Women of Missouri
$23.99 Add to cartMarauders like Jesse James and the Younger gang earned Missouri the title of “Outlaw State,” but the male desperadoes had nothing on their female counterparts. Belle “Queen of the Bandits” Starr and C… [more below]
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Wood, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119660
- Language: English
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The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
$18.00 Add to cartA distinguished anthropologist-who is also an initiated shaman-reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this anci… [more below]
- Author: Tedlock, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0553379712
- Language: English
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The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body
$23.99 Add to cartInternationally bestselling author and world-famous human behaviorist Desmond Morris turns his attention to the female form, taking the reader on a guided tour of the female body from head to toe. Hig
- Author: Morris, Desmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0312338538
- Language: English
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We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
$21.99 Add to cartWhy couldn’t the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can’t shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes.
What does a Southern woman consider g- Author: Rivenbark, Celia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 031231244X
- Language: English
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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one o… [more below]
- Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593244117
- Language: English
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Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
$26.95 Add to cartThe editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and p… [more below]
- Author: Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0822362953
- Language: English
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Life and Death
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster, Life and Death by Andrea Dworkin is the unapologetic writing on the continuing war against women.
In this important work, Dworken gathers essays published between 1987 and 1995,- Author: Dworkin, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0743236262
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Earth
$20.00 Add to cartShe was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings–she is the N… [more below]
- Author: Niethammer, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 068482955X
- Language: English
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How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life
$23.00 Read moreA rare glimpse into the woman behind the mystique and the definitive guide to living genuinely with glamour and grace.
“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start abs- Author: Hellstern, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: June 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0525948236
- Language: English
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
$9.00 Read moreIn an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless women of her time.
Having witnessed firsthand… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0486290360
- Language: English
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Modern Herstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History
$17.99 Add to cartAn inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and nonbinary people who have changed–and are still changing–the world, from the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Live… [more below]
- Author: Imani, Blair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0399582231
- Language: English
