Women's Studies
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Enough as She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives
$19.99 Add to cart“Is it wrong that I wanted to underline every single word in this book? Simmons brilliantly crystallizes contemporary girls’ dilemma: the way old expectations and new imperatives collide; how a narrow
- Author: Simmons, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062438425
- Language: English
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That’s What She Said: From the Stage to the Page
$19.99 Add to cartThis book is a celebration of women’s stories, and we hope it’s the first of many. What started as a one-night event in Champaign-Urbana has grown into annual storytelling events in multiple cities, s
- Author: The She Said Project, She Said
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1960095005
- Language: English
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Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
$18.99 Add to cart“An urgent look at emotional labor….Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possible while the power of care, empathy, and love in action can lead us to the best in our humanity.”
―- Author: Hackman, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1250777372
- Language: English
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
$19.99 Read more“History at its best–clear, intelligent, moving. Paula Giddings has written a book as priceless as its subject”–Toni Morrison
Acclaimed by writers Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou, Paula Gid
- Author: Giddings, Paula J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0688146503
- Language: English
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Why Women Have Sex: Women Reveal the Truth about Their Sex Lives, from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
$23.99 Add to cartAn unparalleled exploration of the mysteries underlying women’s sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report, from two of America’s leading research psychologists
Do women have sex simply- Author: Meston, Cindy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0312662653
- Language: English
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
$18.99 Add to cartUPDATED 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH 2020 PREFACE
An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unr
- Author: Merchant, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10 1990
- ISBN10: 0062505955
- Language: English
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Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
$19.99 Add to cartThe creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about op
- Author: Salami, Minna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0062877070
- Language: English
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Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump
$37.99 Add to cart1. Introduction: The Departure of Michelle Obama from the White House and the Need for Black Feminism.- 2. A History of Black American Feminism.- 3. Black Women’s Relationships with Party Politics.- 4… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Duchess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 3319954555
- Language: English
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Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina
$21.99 Add to cartIn Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina w… [more below]
- Author: Molinary, Rosie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10 2007
- ISBN10: 1580051898
- Language: English
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Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure
$24.99 Add to cartA captivating memoir from one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa.
In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffes and a dream to study them in
- Series: Life Writing
- Author: Dagg, Anne Innis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0889204632
- Language: English
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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
$43.43 Add to cartPink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installat… [more below]
- Author: Rodgers, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0822346737
- Language: English
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
$21.00 Add to cart“A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” –Michelle Alexander, author of The Ne… [more below]
- Author: Ritchie, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0807088986
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diari… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #4
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 080327291X
- Language: English
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Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
$33.99 Add to cartDismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters’ books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as dive
- Author: Ragan, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 17 2000
- ISBN10: 393320464
- Language: English
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Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
$26.00 Add to cartThe little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk–a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.
While the Women’s- Author: Greenberg, Amy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0804173443
- Language: English
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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Walters, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 12 2006
- ISBN10: 019280510X
- Language: English
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
$16.00 Add to cartIn the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and … [more below]
- Author: Carter, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1476773963
- Language: English
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Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity
$19.99 Add to cartEmily Matchar offers a smart, measured investigation into the cultural, social, and economic implications of a return to domesticity in this fascinating book “chock-full of historical context, strong … [more below]
- Series: Night Glow Board Books
- Author: Matchar, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1451665458
- Language: English
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
$38.93 Add to cartIn this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence-perpetrated by the state and by society at l… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0822360381
- Language: English
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Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne
$21.99 Add to cartPsychoanalysis is certainly one of the most contested areas of debate within feminism. This book presents articles on feminine sexuality by Lacan and members of the ?ole freudienne, the school of psyc… [more below]
- Author: Lacan, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0393302113
- Language: English
