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100 Most Influential Women of All Time : A Ranking Past and Presentby Deborah G. Felder, Kensington Publishing Corporation StaffISBN 0806519762 (0-8065-1976-2)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Afterimageby Helen HumphreysISBN 0805066667 (0-8050-6666-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Afterimage'Book summary:In a daring, beautiful novel set in the turbulent world of Victorian England, a maid, mistress, and master are drawn into a fateful love triangle.
When Annie Phelan arrives at the Dashells' farm to begin work as a maid, she finds her new mistress strapping wings on a naked boy who is to play the Angel of Death. Annie knows one thing for sure-she is not at the prim Mrs.Gilbey's anymore.
England in 1864 is a place of change. This is the age of invention, Crystal Palace, progress, the colonies. At the farm, the master dreams of far-flung exploration, while the mistress, Isabel, struggles with the new technology -- photography -- to produce art. And she struggles as well with her unimaginative help, who cannot play the roles she assigns.
It is Annie, beautiful, suggestible, and sensitive, who proves to be Isabel's inspiration. Through a series of portraits -- Guinevere, Ophelia, Grace, the Madonna -- the mistress transforms the maid into her confidante and muse. To the master, though, Annie becomes "Phelan," a member of his fantasy Arctic expedition. Caught between the two, Annie nearly loses herself, until disaster reveals her power over the Dashells' work and hearts.
Exquisite in its evocations, Afterimage is a boldly transgressive story of class, love, art, and freedom. [via]
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Aging in Americaby Bert SmithISBN 0807027685 (0-8070-2768-5)
Hardcover, Beacon Press
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All Sides of the Subject Women and Biographyby Teresa IlesISBN 0807762555 (0-8077-6255-5)
Softcover, Teachers College Pr
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American Girls Handy Bookby Lina Beard, Adelia BeardISBN 0804800081 (0-8048-0008-1)
Hardcover, Tuttle Pub
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Balsamroot: A Memoirby Mary Clearman BlewISBN 0806133228 (0-8061-3322-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Beet Queen: A Novelby Louise ErdrichISBN 0805000585 (0-8050-0058-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early Americaby Martha SaxtonISBN 0809016338 (0-8090-1633-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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How do people decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? How does a society set moral guidelines -- and what happens when the behavior of various groups differs from these guidelines? Martha Saxton tackles these and other fascinating issues in Being Good, her history of the moral values prescribed for women in early America.
Saxton begins by examining seventeenth-century Boston, then moves on to eighteenth-century Virginia and nineteenth-century St. Louis. Studying women throughout the life cycle -- girls, young unmarried women, young wives and mothers, older widows -- through their diaries and personal papers, she also studies the variations due to different ethnicities and backgrounds. In all three cases, she is able to show how the values of one group conflicted with or developed in opposition to those of another. And, as the women's testimonies make clear, the emotional styles associated with different value systems varied. A history of American women's moral life thus gives us a history of women's emotional life as well. In lively and penetrating prose, Saxton argues that women's morals changed from the days of early colonization to the days of westward expansion, as women became at once less confined and less revered by their men -- and explores how these changes both reflected and affected trends in the nation at large.More editions of Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America:
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Belle Starr and Her Times: The Literature, the Facts, and the Legendsby Glenn ShirleyISBN 0806122765 (0-8061-2276-5)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Belle Starr and Her Times: The Literature, the Facts, and the Legends'Book summary:[via]Who was Belle Starr? What was she that so many myths surround her? Born in Carthage, Missouri, in 1848, the daughter of a well-to-do hotel owner, she died forty-one years later, gunned down near her cabin in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. After her death she was called a bandit queen, a female Jesse James, the Petticoat Terror of the Plains. Fantastic legends proliferated about her. In this book Glenn Shirley sifts through those myths and unearths the facts.
In a highly readable and informative style Shirley presents a complex and intriguing portrait. Belle Starr loved horses, music, the outdoors-and outlaws. Familiar with some of the worst bad men of her day, she was, however, convicted of no crime worse than horse thievery. Shirley also describes the historical context in which Belles Starr lived. After knowing the violence of the Civil War as a child in the Ozarks, She moves to Dallas in the 1860s and married a former Confederate guerilla who specialized in armed robbery. After he was killed, she found a home among renegade Cherokees in the Indian Territory, on her second husbands allotment. She traveled as far west as Los Angeles to escape the law and as far north as Detroit to go to jail. She married three times and had two children, whom she idolized and tormented. Ironically she was shot when she had decided to go straight, probably murdered by a neighbor who feared that she would turn him in to the police.
This book will find a wide readership among western-history and outlaw buffs, folklorists, sociologists, and regional historians. Shirleys summary of the literature about Belle Starr is as interesting as the true story of Belle herself, who has become the Wests best-known woman outlaw.
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Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write About Their Work on Womenby Carol Ascher, Sara Ruddick, Louise A. DesalvoISBN 080706713X (0-8070-6713-X)
Softcover, Beacon Press
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Beyond Blackby Hilary MantelISBN 0805073566 (0-8050-7356-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberationby Mary DalyISBN 0807015032 (0-8070-1503-2)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice [via]More editions of Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation:
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The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhoodby Shusha GuppyISBN 0807070432 (0-8070-7043-2)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Artby Jan MarshISBN 0805045503 (0-8050-4550-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Bone Black: Memories of Girlhoodby Bell HooksISBN 0805055126 (0-8050-5512-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Bride Priceby Buchi EmechetaISBN 080760951X (0-8076-0951-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Bride Price: Stage 5 1,800 Headwordsby Buchi EmechetaISBN 0807608181 (0-8076-0818-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870by Lisa NorlingISBN 0807848700 (0-8078-4870-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience. [via]
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Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian Westby Margaret R. MilesISBN 0807013064 (0-8070-1306-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Celestial Navigationby Anne TylerISBN 0804108889 (0-8041-0888-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins, and Mothersby Miranda GreenISBN 080761405X (0-8076-1405-X)
Hardcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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The Church and the Second Sexby Mary DalyISBN 0807011010 (0-8070-1101-0)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justiceby Thomas P. LowryISBN 0807129909 (0-8071-2990-9)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice'Book summary:From 1861 through 1865, southern women fought a war within a war. While most of their efforts involved activities such as rolling bandages and organizing charity fairs, many women in the Confederacy, particularly in border states, challenged Federal authority in more direct ways: smuggling maps, medicine, and munitions; aiding deserters; spying; feeding Confederate bushwhackers; cutting Federal telegraph wires. Thomas P. Lowry's investigation into some 75,000 Federal courts-martialuncovered in National Archives files and mostly unexamined since the Civil Warbrings to light women caught up in the inexorable Unionist judicial machinery. Their stories, published here for the first time, often in first-person testimony, compose a remarkable picture of courage and resourcefulness in the face of social, military, and legal constraints. Lowry focuses on 120 women who were convicted of war-related offenses against the U.S. army or government. The court records tell of unusual pluck and bravado among women ranging from plantation elites and city dwellers to impoverished individuals from the margins of southern society. Their crimes included spying and smuggling, desecrating the U.S. flag, participating in invalid marriages to Union soldiers, and managing brothels in which Federal soldiers contracted venereal diseases. Rarest, and perhaps most intriguing of all, are cases in which women took part in armed robberies dressed as men or they concealed documents inside their bodies. Many of the convicts spent time in the little-known Fitchburg Female Prison in Massachusetts. At long last giving these women their place in the pages of history, Lowry shows them strikingand receivinga blow for the Confederate cause, against the conventions of passive femininity. Confederate Heroines brings a new and surprising perspective on the conduct of the Civil War. AUTHOR BIO: Thomas P. Lowry is the author of seven previous books, including Don't Shoot That Boy: Lincoln and Military Justice and Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He is a retired psychiatrist and lives in Woodbridge, Virginia. [via]
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Cranfordby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0805502505 (0-8055-0250-5)
Hardcover, Hart Pub Co
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Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassionby Sandy BoucherISBN 0807013412 (0-8070-1341-2)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Doc Susieby Virginia CornellISBN 0804109567 (0-8041-0956-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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It is 1907 and Doc Susie came to Fraser Colorado with a bad case of tuberculosis and a broken heart. But soon she forgot about her own troubles and lived a life so colorful that Hollywood wanted to make a movie of it. For the first time, here is an account of the real Doc Susie--the amazing, inspiring story of a woman who defied her times and her fears to help those who needed her. [via]More editions of Doc Susie:
Eight Months on Ghazzah Streetby Hilary MantelISBN 0805052038 (0-8050-5203-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0808519549 (0-8085-1954-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Financially Confident Womanby Mary HuntISBN 0805462856 (0-8054-6285-6)
Softcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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The Financially Confident Woman: 9 Habits That Build Your Financial Securityby Mary HuntISBN 0805463003 (0-8054-6300-3)
Softcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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First Generations: Women in Colonial Americaby Carol BerkinISBN 0809016060 (0-8090-1606-0)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Generations: Women in Colonial America'Book summary:This study of American women in the 17th and 18th centuries by historian Carol Berkin gives close attention to the lives of several women like Mary, who was brought to Virginia as a slave in 1622. She married another African, Antonio, and over the course of their 40-year marriage, they earned their freedom and established a 250-acre plantation before moving to Maryland in search of new land. Other black women were not so lucky and, as time progressed, laws restricting black freedom were codified. This study uses legal and other types of records to illuminate the lives and experiences of these and other black, white, and Native American women. [via]
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The Flowering of the Soul: A Book of Prayers by Womenby Lucinda VardeyISBN 0807077178 (0-8070-7717-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Michael HagueISBN 0805002774 (0-8050-0277-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880by Julie Roy JeffreyISBN 0809001411 (0-8090-0141-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920by Alecia P. LongISBN 0807131121 (0-8071-3112-1)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Growing Up Female in Americaby Eve MerriamISBN 0807070092 (0-8070-7009-2)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Hannah Senesh : Her Life and Diaryby Hannah Senesh, Marta Cohn, Abba EbanISBN 0805204105 (0-8052-0410-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Hidden Half of the Family: Sourcebook for Women's Genealogyby Christina SchaeferISBN 0806315822 (0-8063-1582-2)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden Half of the Family: Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy'Book summary:By law and by custom women's individual identities have been subsumed by those of their husbands. For centuries women were not allowed to own real estate in their own name, sign a deed, devise a will, or enter into contracts, and even their citizenship and their position as head of household have been in doubt. Finding women in traditional genealogical record sources, therefore, presents the researcher with a unique challenge, for census records, wills, land records, pension records--the conventional sources of genealogical identification--all have to be viewed in a different perspective if we are to establish the genealogical identity of our female ancestors.
Whether listed under their maiden names, married names, patronymic/matronymic surnames or some other permutation, or hidden under such terms as "Mrs.," "Mistress," "goodwife," "wife of," or even "daughter of," it is clear that women are hard to find. But while women may never be as easy to locate as their male counterparts, Christina Schaefer here pioneers an approach to the problem that just might set genealogy on its head! And her solution is simplicity itself: Look closely at those areas where the female ancestor interacts with the government and the legal system, she advises, where law, precedent, and even custom mandate the unequivocal identification of all parties, male and female. According to this thesis, the legal status of women at any point in time is the key to unraveling the identity of the female ancestor, and therefore this work highlights those laws, both federal and state, that indicate when a woman could own real estate in her own name, devise a will, enter into contracts, and so on. The first part of the book--a lengthy and informative introduction--deals with the special ways women are dealt with in federal records such as immigration records, passports, naturalization records, census enumerations, land records, military records, and records dealing with minorities. All such records are discussed with reference to their impact on women, as are a group of miscellaneous, non-governmental records, including newspapers, cemetery records, city directories, church records, and state laws covering common law marriages and marriage and divorce registration.
The bulk of this absorbing new reference work, however, deals with the individual states, showing how their laws, records, and resources can be used in determining female identity. Each state section begins with a time line of events, i.e. important dates in the state's history, following which is a detailed listing of eight key categories of information: (1) Marriage and Divorce (marriage and divorce laws and where to find marriage and divorce records); (2) Property and Inheritance (women's legal status in a state as reflected in statute law, code, and legislative acts); (3) Suffrage (information as to when any voting rights were granted prior to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920); (4) Citizenship (dates when residents of an area became U.S. citizens); (5) Census Information (special notes on searching federal, state, and territorial enumerations); (6) Other (information on welfare, pensions, and other laws affecting women); (7) Bibliography (books and articles relating to women in the state, historical and biographical sources, and publications regarding legal history and jurisprudence); and (8) Selected Resources for Women's History (addresses of state archives, historical societies, and libraries; women's studies programs, women's history programs, and more). This engrossing new work is as amazing as it is informative: amazing because it shows how women have been written out of genealogical history; informative because it demonstrates how their identities can be recovered. This is a new and promising path in genealogy, suggesting fruitful avenues of research and many new possibilities. [via]
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The Hundred Secret Sensesby Amy TanISBN 080411109X (0-8041-1109-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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I Never Promised You a Rose Gardenby Hannah GreenISBN 0805008721 (0-8050-0872-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'Book summary:[via]The classic novel about a young womans struggle against madness, now a Holt Paperback, with a new afterword by the author
Hailed by The New York Times as "convincing and emotionally gripping" upon its publication in 1964, Joanne Greenbergs semiautobiographical novel stands as a timeless and unforgettable portrayal of mental illness. Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, sixteen-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles toward the possibility of the "normal" life she and her family hope for, the reader is inexorably drawn into her private suffering and deep determination to confront her demons.
A modern classic, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains every bit as poignant, gripping, and relevant today as when it was first published.
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I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentineby Carol Ann Duffy, Trisha RaffertyISBN 0805055452 (0-8050-5545-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Leaving Earthby Helen HumphreysISBN 0805059571 (0-8050-5957-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaving Earth'Book summary:"The plane slips from a spool of blue, stitches a confident loop in the sky. Willa stands by the hangar as the Moth roars above her head, growl of open throttle. The single figure in the rear cockpit waves as the plane flies low over the harbor airfield and then pulls up into a vertical climb. Up and up, the line so straight it could have been drawn with a ruler, could have been a harp string, the plane a note ascending."
Grace O'Gorman, the star-bright aviatrix of Helen Humphreys's debut novel, Leaving Earth, adores her Moth--a two-seat, open-cockpit biplane. It's the 1930s, and together they have wowed the world with stunts, solo long-distance flights, and other record-breaking trips. Glamorous "Air Ace" Grace feels most at home aloft, as opposed to down on Earth, in Toronto, with her husband. That, along with her competitiveness and affinity for fame, is why she's setting out to break the world flight endurance record. She teams up with a young female flyer, Willa Briggs, to circle Toronto for 25 days in August 1933.
In a spare yet warm style, Humphreys unfurls the pair's airborne life. She conjures the physical miseries it inflicts on the body--brought on by rain, cramped space, exhaustion--and makes the subtleties of that exhaustion clear as a cloudless sky. But beyond descriptions of physical discomfort is the emotional distress and elation Willa goes through, to which the author gives exquisite nuance. There's loneliness that forces introspection, yet joy washes over Willa, too--joy for a stripped-down life in the sky with Grace, with whom she is falling in love. Over the roar of the wind Grace and Willa develop a poetic sign language. Around this and around the experience of the sky, Humphreys winds Willa's highs and lows.
Following the Moth's flight is 11-year-old Maddy, whose father and Jewish mother work at a fading amusement park on the Toronto Islands. Maddy worships Grace and so naturally spends her August days tracking the circling biplane. Meanwhile her parents worry about work in the face of the depression and watch a growing anti-Semitism invade their home. From the earth and the sky Humphreys shapes a keen story about human frailty and potential, set when aviation was all about glamour, and World War II not so far away. Here, fear spreads and intimacy blooms. --Katherine Alberg [via]
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Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and About Asian American Womenby Diane Yen-Mei Wong, Emilya CachaperoISBN 0807059056 (0-8070-5905-6)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Mary Hunt's Debt-Proof Livingby Mary HuntISBN 0805420789 (0-8054-2078-9)
Softcover, B & H Pub Group
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Net Chick: A Smart-Girl Guide to the Wired Worldby Carla SinclairISBN 0805043934 (0-8050-4393-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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New French Feminismsby Elaine Marks, Isabelle De CourtivronISBN 0805206817 (0-8052-0681-7)
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Next Time, She'll Be Dead: Battering & How to Stop Itby Ann JonesISBN 080706789X (0-8070-6789-X)
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Offshoreby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0805005617 (0-8050-0561-7)
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Out of This World: Why Literature Matters to Girlsby Holly V. Blackford, Carol ChristISBN 0807744662 (0-8077-4466-2)
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Plum Bunby Jessie Redmon FausetISBN 0807009199 (0-8070-0919-9)
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Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Americaby Mary KelleyISBN 0807854220 (0-8078-5422-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America'Book summary:In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia Terhune, Susan Warner, and Augusta Evans Wilson. These women shared more than commercial success. Collectively they created fictions that Kelley terms "literary domesticity," books that both embraced and called into question the complicated expectations shaping the lives of so many nineteenth-century women. Matured in a culture of domesticity and dismissed by a male writing establishment, they struggled to reconcile public recognition with the traditional roles of wife and mother.
Drawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success. In a new preface, she discusses the explosion in the scholarship on writing women since the original 1984 publication of Private Woman, Public Stage and reflects on the book's ongoing relevance. [via]
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Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Womens Rights in 19th Century Americaby Ann BraudeISBN 0807075019 (0-8070-7501-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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"Radical Spirits is a vitally important book... [that] has... influenced a generation of young scholars." Marie Griffith
In Radical Spirits, Ann Braude contends that the early womens rights movement and Spiritualism went hand in hand. Her book makes a convincing argument for the importance of religion in the study of American womens history.
In this new edition, Braude discusses the impact of the book on the scholarship of the last decade and assesses the place of religion in interpretations of womens history in general and the womens rights movement in particular. A review of current scholarship and suggestions for further reading make it even more useful for contemporary teachers and students.
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Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War and Social Changeby Sherna B. Gluck, Donald A. RitchieISBN 0805790225 (0-8057-9022-5)
Hardcover, Twayne Publishers
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Sarah, Plain and Tallby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 0808599852 (0-8085-9985-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Searching for Calebby Anne TylerISBN 0804108838 (0-8041-0883-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theologyby Rosemary Radford RuetherISBN 080701205X (0-8070-1205-X)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Clearly written, forceful without being overly dogmatic, this classic study remains what theologian Harvey Cox said of it upon its first release: "one of the most important theological books of this or any other season". --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 0805205470 (0-8052-0547-0)
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The Streetby Ann PetryISBN 0807063576 (0-8070-6357-6)
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The Sweetheart Season : A Novelby Karen Joy FowlerISBN 0805047379 (0-8050-4737-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Tale Of Genjiby Kencho Suematsu, Murasaki ShikibuISBN 0804832560 (0-8048-3256-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Tale of Genjiby Murasaki Shikubu, Kencho SuematsuISBN 0804838232 (0-8048-3823-2)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910103 (0-8049-1010-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Tangled Vinesby Lyn LifshinISBN 0807063673 (0-8070-6367-3)
Hardcover, Beacon Press
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Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated Southby Susan TuckerISBN 080712799X (0-8071-2799-X)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Tiptionaryby Mary HuntISBN 0805401474 (0-8054-0147-4)
Softcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tiptionary'Book summary:Whether you want to clean stubborn toilet-bowl stains or increase your car's gas mileage, Tiptionary amasses helpful advice for every household problem under the sun. With hints for family, food, home, cars, personal finances, and travel, it's like having all the advice your mother ever gave you--and you promptly forgot--collected into one compact volume. Rusty garden tools? Clean them with steel wool soaked in soap and then dipped in turpentine. Having trouble limiting your credit-card purchases? Write down the number and expiration date for emergencies, then freeze the card itself in a block of ice. Collected by the publisher of Cheapskate Monthly, a newsletter promoting financial responsibility, Tiptionary is a handy and humorous guide to making the most of your time and money--and it gives you more ways to recycle used dryer sheets than you ever imagined possible. [via]
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Traveller in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan Buddhismby June CampbellISBN 0807614068 (0-8076-1406-8)
Hardcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhismby Sandy BoucherISBN 0807073059 (0-8070-7305-9)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Understood Betsyby Dorothea Frances Fisher, Kimberly Bulcken RootISBN 0805060731 (0-8050-6073-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understood Betsy'Book summary:Anyone who fondly remembers how the fresh air of the moors puts a blush in the cheeks of sallow young Mary in The Secret Garden will love Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Understood Betsy just as much. First published in 1916, this engaging classic tells the tale of a thin, pale 9-year-old orphan named Elizabeth Ann who is whisked away from her city home and relocated to a Vermont farm where her cousins, the "dreaded Putneys," live. The Putneys are not as bad as her doting, high-strung Aunt Frances warns, however, and Elizabeth, who had been nurtured by her aunt like an overwatered sapling--positively blooms under their breezy, earthy care.
Elizabeth Ann's first victories are small ones--taking the reins from Uncle Harry, doing her own hair, making her own breakfast--but children will revel in the awakening independence and growing self-confidence of a girl who learns to think for herself... and even laugh. Along the way, "citified" readers of all ages will get a glimpse into the lives of people who are truly connected to the world around them--making butter ("We always bought ours," says Elizabeth Ann), experiencing the "rapt wonder that people in the past were really people," and understanding the difference between failing in school and failing at life. Fisher is a wise, personable storyteller, steeped in the Montessori principles of learning for its own sake, the value of process, and the importance of "indirect support" in child rearing. She also captures the tempestuous emotional life of a child as few authors can, crafting a story that children will find deeply satisfying. And in the end, readers will have grown as fond of the happier, stronger "Betsy" as the gentle, unassuming Putneys have.
Loving care was dolloped on this 1999 reissue of an old favorite--with sweet new pencil illustrations by Kimberly Bulcken Root, and an introduction and afterword by Eden Ross Lipson that offer a historical context for the book and its author. (Ages 8 to 12) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimesby Mary S. HartmanISBN 0805236082 (0-8052-3608-2)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in 19th Century England, France and the United Statesby Erna HellersteinISBN 0804710880 (0-8047-1088-0)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France and the United Statesby Erna O. HellersteinISBN 0804710961 (0-8047-1096-1)
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Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Languageby Mary Daly, Jane CaputiISBN 0807067334 (0-8070-6733-4)
Softcover, Beacon Press
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A Woman's Heart: Member Bookby Beth MooreISBN 0805498362 (0-8054-9836-2)
Softcover, Lifeway Christian Resources
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Women Of The Reformation In France And Englandby Roland Herbert BaintonISBN 0806613335 (0-8066-1333-5)
Hardcover, Augsburg Pub. House
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Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticismby Anthony C Yu, Kang-I Sun Chang, Haun Saussy, Charles Kwong, Yu-Kung KaoISBN 0804732310 (0-8047-3231-0)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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These poets include empresses, imperial concubines, courtesans, grandmothers, recluses, Buddhist nuns, widows, painters, farm wives, revolutionaries, and adolescent girls thought to be incarnate immortals. Some women wrote out of isolation and despair, finding in words a mastery that otherwise eluded them. Others were recruited into poetry by family members, friends, or sympathetic male advocates. Some dwelt on intimate family matters and cast their poems as addresses to husbands and sons at large in the wide world of mens affairs. Each woman had her own reasons for poetry and her own ways of appropriating, and often changing, the conventions of both mens and womens verse.
The primary purpose of this anthology is to put before the English-speaking reader evidence of the poetic talent that flourished, against all odds, among women in premodern China. It is also designed to spur reflection among specialists in Chinese poetry, inspiring new perspectives on both the Chinese poetic tradition and the canon of female poets within that tradition. This partial history both connects with and departs from the established patterns for womens writing in the West, thus complementing current discussions of feminine writing.More editions of Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism:
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The Women's Chronology: A Year-By-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Presentby James TragerISBN 0805042342 (0-8050-4234-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Women's Westby Susan Armitage, Elizabeth JamesonISBN 0806120673 (0-8061-2067-3)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Writing Woman : Essays on Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modernby Sheila DelanyISBN 0805207562 (0-8052-0756-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modernby Sheila DelanyISBN 0805238697 (0-8052-3869-7)
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