| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “womens studies” (women's studies)
books tagged “womens studies”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoesby Maya AngelouISBN 067973404X (0-679-73404-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes'More editions of All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes:
-
Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Leonard J. Kent, Constance Black Garnett, Nina Nikolaevna BerberovaISBN 067978330X (0-679-78330-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life." [via]
More editions of Anna Karenina:
-
The Annotated Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679727299 (0-679-72729-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Lolita'Book summary:In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolita, his morality play about a middle-aged European's obsession with a 12-year-old American girl. Two years later, the New York Times called it "great art." Other reviewers staked a higher moral ground (the editor of the London Sunday Express declaring it "the filthiest book I've ever read"). Since then, the sinuous novel has never ceased to astound. Even Nabokov was astonished by its place in the popular imagination. One biographer writes that "he was quite shocked when a little girl of eight or nine came to his door for candy on Halloween, dressed up by her parents as Lolita." And when it came time to casting the film, Nabokov declared, "Let them find a dwarfess!"
The character Lolita's power now exists almost separately from the endlessly inventive novel. If only it were read as often as it is alluded to. Alfred Appel Jr., editor of the annotated edition, has appended some 900 notes, an exhaustive, good-humored introduction, and a recent preface in which he admits that the "reader familiar with Lolita can approach the apparatus as a separate unit, but the perspicacious student who keeps turning back and forth from text to Notes risks vertigo." No matter. The notes range from translations to the anatomical to the complex textual. Appel is also happy to point out the Great Punster's supposedly unintended word play: he defends the phrase "Beaver Eaters" as "a portmanteau of 'Beefeaters' (the yeoman of the British royal guard) and their beaver hats." [via]
More editions of The Annotated Lolita:
-
Another Countryby James BaldwinISBN 0679744711 (0-679-74471-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Country'Book summary:Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s. [via]
More editions of Another Country:
Art Talk:Conversations with 12 Women Artists: Conversations with 12 Women Artistsby Cindy NemserISBN 0684139847 (0-684-13984-7)
Hardcover, Scribner
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Art Talk:Conversations with 12 Women Artists: Conversations with 12 Women Artists'More editions of Art Talk:Conversations with 12 Women Artists: Conversations with 12 Women Artists:
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklasby Gertrude SteinISBN 067972463X (0-679-72463-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'More editions of Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas:
-
The Awakeningby Kate Chopin, Nina BaymISBN 0679783334 (0-679-78333-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening, and Other Stories.'Book summary:In turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Edna Pontellier, a woman who feels trapped in her stifling role as wife and mother, falls passionately in love with another man. 15,000 first printing. [via]
Birth of a Nation'Hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Caseby Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky LacourISBN 0679758933 (0-679-75893-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Birth of a Nation'Hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case'More editions of Birth of a Nation'Hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case:
-
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in Americaby Sara M. EvansISBN 0684834987 (0-684-83498-7)
Softcover, Free Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America'Book summary:9 1/4"L/6"W 386 pages [via]
More editions of Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America:
Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian Westby Margaret R. MilesISBN 0679734015 (0-679-73401-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West'More editions of Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West:
Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out about Abortionby Angela BonavogliaISBN 0679742476 (0-679-74247-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out about Abortion'More editions of Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out about Abortion:
Civil Warsby June JordanISBN 0684814048 (0-684-81404-8)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Civil Wars'More editions of Civil Wars:
A Country Year : Living the Questionsby Sue HubbellISBN 0679769501 (0-679-76950-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Country Year : Living the Questions'More editions of A Country Year : Living the Questions:
Daisy Bates in the Desert/a Woman's Life Among the Aborigines: A Woman's Life Among the Aboriginesby Julia Blackburn, Robin DesserISBN 0679744460 (0-679-74446-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Bates in the Desert/a Woman's Life Among the Aborigines: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines'More editions of Daisy Bates in the Desert/a Woman's Life Among the Aborigines: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines:
Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rightsby Nadine StrossenISBN 0684197499 (0-684-19749-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights'More editions of Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights:
Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Womenby Elsa WalshISBN 0684804018 (0-684-80401-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women'More editions of Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women:
-
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteriaby Sigmund FreudISBN 0684829460 (0-684-82946-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria'More editions of Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria:
Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biographyby James BrabazonISBN 0684168642 (0-684-16864-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biography'More editions of Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biography:
-
Edith Whartonby Edith WhartonISBN 068100570X (0-681-00570-X)
Softcover, Octopus Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Edith Wharton'Book summary:Age of Innocence House of Mirth Ethan Frome [via]
More editions of Edith Wharton:
-
El Arroyo De LA Lloronaby Sandra Cisneros, Liliana ValenzuelaISBN 0679768041 (0-679-76804-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Arroyo De LA Llorona'Book summary:The highly acclaimed short story collection by the author of The House on Mango Street is now available in a Spanish edition. El arroyo de La Llorana brings to life an astonishing array of characters and, like La casa en Mango Street, promises to become a book that will be cherished around the world. "Radiant."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
More editions of El Arroyo De LA Llorona:
Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girlsby David Sadker, Myra SadkerISBN 0684195410 (0-684-19541-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls'More editions of Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls:
Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girlsby David Sadker, Myra SadkerISBN 068480073X (0-684-80073-X)
Softcover, Scribner
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls'More editions of Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls:
-
Fall on Your Knees: Library Editionby Ann-Marie MacDonaldISBN 0684833204 (0-684-83320-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fall on Your Knees: Library Edition'Book summary:books [via]
More editions of Fall on Your Knees: Library Edition:
Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters With the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Furyby Donna MinkowitzISBN 0684833220 (0-684-83322-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters With the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fury'More editions of Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters With the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fury:
Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Societyby Mary Beth NortonISBN 0679749772 (0-679-74977-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society'More editions of Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society:
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Usby Kate BornsteinISBN 0679757015 (0-679-75701-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us'More editions of Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us:
-
Gift from the Seaby Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 0679732411 (0-679-73241-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gift from the Sea'Book summary:In this inimitable, beloved classic-graceful, lucid and lyrical-Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh's musings on the shape of a woman's life bring new understanding to both men and women at any stage of life. A mother of five, an acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator, Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple commitments that take us from our families. And by recording her thoughts during a brief escape from everyday demands, she helps readers find a space for contemplation and creativity within their own lives.With great wisdom and insight Lindbergh describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage, presenting a vision of life as it is lived in an enduring and evolving partnership. A groundbreaking, best-selling work when it was originally published in 1955, Gift from the Sea continues to be discovered by new generations of readers. With a new introduction by Lindbergh's daughter Reeve, this fiftieth-anniversary edition will give those who are revisiting the book and those who are coming upon it for the first time fresh insight into the life of this remarkable woman.The sea and the beach are elements that have been woven throughout Anne Morrow Lindbergh's life. She spent her childhood summers with her family on a Maine island. After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh in 1929, she accompanied him on his survey flights around the North Atlantic to launch the first transoceanic airlines. The Lindberghs eventually established a permanent home on the Connecticut coast, where they lived quietly, wrote books and raised their family. [via]
More editions of Gift from the Sea:
-
Girl, Interruptedby Susanna KaysenISBN 0679746048 (0-679-74604-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl, Interrupted'Book summary:When reality got "too dense" for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon reality possess Kaysen's lucidity in sorting out a maelstrom of contrary perceptions. Her observations about hospital life are deftly rendered; often darkly funny. Her clarity about the complex province of brain and mind, of neuro-chemical activity and something more, make this book of brief essays an exquisite challenge to conventional thinking about what is normal and what is deviant. [via]
More editions of Girl, Interrupted:
-
Gone with the Windby Margaret MitchellISBN 0684826259 (0-684-82625-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone with the Wind'Book summary:An anniversary edition of Margaret Mitchell's timeless classic. [via]
More editions of Gone with the Wind:
The Heidi Chronicles and Other Playsby Wendy WassersteinISBN 0679734996 (0-679-73499-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays'More editions of The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays:
Her Own Woman : The Life of Mary Wollstonecraftby Diane JacobsISBN 068481093X (0-684-81093-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Her Own Woman : The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft'More editions of Her Own Woman : The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft:
-
The History of Sexuality: An Introductionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679724699 (0-679-72469-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Sexuality: An Introduction'Book summary:The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. [via]
More editions of The History of Sexuality: An Introduction:
-
The House of Mirthby Edith Wharton, Anita BrooknerISBN 068480123X (0-684-80123-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
More editions of The House of Mirth:
- The House of Mirth: ISBN 0684146584 (0-684-14658-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0679725393 (0-679-72539-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0684719282 (0-684-71928-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The House of Mirth: ISBN 068480123X (0-684-80123-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- The House of Mirth: ISBN 0684146584 (0-684-14658-4)
-
Imagining Characters: Conversations About Women Writers Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrisonby A. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre, Rebecca SwiftISBN 0679777539 (0-679-77753-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Imagining Characters: Conversations About Women Writers Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison'Book summary:In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. The results are nothing less than an education in the ways literature grips its readers and, at times, transforms their lives. Imagining Characters is indispensable, a work of criticism that returns us to the books it discusses with renewed respect and wonder. [via]
More editions of Imagining Characters: Conversations About Women Writers Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison:
Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circleby Lois W. BannerISBN 0679776125 (0-679-77612-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle'More editions of Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle:
Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritageby Elaine ShowalterISBN 0684822636 (0-684-82263-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage'More editions of Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage:
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickensby Claire TomalinISBN 0679738193 (0-679-73819-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens'More editions of The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens:
-
It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Usby Hillary Rodham ClintonISBN 0684818434 (0-684-81843-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Us'Book summary:The First Lady, a longtime child advocate, expresses her concerns for the children of today's world and offers her ideas for developing our society into one that values children's unique contributions. [via]
More editions of It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Us:
- It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Us: ISBN 0684825457 (0-684-82545-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us: ISBN 0684826615 (0-684-82661-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Us: ISBN 0684818434 (0-684-81843-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
- It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Us: ISBN 0684825457 (0-684-82545-7)
-
Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0679783326 (0-679-78332-6)
Softcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Introduction by Diane Johnson
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope
Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the worlds most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work of great genius. Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontës masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the worlds most beloved novels.
Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide [via]More editions of Jane Eyre:
-
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Libertyby Dorothy RobertsISBN 0679758690 (0-679-75869-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty'Book summary:Dorothy Roberts' passionate and well-documented book looks at a less-talked about side of the battle for reproductive rights: the history of the social and governmental control of African American women's bodies.
Roberts, a law professor at Rutgers University, asserts that African American women have been engaged from the start in an ongoing fight to gain control of their reproductive choice. First, in the early days of American slavery, from control by white "masters" who forced slaves to produce children to work for them, and now, from government "solutions" to African American child-bearing like the distribution of the long-term contraceptive Norplant in African American communities.
Roberts also takes the mainstream feminist movement to task for working mostly for the "negative right" of liberty, that is, the right of women to not have the government involved in their reproductive decision-making. To Roberts this debate, focused mainly on government non-interference, ignores issues especially important to African American women such as access to contraception or reproduction technologies. "Reproductive freedom is a matter of social justice," she says, stating further that it is social inequality, more than any legal interference, that severely limits African American women's ability to choose how and whether to have children. "We need a way of rethinking the meaning of liberty so that it protects all citizens equally," Roberts writes. "I propose that focusing on the connection between reproductive rights and racial equality is the place to start." --Maria Dolan [via]
More editions of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty:
-
The Kitchen God's Wifeby Amy TanISBN 0679748083 (0-679-74808-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kitchen God's Wife'Book summary:With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter. [via]
More editions of The Kitchen God's Wife:
Latinaby Lillian Castillo-SpeedISBN 0684802406 (0-684-80240-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Latina'Book summary:A collection of works by well-known and emerging Latina writers includes short stories, excerpts from novels, and nonfiction pieces from a range of contributors--Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Denise Chavez, Ana Castillo, Cristina Garcia, and Sandra Beni+a7tez. [via]
Maiden Voyagesby Mary Morris, Larry O'ConnorISBN 0679740309 (0-679-74030-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Maiden Voyages'More editions of Maiden Voyages:
-
Manhood in America: A Cultural Historyby Michael KimmelISBN 0684837129 (0-684-83712-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Manhood in America: A Cultural History'Book summary:In a time when psychologists are rediscovering Darwin, and much of our social behavioral is being reduced to ancient, hard-wired patterns, Michael Kimmel's history of manhood in America comes as a much needed reminder that our behavior as men and women is anything but stable and fixed. Kimmel's authoritative, entertaining, and wide-ranging history of men in America demonstrates that manhood has meant very different things in different eras. Drawing on advice books, magazines, political pamphlets, and popular novels and films, he makes two surprising claims: First, manhood is homosocial - that is, men need to prove themselves to each other, not to women. Second, definitions of manliness have evolved in response to women's movements. When women act, men react. Originally, manliness was an internal virtue and a democratic ideal - British men were viewed as fops, and American men had to be independent, honest, and responsible. By the 1890s, however, manhood changed to masculinity, something that had to be constantly proven through the new explosion of sports, fraternities, and fashion. Finally, in 1936, Lewis Terman, the creator of the IQ test, developed an "M-F" test to analyze adolescents' masculinity and femininity. Until well into the 1960s, the test penalized boys who preferred to draw flowers instead of forests, or who knew that a teacup was used for drinking tea. But just as Terman's categories and questions seem outdated to us, so will our own standards seem temporary to our successors. [via]
More editions of Manhood in America: A Cultural History:
-
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812by Laurel Thatcher UlrichISBN 0679733760 (0-679-73376-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812'Book summary:Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier. [via]
More editions of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812:
-
Midwivesby Chris BohjalianISBN 0679771468 (0-679-77146-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Midwives'Book summary:On a violent, stormy winter night, a home birth goes disastrously wrong. The phone lines are down, the roads slick with ice. The midwife, unable to get her patient to a hospital, works frantically to save both mother and child while her inexperienced assistant and the woman's terrified husband look on. The mother dies but the baby is saved thanks to an emergency C-section. And then the nightmare begins: the assistant suggests that maybe the woman wasn't really dead when the midwife operated:
Did she perform at least eight or nine cycles as my mother said, or four or five as Asa recalled? That is the sort of detail that was disputable. But at some point within minutes of what my mother believed had been a stroke, after my mother concluded the cardiopulmonary resuscitation had failed to generate a pulse or a breath, she screamed for Asa and Anne to find her the sharpest knife in the house.
In Midwives, Chris Bohjalian chronicles the events leading up to the trial of Sibyl Danforth, a respected midwife in the small Vermont town of Reddington, on charges of manslaughter. It quickly becomes evident, however, that Sibyl is not the only one on trial--the prosecuting attorney and the state's medical community are all anxious to use this tragedy as ammunition against midwifery in general; this particular midwife, after all, an ex-hippie who still evokes the best of the flower-power generation, is something of an anachronism in 1981. Through it all, Sibyl, her husband, Rand, and their teenage daughter, Connie, attempt to keep their family intact, but the stress of the trial--and Sibyl's growing closeness to her lawyer--puts pressure on both marriage and family. Bohjalian takes readers through the intricacies of childbirth and the law, and by the end of Sibyl Danforth's trial, it's difficult to decide which was more harrowing--the tragic delivery or its legal aftermath.Narrated by a now adult Connie, Midwives moves back and forth in time, fitting vital pieces of information about what happened that night like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle into its complicated plot. As Connie looks back on her mother's trial, she is still trying to understand what happened--not on the night of the disaster--but in the months and years that followed. --Margaret Prior [via]
More editions of Midwives:
-
Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil Warby Drew Gilpin FaustISBN 0679781048 (0-679-78104-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War'Book summary:A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Winner of the Avery Craven Prize
In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as "women" but as "ladies," models of dependent femininity. But that ideal was to prove impossible to maintain during the social upheaval of the Civil War, when they found themselves suddenly assuming unaccustomed roles as workers, protectors, and providers. Through the use of hundreds of moving and eloquent letters, memoirs, and diary excerpts, Drew Gilpin Faust, one of the foremost historians of the American South, illuminates the lives of a wide array of Confederate women: from Lizzie Neblett, a housewife facing a life of physical labor for the first time, to Sallie Tompkins, a Virginia aristocrat turned military nurse, to Belle Boyd, a ruthless teenaged spy. An intensely personal work of scholarship, Mothers of Invention gives voice to the hitherto silent half of the Confederacy's ruling class and explains how its ethos continues to influence the lives of Southern women even today.
"A dramatically revealing study...[Faust looks] directly at the past, with a daughter's hard, steady gaze, and with a daughter's generous heart."--New York Times Book Review [via]More editions of Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War:
The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New Yorkby Patricia Cline CohenISBN 0679740759 (0-679-74075-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York'More editions of The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York:
-
The Narrative of Sojourner Truthby Margaret WashingtonISBN 067974035X (0-679-74035-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrative of Sojourner Truth'Book summary:Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. With an eloquence that resonates more than a century after its original publication in 1850, the narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's thirty years of bondage in upstate New York and to the mystical revelations that turned her into a passionate and indefatigable abolitionist.
In this new edition, which has been edited and extensively annotated by the distinguished scholar and biographer of Sojourner Truth, Margaret Washington, Truth's testimony takes on added dimensions: as a lens into the little-known world of northern slavery; as a chronicle of spiritual conversion; and as an inspiring account of a black woman striving for personal and political empowerment. [via]More editions of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth:
Necessary Dreams: Ambition In Women's Changing Livesby Anna FelsISBN 0679758887 (0-679-75888-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Necessary Dreams: Ambition In Women's Changing Lives'More editions of Necessary Dreams: Ambition In Women's Changing Lives:
-
The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Womenby The Boston Women's Health Book CollectiveISBN 0684823527 (0-684-82352-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women'Book summary:Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century is the first major revision of this classic since 1984 and reflects the major changes that have occurred in every area of women's health. It is still the definitive consumer health reference of all women. This new focus encompasses such controversial issues as: -- Managing "managed care" and the insurance industry -- Questioning breast cancer treatment options -- Recent scientific developments in contraception and reproductive technology, including drug-induced abortions -- Violence as a women's public health issue -- Preventing and living with HIV/AIDS -- The impact of racism on sexuality -- Chiropractic, herbal, and other alternative/complementary therapies, including natural approaches to menopause -- Poverty and racism as major determinants of women's health. [via]
More editions of The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women:
On Gold Mountainby Lisa SeeISBN 0679768521 (0-679-76852-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'On Gold Mountain'More editions of On Gold Mountain:
Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Presentby Neil MillerISBN 0679749888 (0-679-74988-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present'More editions of Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present:
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the Worldby Claudia Roth PierpontISBN 0679751130 (0-679-75113-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World'More editions of Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World:
-
Possessionby A. S. ByattISBN 0679735909 (0-679-73590-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Possession'Book summary:National Bestseller Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire-from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom. [via]
More editions of Possession:
The Prospect Before Herby Olwen HuftonISBN 0679768181 (0-679-76818-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe'
The Same River Twiceby Alice WalkerISBN 0684814196 (0-684-81419-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Same River Twice'More editions of The Same River Twice:
Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberationby Andrea DworkinISBN 0684836122 (0-684-83612-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation'More editions of Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation:
-
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0679783350 (0-679-78335-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald MacLeish has noted the "curious energy" which pervades Emily Dickinson's work. She, along with Walt Whitman, helps make up the very foundation of American poetry. This Modern Library edition from Random House is an excellent overview of Dickinson's work, divided by theme, including "Life," "Nature," "Love," and so forth. This volume of selected poems is a must for any serious reader of American poetry. [via]
More editions of The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson:
-
Selected Writings of Gertrude Steinby Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten, F.W. DupeeISBN 0679724648 (0-679-72464-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein'Book summary:"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso; Tender Buttons; the opera Four Saints in Three Acts; and poem, plays, lectures, articles, sketches, and a generous portion of her famous book on the Occupation of France, Wars I Have Seen. [via]
More editions of Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein:
Sexual Arrangements: Marriage and the Temptation of Infidelityby Martin Richards, Janet Alese ReibsteinISBN 0684195402 (0-684-19540-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual Arrangements: Marriage and the Temptation of Infidelity'More editions of Sexual Arrangements: Marriage and the Temptation of Infidelity:
-
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinsonby Camille PagliaISBN 0679735798 (0-679-73579-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Vintage 1990 soft cover, perfect condition and ready to ship the same day! [via]
More editions of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson:
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughesby Janet MalcolmISBN 0679751408 (0-679-75140-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes'More editions of The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes:
Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmo Therby Helie LeeISBN 0684827115 (0-684-82711-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmo Ther'Book summary:As told by her granddaugher, the biography of Hongyoung Baek, born in 1912 in Korea, into a socially repressive, male-dominated society, describes her struggles to overcome the pains of war, loss, and discrimination. 20,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
More editions of Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmo Ther:
- Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmo Ther: ISBN 0684802708 (0-684-80270-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmo Ther: ISBN 0684827115 (0-684-82711-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmo Ther: ISBN 0684802708 (0-684-80270-8)
Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Cultureby Katha PollittISBN 0679783431 (0-679-78343-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture'More editions of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture:
-
Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder Full Selfby SarkISBN 068483376X (0-684-83376-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder Full Self'Book summary:This book is my glowing invitation to you -- to live a rich, succulent life! I explore love, sexuality, romance, money, fat, fear and creativity. It's a little bit like reading my diary -- with permission. Succulence is powerFull! and so are we as women. [via]
More editions of Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder Full Self:
-
Surface Tension: Love, Sex, and Politics Between Lesbians and Straight Womenby Meg DalyISBN 068480221X (0-684-80221-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Surface Tension: Love, Sex, and Politics Between Lesbians and Straight Women'Book summary:Representing a fascinating spectrum of feelings and opinions about lesbianism, the friendships women share -- or fear -- and the rich diversity of personal choices women make today, this collection of brash and thoughtful essays, stories, and interviews offers
-- Dorothy Allison on what it means to be a lesbian
-- Carla Trujillo on the impact of "sexual betrayal" by an ex-lover
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel on the creative freedom experienced only by lesbians
-- Susie Bright on the sexual dance between lesbians and straight women
-- Guinevere Turner on the pain of reconciling one's sexual orientation with past relationships [via]More editions of Surface Tension: Love, Sex, and Politics Between Lesbians and Straight Women:
Technical Difficulties : African-American Notes on the State of the Unionby June JordanISBN 0679747621 (0-679-74762-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Technical Difficulties : African-American Notes on the State of the Union'More editions of Technical Difficulties : African-American Notes on the State of the Union:
This Side of Peaceby Hanan AshrawiISBN 068482342X (0-684-82342-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'This Side of Peace'More editions of This Side of Peace:
This Side of Peace : A Personal Accountby Hanan AshrawiISBN 0684802945 (0-684-80294-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'This Side of Peace : A Personal Account'More editions of This Side of Peace : A Personal Account:
The Timetables of Women's History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Women's Historyby Karen GreenspanISBN 0684815796 (0-684-81579-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Timetables of Women's History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Women's History'More editions of The Timetables of Women's History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Women's History:
-
Vamps and Tramps: New Essaysby Camille PagliaISBN 0679751203 (0-679-75120-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Vamps and Tramps: New Essays'Book summary:The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book form, and many will be appearing in print for the first time. [via]
More editions of Vamps and Tramps: New Essays:
-
Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Lifeby Marjorie GarberISBN 0684824124 (0-684-82412-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life'Book summary:Despite the flood of sexuality theory and queer cultural studies in 20th-century academia, bisexuality--and the many questions and problems surrounding it--has been little considered. In Vice Versa, Marjorie Garber, director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University, takes on this enormous project with refreshing academic rigor and compelling enthusiasm. Covering cultural influences from antiquity through early psychoanalysis to such recent provocateurs as Geraldo Rivera and Susie Bright, Garber calls into question the basic underpinnings of even the most radical views of human sexuality. She suggests that bisexuality is "not just another sexual orientation but rather a sexuality that undoes sexual orientation as a category," and leads us through the ensuing ruckus with wit and grace.
Vice Versa offers personal accounts, clinical studies, and analysis from every possible camp to demonstrate Garber's thesis that bisexuality as an idea and an experience "disappears" or is erased from our discussions of sexuality at every turn through the normalizing (not to mention limiting) influence of the terms of the discussion itself. Her call to recognize bisexuality as not only valid but deeply transgressive--and therefore useful--in our culture is urgent and marked by a great affection for her subjects, from Freud to Madonna. "One of the key purposes of studying bisexuality is not to get people to 'admit' they 'are' bisexual," she says, "but rather to restore to them and the people they have loved the full, complex, and often contradictory stories of their lives." --Jessica Peterson [via]
More editions of Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life:
The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fictionby Joan Nestle, Naomi HolochISBN 0679759522 (0-679-75952-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction'More editions of The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction:
-
The Warrior Queensby Antonia FraserISBN 0679728163 (0-679-72816-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Warrior Queens'Book summary:In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser looks at women who led armies and empires: Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Jinga Mbandi, Margaret Thatcher, and Indira Gandhi, among others. [via]
More editions of The Warrior Queens:
-
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Womenby Danielle CrittendenISBN 0684832194 (0-684-83219-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Women'Book summary:Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that something has gone terribly wrong with their lives. They have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of. Yet women feel more confused and more insecure than ever. Now one of the leading female commentators of her generation exposes the ideas that prevent modern women from finding happiness and points the way to a better future.
What has gone wrong? What can be done to set it right? These are the questions Danielle Crittenden answers in "What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us." Crittenden is the founder and editor of "The Women's Quarterly" magazine. In only four years, Crittenden's "Quarterly" has made itself the center of a new national debate about women. Her views and writings have been cited, reprinted, argued, lauded, and criticized across the country. Mary Matalin describes the "Quarterly" as "one of my most favorite magazines on the planet." George Will calls it "a bright light," and even Betty Friedan, with whom Crittenden has sparred, concedes that her views are on "the cutting edge."
In "What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us," Crittenden looks at the big topics in women's lives: sex, marriage, motherhood, work, aging, and politics. She argues that a generation of women has been misled: taught to blame men and pursue independence at all costs. Happiness is obtainable, Crittenden says, but only if women will free their minds from outdated feminist slogans and habits of behavior:
"There are a great many women unhappy because they acted upon the wisdom passed along to them by the people they most trusted. These women thought they did everything right only to have it turn out all wrong. That thewisdom they received was faulty, that it was based on false assumptions, is a hard lesson for anyone to learn. But it is a lesson every woman growing up today will have to learn as I, and thousands upon thousands of women of my generation, had to learn, often painfully."
By drawing on her own experience and the decade she has spent researching and analyzing modern female life, Crittenden passionately and engagingly tackles the myths that keep women from realizing the happiness they deserve. And she introduces a new way of thinking about women's problems that may, finally, help women achieve the lives they desire. "What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us" is sure to ignite debate not only across the country but, more compellingly, within the reader herself. [via]
More editions of What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Women:
-
Where Women Stand : An International Report on the Status of Women in 140 Countries 1997-1998by A. Levine, Naomi NeftISBN 0679780157 (0-679-78015-7)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Where Women Stand : An International Report on the Status of Women in 140 Countries 1997-1998'Book summary:Worldwide, women have made great strides in the past few decades, as this valuable reference listing 140 countries shows. Health, life expectancies, and literacy rates among women have improved. Seats in public office have been gained. But pockets of resistance to the concept of women's rights have turned back the clock in several countries. Strict Islamic law demanded by the religious fundamentalist Taliban in Afghanistan hobbles women severely. Kuwaiti women are still not allowed to vote. A resurgent Catholic Church in post-Communist Poland temporarily restricted liberal abortion laws in 1993. And worldwide violence against women--from domestic assault to mass rape sanctioned during war--continues apace. Based largely on U.N.-sponsored research, this fact-filled book includes 21 in-depth country profiles. [via]
More editions of Where Women Stand : An International Report on the Status of Women in 140 Countries 1997-1998:
-
The Wives of Henry VIIIby Antonia FraserISBN 067973001X (0-679-73001-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wives of Henry VIII'Book summary:When we think of the wives of Henry VIII, we tend to think of women who literally lost their heads. But Antonia Fraser opens the door to the political and cultural demands that shaped the destinies of the king and his royal wives. Romance, unfortunately, rarely had anything to do with it. And if you think the modern American media is too tough on political leadership, you oughta READ about the royal court in King Henry's day! That's one family you'd never want to marry into. [via]
More editions of The Wives of Henry VIII:
-
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Storiesby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0679738568 (0-679-73856-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'Book summary:A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom. [via]
More editions of Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories:
Women at War: A Record of Their Patriotic Contributions, Heroism, Toils and Sacrifice During the Civil Warby Mary C. Vaughan, L. P. BrockettISBN 0681455039 (0-681-45503-9)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Women at War: A Record of Their Patriotic Contributions, Heroism, Toils and Sacrifice During the Civil War'More editions of Women at War: A Record of Their Patriotic Contributions, Heroism, Toils and Sacrifice During the Civil War:
-
Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women An Anthologyby Jill K. ConwayISBN 0679736336 (0-679-73633-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women An Anthology'Book summary:Jill Ker Conway (The Road from Coorain ) edits this sterling selection of autobiographical excerpts by 25 American women. Among them are artists, scientists, doctors, writers, and reformers, all well chosen though not necessarily well known. Physician Anne Walter Fearn writes of decades dispensing Western medicine in China and struggling with her husband, a God-fearing medical missionary who was "born to give orders just as definitely as I was born not to take them." The heart-rending narrative of former slave Harriet Ann Jacob, who tells of abortive and finally successful attempts to free herself and her children segues into Maya Angelou's more widely read contemporary account of doggedly soliciting sex as a teen uncertain of her sexual identity and hoping to be ushered into "that strange and exotic land of frills and femininity." [via]
More editions of Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women An Anthology:
Written by Herself Vol. 2 : Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia and the United Statesby Jill Ker ConwayISBN 0679751092 (0-679-75109-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Written by Herself Vol. 2 : Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia and the United States'More editions of Written by Herself Vol. 2 : Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia and the United States:
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writingsby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0679783407 (0-679-78340-7)
Softcover, Princeton Review
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings'More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}