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Mankiller: A Chief and Her People (Audi O Literature Presents)

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People (Audi O Literature Presents)

by Wilma Mankiller, Michael Wallis

In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle, and her book becomes a quest to reclaim and preserve the great Native... (more)

Why Women Should Rule the World

by Dee Dee Myers

What would happen if women ruled the world? Everything could change, according to former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Politics would be more collegial. Businesses would be more productive. And communities would be healthier. Empowering women would make the world a better place—not because women are the same as men, but precisely because they are different. Blending memoir, social history, and... (more)

The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery

The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery

by J. Fletcher

Nefertiti - 'the Beautiful' - is one of Egypt's most compelling and mysterious figures. She and her controversial pharaoh husband Akhenaten lived in perhaps the most tumultuous period in the country's long history, fascinating for both the enormous changes it brought to Egypt's culture and the many mysteries surrounding it. Top Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher has taken a fresh eye to the evidence and arrived at one... (more)

Eleanor of Aquitaine : A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Eleanor of Aquitaine : A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Alison Weir

Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. In this beautifully written biography,... (more)

Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Cook hit a nerve with her portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt--the brave, fierce, passionate, political heroine of our century. A national bestseller, her authoritative biography has been celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, potential first ladies, and by reviewers everywhere. Now this seminal work depicting the life and achievements of an inspiring First Lady is available in trade paperback. Photographs.

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

by Bell Hooks

A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving....There can be no love without justice.-from the chapter "To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism" In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed... (more)

The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, And Fate

The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, And Fate

by Marjorie Williams

Beloved by readers and critics nationwide, The Woman at the Washington Zoo collects Marjorie Williams's brilliant writings-from sharp political profiles to witty commentary on gender and family life to tender, intensely personal explorations of illness and loss. A Washington Post columnist and contributing editor at Vanity Fair , Marjorie wrote political portraits that came to be considered the... (more)

In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

by Susan Brownmiller

There once was a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape crisis center or a shelter for battered women, when "sexual harassment" had not yet been named and defined. "If conditions are right," Susan Brownmiller says in this stunning memoir, "if the anger of enough people... (more)

Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat

Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat

by Paula Gunn Allen

In striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn Allen, the acknowledged founder of Native American literary studies, draws on sources often overlooked by Western historians and offers remarkable new insights into the adventurous life and sacred role of this... (more)

Listen Up 2 Ed: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation

Listen Up 2 Ed: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation

Exploring and revealing the lives of today's young feminists--the "Third Wave"--a collection of essays by thirty diverse members of the "twenty-something" generation covers a wide range of topics including racism, sex, identity, AIDS, revolution, and abortion. Original. IP.

When I Look into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance

When I Look into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance

by Margaret Randall

In the early 1980s, in the midst of Central America's decades of dirty wars, Nora Miselem of Honduras and Maria Suárez Toro of Costa Rica were kidnapped, imprisoned, and subjected to rape and other tortures. Of the nearly two hundred disappeared persons in Honduras in those years, they are, remarkably, two of only five survivors. Fourteen years after their ordeal, Suárez and Miselem's chance meeting was witnessed... (more)

The Oxford Book of Women's Writing

Reveling in the awareness that the best U.S. women's writing is, quite simply, some of the best in the world, editors Linda Wagner-Martin and Cathy N. Davidson have gathered selections in The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States spanning four centuries and reflecting the rich variety of American women's lives. This volume presents short stories, poems, essays, plays, speeches, performance pieces,... (more)

The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970

The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970

by Glenna Matthews

This richly woven history ranges from the seventeenth century to the present as it masterfully traces the movement of American women out of the home and into the public sphere. Matthews examines the Revolutionary War period, when women exercised political strength through the boycott of household goods and Elizabeth Freeman successfully sued for freedom from enslavement in one of the two cases that ended slavery... (more)

To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History

To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History

by Lillian Faderman

This landmark work of lesbian history focuses on how certain late-nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women whose lives can be described as lesbian were in the forefront of the battle to secure the rights and privileges that large numbers of Americans enjoy today. Lillian Faderman persuasively argues that their lesbianism may in fact have facilitated their accomplishments. A book of impeccable research and... (more)

Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Institute of Early American History)

Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Institute of Early American History)

by Linda K. Kerber

Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army... (more)

Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights

by Ellen Carol Dubois

In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. This collection traces the suffrage story against the backdrop of changing attitudes to politics, citizenship and gender, and the resultant tensions over sociological issues. Author Ellen Carol DuBois has been a central figure in spurring renewed interest in woman suffrage.

Alice Paul (American Lives)Elizabeth Raum

Alice Paul (American Lives)

by Elizabeth Raum

Alice Paul fought for years to get women the right to vote. Can you imagine what her life must have been like? What was she like as a person? Read this book in the American Lives series to get to know Alice Paul. Find out how she tried to make life better

Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics

Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics

Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, multi-faceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2004 elections. This timely, yet enduring, volume strikes a balance between highlighting the most important developments for women as voters and candidates in the 2004 elections and providing a more long-term, in-depth analysis of the ways that gender has helped shape the contours and... (more)

Look me in the eye: Old women, aging, and ageism

Look me in the eye: Old women, aging, and ageism

by Barbara Macdonald

Still a breaking-through-the-barriers book after 22 years, this expanded edition of the classic begins with a tribute by Lise Weil, "In the Service of Truth: Remembering Barbara Macdonald." Barbara died at the age of 86 in June 2000. It also contains two talks Barbara gave, "Professionalism Is Not Benign" and "Old Women's Human Rights." An afterword by Cynthia Rich points to the impact Barbara made on the... (more)

A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

by Mary Ann Glendon

Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international bill of rights. A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around... (more)

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