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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.)

America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.)

by Gail Collins

America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America. By culling the... (more)

A Question of Choice

by Sarah Ragle Weddington

The attorney who argued Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court gives an inside picture of that victory, showing her complex strategy, analyzing the effects of the decision, and explaining where events now stand. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation

by Cokie Roberts

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families–and their country–proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it. While much has been written about the men who signed the... (more)

Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America

Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America

by Linda Hunt

In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot... (more)

Notable American Women, The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary (Notable American Women)

Notable American Women, The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary (Notable American Women)

Anyone who has tried to look up any but the most famous women in the Dictionary of American Biography or Who Was Who knows the inestimable value of the first three volumes of Notable American Women published in 1971...This new volume, The Modern Period , represents 442 women who died between 1951 and 1975, from Eleanor Roosevelt, Josephine Baker and Hannah Arendt to Perle Mesta, ZaSu Pitts and Polly... (more)

Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota

Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota

by Renee? S. Flood

In December 1890 the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred a band of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Miraculously, after a four-day blizzard, an infant was found alive under the frozen body of her dead mother. The dashing brigadier general (and future Assistant Attorney General of the United States) Leonard W. Colby kidnapped and then adopted the baby girl named Lost Bird (1890–1920) as a... (more)

Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building

Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building

by Terry Wolverton

An artist's memoir of her years at the Woman's Building, a pivotal institution of West Coast cultural feminism In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Women from across the country were drawn to the experiment of creating a female-centered culture through artmaking, exhibitions, and education. In Insurgent... (more)

You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer

by Shana Corey

Amelia Bloomer, a rebellious reformer and early women's rights activist, invented bloomers (baggy pantaloons worn with a short skirt over them), thus liberating women from the dangerous and oppressive clothing of the mid-nineteenth century. Here is her story, told in buoyant, witty text and beautiful, high styled-illustrations.

Rosie and Mrs. America (Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century)

Rosie and Mrs. America (Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century)

by Catherine Gourley

Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women : from the Sixteenth Century to 1865

Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women : from the Sixteenth Century to 1865

"Tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice," wrote Anna Julia Cooper, a nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, teacher, and novelist. Argu-ing that the voices of women still need to be heard, the editors of this comprehensive collection have assembled a diverse selection of writings to illustrate the daily lives of ordinary and extraordinary women and the... (more)

Sea-Born Women

by B J. Mountford

After restless Roberta (aka Bert) Lenehan comes to Portsmouth Island, N.C., to volunteer for the National Parks Service, she finds the body of a woman in the island's marsh; a previous park caretaker had met a different mysterious end. In B.J. Mountford's Sea-born Women, Bert tries to uncover the truth does the island hide a deadly treasure-hunter? Is a long-dead pirate guarding his grave? How does the legend of... (more)

Mine and Yours Are Hers: Retrieving Women's History from Rabbinic Literature (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, Bd. 41.)

Mine and Yours Are Hers: Retrieving Women's History from Rabbinic Literature (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, Bd. 41.)

by T?al Ilan

This volume discusses the interaction between history, rabbinic literature and feminist studies. It suggests a post-literary approach, that is, the book examines the residue of the texts after these have been analyzed and dissected by literary critics. The text is mainly concerned with women's history, adopting a number of assumptions of feminist criticism about the androcentric nature of all ancient texts, and... (more)

The Lee Girls

by Mary P. Coulling

Raised in aristocratic luxury, Confederate leader Robert E. Lee's four daughtersMary, Anne, Eleanor and Mildredwere forced to adjust to privation caused by the Civil War. This gentle book tells the story of their struggle to maintain their gracious lifestyle. It is at once a sunny and poignant tale, for the childhood days at Arlington were idyllic, but when Lee rode off to war they ended abruptly and never were... (more)

Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Early American Studies (Paperback))

Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Early American Studies (Paperback))

by Jennifer L. Morgan

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery , Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses became... (more)

Iroquoian Women : The Gantowisas (American Indian Studies, V. 4)Barbara A. Mann

Iroquoian Women : The Gantowisas (American Indian Studies, V. 4)

by Barbara Alice Mann

"Barbara Alice Mann has written a superb book, eminently reasonable in its arguments and impeccably documented..." -- Ward Churchill, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder; Author of A Little Matter of Genocide and numerous other works "Mann weaves an elegant account of a long-ignored and often misunderstood subject." -- Bruce Johansen, Robert T. Reilly Chair, University of Nebraska at... (more)

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909

by Joan Dash

In the early 1900s, the shirtwaist industry in New York was very unfair to the young women employed in its factories. Now in paperback is the story of teenage workers and important female activists in their courageous fight for humane working conditions in 1909. Photos Ages 8-14. Pub: 1/98. .

Buckeye Women: History Of Ohio'S Daughters (Ohio Bicentennial Series)Stephane Elise Booth

Buckeye Women: History Of Ohio'S Daughters (Ohio Bicentennial Series)

by Stephane Elise Booth

A historical survey of the role of Ohio women By the last two decades of the twentieth century, Ohio women had held positions as university presidents, chief executive officers, judges, superintendent of schools, and lietuenant governor. They had won Pulitzer Prizes and, in one case, the Nobel Prize for Literature. But these women stood on the shoulders of those who came before the pioneering women who helped tame... (more)

A Year in Tibet

by Shuyun Sun

'A Year in Tibet' follows the author as she lives for eighteen months in a remote village in Tibet. Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and Buddhism. Now, accompanied by a television crew of Chinese and Tibetans, she spent a year in a remote town in the Tibetan mountain area and recorded what life is like for the people there. After half a century of Communist rule, Gyantse, once... (more)

Sisterhood: The True Story of the Women Who Changed the WorldMarcia Cohen

Sisterhood: The True Story of the Women Who Changed the World

by Marcia Cohen

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Dover Value Editions)

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Dover Value Editions)

by Isabella L. Bird

"In its simple and disarming style, it is a great piece of reporting on a rugged frontier."-- San Francisco Chronicle "The book is a jewel case of keen perception, social analysis, and masterful description for this era."-- Chicago Tribune In 1873 Isabella Bird embarked on a trip that called for the high level of stamina expected of an explorer or anthropologist. But the middle-aged Englishwoman who toured... (more)

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