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Women, Their Names, & the Stories They Tell by Elisabeth Pearson Waugaman Ph D 9780615382265
€14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615382265Author Elisabeth Pearson Waugaman Ph DFormat PaperbackImprint Vox Femina PressPublisher Vox Femina PressWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now by Lynn Peril 9780393327151
RRP: €15.46€14.57A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. College was a place where women found... -
Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office by Lynn Peril 9780393338546
RRP: €24.99€19.12Millions of women have held the position of secretary, alternately lauded as a breakthrough opportunity and excoriated as dead-end busy work. From the female pioneers who infiltrated Capitol Hill offices during the Civil War to today's tech-savvy... -
Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President by Johnnetta B. Cole 9780385411608
RRP: €17.85€12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385411608Author Johnnetta B. ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 181g -
A Miracle Every Day by Marita Golden 9780385483155
RRP: €15.47€10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483155Author Marita GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 145g -
Bodies: Big Ideas/Small Books by Susie Orbach 9780312427207
RRP: €22.61€16.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427207Author Susie OrbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 151gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 113mm * 16mm -
To Be Young Was Very Heaven: Women in New York Before the First World War by Sandra Adickes 9780312223359
RRP: €27.36€17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312223359Author Sandra AdickesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 390g -
Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood by Katrina Kenison 9780865475113
RRP: €34.51€22.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865475113Author Katrina KenisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point Press -
Women and Children First: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity by Robin Miskolcze 9780803245150
€27.41At a crucial time in American history, narratives of women in command or imperiled at sea contributed to the construction of a national rhetoric. Robin Miskolcze makes her case by way of careful readings of images of women at sea before the Civil War in... -
Storying Domestic Violence: Constructions and Stereotypes of Abuse in the Discourse of General Practitioners by Jarmila Mildorf 9780803232594
€34.28Globally, at least one in four women experiences domestic violence at some point in her life, according to World Bank figures, which are confirmed by local surveys throughout the world. Since domestic violence can cause both acute physical injuries and... -
Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840-1920 by Tiffany A. Sippial 9781469608945
RRP: €45.16€41.78Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic. Tiffany A. Sippial argues that during this tumultuous era, Cuba's struggle to define... -
Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine by Kim Anderson 9780887557262
RRP: €38.02€25.93A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities. The process of "digging up medicines" - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of... -
Western Women's Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century by Sandra Schackel 9780826322456
€37.68The seventeen essays reprinted in this anthology address the ways in which western women have experienced the twentieth century. These writings go beyond the standard categorisations of gender, class, race, and ethnicity by providing a deeper... -
Violence, Silence and Anger: Women's Writing as Transgression by Deirdre Lashgari 9780813914930
€36.37Twenty contributors consider violence in the works of such acclaimed writers as Adrienne Rich, Harriet Jacobs, Virgnia Woolf, and Audre Lorde, and such too little known authors as Senegal's Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall, Lebanon's Etel Adnan, and the... -
The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith: Crafting Genius and Transatlantic Fame in the Romantic Era by Lucia McMahon 9780813947853
€142.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947853Author Lucia McMahonFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman by Margaret Jarman Hagood 9780807896761
RRP: €59.44€54.26This study is based primarily on case records of more than one hundred white tenant farm mothers living in North Carolina, but comparisons are made with an equal number living in the Deep South. Through its scientific approach, this study serves all... -
Reclaiming the Body: María de Zayas's Early Modern Feminism by Lisa Vollendorf 9780807892749
RRP: €35.64€33.67In a time when few women in Europe were educated and even fewer spoke out against the status quo, Maria de Zayas (1590–?) published novellas filled with criticism about gender relations. Her best-selling Novelas amorosas (1637) and Desenganos amorosos... -
Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940 by Vanessa H. May 9780807871935
RRP: €45.16€41.52Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor... -
Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South by Anya Jabour 9780807859605
RRP: €45.16€42.10Discusses about privilege and resistance as white women come of age. Scarlett's ""Sisters"" explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young,... -
Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White by Anne Firor Scott 9780807859285
RRP: €45.16€40.84This title explores the cross-race friendship of two feminist activists.In 1942, Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nation's... -
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 by Martha S. Jones 9780807858455
€39.53The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. ""All Bound Up Together"" explores the roles black women played in their communities' social... -
The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s by Lorraine Gates Schuyler 9780807857762
RRP: €45.16€41.91After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. In ""The Weight of Their Votes"", Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the consequences this had in... -
Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America by Alison Piepmeier 9780807855690
RRP: €51.11€46.65Images of the corseted, domestic, white middle-class female and the black woman as slave mammy or jezebel loom large in studies of nineteenth-century womanhood, despite recent critical work exploring alternatives to those images. In Out in Public, Alison... -
Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War by Kirsten E. Wood 9780807855287
RRP: €51.11€46.51Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves ""masters"" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But as many as... -
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945 by Julie Des Jardins 9780807854754
RRP: €51.11€47.42In Women and the Historical Enterprise in America , Julie Des Jardins explores American women's participation in the practice of history from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II, a period in which history became professionalized... -
Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit by Victoria W. Wolcott 9780807849668
RRP: €51.11€47.15How black women challenged and reshaped notions of respectable behavior for women and men; In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of... -
Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville by M. Alison Kibler 9780807848128
RRP: €51.11€49.99In this comprehensive study of women in vaudeville, Alison Kibler reveals how female performers, patrons and workers shaped the rise and fall of the most popular live entertainment at the turn of the century. She focuses on the role of gender in... -
La Leche League: At the Crossroads of Medicine, Feminism, and Religion by Jule Dejager Ward 9780807847916
RRP: €51.11€46.33In 1956, when La Leche League was founded, if a new mother chose to breastfeed rather than bottlefeed her child, she could by no means expect universal support for her decision. Though physicians of the era admitted that breastfeeding was the best method... -
Gender on the Borderlands: The Frontiers Reader by Antonia Castaneda 9780803259867
€38.95Gender on the Borderlands captures the intense, complex, and gendered experience of those living along the barbwire borderlands of Mexico and the United States. Through scholarship, testimonials, oral histories, songs, poetry, and art, the contributors... -
Separatism and Women's Community by Dana R. Shugar 9780803242449
RRP: €41.65€36.58The energy spent on all sides of debates about women's separatism demonstrates the vitality of separatism as an important issue. Excited by the prospect that changes in their personal lives could reverberate through the nation, many women have organized... -
Nature's Aristocracy: A Plea for the Oppressed by Jennie Collins 9780803219342
€38.27In 1871 Jennie Collins became one of the first working-class American women to publish a volume of her own writings: Nature's Aristocracy. Merging autobiography, social criticism, fictionalized vignettes, and feminist polemics, her book examines the... -
Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 by Catherine A. Brekus 9780807847459
RRP: €51.11€48.91Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; ""Old Elizabeth,"" an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century;... -
Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism by Amy Erdman Farrell 9780807847350
RRP: €51.11€46.54In the winter of 1972, the first issue of Ms. magazine hit the newsstands. For some activists in the women's movement, the birth of this new publication heralded feminism's coming of age; for others, it signaled the capitulation of the women's movement... -
Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques by Nancy Rosebaugh 9780807845974
RRP: €59.44€53.88Talking Gender assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the perspective of their own academic disciplines and experiences, but they also address more general issues of women's lives and circumstances. The result is... -
Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics by Victoria C. Woodhull 9780803216471
€38.94Suffragist, lecturer, eugenicist, businesswoman, free lover, and the first woman to run for president of the United States, Victoria C. Woodhull (1838-1927) has been all but forgotten as a leading nineteenth-century feminist writer and radical. Selected... -
Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest by Stacey M. Robertson 9781469622170
RRP: €47.54€44.17Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest. Stacey Robertson... -
Living with History / Making Social Change by Gerda Lerner 9781469622019
RRP: €39.21€36.24This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing... -
Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space by Alice Fahs 9781469621968
RRP: €47.54€44.68Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of... -
The Weston Sisters: An American Abolitionist Family by Lee V. Chambers 9781469618173
RRP: €55.87€52.44The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family's work. The eldest, Maria Weston Chapman, became one of the antislavery movement's most influential... -
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America by Corinne T. Field 9781469618142
RRP: €47.54€44.07In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power. Corinne T. Field argues that attaining adulthood - and the associated political rights, economic...