Women

Bo, Jenny and I is a memoir describing the life of a young woman growing up in unusual circumstances, as well as a discussion of political and sociological effects of troubled times upon "ordinary people." After an early childhood in pre-war...

For twenty-five years, Charlotte Curtis was a society/women's reporter and editor and an op-ed editor at the New York Times. As the first woman section editor at the Times, Curtis was a pioneering journalist and one of the first nationwide to change the...

In Taking Root, Latin American women of Jewish descent, from Mexico to Uruguay, recall their coming of age with Sabbath candles and Hebrew prayers, Ladino songs and merengue music, Queen Esther and the Virgin of Guadalupe. Rich and poor, Sephardi and...

An epic life story of a young mother whose journey begins happily married in a comfortable home, to being stranded in a refugee camp having lost her country, her ancestral home and her husband, the love of her life, due to the breakup of India in the...

A pathbreaking contribution to Latin American testimonial literature, When a Flower Is Reborn is activist Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef's chronicle of her leadership within the Mapuche indigenous rights movement in Chile. Part personal reflection and part...

During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin's Gulag, a vast network of forced labour camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254615Author Elizabeth a FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 386g

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, political leaders in the United States were swayed by popular opinion to remain neutral; yet less than three years later, the nation declared war on Germany. In Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812992496Author Sylvia MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791446300Author Corinne DemasFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Helena Gutteridge was a socialist and feminist whose vision helpedto shape social reform legislation in British Columbia in the firstdecades of the twentieth century, and also one of the first women thereto hold high political office. She was born in...

Georgia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who helped to shape the Peach State. Female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short...

An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook, twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved - alone - to the remote valleys of northern Idaho in 1883. She opened a one-table restaurant for the silver prospectors near Wallace, serving her homemade berry...

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Oklahoma Women celebrates the women who shaped the Sooner State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762755387Author Erin H. TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher TwoDot BooksWeight(grams) 20g

When Jane Austen's father deeded the family home to her brother, Jane was tossed to the winds, no money to her name, probably too old to be wed. At this bleak moment, she receives a proposal of marriage from a rich but boring man. Midnight takes us to...

Fatna El Bouih was first arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she was rearrested, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and transferred between multiple prisons. While...

As friends began "going back to the land" at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcala set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her parents, Mexican immigrants who grew up during the...

As friends began "going back to the land" at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcala set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her parents, Mexican immigrants who grew up during the...

A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family...

This inspiring tale of grit and determination sprinkled with humor, wit, and a taste of irony is the story of Winifred Bryan Horner's journey from a life of domesticity on the family farm after World War II to becoming an Endowed Professor. Her...

This inspiring tale of grit and determination sprinkled with humor, wit, and a taste of irony is the story of Winifred Bryan Horner's journey from a life of domesticity on the family farm after World War II to becoming an Endowed Professor. Her...

The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the...

Few would argue that war has been a defining experience for people born in Europe and North America in the twentieth century. The degree to which war has been instrumental in improving women's social situation remains a vexed question, however. ...

The historical biography of a true Jewish heroine in her day, Gracia Mendes. Born in 1510 in Portugal, the book details this woman's extraordinary personality until her death in 1569 in Constantinople (today's Istanbul). Her life exemplified a...

Boonlua Debhayasuwan was born into a noble Siamese family in 1911 and not only witnessed but participated in the great events of her century. Boonlua became one of the first Thai women to earn a university degree. As an official in the Ministry of...

Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments. In this narrative about making meaning of brokenness and grief, Megan Sweeney reflects on her childhood entanglement with her mother, her loss-filled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531304Author Diana BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950584093Author Judith KrummeckFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Green Place BooksPublisher Green Writers PressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934759059Author Christa Jan RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Robert D. Reed PublishersPublisher Robert D. Reed PublishersWeight(grams) 326g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575543Author Janet RomainFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 306g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235589Author Meredith FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Palestinian refugees in Gaza have lived in camps for five generations, experiencing hardship and uncertainty. In the absence of voice or official histories, oral narratives handed down from generation to generation bear witness to life in Gaza since...

"When you educate a girl, you educate a nation." -Malawian saying The women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to find their way out of poverty and build a better life for themselves and their families. Weaving a...

A coming-of-age memoir of a young swimmer's triumphs and heartbreaks on the path to winning Olympic gold at age 14. Some 50 years later, author Carolyn Wood embarks on a solo pilgrimage to walk the 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago in an attempt to...

A leader in the successful fight for woman suffrage in Texas, Jane Yelvington McCallum (1878-1957) left an absorbing written record of an exceptionally productive life. McCallum was a wife, mother, and clubwoman; unlike most, she was also a suffrage...

With in-depth and accurate coverage, this book pays tribute to the often unheralded efforts and acheivements of the historical women of California.Book InformationISBN 9781560448594Author Erin H. TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TwoDot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550655001Author Kathy DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 178g

Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their...

Over the past several hundred years, many women have made major, significant contributions to society, to their countries and to their field of endeavorabe it literature, music, art, politics or the enhancement of women in general. Many of these women...