Women

Spokane, Washington's, first woman physician, Mary Latham moved to the community with her three sons-leaving her husband behind in Ohio-in 1887. She sought a better climate for her health and worked tirelessly for the health of all of Spokane's citizens,...

Virginia C. Gildersleeve was the most influential dean of Barnard College, which she led from 1911 to 1947. An organizer of the Seven College Conference, or "Seven Sisters," she defended women's intellectual abilities and the value of the...

"Is this the whole world?" This question begins the first of three memoirs by Austrian Romani writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), told from her perspective as a child interned in three Nazi concentration...

In 2019, the NFL issued a list of football's one hundred greatest game-changers, and among the legendary athletes and coaches was one broadcaster: Phyllis George. The first female anchor of a major network sports show, George broke the glass ceiling in...

When Lou Henry married Herbert Hoover in February 1899, she looked forward to a partnership of equality and a life of adventure. She could fire a rifle and sit a horse as well as any man. The Quaker community of Whittier, California, where she lived as a...

Madame Blavatsky was a pioneering woman, and not only as a traveller, writer and spiritual teacher. She was an inspiration to men and women around the world in Victorian times who desired to follow an independent path. In our own times, the New Age owes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646221257Author Larissa PhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855750350Author Lizzie Marrkilyi EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 364g

How did Texas become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Texas Women recognizes the women who shaped the Lone State State. Female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247731Author Jane AlisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of WILLA Literary Award (Scholarly Nonfiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781606390290Author Elizabeth A WatryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverbend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422622Author Jenny DiskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 381g

"The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty."After surviving both the failed chicken farm - and marriage - immortalized in The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826222701Author Mary Jo IgnoffoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946764041Author Saeeda HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994630827Author Kpana Nnadia GaygayFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Forte PublisihingPublisher Forte PublisihingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Internationally known as a writer, hostess, and patron of the arts of the twentieth century, Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962) is not known for her experiences with venereal disease, unmentioned in her four-volume published memoir. Making the suppressed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578645377Author Michael MarcadesFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Peniel UnlimitedPublisher Peniel UnlimitedWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062297044Author Nicholas ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535049Author Judith MackrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210763Author Barbara Hutmacher MacleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 337Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams)...

Martha Jefferson is the first and only biography of Thomas Jefferson's greatest love and true kindred spirit, who died an untimely death at the young age of thirty-three in 1782. Drawing on a wealth of newly probed sources-including family letters,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486436456Author Mary Harris JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544648944Author Carina ChocanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

"A fascinating insight into the world of big business and how a little Cajun girl from New Orleans can achieve great success in this country." ----Dick Van Patten, actor (Eight Is Enough) "Jenny Craiga s story is a splendid example of what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060817312Author Pat ShipmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062074171Author Justine PicardieFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

"A fiercely honest and beautifully written book." --Paul Austin, author, Beautiful Eyes and Something for the Pain A cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilience Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061375408Author Charlotte MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1034gDimensions(mm)...

Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president, forced her fellow Americans to come to terms with the full meaning of equality after the Civil War. A sometime collaborator with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, yet never fully...

A Woman of Valour is the biography of Marie-Louise BouchardLabelle, a French-Canadian woman who found love with a priestthirty-three years her senior. Against all social convention, theylived, produced three children, and built a life together after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771512961Author Cathy ConverseFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint TouchWood EditionsPublisher TouchWood EditionsWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of IndieFab awards (Autobiography/Memoir) 2007. Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Women's Memoir/Biography) 2007 and Independent Publisher Book Awards...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632934727Author Charlotte WhaleyFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 581g

With sharp wit and keen insight, Bonnie J. Morris opens new perspectives on the gender and generation gaps on campus, exploring the negative stereotypes that keep many students from taking women's studies courses. Since 1993, the George Washington...

Wanting You to Want Me is a collection of anonymous stories from the world of London strip clubs, documented by the women themselves. The stories range from behind-the-scenes conversations in the changing rooms, to dancefloor and private room etiquette,...

Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown chose her to become California's first female supreme court chief justice. Appointed to a court with a stellar reputation for being the nation's most progressive, Bird...

Born in the shadows of a railroad yard, of a wandering mother who took her lovers where she found them and a father who was scarcely conscious of her arrival in the world, Bertha Thompson took to `the road' as soon as the restless impulses of adolescence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583228333Author Camelia Entenkhabi-FardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 267g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971487376Author Eva KollischFormat PaperbackPage Count 211Imprint Hamilton Stone EditionsPublisher Hamilton Stone EditionsWeight(grams)...