Women

Wangari Muta Maathai is one of Africa's most celebrated female activists. Originally trained as a scientist in Kenya and abroad, Professor Maathai returned to her home country of Kenya with a renewed political consciousness. There, she began her long...

Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change.Du Bois...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 2004 and Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and School Library Journal Adult Books...

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...

A member in the Society of the Sacred Heart for nearly thirty years president of Manhattanville College in New York recipient of a doctorate in philosophy philanthropic advisor to the Rockefeller family beloved wife of Jerome I. Aron pivotal board member...

The story of Harriet Smith Pullen's early life, from her childhood journeys by covered wagon to her family's subsistence in sod houses on the Dakota prairie where they survived grasshopper plagues, floods, fires, blizzards, and droughts is a narrative of...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER "As exciting as any spy novel" (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS's most daring World War II...

This biography of writer, translator, teacher, and feminist Ada Gobetti, the first in English or Italian, frames her activism in the Resistenza as a chapter in a lifetime of resistance. By the time Turin was liberated in April 1945, writer,...

While African National Congress narratives dominate much of the scholarship on South Africa's freedom struggle, Josie Mpama/Palmer's political life offers a different perspective. Highly critical of the patriarchal attitudes that hindered black women...

In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil could stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones,...

Betty Bard MacDonald (1907-1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children's books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645338485Author Bipolar BarbieFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Bipolar BarbiePublisher Bipolar BarbieWeight(grams) 531g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995565401Author Mary Church AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Copperbelt BooksPublisher Copperbelt Books

Discover the trials & triumphs of great female inventors Astrolabe Automatic Dishwasher Barbie Doll Buffered Aspirin COBOL Cotton Gin Disposable Phone Drip Coffeemaker Fabric Softener Sheets Hang Glider IV Fluids Jell-O Kevlar Mars Rover Nystatin PDA...

Set in the entertainment world in France, this searing memoir explores the realities of being a mixed or biracial French citizen. In Blind Spot, Myriam Tadesse exposes the difficulty, even the impossibility, for France to truly understand and celebrate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915170019Author Savannah HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Jad Publishing LimitedPublisher Jad Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 159g

With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633729Author Maggie KirkmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983237051Author Maura MulliganFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Greenpoint PressPublisher Greenpoint PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This definitive biography of Mary Todd Lincoln beautifully conveys her tumultuous life and times. A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary fell into a stormy romance with the raw Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln...

An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity. Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired...

Although Emily Buchanan had a highly successful career in broadcasting and a loving husband there was something missing from her life: she desperately wanted children. After the trauma of three miscarriages, Emily and her husband Gerald were forced to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061241741Author Donald BogleFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 676g

A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family. In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a...

Known to millions as simply "Sister Jean," the Loyola Chicago matriarch and college basketball icon invites you into her remarkable memoir filled with history, wonder, and common-sense wisdom for this century and beyond. As Sister Jean wisely says, "I've...

Now in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America's most courageous abolitionists. By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385485159Author Leona RostenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451212924Author Jean SassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm * 22mm

"In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another's brilliance."-Hiratsuku Raicho Raicho Hiratsuka (1886-1971) was the most influential figure in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743237086Author Jehan SadatFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 728gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

"My dear Uncle Charles," twenty-two-year-old Genevieve de Gaulle wrote on May 6, 1943. "Maybe you have already heard about the different events affecting the family." The general's brother Pierre had been taken by the Gestapo; his brother Xavier,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062206107Author Professor Rosemary SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 768Imprint HarperPublisher HarperWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125051Author Rayya EliasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 264gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

'Did Clara taste salty when I kissed her? She did. She tasted of mermaids, of the sea.' Love Like Salt is a deeply affecting memoir, beautifully and intelligently written. It is about mothers and daughters, music and illness, genes and inheritance,...

This book offers both a biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, only the second-ever woman appointed to the Supreme Court, and a historical analysis of her impact. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life in American History explores Ginsburg's path to holding the highest...

love lay down beside me and we wept is Helen Murray Taylor’s lyrical memoir of devastating mental illness.Depressed and suicidal, Helen was admitted to a psychiatric ward and sectioned under the Mental Health Act. At her lowest, she almost succeeded in...

Born in 1902 in Seattle, Washington, Frances Lovell Oldham left her hometown in her early twenties to pursue a journalism career in Europe. At a time when women rarely found independent success, Frances transcended boundaries as a working woman in...

The first-ever biography of a trailblazing star of yesteryear, 'a colourful tale, full of grit and glamour' (Kate Adie)

A prominent American heiress exchanges her wealth and identity to become a Prussian countess and mentor to a queen. But amid the gathering clouds of World War II, she finds herself cut off from her funds in the US, divorced, and resisting the Nazis, who...

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