Women

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063000179Author Cokie RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A New York socialite and feminist, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. Her resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage...

In these lively life stories, women market traders from Ghana comment on changing social and economic times and on reasons for their prosperity or decline in fortunes. Gracia Clark shows that market women are intimately connected with economic policy on...

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked any...

This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor's rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman. In the mid-Sixties, Helen Gurley Brown, author of the...

It was a beautiful fall day in Connecticut when Colleen Alexander, a lifelong competitive athlete, rode her bike home from work, having just learned her job with the nonprofit PeaceJam was secure. She had survived a diagnosis of lupus and brain surgery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451645613Author Amanda LindhoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771135887Author Bonnie RobichaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the Lines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720168Author Ann MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Behind some of the most popular works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror there are forgotten stories of female creators. It's no secret that genres like science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more, have evolved from niche interest to mainstream...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804171441Author Heidi JulavitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm)...

The year was 1951, and Nell Peters, just out of high school in the north woods of Wisconsin, was about to join the army. Feeling woefully unworldly, she asked the undertaker's grandson to initiate her into sex before she ventured off. She wasn't in the...

". . . vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir . . . read[s] like a novel." -Russian ReviewIn this striking autobiography Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in...

Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born storyteller: her carefree childhood; her marriage before puberty; giving birth to twelve children 'very gently, like stroking a rose'; adult life as an...

This is the compelling story of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, his wife Margaret and their 70-year relationship - personal and political, private and public. It is a story of how two extraordinary people, side by side, led the Australian nation...

This book details the fascinating life story of Michelle Obama, emphasizing her own personal and professional accomplishments, her life partnership with President Barack Obama, and her distinctive approach to the role of First Lady. Independent and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558617513Author Merle HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Andreea is thirteen and looking forward to taking part in a Romanian dance performance on a trip to Paris with her friends. However she skips school one day and gets in a car with a boy she doesn't know. They have a terrible crash which leaves her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622889303Author Christine StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Stephen F. Austin University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin University...

Have you ever wondered what it's like to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States?In this poignant and compelling memoir, Lisa Sarnoff Gochman captures the terror, wonder, and joy of preparing for and arguing a landmark criminal case before...

"A world changing book on health and wellness for this millennium" -Living Now Book AwardsSometimes, in the blink of an eye, the unthinkable can happen; events...

Forget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert's gritty portrayal on HBO's Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you've never encountered. That is, until now.This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593189856Author Brenda JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards 2013. Nominated for Plutarch Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780307948830Author Jill LeporeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint...

This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann's travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A...

From Suffragette to Homesteader opens a unique window into the past. Central to this book is a powerful memoir written in 1952 by Ethel Marie Sentance as an anniversary present for her husband, Clarence. The memoir begins in 1883 and details Ethel's...

Without a map, navigate by the stars. Susan Tweit began learning this lesson as a young woman diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that was predicted to take her life in two to five years. Offered no clear direction for getting well through conventional...

Wilma Pearl Mankiller's great-grandfather had survived the deadly forced westward march of Native Americans known as the "Trail of Tears." She rose to lead the Cherokee Nation more than 150 years later as principal chief, the first elected female chief...

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."--Margaret Mead This quotation--found on posters and bumper stickers, and adopted as the motto for hundreds of organizations worldwide--speaks to the global influence...

Charged by the Venetian Inquisition with the conscious and cynical feigning of holiness, Cecelia Ferrazzi (1609-1684) requested and obtained the unprecedented opportunity to defend herself through a presentation of her life story. Ferrazzi's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383476Author Irit AmielFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Raised in a family of landed gentry located in Transkei, a region now part of South Africa, during the early 20th century, this vivid and spirited autobiography shares the unique story of a black woman's search for identity and fulfillment through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524745370Author Robert WeintraubFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Traces the remarkable life of a feminist poet through the items and images that have have defined her experiences My Life in 100 Objects is a personal reflection on the events and moments that shaped the life and work of one extraordinary woman. With a...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368076517Author Ginger ZeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

By 1996, millions of South Sudanese have been killed, died of starvation, or fled the decades-long civil war ravaging their country. So when the Presbyterian Church in the United States begins recruiting a development team to work with war refugees in...

"Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived." -Melissa Febos, The New...

Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, eminent anthropologist and ardent social critic; she challenged Americans to develop flexible and dynamic gender, family and social arrangements that would fit the 20th century. From 1912, she incorporated...

The stunning, intimate essays in Anxious Attachments take us through the life stages of a woman living in the American Southwest from the 1970s to the present. As she moves from adolescence into adulthood, the narrator grapples with attachments that...