Women

Recollections of a Southern Daughter recalls life in antebellum Liberty County, Georgia, a time and place best known today through the letters of the Charles Colcock Jones family, published in the classic Children of Pride, and the letters and journals...

The inspiration for this book stems from my own experiences of 'disability'. Various things that happened to me as a deaf child forty-odd years ago are still crystal clear in my mind. The bizarre array of value judgements around disability in our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692286609Author Ria StoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint RIA StoryPublisher RIA StoryWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977803330Author Gene EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SeedsowersPublisher SeedsowersWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 135mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873511995Author Edith Eudora KohlFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679751090Author Jill Ker ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 737g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560395Author Carolyn ForcheFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726873Author Esmeralda SantiagoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594137204Author Denise KiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 653Imprint Large Print PressPublisher Large Print PressWeight(grams) 794g

Why are women so ashamed of certain parts of their bodies? And why are our feelings about our midsections so hard to navigate? These are the questions that animate My Belly, an unflinching and funny portrait of one woman’s obsession with a seemingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538197622Author Kate Clifford LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593244111Author Cristina Rivera GarzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HogarthPublisher HogarthWeight(grams) 221g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957363530Author Clara TörnvallFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960803061Author Caroline KurtzFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Catalyst PressPublisher Catalyst PressWeight(grams) 699g

Last Boat to Yokohama tells a story of both tragedy and grandeur in the 20th century. It recounts the life and work of Beate Sirota Gordon: the influence of her father, Leo Sirota, one of the greatest pianists of his generation; her secret work ensuring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364992Author Celia BrayfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591932550Author Sarah Guy-LevarFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Advance Publishing In.,USPublisher Advance Publishing In.,USWeight(grams) 511g

Great Dames is a collection of biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about twentieth-century Canadian women from all walks of life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinary women, it also explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743256100Author Pamela MarinFormat HardbackPage Count 229Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 372g

Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of America's most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written and one of the great biographies in American history...

The extraordinary life and legacy of legendary journalist Cokie Roberts-a trailblazer for women-remembered by her friends and family.Through her visibility and celebrity, Cokie Roberts was an inspiration and a role model for innumerable women and girls...

After moving from the U.S. to London after college, Kathy Eldon longed for a more vibrant life. In 1978, her wishes were granted. Kathy moved with her husband and two young children to Kenya - an opportunity that might provide the adventure and life...

The life of Arsinoe II (c. 316-c.270 BCE), daughter of Ptolemy Soter, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, is characterized by dynastic intrigue. Her marriage to her full brother Ptolemy II, king of Egypt, was the first of the sibling marriages that...

A hilariously intimate memoir that gets to the turbulent joys and pains of coming of age and looking for love as a Black woman in America. In the car she'd had since high school--with the boyfriend she'd had just as long riding shotgun--Minda Honey made...

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, her father's life, and her sister’s suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a...

This exhilarating saga about two intrepid young women who leave the affluence of their New York home to teach school on the Western frontier in 1916 is authentically created using actual letters home and interviews with descendants.Dorothy Woodruff and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171103Author Professor Jessica MitfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint New York Review of BooksPublisher New York Review of BooksWeight(grams)...

Gisele d'Estoc was the pseudonym of a nineteenth-century French woman writer and, it turns out, artist who, among other things, was accused of being a bomb-planting anarchist, the cross-dressing lover of writer Guy de Maupassant, and the fighter of at...

In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienu zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558612709Author Flavia AlayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

A hilariously intimate memoir that gets to the turbulent joys and pains of coming of age and looking for love as a Black woman in America. In the car she'd had since high school--with the boyfriend she'd had just as long riding shotgun--Minda Honey made...

Unstoppable Warrior Women is a collaboration of 40 women telling their stories of building meaningful lives after sexual abuse, racism, early pregnancies, lots of wrong men, and every other obstacle a woman can face. Unstoppable Warrior Women inspires...

Water Mask is an adventurous memoir from Monica Devine, an itinerant therapist who travels to villages throughout Alaska and builds a life in this vast, captivating landscape. She traverses mountains, navigates sea ice with whalers, and whirls two...

What do Susan Sarandon, Barbara Hershey, Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, and Cher have in common?All have portrayed lesbian characters on the silver screen. Although cinema and television in the last three decades of the twentieth century have been a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602232778Author Deb VanasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams) 539g

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642934281Author Mindie BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 204g

Margaret Fuller is recognized as one of the key social and literary figures in 19th century America - as prominent a woman in intellectual circles as there was in her period, which ended with her death in 1850. Capper is writing a full biography in two...

The astonishing career of Galla Placidia (c. 390-450) provides valuable reflections on the state of the Roman empire in the fifth century CE. In an age when emperors, like Galla's two brothers, Arcadius (395-408) and Honorius (395-423), and nephew,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636486Author Alisa FreedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 618Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies