Women

WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE"Perkins' richly detailed narrative is a reminder that gender equity has never come easily, but instead if borne from the...

This historical biography of Chrystal Macmillan, one of Scotland's most prominent campaigners for women's equality, justice and peace in the early twentieth century, is the first account of her life and work.?It describes her early life in a comfortable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765126899Author Tiffany K. WayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ideas. Rumi Yasutake reveals the pivotal role of women’s...

Honorable Mention recipient for the American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year Award, this book outlines the rich history of more than 250 women who worked as war correspondents up through World War II, while demonstrating the ways in...

Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. Standard histories of cartography have focused on men and maps and only rarely is a woman's name found. Judith Tyner argues that the women were not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643150352Author Julia M AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Lever PressPublisher Lever Press

Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. The standard histories of cartography have focused on men. A woman's name is rarely found. In Women in American Cartography, Judith Tyner argues that...

From the fall of 1918 to summer 1919, six YWCA women are attached to the North Russia Expeditionary Forces, an international military mission posted in the city of Arkhangelsk, North Russia. With this change, Clara Taylor's second year working for the...

Profiles of influential Black women activists at a historic moment This volume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics through the stories of a remarkable cross section of Black women who attended the 1977 National Women's Conference. These...

A generation defining exposé of toxic beauty culture in our digital age and how it is harming women We are living in a new age of beauty. With advancements in cosmetic surgery, augmented reality face filters, photo editing apps, and exposure to more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692966006Author Moses SeenarineFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Xpyr PressPublisher Xpyr PressWeight(grams) 476g

A collection of essay, addresses, and magazine articles by the early-twentieth-century attorney and activist illuminate her militant views on feminism, suffrage, pacifism, and socialism.Book InformationISBN 9780190881252Author Blanche Wiesen CookFormat...

Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945 – 1975 offers a compelling new perspective of Australian radio and television history. It chronicles how a group of female producers defied the odds and forged remarkable careers in the...

Before and after the Battle of Manila, a Japanese spy and an American soldier have one thing in common: they both fall in love with Alice Feria, a pianist who would later become one of the first women journalists in the Philippines. Both would prove to...

An important contribution to early public debates on the nature of women written by a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Pompeo Colonna’s In Defense of Women (1530), presented in this volume in Latin and English translation, is one of several...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666910544Author Cindy MediavillaFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Grounded in a close reading of the records of Joan's trial and rehabilitation, on the early letters announcing her arrival at Chinon, and on three literary works; Christine de Pizan's Ditie, Martin le Franc's Le Champion des dames, and Alain Chartier's,...

Honorable Mention recipient for the American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year Award, this book outlines the rich history of more than 250 women who worked as war correspondents up through World War II, while demonstrating the ways in...

Profiles of influential Black women activists at a historic moment This volume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics through the stories of a remarkable cross section of Black women who attended the 1977 National Women's Conference. These...

In this comprehensive history of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the oldest and most important women's organizations in United States history, Simon Wendt shows how the DAR's efforts to keep alive the memory of the nation's past...

In 1917, women won the vote in New York State. Suffrage and the City explores how activists in New York City were instrumental in achieving this milestone. Santangelo uncovers the ways in which the demand for women's rights intersected with the history,...

The history of women's involvement in politics has focused most heavily on electoral politics, but throughout the twentieth century a far wider range of women has engaged in political activity when they found it increasingly challenging to feed their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340111Author Elizabeth Ann BartlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major cities and small towns. Their number and location in urban centres suggests that the women who inhabited them once held a...

Drawing on autobiographical writings, oral histories, interrogation protocols, and cell spy reports, If the Walls Could Speak focuses on the lives of women in prison in postwar communist Poland. Some were jailed for their alleged collaboration with the...

By the mid-twentieth century, two things appeared destined for extinction in the United States: the practice of home birth and the profession of midwifery. In 1940, close to half of all U.S. births took place in the hospital, and the trend was increasing...

This volume examines the life of Anne of Bohemia, first queen of Richard II (1377-1399), and situates her within the context of medieval queenship by arguing that Anne ably fulfilled the political role of the queen consort through her intercession,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399512053Author Megan Elena BowenFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 658g

The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335282408Author Mallory O'MearaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335498526Author Janina RamirezFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 553g

Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political...

Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political...

Four Faces of Femininity tells the story of remarkable women who, through their creativity, passion, intelligence, and sheer determination, have left an indelible mark on the history of humankind. The book is divided into four sections, with figures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637587379Author Taylor Baldwin KilandFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Knox PressPublisher Knox PressWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBeverly Weintraub is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose coverage of aviation, education and social services has appeared in the New York Daily News and the...

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346650Author Smithsonian InstitutionFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly PressPublisher Smithsonian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358699187Author Julia CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 135g