Feminism category: 1647 books
by Helen Gurley Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Helen Gurley Brown adds dazzle to dull office days in her follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller Sex and the Single Girl
The classic book from 1965 tells what it was really like to be the girl in a Mad Men–style workplace. Sex and the Office became the definitive, comprehensive...
Other Powers
The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
From the author of Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, a stunning combination of history and biography that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell...
A Hot-Eyed Moderate
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
**The essays in this inspiring collection analyze the craft of writing and the art of living and loving **
Jane Rule shares her insights into the creative process, sexual fidelity, feminist politics, and the transformative power of love.
Part I—“On Writing”—dispenses...
The Waterman's Song
Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer...
by Kate Austin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: "Woman (a feminist literature classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Kate Cooper Austin (1864–1902) was an American journalist and advocate of feminist and anarchist causes. A member of the American Press...
Embodied Avatars
Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance
Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture
Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt...
by Ada Adverse
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
’This fun and feminist series of humour books celebrates the sisterhood with a wry smile.’ – Red Have you ever…? A) Questioned how you can be expected to smash and clean the glass ceiling at the same time? B)Seriously considered poisoning your own sandwiches just to stop your colleagues stealing...
by Margaret Fuller, W. H. Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850) received a broad education and early felt a deep interest in social questions. She learned French, German and the classics, and her associates in Cambridge were persons of culture, experience and advanced ideas. In 1833 the family removed to Groton, Mass.,...
by Aisha Z Raison
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
Aisha Raison, Womanist, activist and author of Speaking in Cursive and Other Adventures of Little Girl Blue, introduces essays and poetry on the Independent Black Woman, relationships, love and social issues of the 21st century.
Eleanor Roosevelt: In Her Words
On Women, Politics, Leadership, and Lessons from Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This illustrated, first of its kind collection of excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt's newspaper columns, radio talks, speeches, and correspondence speaks directly to the challenges we face today.
Acclaimed for her roles in politics and diplomacy, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was also a prolific...
White Gloves Off
The Work of the Ontario Committee on the Status of Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
During the 1970s and 1980s, after the Royal Commission on the Status of Women made its far-reaching recommendations, the volunteer Ontario Committee on the Status of Women went head-to-head with the Ontario government of Premier William Davis to fully implement equality for women in Ontario. Areas...
by Anne Summers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This provocative examination by a media-savvy writer who remains at the forefront of the political debate surrounding gender equality explores why equality between men and women has failed to be achieved in Australia. In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting...
Heart Berries
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018
A New York Times Editor's Choice
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection
"A sledgehammer. . . . Her experiments with structure and language . . . are in the...
101 Amazing Women
Extraordinary Heroines Throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Throughout human history, countless women have made important contributions to society. Some have made scientific discoveries vital to modern-day life, whereas others have fought for human rights, shaped entire countries and broken down barriers. This fascinating book introduces the reader to over one...