Feminism category: 1647 books

Celebrated "Diva of the Demimonde [who writes] a love song to life on the shday side" (Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love"), Viva Las Vegas, the award-winning author of "Magic Gardens" and "The Last Days of My Left Breast" returns with a collection of popular writings from her days as an editor of Exotic Magazine....

In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen...

A riveting exploration of terrorism’s relationship to sex, with a new preface by the author Terrorism is the international crime that has captured the attention of the entire world, forcing governments to make radical changes in security and civil liberties. Meanwhile, everyone tries to comprehend...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS I. CHILDHOOD II. SCHOOL DAYS III. GIRLHOOD IV. LIFE AT PETERBORO V. OUR WEDDING JOURNEY VI. HOMEWARD BOUND VII. MOTHERHOOD VIII. BOSTON AND CHELSEA IX. THE FIRST WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION X. SUSAN B. ANTHONY XI....

A revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the nineteen-twenties including traveling the country dressed as a boy, working for the Red Cross in Belgium, being the concubine to a Shanghai poet, using opium, and having an illegitimate child....

Lucy Stone was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged...

Kathleen Barry answers the perennial question: Is war inevitable? with an emphatic "no." She explores soldiers' experiences through a politics of empathy and reveals how men’s lives are made expendable for combat in which they suffer loss of their own souls. She then probes the psychopathy that marks...

Portraits of pivotal American feminists and three of the most powerful women in twentieth-century China by the “quintessential New Yorker narrator” (The New York Times).   Once Upon a Pedestal: After living an unconventional and exotic life for decades, New Yorker writer Emily Hahn was in her...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A modern feminist classic."—The Guardian **From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power. ** At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the...

Engendered Death: Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is an historical and interdisciplinary study of women who kill in Pennsylvania from the 18th century to the present. It is not an examination of what motivates women to kill, although the reader may deduce that from the case studies included. Instead,...

** **In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories. Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and...

This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist, through the obstacles and movements in twentieth-century France.   Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married...

Having experienced firsthand the horror of female genital mutilation (FGM), Soraya Miré reveals the personal violation and immense challenges she overcame. This book is at once an intimate revelation, a testament to the empowerment of women, and an indictment of the violent global oppression of women...

Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains...