Women
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All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960
$29.95 Add to cartA panoramic social history that chronicles the quest for beauty in all its contradictions–and how it affects the female body.
“Women have been fat or slim, hyperthyroid or splenetic, sallow or pink-c- Author: Nicholson, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367063
- Language: English
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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
$12.00 Add to cartHarriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076151
- Language: English
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Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing Women of Nasa’s Johnson Space Center
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center to the launching of the International Space Station and beyond, Making Space for Women explores how careers for women at Johnson Space Center have cha
- Series: Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, Sponsored by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leade
- Author: Ross-Nazzal, Jennifer M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1623499933
- Language: English
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Booth Girls: Pregnancy, Adoption, and the Secrets We Kept
$18.95 Add to cartA thoughtful and emotional multigenerational story of contested motherhood and the stigma of adoption–equal parts biography, oral history, history, and memoir.
Kim Heikkila’s mother had a secret: in- Author: Heikkila, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1681341905
- Language: English
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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
$28.00 Add to cartGlamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up
Required to have a college education, speak tw- Author: Cooke, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0358251400
- Language: English
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Colorado Women in World War II
$23.95 Add to cartFour months before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Mildred McClellan Melville, a member of the Denver Woman’s Press Club, predicted that war would come for the United States and that i
- Series: Timberline Books
- Author: Beaton, Gail M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1646425588
- Language: English
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies
$19.99 Read more“[A] gossipy, but surprisingly deep, look at the women who help and sometimes overshadow their powerful husbands.” — USA Today
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backs
- Author: Brower, Kate Andersen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0062439669
- Language: English
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The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World
$16.99 Add to cartNever tell a woman where she doesn’t belong.
In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that “women are not
- Author: Zanglein, Jayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1728239583
- Language: English
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One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement
$29.00 Add to cartIncludes definitive writings by leading scholars that cover the full scope of the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., up to and including the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. This revised a… [more below]
- Author: Spruill, Marjorie J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0939165767
- Language: English
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Bagby, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063141981
- Language: English
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No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
$18.99 Add to cartThe “absorbing and powerful” (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I. A month after war b… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672755
- Language: English
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Unwavering: The Wives Who Fought to Ensure No Man Is Left Behind
$30.00 Read moreThe true story of the women who waged an epic home front battle to ensure our nation leaves no man behind.
When some of America’s military men are captured or go missing during the Vietnam War, a smal- Author: Baldwin Kiland, Taylor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1637587376
- Language: English
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
$19.99 Add to cartHave you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there’s arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of y… [more below]
- Author: Oneill, Therese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0316357901
- Language: English
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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
$28.00 Add to cartUndivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.
- Author: Silliman, Jael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1608466175
- Language: English
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
$16.95 Add to cartThe turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era?
The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate cou- Author: Norton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1681778041
- Language: English
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
$23.00 Add to cartA long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia–from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0399588744
- Language: English
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Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
$16.99 Add to cartWINNER 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 ne
- Author: Gardiner Perkins, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1728234611
- Language: English
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Woman: The American History of an Idea
$25.00 Add to cartA comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
“Exhaustively researched and finely written.”–Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times- Author: Faderman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 030027114X
- Language: English
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Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Women of the Rodeo & Wild West Shows
$18.95 Read moreIn Along Came a Cowgirl New York Times best-selling author Chris Enss introduces you to the world of early rodeo–and to the stories of the women whose names resounded in rodeo arenas across the natio… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1560378131
- Language: English
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
$35.00 Add to cartNow an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them–women with the courage to stand up to the stat- Author: Clinton, Hillary Rodham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1501178415
- Language: English
