Women
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The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
$18.99 Add to cartA “captivating portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), both “poignant and intriguing” (The New Republic): from award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous res… [more below]
- Author: Bren, Paulina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1982123907
- Language: English
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Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
$19.00 Read moreA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE NEW YORKER – A vibrant portrait of four college friends–Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley–who formed a… [more below]
- Author: Mac Cumhaill, Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1984898981
- Language: English
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
$18.99 Add to cartAt long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she trace… [more below]
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1631494759
- Language: English
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
$40.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of NASA’s 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space. Wi
- Author: Bagby, Meredith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063141973
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
$33.00 Add to cartThis remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long be… [more below]
- Author: Targoff, Ramie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 0525658033
- Language: English
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
$18.00 Add to cartThe powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members. A compel… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0593471083
- Language: English
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The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism
$19.99 Add to cartAn incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them
Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly cel- Author: Schuller, Kyla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1645036871
- Language: English
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
$28.95 Add to cartAn alternative history of the Renaissance–as seen through the emerging literature of beauty tips–focusing on the actresses, authors, and courtesans who rebelled against the misogyny of their era.
Be- Author: Burke, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365907
- Language: English
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Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women
$30.00 Read moreThis monumental collection of speeches charts the story of America as it unfolded through the decades, showing that at every critical juncture, women were speaking. It’s a long-needed corrective to th… [more below]
- Author: Rubin, Dana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1637550308
- Language: English
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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
$17.99 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 degree, speak two lan… [more below]
- Author: Cooke, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0358699185
- Language: English
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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
$20.00 Add to cartA trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health–from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases–brought together in a fascinating sweeping… [more below]
- Author: Cleghorn, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 7, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593182979
- Language: English
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A Black Women’s History of the United States
$18.95 Add to cartThe award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)–the perfect companion to An Indigenous Peop… [more below]
- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0807001996
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been wr
- Author: Penaluna, Regan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: 14-Mar-23
- ISBN10: 0802158803
- Language: English
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
$32.99 Add to cartTHE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CUNDIL HISTORY PRIZE
A “Next Big Idea Book Club” Must Read?A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been … [more below]
- Author: Ramirez, Janina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1335498524
- Language: English
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Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
$29.00 Add to cartA historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely, refreshingly open-hearted study of the choices women make and the cards they’re dealt” (Ada Calhoun,
- Author: O’Donnell Heffington, Peggy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675576
- Language: English
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Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
$16.00 Add to cartOffering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing–of being–articulated by ten pathfinding women writers.
“A wild portrayal of the passion- Author: Andrews, Kerri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1789145015
- Language: English
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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
$39.99 Add to cart“Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain’s past. Philippa Gregory has produced so
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063304325
- Language: English
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Eyeliner: A Cultural History
$26.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Pick
“Cosmetic, tool of rebellion, status signifier: Eyeliner has been all these and more. Moving through millenniums and across civilizations, Hankir give- Author: Hankir, Zahra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137093
- Language: English
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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
$22.00 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
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324020873
- Language: English
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Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more d- Author: O’Brien, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1328592790
- Language: English
