Women's Studies
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The Power of Women: A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from
- Author: Mukwege, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1250779456
- Language: English
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Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism
$18.00 Add to cartOklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Indigenous Issues
- Author: Mihesuah, Devon a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282869
- Language: English
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A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$20.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, “A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar… [more below]
- Author: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 04 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733760
- Language: English
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Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body–New Paths to Power and Love
$18.99 Add to cartRiane Eisler shows us how history has consistently promoted the link between sex and violence–and how we can sever this link and move to a politics of partnership rather than domination in all our re
- Author: Eisler, Riane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0062502832
- Language: English
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Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
$17.00 Add to cartA transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communities
While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender- Author: Serano, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1580055044
- Language: English
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America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
$21.99 Add to cartRich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Collins, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061227226
- Language: English
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Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
$19.99 Add to cart“[Beauty Sick] will blow the top off the body image movement…provocative and necessary.” — Rebellious Magazine
An award-winning psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women’s a
- Author: Engeln, Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 17, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062469789
- Language: English
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Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
$28.99 Add to cartAfter years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive surgery, she was perplexed: What had she lost? And ga
- Author: Thornton, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881024
- Language: English
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Great Women of Mackinac, 1800-1950
$37.95 Add to cartGreat Women of Mackinac, 1800-1950 tells the dramatic history of thirteen women leaders on Mackinac Island in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their linked visions of family and community… [more below]
- Author: Croghan, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1611864534
- Language: English
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Composing a Life
$18.00 Add to cartMary Catherine Bateson has been called one of the most original and important thinkers of our time (Deborah Tannen). Grove Press is pleased to reissue Bateson’s deeply satisfying treatise on the impro
- Author: Bateson, Mary Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03, 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138047
- Language: English
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Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
$17.95 Add to cart“An interesting and effective overview. . . . It is to the author’s considerable credit that she is able to re-create the values and behavior of Cherokee women through court records, myths, and observ
- Series: Indians of the Southeast
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803287607
- Language: English
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Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman (for Readers of Crones Don’t Whine or the Twelve Faces of the Goddess)
$22.95 Add to cartActivism for the Modern Day Artemis
From the author dubbed “an Artemis,” by Gloria Steinem, comes Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman, a book dedicated to women with the courage and passion t
- Author: Bolen, Jean Shinoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1573245917
- Language: English
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The Women
$17.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conc
- Author: Als, Hilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0374525293
- Language: English
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Women, Culture & Politics
$17.00 Add to cartA collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, a… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 19 1990
- ISBN10: 0679724877
- Language: English
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Love, Loss, and What I Wore
$17.99 Add to cart“Illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women . . . This small gem of a book is worthy of a Tiffany box.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A memoir every reader will wish to copy in h- Author: Beckerman, Ilene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1565124758
- Language: English
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Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Goddesses in Everywoman comes a celebration of life past fifty.
At some point after fifty, every woman crosses a threshold into the third phase of her life. As she enters
- Author: Bolen, Jean Shinoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0060929235
- Language: English
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Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis
$18.00 Add to cartA generation-defining exploration of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women and the unique circumstances that have brought them to this point, Why We Can’t Sleep is a lively successor to Passages b
- Author: Calhoun, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148573
- Language: English
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The Valkyries’ Loom: The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
$26.95 Add to cartUsing textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societies
In The Valkyries’ Loom, Michèle Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse col
- Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
- Author: Smith, Michèle Hayeur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0813080118
- Language: English
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The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women
$18.99 Add to cartExplore real women’s tales of healthcare trauma and medical misogyny with this “masterfully written” (Sophia A. Nelson, bestselling author of The Woman Code and Black Woman Redefined), meticulously re… [more below]
- Author: Hossain, Anushay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982177799
- Language: English
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Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs
$24.99 Add to cartThe author of Rejected Princesses returns with an inspiring, fully illustrated guide that brings together the fiercest mothers in history–real life matriarchs who gave everything to protect all they
- Author: Porath, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0062796097
- Language: English
