Women's Studies
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Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty
$19.99 Add to cartA daring and provocative book-length essay on why we both romanticize and vilify mothers
A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the- Author: Rose, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538476
- Language: English
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Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power
$16.95 Add to cart“Dear Black Girl is the empowering, affirming love letter our girls need in order to thrive in a world that does not always protect, nurture, or celebrate us. This collection of Black women’s voices..… [more below]
- Author: Winfrey Harris, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1523092297
- Language: English
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Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead
$30.00 Read moreAmazon’s Best Nonfiction Book of the Month for March 2024
Discover the complete social history of the housewife archetype, from colonial America to the 20th century, and re-examine common myths about- Author: Davis, Lisa Selin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1538722887
- Language: English
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Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation
$30.00 Read moreAn incisive exploration of women and work, showing how globalization’s promise of liberation instead set the stage for repression–from the acclaimed author of Factory Girls
“Exhaustively reported and- Author: Chang, Leslie T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0525509216
- Language: English
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Women Who Change the World: Stories from the Fight for Social Justice
$17.95 Add to cartNine women who have dedicated their lives to the struggle for social justice–movement leaders, organizers, and cultural workers–tell their life stories in their own words. Sharing their most vulnera
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Lewis, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0872868745
- Language: English
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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
$17.00 Add to cartNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international corresponden… [more below]
- Author: Hankir, Zahra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0143133411
- Language: English
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Cunt (20th Anniversary Edition): A Declaration of Independence
$19.99 Add to cartAn ancient title of respect for women, the word “cunt” long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim “cunt” a… [more below]
- Series: Live Girls
- Author: Muscio, Inga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1580056644
- Language: English
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
$18.95 Read moreWhat does a great artist who is also a mother look like? What does it mean to create, not in “a room of one’s own,” but in a domestic space? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Ju
- Author: Phillips, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064439
- Language: English
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Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
$18.00 Add to cartThe highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey
Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-y- Series: Midwife Trilogy #1
- Author: Worth, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0143123254
- Language: English
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
$24.99 Add to cartA revised and updated anniversary edition of Natalie Angier’s bestselling guide to–and celebration of–the female body National Book Award finalist A New York Times notable book “A tour de force,… [more below]
- Author: Angier, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0544228103
- Language: English
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The Riot Grrrl Collection
$39.95 Add to cartArchival material from the 1990s underground movement that served as a “gateway drug to feminist history” for so many. (–Kathleen Hanna, Bikini Kill)
Before the rise of the Internet or desktop publish… [more below]
- Author: Darms, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1558618228
- Language: English
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Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives
$21.99 Add to cart“A glorious book. Jean Shinoda Bolen’s weaving of myth, science and keen observation makes this an outstanding contribution to the humanities.” — Rita Mae Brown
Jean Shinoda Bolen’s celebrated work of
- Author: Bolen, Jean Shinoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0062321129
- Language: English
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
$19.00 Add to cartThe astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade.
“It would take a hear- Author: Fessler, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038974
- Language: English
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The Chalice and the Blade
$18.99 Add to cartNow with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevant book.
“May be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes.” – LA Weekly
The C
- Author: Eisler, Riane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 21, 1988
- ISBN10: 0062502891
- Language: English
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Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood
$24.99 Read more“The work Ruby is doing is liberating.”
“A startling, confronting, and liberating treatise.”
–Glennon Doyle, New York Times bestselling author of Untamed
–Holly Whitaker, New York Times bestselling- Author: Warrington, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1683649273
- Language: English
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The Spirit of Indian Women
$14.95 Add to cartThe Spirit of Indian Women provides a unique glimpse into a world that is almost inaccessible in our time. Through the combined power of photos, art, and the wisdom of traditional voices, modern reade… [more below]
- Series: Sacred Worlds
- Author: Fitzgerald, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0941532879
- Language: English
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The Bonobo Sisterhood: Revolution Through Female Alliance
$28.99 Read moreForeword by Ashley Judd
“Rosenfeld’s tour-de-force takes the power of female alliances to a higher level, giving us a road map for a new vision of women’s equality through the relationships and bonds w
- Author: Rosenfeld, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063085070
- Language: English
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Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America
$0.00 Read more“An important book…Grant is a good storyteller, subtle and compassionate.” —The New York Times Book Review
In the tradition of Random Family and Evicted, a gripping blend of rigorous, intimate on-t- Author: Grant, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982170425
- Language: English
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My Secret Garden
$19.99 Add to cartNewly repackaged, the groundbreaking bestseller that explores female sexuality through women’s most intimate fantasies.
Welcome to Nancy Friday’s secret garden, a hidden place where ordinary women are- Author: Friday, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 1, 2008
- ISBN10: 1416567011
- Language: English
