Women's Studies
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First Love: Essays on Friendship
$30.00 Add to cartA bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space
“Fiercely felt and finely etched.”–Leslie- Author: Dancyger, Lilly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 593447573
- Language: English
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Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
$29.95 Add to cartMost fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago–and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boardi
- Author: Peavy, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: April 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0806144696
- Language: English
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Best of Covered Wagon Women
$21.95 Add to cartThe diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand … [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0806139145
- Language: English
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The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains
$29.95 Add to cartThe Mayans Among Us conveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L. Sittig
- Author: Sittig, Ann L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803284616
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
$21.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Coverd Wagon Women #2
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 080327274X
- Language: English
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Pioneer Women
$22.00 Add to cartFrom a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “… [more below]
- Author: Stratton, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 1982
- ISBN10: 0671447483
- Language: English
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Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
$22.95 Add to cartIf countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men–a man’s world. Here, C
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064770
- Language: English
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Spinning and Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century
$35.00 Add to cartIn the 21st century, radical feminist theory and activism is more important than ever. Hence, this new anthology, which brings together the best in contemporary radical feminist thought. Spinning and
- Author: Miller, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 710
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0997146745
- Language: English
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Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America (Gift for Black Women)
$14.99 Add to cartBlack Business Woman, Claim Your Power!
“Learn from one of the most powerful women in the USA, who has been blazing trails and creating sustainable million-dollar wealth from Washington DC to the sands
- Author: Arrington, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1642500321
- Language: English
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Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
$22.95 Add to cartFrom hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women’s roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story…. [more below]
- Author: Murray, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1645481301
- Language: English
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
$21.99 Add to cartAn updated, third edition of the renowned feminist’s most diverse and timeless collection of essays, with a new foreword by Emma Watson.
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions has sold over half a m- Author: Steinem, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1250204860
- Language: English
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Everyday Sexism
$28.00 Add to cartThe Everyday Sexism Project was founded by writer and activist Laura Bates in April 2012. It began life as a website where people could share their experiences of daily, normalized sexism, from street
- Author: Bates, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1250100186
- Language: English
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Sex Cells: The Fight to Overcome Bias and Discrimination in Women’s Healthcare
$26.99 Add to cartSex Cells is a clear-eyed report on the still-pitched battle to get the scientific and medical world to recognize that women are not small men.
The idea that our biological sex impacts our health see- Author: Greenberger, Phyllis E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887700205
- Language: English
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Nike Is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports
$17.00 Add to cartRecent years have seen a huge explosion in the popularity and commercial viability of women’s sports – with new professional leagues for women to play in, new magazines to cover them, and recognition … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Lissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 09 1999
- ISBN10: 0871137615
- Language: English
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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
$17.99 Add to cartFatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as “enchanting” (The New York Times Book Review), “exubera… [more below]
- Author: Mernissi, Fatema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0743412435
- Language: English
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
$20.99 Add to cartIn the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would la… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: McMillen, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195393333
- Language: English
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Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well
$18.99 Add to cartFor women contemplating divorce or for those who have already divorced, Ashton Applewhite’s insightful book sheds light on what to consider before making the decision to end your marriage, how to prot
- Author: Applewhite, Ashton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0062680706
- Language: English
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Wild Words for Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations and Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots (Girls Run the World, Nasty Women, A
$16.99 Add to carthis ribald compilation of powerful women quotes everything from bras to babies, menopause to men, and politics to parties. Featuring historically nasty women like Jane Austen and Billie Jean King, the… [more below]
- Author: Stephens, Autumn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684810035
- Language: English
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Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture Under Late Capitalism
$16.95 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 COLE FOUNDATION PRIZE FOR TRANSLATION
A nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
As Daph
- Author: B, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1552454290
- Language: English
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A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
$17.99 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detour… [more below]
- Author: Colwell, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1501181297
- Language: English
