Women's Studies
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
$18.99 Add to cartUPDATED 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH 2020 PREFACE
An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unr
- Author: Merchant, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10 1990
- ISBN10: 0062505955
- Language: English
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Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
$19.99 Add to cartThe creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about op
- Author: Salami, Minna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0062877070
- Language: English
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Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump
$37.99 Add to cart1. Introduction: The Departure of Michelle Obama from the White House and the Need for Black Feminism.- 2. A History of Black American Feminism.- 3. Black Women’s Relationships with Party Politics.- 4… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Duchess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 3319954555
- Language: English
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Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina
$21.99 Add to cartIn Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina w… [more below]
- Author: Molinary, Rosie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10 2007
- ISBN10: 1580051898
- Language: English
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Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure
$24.99 Add to cartA captivating memoir from one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa.
In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffes and a dream to study them in
- Series: Life Writing
- Author: Dagg, Anne Innis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0889204632
- Language: English
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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
$43.43 Add to cartPink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installat… [more below]
- Author: Rodgers, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0822346737
- Language: English
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
$21.00 Add to cart“A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” –Michelle Alexander, author of The Ne… [more below]
- Author: Ritchie, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0807088986
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diari… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #4
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 080327291X
- Language: English
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Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
$33.99 Add to cartDismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters’ books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as dive
- Author: Ragan, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 17 2000
- ISBN10: 393320464
- Language: English
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Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
$26.00 Add to cartThe little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk–a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.
While the Women’s- Author: Greenberg, Amy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0804173443
- Language: English
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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Walters, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 12 2006
- ISBN10: 019280510X
- Language: English
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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
$16.00 Add to cartIn the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and … [more below]
- Author: Carter, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1476773963
- Language: English
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Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity
$19.99 Add to cartEmily Matchar offers a smart, measured investigation into the cultural, social, and economic implications of a return to domesticity in this fascinating book “chock-full of historical context, strong … [more below]
- Series: Night Glow Board Books
- Author: Matchar, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1451665458
- Language: English
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
$38.93 Add to cartIn this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence-perpetrated by the state and by society at l… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0822360381
- Language: English
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Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne
$21.99 Add to cartPsychoanalysis is certainly one of the most contested areas of debate within feminism. This book presents articles on feminine sexuality by Lacan and members of the ?ole freudienne, the school of psyc… [more below]
- Author: Lacan, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0393302113
- Language: English
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
$22.99 Add to cartIn the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers,
- Author: Lasalle, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0312284314
- Language: English
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Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
$31.00 Add to cartToward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called “women’s secrets,” by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Park, Katharine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1890951684
- Language: English
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Invisible Women of Prehistory: Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War
$29.95 Add to cartBased on many years of research into ancient history and prehistory, this insightful tome argues that three million years of peace–a period when women’s status in society was much higher than it is n… [more below]
- Author: Foster, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1876756918
- Language: English
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Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
$28.99 Add to cart‘Rich, complex and witty’ ROSE GEORGE, SPECTATOR
‘Devastating and clever’ BEL MOONEY, DAILY MAIL ‘Could not be more necessary’ RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER What is about women in their forties and beyond th- Author: Smith, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0349726965
- Language: English
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The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship Volume 31
$19.95 Add to cartThis book is an invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and the lives of her clients, as well as from dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, and literature, Linda Schierse L
- Author: Leonard, Linda Schierse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: May 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0804011583
- Language: English
