Women's Studies
-
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
$32.00 Add to cartThis book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful be… [more below]
- Author: Glymph, Thavolia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0521703980
- Language: English
-
On Violence and on Violence Against Women
$20.00 Add to cartA blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.
Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visibl- Author: Rose, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849373
- Language: English
-
Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
$17.99 Add to cartFrom Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fed Up, a bold dive into the unpaid, invisible work women have shouldered for too long–and an impassio
- Author: Hartley, Gemma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0062856464
- Language: English
-
The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul
$16.95 Add to cartThe feminine holds the mystery of creation. This simple and primordial truth is often overlooked, but at this time of global crisis, which also carries the seeds of a global transformation, we need to
- Author: Vaughan-Lee, Llewellyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1890350141
- Language: English
-
Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo, Third Edition
$26.95 Add to cartNewly revised and expanded, this remains the only book to chronicle the history of both tattooed women and women tattooists.
Bodies of Subversion was the first history of women’s tattoo art when it wa- Author: Mifflin, Margot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1576876136
- Language: English
-
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
$18.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1645481298
- Language: English
-
Woman: The American History of an Idea
$25.00 Add to cartA comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
“Exhaustively researched and finely written.”–Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times- Author: Faderman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 030027114X
- Language: English
-
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
$20.00 Add to cart“Page for page, I may not have ever learned more from a book…. Womb is a history book as well as a biology book but it’s also an adventure and a celebration.” –Rob Delaney, actor and author of A He
- Author: Hazard, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0063157632
- Language: English
-
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
-
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
$16.00 Add to cartA modern sports writing classic by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle tells the story of the 1992-1993 championship season of the Amherst Lady Hurricanes
- Author: Blais, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0802121454
- Language: English
-
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
-
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
-
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
$18.00 Add to cart“Beautiful . . . Compelling . . . Cusk is] an extraordinary writer of the female experience.” —Financial Times
In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk’s marriage of ten years came to an end. Candid and r- Author: Cusk, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1250828295
- Language: English
-
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
-
Women on Top
$21.99 Add to cartIn a post-50 Shades of Grey world, a new audience is ready for Nancy Friday’s groundbreaking work on female sexual fantasies. Women on Top explores the changing face of sex and power dynamics through
- Author: Friday, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 30, 2012
- ISBN10: 1476715602
- Language: English
-
The Lady’s Stratagem: A Repository of 1820s Directions for the Toilet, Mantua-Making, Stay-Making, Millinery & Etiquette
$75.00 Add to cartThe Lady’s Stratagem is a comprehensive, step-by-step, illustrated guide to early 19th-century dressmaking, corset making, millinery, knitting, embroidery, clothing care, beauty treatments, and manner… [more below]
- Author: Grimble, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 755
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0963651773
- Language: English
-
A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales
$21.95 Add to cartBrowse discussion questions
Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window
- Author: Calderon, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0827612095
- Language: English
-
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851
$18.95 Add to cartThe wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west–about 2,160 m… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #3
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803272871
- Language: English
-
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
$18.00 Read moreIn this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill–and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim.
How many of us a- Author: Vronsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0425213900
- Language: English
-
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
