Women's Studies
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The Atlas of Beauty: Women of the World in 500 Portraits
$30.00 Add to cartBased on the author’s online photography project, this stunning collection features portraits of 500 women from more than 50 countries, accompanied by revelatory captions that capture their personal s… [more below]
- Author: Noroc, Mihaela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0399579958
- Language: English
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This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something–Anything–Like Your Life Depends on It
$17.00 Read moreWhy We Can’t Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman’s midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we ag… [more below]
- Author: Carvan, Tabitha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0593421914
- Language: English
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Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
$16.99 Add to cartOne of Kirkus Review’s Best Books About Being Black in America
Powerful… Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with empathy, Blay’s pivotal work will engage all readers- Author: Blay, Zeba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1250231566
- Language: English
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Some of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays
$0.00 Read more“Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.” –Toni Morrison
Some of Us Did Not Die brings together the seminal essays of June Jordan, the widely acclaimed Black America- Series: New and and Selected Essays
- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 23, 2007
- ISBN10: 0465036937
- Language: English
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
$27.00 Add to cartAffordable paperback of volume honored as one of Library Journal’s “Poetry Books of the Year.”
- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 1556592345
- Language: English
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Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead
$20.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking women’s leadership expert and popular conference speaker gives women the practical skills to voice and implement the changes they want to see–in themselves and in the world
In her c- Author: Mohr, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1592409601
- Language: English
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
$17.99 Add to cartThe groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead’s first field work at age 23, establishing Mead’s core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life.
Rarely do sc
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Mead, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0688050336
- 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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Call the Midwife, Volume 3: Farewell to the East End
$23.00 Add to cartThe last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth’s New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-cla
- Series: Call the Midwife #03
- Author: Worth, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 62270060
- 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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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
$35.00 Add to cartWhether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950-2015)–underground actress, porn star, producer of adult
- Author: Kamensky, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324002085
- 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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From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
$22.99 Add to cartFrom Out of the Shadows was the first full study of Mexican-American women in the twentieth century. Beginning with the first wave of Mexican women crossing the border early in the century, historian … [more below]
- Author: Ruiz, Vicki L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0195374770
- Language: English
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Solar Storms
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan, Solar Storms tells the moving, “luminous” (Publishers Weekly) story of Angela Jenson, a troubled Native American girl coming of age in the foster system in O… [more below]
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 26 1997
- ISBN10: 0684825392
- 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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Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920
$34.98 Read moreA groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the first women’s prison
What if prisoners were to write the history of their own p- Author: The Indiana Women’s Prison History Proje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1620975394
- Language: English
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200 Women: Who Will Change the Way You See the World (Coffee Table Book, Inspiring Women’s Book, Social Book, Graduation Book)
$25.00 Read moreIn this ambitious global project, two hundred women share inspiring stories of success and courage, love and pain, redemption, and generosity.
This updated, abridged edition includes powerful new inte- Author: Blackwell, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 1452184658
- 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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The Words of Extraordinary Women
$18.99 Add to cartThis inspiring collection features more than 700 quotes from more than 400 notable women, ranging from Charlotte Bront and Helen Keller, to Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa, Simone de Beauvoir, and H
- Series: Newmarket Words of
- Author: Warner, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1557048576
- Language: English
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Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
$30.00 Add to cartIn Women Money Power, financial journalist Josie Cox tells the compelling story of women’s fight for financial freedom, the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality―… [more below]
- Author: Cox, Josie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1419762982
- Language: English
