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Lone voyagers
Using biography, autobiography, journals, and letters, Lone Voyagers offers portraits of seven women who were the first of their sex to work as faculty and deans at coeducational universities in the United States and Canada. Most historians of higher education have focused their attention on wome...
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Look both ways
Two young geologists embark on faraway lives amidst the strictures of their time; their granddaughter blends their story and hers in this one-of-a-kind account.
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Love and liberation
Reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life
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Loving in the war years
An updated edition combining two classic works of Chicana and queer literature, with a new introduction by renowned writer and luminary, Cherríe Moraga. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, this updated edition of Loving in the War Years combines Moraga’s classic m...
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Madam atatürk
An international bestseller, this is the vivid biography of Latife Hanım, Kemal Atatürk’s wife – a hugely significant figure in the birth of modern Turkey
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Making women's history
The only collection of work by a groundbreaking historian.
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Manchu princess, japanese spy
A sensational, myth-busting biography of a woman who thrived and fell upon the turmoil of her era.
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Maria theresa
A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and ruleMaria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of diverse eth...
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Mary shelley
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Mary Shelley has been called "a harrowing life, wonderfully retold" (The Washington Post).This "splendid biography" (The New Yorker) gracefully moves through the dramatic life of the woman behind history's most leg...
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Maya deren
Maya Deren (1917–1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream...
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Melanie klein
To the renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein (1882–1960) was the most original innovator, male or female, in the psychoanalytic arena. Klein pioneered psychoanalytic practice with children and made major contributions to our understanding of both psychosi...
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Memories
The remarkable autobiography of one of the founders of modern feminism.
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Memory is our home
Memory Is Our Home is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who was born in Warsaw before the end of World War I, grew up during the interwar period and who, after escaping the atrocities of World War II, was able to survive in the vast territories of S...
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Miss giardino
A unique psychological portrait of an urban working-class teacher, and the dynamics of teaching itself.
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Movements: liat yossifor
Named an "Artist to Watch" in 2016 by Modern Painters Magazine, this is Israeli born, LA-based Liat Yossifor's first monograph.
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Moving the mountain
Florence Luscomb campaigned for suffrage early in the century and worked for social change. Ella Baker was a civil rights organizer for over fifty years. Jessie Lopez De La Cruz, a lifelong farmworker, was the first woman to organize in the fields for the United Farmworkers. These vivid oral hist...
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My belly
If my hatred of my belly was a person, she would be old enough to have completed a lengthy education and given me grandchildren.An unflinching and feminist portrait of one woman’s obsession with her belly and the cultural and social norms that feed that obsession––for readers of Nora Ephron’s cla...
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My body is a book of rules
In My Body Is a Book of Rules, Elissa Washuta corrals the synaptic gymnastics of her teeming bipolar brain, interweaving pop culture with neurobiology and memories of sexual trauma to tell the story of her fight to calm her aching mind and slip beyond the tormenting cycles of memory.
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My brilliant friends
My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women’s bonds.
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My what if year
A People Magazine “Best New Book” “Hailed as the next Eat, Pray, Love” —CNN InternationalAn exuberant, hilarious memoir about a woman who pauses her successful career for a year and explores the “What If” jobs of her dreams.DELIGHTFULLY IRREVERENT, My What If Year recounts the adventures of a suc...
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Narrative of sojourner truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the memoir of an African-American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the early 1800s
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Nathalie sarraute
The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writerA leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and political ferment of twentieth-century Europ...
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Night pieces
“Of those three women, I had to start with the first, the one who was barely twenty-five when she ran away, and the only one still alive today. That woman is me.”When in 2021 Nathacha Appanah learned of the death of Chahinez Daoud, burned alive by her husband in broad daylight near Bordeaux, she ...
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Nine moons
Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2020From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction.Women play all the time with the great power...
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One body: a retrospective
Nominated in Scotland’s National Book AwardsIn this searing, frank and funny memoir, Catherine Simpson describes what it’s been like to live in her woman’s body, and to reach the realisation that all that time she’d spent trying to change her body to conform - often to unattainable standards - co...
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One step sideways, three steps forward
The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps—not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology. In this engaging and moving ...
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Opinionated
This collection of essays provides a sweeping overview of Jewish life and culture as viewed through the eyes of an academic who is also a woman, equally at home in the real world and the ivory tower.
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Paddling my own canoe
An Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy "Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now"
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Phyllis schlafly and grassroots conservatism
Longtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for many the symbol of the conservative movement in America. In this provocative new book, historian Donald T. Critchlow sheds new light on Schlafly's life and on the unappreciated role her grassroots activism played in transf...
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Portraits of chinese women in revolution
Agnes Smedley, author of Daughter of Earth, worked in and wrote about China from 1928 to 1941. These 18 piecesall out of print and most unavailable even in public librariesare based on interviews with revolutionary women. They include descriptions of the massacre of feminists in the Canton comm...
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Queen of the court
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais, the dramatic and colorful story of legendary tennis star and international celebrity, Alice Marble In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by the famed Alfred Eisenstaedt. She was a glamorous worldwi...
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Radiation diaries
Exquisitely written diary of radiation treatment for pelvic cancers that delves into literary consciousness, feminism, memory and an unquiet past.
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Radical
Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a “voice . . . speaking with full freedom” (Wall Street Journal), which has made her one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation. She is the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Nine Continents and a Granta Best Young British Nove...
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Rape new york
A true story of sexual violence, a corrupt property market, and the fight for justice.
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Red wave
A memoir by an American who almost single-handedly introduced Soviet rock to the free world, [...] Stingray, who wrote this memoir with her daughter, Madison, nicely captures her daring amid an atmosphere of liberation and fear, and she's a study in moxie and enthusiasm.—Kirkus ReviewsAs one of t...
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Remembering shanghai
In the tradition of Wild Swans, this fully illustrated, multi-generational memoir is at once a thrilling journey and a dazzling time capsule of Shanghai during a period of dramatic political and cultural change.
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Remembering the armed struggle
Margrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder she did not commit, and upon her release she returned to the underground, being captured again in early 1974. She would spend most of the 1970s i...
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Residual
Writing alongside the specter of premature death, Tisa Bryant traces the contours of Black women’s interior lives and domestic spaces through meditations on literature, cinema, installations, and archival research to reaffirm her own way of being.In the long aftermath of her mother’s death, Tisa ...
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Season of the body
A memoir in essay form, with the body as its central reference point.
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Self-portrait in green
Who are the green women? They are powerful (one is a disciplinarian teacher). They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost). They are seductive (one marries her best friend’s father). And they are unbearably personal (one is the author’s own mother).They are all aspects of their creator: ...
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She changed the nation
An important new biography of Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman from the South to serve in CongressDuring her keynote speech at the 1976 Democratic Party convention, Barbara Jordan of Texas stood before a rapt audience and reflected on where Americans stood in that bicentennial year. “Are we ...
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Sinkhole
Finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book AwardA sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family.In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a distur...
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