Gender Studies
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The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique, published 19 February 1963, is a book written by Betty Friedan which brought to light the lack of fulfillment in many women's lives, which was generally kept hidden.
Simple Abundance
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
With the grace of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea and the wisdom of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled, Simple Abundance is a book of 366 evocative essays-one for every day of your year-written for women who wish to live by their own lights. In the past a woman's spirituality has been separated from her lifestyle. Simple Abundance shows you how your daily life can be an expression of your authentic self ... as you choose the tastiest vegetables from your garden, search for treasures at flea...
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Gender Trouble
by Judith Butler
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler has become one of the seminal works of contemporary feminist theory. It is considered essential reading for those studying gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture.
The Chalice and The Blade
by Riane Eisler
Argues that there was a prehistoric shift in human society to patriarchy and at present society is beginning to shift away from patriarchy.
Personal History
by Katharine Graham
Personal History is the autobiography of Katharine Graham. It was published in 1997 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1998. The book received widespread critical acclaim for its candour in dealing with her husband's mental illness, and the challenges she faced in a male-dominated working environment.
The Five Love Languages
by Gary Chapman
This book discusses how to communicate your earnest emotions and commitment to your partner. The author describes how different people see and express everything in life in their own unique ways. He explains the five explicit languages of love – quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. The Five Love Languages will help you understand the specific and the subtle needs of your partner, apply right values, acquire the right language, and appreciate the joy of...
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Lean In
by Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, she was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google and chief of staff at the U.S. Treasury Department. Sheryl lives in Northern California with her husband and their two children.
The Spiral Dance
by Starhawk
Explores the practices and philosophies of witchcraft and Goddess religion.
When God Was a Woman
by Merlin Stone
When God Was a Woman is the U.S. title of a 1976 book by sculptor and history professor Merlin Stone. It was published earlier in the UK as The Paradise Papers. It has been translated in french as Quand Dieu était femme (SCE-Serivces Complets d'Edition, Québec, Canada) in 1978 and 1989.
Eleanor Roosevelt
by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Historians, politicians, feminists, critics, and reviewers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental Eleanor Roosevelt as the definitive portrait of this towering female figure of the twentieth century. Now in her long-awaited, majestic second volume, Cook takes readers through the tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging...
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Motherless Daughters
by Hope Edelman
Although a mother's mortality is inevitable no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters, which became an instant classic. More than twenty years later, it is still the go-to book that women of all ages look to for comfort, help, and understanding when their mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and recent research in grief and psychology, Motherless...
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The Beauty Myth
by Naomi Wolf
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical...
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The Dance Of Anger
by Harriet Lerner
Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1985. With new introd.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-232) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-232) and index.
Fascinating Womanhood
by Helen Andelin
Fascinating Womanhood is the title of a book written by Helen Andelin in 1963. The book recently went into its sixth edition, published by Random House. The book has sold over 2,000,000 copies and is credited with starting a grassroots movement among women.
Living My Life
by Emma Goldman
Living My Life is the 993-page autobiography of Lithuanian-born anarchist Emma Goldman, published in two volumes in 1931 and 1934. Goldman wrote it in Saint-Tropez, France, following her disillusionment with the Bolshevik role in the Russian revolution. The text thoroughly covers her personal and political life from early childhood through to 1927, and has constantly remained in print since, in original and abridged editions.
Gender Studies Books & Ephemera
Women's Diaries Of the Westward Journey
by Schlissel, Lillian
Lillian Schlissel is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College. She is the coeditor of Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey and of The Western Women’s Reader. She lives in New York City.
Backlash
by Faludi, Susan
*Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women's Rights*
"Opting-out," "security moms," "desperate housewives," "the new baby fever"--the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations.
Now, the book that reignited the feminist movement is back in a fifteenth anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author that brings backlash consciousness up to date. When... Read more about this item
"Opting-out," "security moms," "desperate housewives," "the new baby fever"--the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations.
Now, the book that reignited the feminist movement is back in a fifteenth anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author that brings backlash consciousness up to date. When... Read more about this item
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