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  • Forbidden Fashions

    Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

    Series series Costume Society of America Series
    Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make-up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some thousand nuns in early modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm. Often locked in convents without any religious calling—simply to save ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Radical Relations

    Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II

    Series series Gender and American Culture
    In Radical Relations, Daniel Winunwe Rivers offers a previously untold story of the American family: the first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States. Beginning in the postwar era, a period marked by both intense repression and dynamic change for lesbians and gay men, Rivers argues that by forging new kinds of family and childrearing relations, gay and lesbian ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Trip of One's Own

    Hope, Heartbreak, and Why Traveling Solo Could Change Your Life

    by Kate Wills ...
    Are you ready to embark on a life-altering adventure that will redefine your perspectives and open your heart to boundless possibilities?In this compelling memoir, travel writer Kate Wills fearlessly delves into her personal experiences, weaving a captivating narrative of hope, healing, and self-discovery. With courage as her compass, she embarks on solo expeditions across the globe, unearthing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A City for Children

    Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

    by Marta Gutman ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Dust Bowl Girls

    The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory

    by Lydia Reeder ...
    **“A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend.” —Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of *Liar, Temptress, Soldier, SpyThe Boys in the Boat* meets A League of Their Own in this true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team.**In the early 1930s, during the worst drought and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women

    Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South

    by Blain Roberts ...
    From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region, where the Jim Crow-era cosmetics industry came of age selling the idea of makeup that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The House of Mirth

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her. The House of Mirth is a lucid, disturbing ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Health of the First Ladies

    Medical Histories from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

    This first comprehensive study of the medical histories of America's first ladies--from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama--discusses their illnesses, their treatments and their physicians in the context of their times. As the categories of illness afflicting Americans have changed through history so have the kinds of maladies affecting the first ladies. Infectious diseases and the consequences ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Bad Mother

    A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “hilarious, heartbreaking, and edgy” (Newsweek) memoir on modern motherhood.In our mothers’ day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers: If you work, you’re neglectful; if you stay home, you’re smothering. If you discipline, you’re buying them a spot on the shrink’s couch; if you let them run wild, they ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic

    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E. Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriage, fertility, and childbirth, there were more--and more important--religious opportunities available to Roman women than are commonly considered.Based on research in ancient literature, inscriptions, and archaeological remains from the fifth to the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape

    **"What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is brilliant, frank, empowering, and urgently necessary. Sohaila Abdulali has created a powerful tool for examining rape culture and language on the individual, societal, and global level that everyone can benefit from reading."—Jill SolowayIn the tradition of Rebecca Solnit, a beautifully written, deeply intelligent, searingly honest—and ultimately ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The XX Factor

    How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World

    by Alison Wolf ...
    Noted British academic and journalist Alison Wolf offers a surprising and thoughtful study of the professional elite, and examines the causes—and limits—of women’s rise and the consequences of their difficult choices.The gender gap is closing. Today, for the first time in history, tens of millions of women are spending more time at the boardroom table than the kitchen table. These professional ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sesso/Gender

    Il diritto a una vita degna di essere vissuta

    Il volume affronta le questioni legate al sesso/gender da una prospettiva biologica, relativa agli aspetti biodinamici che governano lo sviluppo di ogni essere umano; da quella socio-antropologica, relativa alle costruzioni culturali elaborate dalle differenti culture in rapporto al sesso/gender, e dal punto di vista dell’etica, che si interroga sulla sostanza etica dei differenti orientamenti ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fearless Vulgarity

    Jacqueline Susann's Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship

    by Ken Feil ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
    Catalyzed by her notoriously "dirty," fabulously successful bestseller Valley of the Dolls, the "Jackie Susann Sixties" brimmed with camp comedy that now permeates contemporary celebrations of the author, from Pee-wee’s Playhouse to RuPaul’s Drag Race and Lee Daniels’s Star. First christened "camp" by Gloria Steinem in an excoriating review of Valley of the Dolls and compounded by the publishing ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Queer Screams

    A History of LGBTQ+ Survival Through the Lens of American Horror Cinema

    The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly and subtextually, from the lumbering, flower-picking monster of Frankenstein (1931) to the fearless intersectional protagonist of the Fear Street Trilogy (2021). This is a historical look at the queer experiences of the horror genre's characters, performers, authors and filmmakers.Offering a fresh look ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Feminine Genius

    The Provocative Path to Waking Up and Turning On the Wisdom of Being a Woman

    by LiYana Silver ...
    There is a particular kind of insanity running rampant in the world that compels most women to stuff down, ignore, or hide parts of ourselves in order to be acceptable, attractive, or taken seriously.Which doesn’t work. It actually ensures we remain unfulfilled, miserable, and at war with ourselves—and that is a war no woman can win.So now comes the good news:There is a path to help you become the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Secrets of Mariko

    A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

    With Bumiller's intimate, beautifully written portrait of a middle-class Tokyo housewife, readers finally penetrate the mysteries of the Japanese people to see how they differ from us, and how they are alike. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Directions to Myself

    A Memoir of Four Years

    **New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls “electric.”“An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising.”—George Saunders**That night, in his bed, I spread my son’s palm wide and tried to read it. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sexographies

    The English-language debut of renowned Peruvian “gonzo” journalist Gabriela Wiener, Sexographies is an eye-opening, kamikaze journey through the unexplored corners of human sexuality by one of its most exciting chroniclers.In fierce and fearless first-person accounts, Gabriela Wiener records infiltrating the prisons of Lima, participating in sexual exchanges in swingers clubs, traveling the dark ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women in Weimar Fashion

    Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933

    by Mila Ganeva ...
    In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media -- film, magazines, advertising, photography, and popular literature -- but also emerged as a powerful medium for women's self-expression. Female writers and journalists, including Helen Grund, Irmgard Keun, Vicki Baum, Elsa Maria Bug, and numerous others engaged in a challenging, self-reflective commentary on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Red Valkyries

    Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women

    The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feministsRed Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. Through the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the aristocratic Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand Inessa Armand; ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cost of Living

    A Working Autobiography

    by Deborah Levy ...
    The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.A New York Times Notable BookA New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage?This vibrant memoir ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A World Apart

    Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars

    “Life in a women’s prison is full of surprises,” writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two intense court battles with prison officials, Rathbone gained unprecedented access to the otherwise invisible women of the oldest running women’s prison in America.The picture that emerges is both astounding and enraging. Women reveal the agonies of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD