Gender studies: women and girls Books
St Martin's Press A Warrior of the People
Book SynopsisThe poignant and moving biography of Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American doctor in U.S. history.On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degreebecoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Native woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. Her patients often were desperately poor and desperately sicktuberculosis, small pox, measles, influenzafamilies scattered miles apart, whose last hope was a young woman who spoke their language and knew their customs.This is the story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of
£17.09
St Martin's Press You Cant Spell Truth Without Ruth
Book SynopsisSpeaking the Ruth to America.
£999.99
Flatiron Books The Panic Years
Book SynopsisRenowned journalist Nell Frizzell explores what happens when a woman begins to ask herself: should I have a baby?We have descriptors for many periods of lifeadolescence, menopause, mid-life crisis, quarter-life crisisbut there is a period of profound change that many women face, often in their late twenties to early forties, that does not yet have a name.Nell Frizzell is calling this period of flux the panic years, and it is often characterized by a preoccupation with one major question: should I have a baby? And from theredo I want a baby? With whom should I have a baby? How will I know when I'm ready? Decisions made during this period suddenly take on more weight, as questions of love, career, friendship, fertility, and family clash together while peers begin the process of coupling and breeding. But this very important process is rarely written or talked about beyond the clichés of the ticking clock.Enter Frizzell, our comforting guide, wh
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St Martin's Press The Women of Rothschild
Book SynopsisIn The Women of Rothschild, Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of the famous Rothschild dynasty, synonymous with wealth and power.From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields to Scottish castles, from Bletchley Park to Buchenwald, and from the Vatican to Palestine, Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty-first. As Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders. Excluded from the family bank, they forged their own distinct dynasty of daughters and nieces, mothers and aunts. They became influential hostesses and talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns, advising prime ministers, advocating for social reform, and trading on the stock exchange. Misfits and conformists, conservatives and idealists, performers
£33.99
St Martin's Press Build Like A Woman
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the self-made businesswoman and founder of the global platform Build Like A Woman comes the essential resource to unleash your business, take up space, and create your dream life.In a world of hustle culture and burnout, women don't want to lean in, they want to lie down. Now more than ever, women are looking to leave the corporate grind to break out into their own entrepreneurial ventures in a way that feeds their life rather than consumes it. But they don't know exactly where to start.Kathleen Griffith has been in these exact shoes. When she set out to launch her own business she found that the women's business space was big on go, girl messages, but short on the gritty details of actually building a business. So she taught herself everything she could, learned from the best minds in business and coached with personal growth experts. She realized, shockingly, that all the mindset work paid the highest dividends o
£23.39
St. Martin's Publishing Group Her Lotus Year
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£19.65
St Martin's Press A Memoir of My Former Self
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£30.00
St Martin's Press Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old
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£29.99
St. Martin's Griffin The Little Princesses
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1950, The Little Princesses was the first account of British Royal life inside Buckingham Palace as revealed by Marion Crawford, who served as governess to princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. A twenty-two year old teacher recruited to look after the Duke and Duchess of York's young daughters in 1931, Marion Crawfordaffectionately known as Crawfie by her chargesspent sixteen years with the Royal family as the children's governess. From King Edward VIII's abdication of the throne in order to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson and King George VI's subsequent crowning, through World War II, and all the way to Elizabeth's courtship and marriage to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Crawfie's memoir offers an intimate and revelatory perspective of Elizabeth and Margaret's childhood during one of the most momentous eras in British history. Initially honored as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for her loyal service to the crow
£15.29
St. Martin's Griffin Corrections in Ink
Book SynopsisBrave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and relevant.The New York TimesAn electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman''s journeyfrom the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroomand how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced.Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an all-consuming passion that led her to nationals. But when her skating career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with the intensity she once saved for the ice.For the next nine years, Keri ricocheted from one dark place to the next: living on the streets, selling drugs and sex, and shooting up between classes all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell. Then, on a cold day during h
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Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book The Power of Women
Book SynopsisFrom Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women''s resilience, strength, and power.At the heart of Dr. Mukwege's message will be the voices of the many women he has worked with over the years. Dr. Mukwege will use individual cases to reassure all survivors that, even if their psychological wounds may never fully heal, they can recover and thrive with the right care and support.Dr. Mukwege's dramatic personal story is interwoven throughout as he explores the bigger issues that have become a focus of his advocacy. He will seek to explain why sexual violence is so often overlooked during war, and how governments need to recognize and compensate victims. He will also stress the importance of breaking down the taboos surrounding assault, and the necessity of building a system that supports women who come forw
£18.04
St. Martin's Griffin Jane Austen at Home
Book SynopsisWorsley offers us much that Austen''s admirers wish to know...with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished. Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review Take a trip back to Jane Austen''s world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen''s childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses--both grand and small--of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a life without incident.Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. She shows readers a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom, a
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St. Martin's Griffin Nazi Wives
Book SynopsisNazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler''s inner circle.Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormannnames synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind the infamous mencomplex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised families and quarreled with their husbands and each other, all the while jostling for position with the Fuhrer himself. Until now, they have been treated as minor characters, their significance ignored, as if they were unaware of their husbands'' murderous acts, despite the evidence that was all around them: the stolen art on their walls, the slave labor in their homes, a
£15.29
Picador USA Aftermath
Book SynopsisBeautiful . . . Compelling . . . Cusk [is] an extraordinary writer of the female experience. Financial TimesIn the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. She discovers previously unknown strengths and freedoms but also finds herself suddenly vulnerable to outsiders, unwelcome advice, social displacement, and the absence of a clear authority. The pressure to reconstruct a normal life for her daughters competes with the sense that nothing feels normal at all.Aftermath is a classic: a masterly work in which the author, at her most ruthless and rigorous, charts the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos that is left when a family breaks apart.
£14.45
Celadon Books The Manicurists Daughter
£16.99
St Martin's Press Breathing Fire
Book SynopsisA dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires.Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that's not training for flames. That's not live fire.California's fire season gets hotter, longer, and more extreme every year fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California's blazes every year, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. In Breathing Fire, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have par
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Picador USA On Violence and On Violence Against Women
Book SynopsisA 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 visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of today's violence historic and intimate, public and private as they spread throughout our social fabric, offering a new, provocative account of violence in our time.From trans rights and #MeToo to the sexual harassment of migrant women, from the trial of Oscar Pistorius to domestic violence in lockdown, from the writing of Roxanne Gay to Hisham Mitar and Han Kang, she casts her net wide. What obscene pleasure in violence do so many male leaders of the Western world unleash in their supporters? Is violence always gendered and if so, always in the same way? What is required of the human mind when it grants itself permission to do violence?On Violence and On Violence
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Picador USA Miss Dior
Book SynopsisRemarkable. Hamish Bowles, VogueThe overdue restoration of Catherine Dior's extraordinary life, from her brother's muse to Holocaust survivorMiss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal, roses and repression, and of how the polished surface of fashion conceals hidden depths.It paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior: his beloved younger sister Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume and shaped his vision of femininity. Justine Picardie's journey takes her to Occupied Paris, where Christian honed his couture skills while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance, until she was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the German concentration camp of Ravensbrück.With unparalleled access to the Dior family homes and archives, Picardie shines a new light on Catherine's courageous life and Christian Dior's legendary work, and reveals how his enchanting New
£24.00
St. Martin's Griffin The Churchill Sisters
Book SynopsisAs complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey''s biography, The Churchill Sisters, tells their story.Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary would have shone. But they were not in another family, they were Churchills, and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From their father the greatest Englishman' to their brother, golden boy Randolph, to their eccentric and exciting cousins, the Mitford Girls, they were surrounded by a clan of larger-than-life characters which often saw them overlooked. While Marigold died too young to achieve her potential, the other daughters lived lives full of passion, drama and tragedy.Diana, intense and diffident; Sarah, glamorous and stubborn; Mary, dependable yet determined each so different but each imbued with
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St Martin's Press The Gospel of Wellness
Book SynopsisNext-level revelatory.Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ckExcellent...Rina really knows her shit...I''m so thankful for this book.Jameela Jamil, actress and host of I WeighJournalist Rina Raphael looks at the explosion of the wellness industry: how it stems from legitimate complaints, how seductive marketing targets hopeful consumersand why women are opening up their wallets like never before.Wellness promises women the one thing they desperately desire: control.Women are pursuing their health like never before. Whether it's juicing, biohacking, clutching crystals, or sipping collagen, today there is something for everyone, as the wellness industry has grown from modest roots into a $4.4 trillion entity and a full-blown movement promising health and vitality in the most fashionable package. But why suddenly are we all feeling so unwell?<
£16.99
Celadon Books Bad Friend
£23.99
St Martin's Press The Sewing Girls Tale
Book SynopsisNew York Times Editors' ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Gotham Book PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library''s New York City Book AwardJournal of the American Revolution Book of the YearWinner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History Winner of the James Bradford Best Biography PrizeA riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuriesand how much has notOn a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothelthe kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusat
£16.14
McGraw-Hill Education Looseleaf for AM GOV
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£106.20
OM Book Service Looseleaf for Women Across Cultures
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£144.16
OM Book Service Looseleaf for We the People
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£140.40
OM Book Service Looseleaf for American Democracy Now Essentials
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£140.40
WW Norton & Co The Secret History of Home Economics
Book SynopsisAn NPR Favorite History Book of 2021 The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.Trade Review"[A] captivating debut…Dreilinger charmed me with her account of home ec's fascinating past." -- Barbara Spindel, Wall Street Journal"Dreilinger's lively account offers a thorough look at a profession that allowed women to participate in public life even as they were barred from most jobs and areas of study…We can thank home economics for a number of taken-for-granted features of contemporary life." -- Rachel Newcomb, The Washington Post"A fascinating history of the field and of the contributions of some very determined women…[S]timulating." -- Katherine Powers, Minnesota Star Tribune"Deeply researched and crisply written." -- Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker"There's one important thing you'll fully understand after you've read The Secret History of Home Economics: our foremothers were not to be trifled with…Readers of women's history will love this book, as will general historians, feminists, and anyone with an interest in domestic arts." -- Terri Schlichenmeyer, Washington Informer"Home economics turns out to be relevant, important, in some ways revolutionary. Dreilinger tells all in this entertaining journey that shows us that almost all of what we thought we knew on the subject is wrong. Stimulating and fun!" -- Mark Bittman, author of Animal, Vegetable, Junk"A pathbreaking book that unearths and presents part of the 'hidden' history of economics, in this case as practiced largely by women, and often black women at that. Think of it as the science and craft of Beckerian household production but with a managerial emphasis. If you like books on paths not taken, this one is for you." -- Tyler Cowen"Home ec…may conjure up lessons in baking blueberry muffins and sewing dresses, but in her detail-filled and fascinating book, Danielle Dreilinger dynamites that cliché with glee." -- Air Mail"[An] eye-opening history…[A] great reminder of the value of the field, and the importance of these skills for anyone at any age." -- Matthew Wheeland, Civil Eats"I grew up in the 1960s when Home Economics was required for all ninth-grade girls and meant two things: cooking and sewing. We baked cookies and served them on silver trays to the boys in Wood Shop. We sewed wraparound skirts. Some of us complained, a lot. Danielle Dreilinger’s The Secret History of Home Economics is a revelation. That secret history is rich with gender and race issues, and opened the eyes of this former home ec student. It will open yours too." -- Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle"A fascinating work of history, extensively researched, on a subject long ignored: how home economics helped shaped American life. Full of delicious anecdotes, The Secret History of Home Economics makes the case that home ec, often maligned and misunderstood, always provided students regardless of gender with skills that make life better, and should be revived." -- Nancy Jo Sales, author of American Girls"This book tells the unexpected story of how home economics began as an intellectual haven for smart women—Black as well as white—who were otherwise blocked from studying science, but ended up as a field less rigorous and more conforming. Black women were at the forefront of this history, and their role is a revelation. Dreilinger makes a convincing case for bringing back the skills that home economics alone could teach." -- Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health, emerita, at NYU and author of Let’s Ask Marion"I took home economics by choice in seventh grade, and I always assumed it was an outdated way to train budding Stepford housewives. This book made me realize that everything I thought I knew about home economics was wrong. It’s a career that provided vital scientific and economic inroads for women, and a history that is so relevant today." -- Marisa Meltzer, author of This Is Big"This is an extremely interesting and engaging page-turner book…It will stimulate important dialogue among those within and outside the profession about our past and present, and what the future of the profession, education, and society should be." -- Virginia Vincenti, professor emerita and co-editor of Rethinking Home Economics"By reading Danielle Dreilinger's biography of this long overlooked and deeply influential field, we come to understand not only the secret history of home economics but the secret history of American feminism. Dreilinger's case for continuing to reinvent this too-oft maligned discipline for the 21st century provides a thoughtful—and spot on—road map for how and why schools can teach children not only to manage homes efficiently but to become lifelong advocates for racial, gender and social equality." -- Sarah Carr, education editor at the Boston Globe and author of Hope Against Hope"In an important new work revealing a surprising history, Danielle Dreilinger has rescued women home-economists from the past. Her well-written history gives us a new group of women to admire and learn from. She ends The Secret History of Home Economics with a timely call to bring back home-economics courses as a mandatory part of education. Her book will convince you that this field of study should be restored to its proper place in STEAM education for all." -- Katherine Sharp Landdeck, author of The Women with Silver Wings"Finally, someone has written a social history of American home economists that is neither patronizing nor hostile. Generations of remarkable women created and sustained a scientific profession in the face of what was, until very recently, unremitting gender bias. Kudos to Danielle Dreilinger for this very readable and very sophisticated account of the women who had such an enormous impact on American society and culture." -- Ruth S. Cowan, More Work for Mother
£20.89
WW Norton & Co The Doctors Blackwell How Two Pioneering Sisters
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy SchiffTrade Review"Enthralling…Nimura, by digging into [the Blackwells’] deeds and their lives, finds those discrepancies and idiosyncrasies that yield a memorable portrait. The Doctors Blackwell also opens up a sense of possibility — you don’t always have to mean well on all fronts in order to do a lot of good." -- Jennifer Szalai - New York Times"[A] richly detailed and propulsive biography….Nimura doesn’t strain to fit the sisters into the narrow shape allowed to feminist pioneers, as either virtuous role models or “badass” rebels against society. Instead, they emerge as spiky, complicated human beings, who strove and stumbled toward an extraordinary achievement, and then had to learn what to do with it." -- Joanna Scutts - New York Times Book Review"Ms. Nimura’s portrait of the Blackwells’ America blazes with hallucinatory energy. It’s a rough-hewn, gaudy, carnival-barking America, with only the thinnest veneer of gentility overlaying cruelty and a simmering violence. It’s an America yearning for relief from disease, besotted with séances and spiritualism, quack cures and phrenology; a deeply divided America, with bloody fissures between rich and poor, North and South, city and countryside." -- Donna Rifkind - Wall Street Journal"The Doctors Blackwell is best on the fascinating and harrowing history of modern medicine….[Nimura] is a close and delightful observer of [the Blackwells’] world." -- Casey Cep - The New Yorker"Even if you know who Elizabeth Blackwell is — the first woman to receive an MD in the United States — you may not know her sister Emily’s name. Nimura (Daughters of the Samurai) examines Emily Blackwell’s brilliance, and how the sisters’ achievements and (at times contentious) partnership changed the landscape of American medicine for good." -- Bethanne Patrick - Washington Post"Nimura seamlessly weaves these strands of medical and American history by focusing on the lives of these two self-made women. With an eye to the telling detail, she animates their ambitions, medical training in Europe, family life and friendships with Florence Nightingale, Lucy Stone, Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher, Lady Byron and many other contemporaries." -- Wingate Packard - The Seattle Times"The meticulously researched narrative — informed by newspaper reports, journal entries, and a staggering volume of letters — offers an intimate look at the close-knit, high-minded Blackwell family, including Elizabeth’s younger sister Emily, who followed in Elizabeth’s medical footsteps….Nimura tells the kind of nuanced tale that people like to hear." -- Jennifer Latson - Boston Globe"The Doctors Blackwell not only testifies to Elizabeth and Emily’s iron determination but also chronicles evolving medical practices. Nimura places the sisters within the broad intellectual context of their time, creating an important and engaging history lesson." -- Martha Anne Toll - NPR"A fascinating dual biography that restores the two sisters to their rightful place in U.S. history and illuminates a period riven like our own with bitter disagreements over race, public health and medicine, and the role of women in society….Nimura shoehorns a lot of history into this carefully researched, briskly paced narrative of the sisters’ lives." -- Ann Levin - USA Today"Nimura’s vivid, assiduously researched account reads like a novel." -- Oprah Magazine"This nonfiction story of the first hospital staffed entirely by women could not be more timely." -- Seija Rankin - Entertainment Weekly"Nimura writes fluidly, and her book is an engaging and meticulously documented guide not only to the sisters’ lives but also to the medical practices of their time. We hear about obsolete medical treatments (intravaginal leeches), student ingenuity (stuffing medical textbooks under clothes to avoid paying taxes) and New York trivia (the Blackwell’s infirmary on Bleecker Street was a former Roosevelt residence). But the greater part of Nimura’s achievement lies in how she brings new life to the story of two extraordinary and idiosyncratic physicians who forever changed the medical profession." -- Danielle Ofri - American Scholar"A detailed story of hard work, determination and evolving goals." -- Katherine A. Powers - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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WW Norton & Co The Secret History of Home Economics How
Book SynopsisThe surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.Trade Review"[A] captivating debut…Dreilinger charmed me with her account of home ec's fascinating past." -- Barbara Spindel, Wall Street Journal"Dreilinger's lively account offers a thorough look at a profession that allowed women to participate in public life even as they were barred from most jobs and areas of study…We can thank home economics for a number of taken-for-granted features of contemporary life." -- Rachel Newcomb, The Washington Post"A fascinating history of the field and of the contributions of some very determined women…[S]timulating." -- Katherine Powers, Minnesota Star Tribune"Deeply researched and crisply written." -- Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker"There's one important thing you'll fully understand after you've read The Secret History of Home Economics: our foremothers were not to be trifled with…Readers of women's history will love this book, as will general historians, feminists, and anyone with an interest in domestic arts." -- Terri Schlichenmeyer, Washington Informer"Home economics turns out to be relevant, important, in some ways revolutionary. Dreilinger tells all in this entertaining journey that shows us that almost all of what we thought we knew on the subject is wrong. Stimulating and fun!" -- Mark Bittman, author of Animal, Vegetable, Junk"A pathbreaking book that unearths and presents part of the 'hidden' history of economics, in this case as practiced largely by women, and often black women at that. Think of it as the science and craft of Beckerian household production but with a managerial emphasis. If you like books on paths not taken, this one is for you." -- Tyler Cowen"Home ec…may conjure up lessons in baking blueberry muffins and sewing dresses, but in her detail-filled and fascinating book, Danielle Dreilinger dynamites that cliché with glee." -- Air Mail"[An] eye-opening history…[A] great reminder of the value of the field, and the importance of these skills for anyone at any age." -- Matthew Wheeland, Civil Eats"I grew up in the 1960s when Home Economics was required for all ninth-grade girls and meant two things: cooking and sewing. We baked cookies and served them on silver trays to the boys in Wood Shop. We sewed wraparound skirts. Some of us complained, a lot. Danielle Dreilinger’s The Secret History of Home Economics is a revelation. That secret history is rich with gender and race issues, and opened the eyes of this former home ec student. It will open yours too." -- Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle"A fascinating work of history, extensively researched, on a subject long ignored: how home economics helped shaped American life. Full of delicious anecdotes, The Secret History of Home Economics makes the case that home ec, often maligned and misunderstood, always provided students regardless of gender with skills that make life better, and should be revived." -- Nancy Jo Sales, author of American Girls"This book tells the unexpected story of how home economics began as an intellectual haven for smart women—Black as well as white—who were otherwise blocked from studying science, but ended up as a field less rigorous and more conforming. Black women were at the forefront of this history, and their role is a revelation. Dreilinger makes a convincing case for bringing back the skills that home economics alone could teach." -- Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health, emerita, at NYU and author of Let’s Ask Marion"I took home economics by choice in seventh grade, and I always assumed it was an outdated way to train budding Stepford housewives. This book made me realize that everything I thought I knew about home economics was wrong. It’s a career that provided vital scientific and economic inroads for women, and a history that is so relevant today." -- Marisa Meltzer, author of This Is Big"This is an extremely interesting and engaging page-turner book…It will stimulate important dialogue among those within and outside the profession about our past and present, and what the future of the profession, education, and society should be." -- Virginia Vincenti, professor emerita and co-editor of Rethinking Home Economics"By reading Danielle Dreilinger's biography of this long overlooked and deeply influential field, we come to understand not only the secret history of home economics but the secret history of American feminism. Dreilinger's case for continuing to reinvent this too-oft maligned discipline for the 21st century provides a thoughtful—and spot on—road map for how and why schools can teach children not only to manage homes efficiently but to become lifelong advocates for racial, gender and social equality." -- Sarah Carr, education editor at the Boston Globe and author of Hope Against Hope"In an important new work revealing a surprising history, Danielle Dreilinger has rescued women home-economists from the past. Her well-written history gives us a new group of women to admire and learn from. She ends The Secret History of Home Economics with a timely call to bring back home-economics courses as a mandatory part of education. Her book will convince you that this field of study should be restored to its proper place in STEAM education for all." -- Katherine Sharp Landdeck, author of The Women with Silver Wings"Finally, someone has written a social history of American home economists that is neither patronizing nor hostile. Generations of remarkable women created and sustained a scientific profession in the face of what was, until very recently, unremitting gender bias. Kudos to Danielle Dreilinger for this very readable and very sophisticated account of the women who had such an enormous impact on American society and culture." -- Ruth S. Cowan, More Work for Mother
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WW Norton & Co What Happened to Paula An Unsolved Death and the
Book SynopsisA People Best Book of Summer A New York Times Most Anticipated Book of the Summer A riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives.Trade Review"Dykstra casts a searing light on racism, sexism, and the stigma of being a ‘bad’ girl. This is the perfect blueprint for any true crime writer moved to investigate a cold case." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Paula’s story is riveting—not only for her time, but for our own. This book is fascinating, heartbreaking, and empowering all at once." -- Abby Sher, coauthor of Sanctuary"A sharp and seductive investigation into the unsolved death of a young woman fifty years ago becomes, in Dykstra’s telling, an investigation into the genre of dead-girl true crime itself. A bracing and powerful book, unsentimental and sleek, and a roadmap for actual change." -- Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing"A vivid, unflinching account, with its share of rage and sensitivity, equal in power and tenderness, What Happened to Paula is the story of the daring task of living in a female body. This deeply moving investigation is required reading for anyone who is or knows a woman." -- Mira Ptacin, author of Poor Your Soul and The In-Betweens"A book like no other. A murder mystery. A powerful exploration of what it means to be a vibrant woman in this cold, unfeeling, and somehow, still wonderful world. Debut author Katherine Dykstra will blow your mind." -- Marcy Dermansky, author of Very Nice"The most chilling thing about What Happened to Paula is that although Paula died fifty years ago, her story could be that of a teenage girl in 1990 or 2000 or today. This is essential reading, as gripping as any thriller." -- Julia Dahl, author of Invisible City and The Missing Hours"The missing-girl narrative can create a sort of pleasing cleanliness around the idea of violence against women: a heinous act, an innocent girl, all to be properly vilified and mourned. What Happened to Paula upends and unpacks all the smaller, subtler, scarier violences that live inside of this: what of all the ways the girl wasn’t innocent, what of all the ways none of us are?" -- Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want"A missing person, an unsolved mystery — but this is no typical true crime book. Instead, Dykstra looks at the context, the life Paula lived, in all its small moments of violence and violation, before she was murdered. Thoughtful and thought-provoking." -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe"A provocative true-crime page-turner on how sexism, racism and public opinion set up women for violence." -- People"What Happened to Paula resists the true crime genre...The book doesn’t rely on [Paula’s] homicide to be the climax. It resists playing into the very problem it is critiquing. The book is an unspooling of all the people and systems that conspired in Paula’s death. It has not one cause, but too many." -- Tana Wojczuk - BOMB"What Happened to Paula is not only the story exploring theories about the crime that ended Paula's life; it also reflects on other true crime stories with women as their victims, including rape and rape-murder stories, and on the burdensome costs of being born in a female body. What Happened to Paula is sobering, insightful, and a highly recommended addition to both true crime and women's issues collections." -- Midwest Book Review"Rather than simply trying to piece together a perpetrator from the facts of the case, Katherine Dykstra takes a different, more thoughtful, approach to Paula’s story, examining how stifling community standards, antagonism against interracial relationships, and assumptions about “bad girls” worked in tandem to condemn Paula and bury her story." -- Molly Odintz - CrimeReads
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WW Norton & Co The Family Roe An American Story
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The scope is sweeping, the writing is beautiful. It’s an epic story worthy of the impact this one case has had on the American psyche." -- Michel Martin - NPR"Mr. Prager’s book is stupendous, a masterwork of reporting…. If you want to understand Roe more deeply before the coming decision, read it." -- Peggy Noonan - Wall Street Journal"Prodigiously researched, richly detailed, sensitively told.…like a fairy tale set in working-class America." -- Margaret Talbot - The New Yorker"[A]n honest glimpse into the American soul...a sweeping, granular, century-deep case for women’s sovereignty over themselves." -- Anand Giridharadas - New York Times Book Review"Through rigorous reporting and sensitive portrayals, Prager animates Roe’s leading and supporting figures and remakes our understanding of them....interweaving in-depth biographical sketches to transform Roe from an abstract legal doctrine into an epic family saga." -- Mindy Jane Roseman - Washington Post"The Family Roe is a work of deep empathy without sentimentality, a recovery of fact over myth, a quintessentially American story." -- Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Joseph M. Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School"A prizeworthy masterpiece of poignant history, an emotionally compelling account of the profound issues that surround reproductive choice." -- David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Liberty and Sexuality"Joshua Prager has humanized the story of how abortion came to be legalized in the United States— and how it came to shape the American culture wars…. The book reads like detective fiction." -- Andrew Solomon, National Book Award–winning author of Far From the Tree"Journalist Joshua Prager offers a masterclass in reporting in his book The Family Roe, which weaves concentric rings of activists and Christian fundamentalists, lawyers and Harvard Medical School graduates—groups called to action in the fiery debates over the case—to reveal a rich tapestry of American life and values in the 20th-century." -- Time"Prager’s book does more than educate the reader on legal history; it shows how one changes over a lifetime. It is a study of the human experience…. Prager reminds the reader that stances on abortion can be as fluid and complex as the generations-long battle over it. He offers no hint of his own political standing and ultimately leaves his complete history of Roe open to every reader." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"Deeply reported and beautifully written…. Prager powerfully refutes the idea that women should have to win a morality contest in order to “deserve” access to abortion." -- Lauren Gutterman - Slate"A stunning read." -- D Magazine"Prager’s book is not just a biography but also political history…. Prager excels in revealing the messy, complicated people at the heart of America’s abortion fight; their motives, he seems to say, are much more tangled than any of them would likely admit…. The Family Roe is a fascinating portrait of a woman whose life was shaped by the abortion debate." -- The New Republic"The Family Roe: An American Story is a masterpiece of journalistic research…. Prager challenges readers’ presuppositions and refuses to fit the book’s messy stories into clear moral categories. Things (and people) are not always what they seem. Nearly all the people profiled in this book carry deep secrets that they refuse to reveal to others—but that Prager, as a master journalist, repeatedly succeeds in uncovering." -- Daniel K. Williams - Christianity Today"Extraordinary reporting…. Prager’s narrative contains multitudes." -- Chris Hammer - The Christian Century"The Family Roe is the definitive historical account of Roe v Wade and the human stories behind the headlines. Joshua Prager tells these stories with respect and backs his writing with stunning research. I write this as one who seeks to defend the unborn and end the abortion industry in America. But everyone who cares about abortion in America—on both sides—must read this book and then get back to the argument. The Family Roe is a remarkable achievement." -- R. Albert Mohler, Jr. President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary"The Family Roe is an eminently valuable read." -- Maria Mcfadden Maffucci - Human Life Review"With a novelist’s grace, Prager shows how the narratives we use to justify our personal decisions and our politics too often fail to make room for our own and others’ unresolved ambivalence, messy realities, and human frailty." -- Lara Freidenfelds - Nursing Clio
£14.99
WW Norton & Co Wake Up America Black Women on the Future of
Book SynopsisFrom the coeditor of the best-selling Four Hundred Souls, a galvanizing anthology for those seeking to build an inclusive democracy.Trade Review"A dynamic chorus of voices leading the way in bolstering a true democracy." -- Kirkus Reviews"The writers of Wake Up America deliver a clear and compelling message: join with Black women in co-creating a multiracial democracy built on justice. This book is as urgent as it is imperative." -- Ibram X. Kendi, best-selling author of How to Be an Antiracist"Wake Up America provides a perfect distillation of some of the most brilliant thinkers and leaders of our time. I highly recommend this volume of essays to anyone seeking to deepen their analysis of the issues and expand their notion of what’s possible." -- Bree Newsome Bass, award-winning artist, organizer, and activist"This is an invaluable collection and an essential read for everyone committed to building a just and equal society." -- Angela Rye, award-winning commentator, host, and social justice advocate"Wake Up America is a monumental achievement. Firmly rooted in the Black radical tradition, it brims with incisive political critique, ambitious freedom dreaming, and principled calls to action. Refusing false dichotomies between theory and practice, the contributors to this historic collection confront the most urgent and persistent issues facing Black women with critical analysis and actionable solutions." -- Marc Lamont Hill, coauthor of Seen and Unseen"In this sage collection, Keisha N. Blain has brought together a vital and vibrant array of voices united by a singular concern: our future as a nation. For the past decade, Black women have quietly gone about the work of saving American democracy. It's way past time for these voices to be heard and heeded." -- Jelani Cobb, award-winning journalist and coeditor of The Matter of Black Lives
£20.90
WW Norton & Co The Critics Daughter
Book Synopsis“Beautiful: honest, raw, careful, soulful, brave, and incredibly readable.” —Nick Hornby An exquisitely rendered portrait of a unique father-daughter relationship and a moving memoir of family and identity.Trade Review"Loss, grief, criticism, and love mix and mingle in this moving, literary memoir, one of the best father/daughter memoirs around." -- Zibby Owens, on Good Morning America"A penetrating, plangent memoir, electric with emotional urgency and alive with self-awareness… Gilman has the gumption to look at her father, her mother and herself with clarity and without apology. She wonders if she can make radical honesty 'an act of love.' Her efforts are brave, and bracing." -- Nneka McGuire - Wall Street Journal"This revealing and clearly heartfelt memoir—a love letter to her father that doesn’t obscure the difficult and frustrating aspects of their relationship—works precisely because Gilman delivers a detailed portrait of her father, proverbial warts and all.… She certainly provides the rest of us with a daughter’s thoughtful and empathetic profile of her dad." -- Daneet Steffens - Boston Globe"The Critic’s Daughter holds so many joys in store for you: The joy of disappearing into a finely crafted world—in this case, of Gilman’s mind, heart, and personal history. The joy of encountering a text sprinkled with insights, like so many pearls. But most of all, the joy of basking in Priscilla Gilman’s capacious love—for her father, for her family, and for you, her reader." -- Susan Cain, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Bittersweet and Quiet"The Critic’s Daughter is about the complex love between a parent and a child.… The memoir genre…pumps out innumerable rote tales of becoming, of breaking free, of learning to 'direct' one’s own life. It offers few stories of being and remaining entangled.… The Critic’s Daughter is an account of a love that’s neither takeoff strip nor landing pad, a child’s confounding adoration for her parent that’s neither really resolved nor extinguished." -- Eve Fairbanks - Washington Post"With bracing honesty, The Critic’s Daughter, Priscilla Gilman’s perspicacious memoir, unmasks the privilege and the burden of her beloved father’s life and his literary legacy.… The Critic’s Daughter spotlights an era of formidable criticism accomplished with conscious clarity. It’s a reminder that criticism is a necessary art form. But the book is even more than that.… Gilman’s skills as a memoirist, playwright, poet, critic, dramaturge, and family historian set a high bar." -- Yvonne Conza - BOMB"In capturing the essence of its challenging subject, The Critic’s Daughter is a rare combination of honesty, warmheartedness and exquisite writing.… Richard Gilman would be proud of the eloquence and grace with which [Priscilla Gilman] has done it." -- Harvey Freedenberg - BookReporter"Priscilla Gilman tells a fascinating story about her dynamic parents and the literary world that they inhabited.… While The Critic’s Daughter concerns itself with her parents’ marriage and its aftermath, it’s very much a book about the way one develops and nurtures a fascination with the arts through enthusiasm, criticism, and commerce." -- Lauren LeBlanc - Literary Hub"Gilman writes with resplendent clarity, meticulous candor, and incandescent love forged in the fire of extraordinarily demanding family dynamics.… Gilman incisively charts her remarkable father’s intense ups-and-downs and lucidly analyzes her own struggles in a richly involving chronicle gracefully laced with literary allusions, compassion, and wisdom." -- Booklist (starred review)"The heart of this memoir is the unusually powerful, fraught, and enduring father-daughter relationship. Gilman creates an emotional map of the catastrophic disruption of divorce and the devotion of a child for her parent despite his failings." -- Jane Constantineau - New York Journal of Books"Passionate, resonant, and beautifully written.… Evokes both a uniquely brilliant and troubled man and the poignantly relatable essence of the father-daughter connection." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Poignant.… Bibliophiles will enjoy the literary cameos (Joan Didion, Toni Morrison) and reflections on literature, but Gilman’s wrenching recollections of marital, and familial, dissolution are near-universal. This is an eye-opening testament to the lasting wounds of divorce." -- Publishers Weekly"The Critic’s Daughter is an exquisite and rare example of how the memoir needs as much inventiveness in scope and form as our most lush fiction and poetry. Priscilla Gilman writes sentences I never see coming, and those sentences splinter into a textured model of how to write about—and through—art, perpetual discovery, and parenting. I’ve read few books in my life as skillfully executed and willfully conceived as The Critic’s Daughter. This should not work. But my goodness, it just does." -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy"The Critic’s Daughter is first and foremost a very touching love story about a father, a daughter, and their unbreakable bond. Priscilla Gilman writes with eloquence and absolute candor of her late father Richard Gilman, the esteemed, brilliant, but deeply troubled drama and literary critic.… An unforgettable read, The Critic’s Daughter is as entertaining as it is moving." -- James Lapine, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright"The Critic's Daughter is an exquisite love song, a riveting story, a book for our time. Any daughter with a father, anyone who has been part of a family, anyone who has struggled with loving, anyone interested in literary criticism, or the theater, or life, this is a book for you." -- André Gregory, theater director, writer, and star of My Dinner With Andre"The daughter of an unsparing critic, Priscilla Gilman has written a book her father would have deeply admired: a tender, unflinching memoir that is also a searching reflection on the relationship between criticism and love. The father she lost is vividly captured in this moving, gracefully written, bracingly honest book." -- Eyal Press, author of Dirty Work
£15.19
WW Norton & Co Patricia Highsmith Her Diaries and Notebooks
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The whole book is excellent. Highsmith is pointed and dry about herself and everything else. But the early chapters are special. They comprise one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts I’ve read — and it’s a crowded field! — about being young and alive in New York City." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times"The boldest of von Planta’s editorial decisions has been to bring the diary and cahier entries together, “interwoven and interlocked”.... It works well.... Patricia Highsmith’s lacerating diaries and notebooks... will be seen as one of the great twentieth-century artistic self-portraits." -- Frances Wilson - New York Review of Books"Provides stunning access to the mind of a notoriously secretive author." -- Keziah Weir - Vanity Fair"The Diaries... record [Highsmith's] exultation upon realizing the kind of murder-minded writer that she is.... Exemplary.... [Highsmith's] great contribution to the mystery genre turns out to be nothing else than her diaries and journals." -- Benjamin Kunkel - The New Republic"To immerse yourself in [Highsmith's] private sphere, which she willingly discloses (she knew her writing would be read and published one day) is breath-taking." -- Alexandra Schwartzbrod - Libération"Now, in the year of her 100th birthday – Patricia Highsmith was born on January 19, 1921 – a 1,000 page volume of her intimate diaries and notebooks (1941-1995) is being released, which allows a close-up look of this astonishing destiny: ruled by the passion to write, crowned by success and ground down by disastrous love affairs." -- Josyane Savigneau - Les Echos Week-End"Highsmith’s company, while reading these diaries, is fascinating. It means slipping from the joyous effervescence of a youth spent in Mad Men Manhattan (smoky bars, cocktails, nightly encounters and hidden loves) to misanthropy and disillusion in Switzerland." -- Nelly Kaprièlian - Les Inrockuptibles"In these diaries and notebooks, one gets to know unknown sides to the crime writer: the lyrical, ecstatic and aphoristic." -- Tobias Gohlis - Die Zeit"Reading Patricia Highsmith's diary entries filled me with a joy that goes beyond the thrill of such a literary treasure being published for the first time after almost thirty years." -- Anuschka Roshani - Das Magazin zum Tages-Anzeiger"Offer[s] intimate insights into a writer’s soul – and into [Highsmith's] attempt to write a lesbian novel, which she published under a pseudonym in 1952." -- Welt am Sonntag"Her writing owes everything to this attitude: of confronting the world armed with a steel needle." -- Claudia Voigt - Spiegel"The Highsmith community has been eagerly awaiting this moment: The Diaries and Notebooks are finally being published." -- Linda Stift - Die Presse"A fascinating document of cultural history." -- Maike Albath - Deutschlandfunk Kultur"[Her Diaries and Notebooks] testify to the recalcitrant, unrelenting spirit of this great American curmudgeon and gifted crime writer." -- Focus"More than 50 years of the novelist’s diaries and notebooks have been assembled in this volume, painstakingly annotated for context by Highsmith’s longtime editor Von Planta . . . An exceptional effort . . . Sure to be a resource for future scholars . . . offering a frank and detailed account of a woman and writer coming of age." -- Asa Drake, Library Journal, starred review"A quarter century after the death of novelist Highsmith (1921–1995), fans are given a fascinating and unprecedented look into the ‘playground for [her] imagination’ . . . Devotees and historians alike will linger over every morsel." -- Publishers Weekly"Disclosures from a meticulously documented life. . . An admirably edited volume for scholars and voracious fans." -- Kirkus Reviews
£30.39
WW Norton & Co On Girlhood
Book SynopsisAn NPR Best Book of the Year Proudly introducing the Well-Read Black Girl Library Series, On Girlhood is a lovingly curated anthology celebrating short fiction from such luminaries as Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and more.Trade Review"An expansive, decades-spanning view of Black girlhood.... The collection is genuinely riveting; the stories narrate the lives of indelible characters with humor, irony, and immense skill. And while each story differs greatly in setting and tone, through lines arise... A profound, prismatic collection." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
£12.34
W. W. Norton & Company Wake Up America
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Mariner Books Fly Girls
Book SynopsisA New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed—until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcée; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at her blue blood family’s expectations; and Louise Thaden, the young mother of two who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanes—and in 1936, one of them would
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Mariner Books Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisAn insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies—of strength, style, and creativity—shaped Woolf’s path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gill casts back to Woolf’s French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother Thérèse de L’Etang, an outsider to English culture whose beauty passed powerfully down the female line; and to Woolf’s aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who gave Woolf her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it was the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, and sisters Stella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in markedly di
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ellen Emmet Rand
Book SynopsisEllen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important and prolific portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the 20th century. She negotiated her career, reputation, family, and finances in modern and commercially savvy ways, revealing the complex negotiations needed to balance these competing pressures. Engaging with newly available archival documents and featuring scholars with radically different approaches to visual culture, this book not only seeks to interrogate the meaning of Rand's portraits and her career, but indeed to rethink gender, art, race, business, and modernism in the 20th century.Trade ReviewBoasting a stellar interdisciplinary lineup of scholars covering everything from body politics to market analysis, this collection brilliantly accomplishes its aim of ‘rewilding’ Rand into the art-historical landscape and doing full justice to the complexities of her art and life. * Sarah Burns, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA *In this invaluable exploration of Rand’s art and career, Boylan and her co-contributors critically mine an array of archival material, while attending closely to her portraits. Situating her personal aesthetic and patronage in a broader socio-economic context, they reveal why Rand matters then and now. * Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator In Charge of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Series Editor’s Introduction Acknowledgements Introduction, The Rewilding of Ellen Emmet Rand, Alexis L. Boylan (University of Connecticut, USA) Part 1: Crafting a Career 1. Ellen Emmet Rand’s Self-Portrait: Picturing the Professional Body, Betsy Fahlman (Arizona State University, USA) 2. Among Women, between Men: Launching a Career, 1896-1900, Elizabeth Lee (Dickinson College, USA) 3. People, Places, Prizes, and Prices, Susan Spiggle (University of Connecticut, USA) Part 2: Working the Scene 4. The Power of Profile: Ellen Emmet Rand and Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Thayer Tolles (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA) 5. Work What You’ve Got: The Contrasting Careers of Tade Styka and Ellen Emmet Rand, William Ashley Harris (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, USA) 6. Artist and Amazon: The Sporting Paintings of Ellen Emmet Rand, Claudia P. Pfeiffer (National Sporting Library & Museum, USA) Part 3: Shifting Bodies 7. Hide and Seek: Ellen Emmet Rand, Childhood and US Art Study in France, c. 1898, Emily C. Burns (Auburn University, USA) 8. Ellen Emmet Rand, Bourgeois Portraiture, and the Disruption of Ideological Fantasy, Christopher Vials (University of Connecticut, USA) 9. Painting the President: The Body Politics of Ellen Emmet Rand’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Portraits, Emily M. Mazzola (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Bibliography Author Biographies Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Hidden Healers
Book SynopsisA gripping and deeply-felt examination of incarcerated women's lives With unflinching clarity, Hidden Healers cuts through the myths about incarcerated women to expose the all-too-real brutalities they face within a criminal legal system never designed for them. Backed by three decades' experience providing therapeutic programs inside prisons across the United States, trauma specialist Dr. Stephanie Covington has used her unique access to amplify the voices of the women themselves. Their stories illuminate realities most never see: that most women who get caught up in the criminal justice system have themselves been victims of harm, that the degradations of today's prisons and jails only magnify their trauma- and that incarcerated women regularly risk punishment to tend to one another's well-being in unexpected acts of kindness. Grounded in research and rich with personal narrative, Hidden Healers is a poignant and riveting look inside women's prisons and jails- and what we can do to h
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Amberley Publishing Women of Ancient Rome
Book SynopsisThe women of Ancient Rome, were obliged to maintain the 'Mos maiorum', the established order of things. Romulus himself was believed to have devised the almost indissoluble marriage rite, the 'Confarreatio', which put a wife under the absolute power of her husband. She could not divorce him, but he could divorce her.Trade Review'Author Lynda Telford explains in this new study, women were very much needed in Ancient Rome – both to bolster a falling birth rate and to bring up a new generation of warriors.' -- Family Tree Magazine, July 2023'The lively narrative really brings the Roman world to life and I found it very interesting to compare the experiences of Roman women to those that might have been experienced by our more recent ancestors.' -- Family Tree Magazine, October 2023
£21.84
Pen & Sword Books Ltd From the Battle of Britain to the Korean War
Book SynopsisPresents a dramatic narrative from several theatres of war, including the Battle of Britain and the bombing raids on Germany, the Korean War, with first-hand testimony, as well as accounts of the dangerous RAF base at Habbaniya and Hong Kong in the 1950s.
£27.78
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Dont Call Us Girls
Book SynopsisDon't Call Us Girls examines the importance of women's participation in the Civil RightsMovement in the United States, and the international anti-war movement. This collective voice for peace, and an end to nuclear proliferation, reached back to before the Second World War and then firmly embedded itself during the war years when women assumed such important roles in the workplace that Franklin D. Roosevelt called them the Arsenal of Democracy'.When the men returned from war, women were encouraged by forces as powerful as government agencies and eminent psychiatrists to return to their place' at home. And return home they did, only to realize that they could use the skills they practiced as housewives to begin organizing themselves into groups that would start a wave of protest action that swept through the late 1950s, gathering up the Civil Rights Movement as it hurtled ever forward through the next two decades.In the 1960s and 1970s, no institution or convention was sacredmany aspect
£23.75
Vintage Espanol El País Bajo Mi Piel The Country Under My Skin
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Sisters of Sinai
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Random House USA Inc Save Me the Plums
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Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Its Good to be Queen
Book SynopsisSheba journeyed across the desert with a caravan of riches, only to find the greatest treasure of them all—and so can you. When it comes to famous queens of the Bible, we know the good one, Queen Esther, and the bad one, Queen Jezebel. Now meet the wise one, the queen of Sheba, who traveled to Jerusalem to test the mind and heart of a king. Her quest for wisdom will surprise you, challenge you, inspire you, change you. This wealthy royal from antiquity will show you how to live boldly, seek after truth, ask the right questions, encourage others, receive graciously, and honor the Lord above all. Shedding new light on this ancient biblical role model, Liz Curtis Higgs unveils timeless wisdom for all who aspire to please the king of Kings.
£13.40
Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Perfect Mess
Book SynopsisOn those days when French fries litter the floor of your minivan, when you think bad words about other drivers, when your smile hides an anxious heart-in those moments when you fall short of all you’d hoped to be-what does God see when He looks at you? In your less-than-lovely moments, God sees a precious daughter in need of His perfect love.In this liberating look at how God adores and transforms imperfect people, Bible teacher Lisa Harper weaves poignant stories of her own personal foibles with a fresh take on selected Psalms to reveal a loving Father who remains your greatest champion even when you don’t feel anywhere close to holy.Join Lisa in discovering what happens when we stop trying to hide our inadequacies and doubts and instead trust God with our anger, frustrations, flaws, and regrets. As you accept God’s loving invitation to exchange your junk for His joy, you’ll find the imperfect pieces of your life shaped into a
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