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History of Woman Suffrage reflects the history of voting in the United States from its beginnings to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. It is a comprehensive review of the most important historical events on more than 5000 pages. For decades this book has remained a significant source of primary information on suffrage movements in the United States and is a valuable source of information today. Although the work was written by leaders...
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What was it like to participate in the Women's Liberation Movement? What made millions of women step forward from the 1960s onwards and join it in different ways? Many of the fifty women in this book were there. They describe how they have contributed in multitudinous ways across politics, the arts, health, education, environmentalism, economics and science and created wonderfully subversive activism. And, how they continue this activism today with...
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Mujeres que Escriben es una joya. Un diario de vida colectivo escrito por más de 80 mujeres chilenas y algunas extranjeras de distintas edades, orígenes y vivencias que pasaron por el taller de autobiografía de @mariapazescritora entre 2014 y 2020.
Amor, familia, maternidad, sexo, viajes personales, el cuerpo, salud mental, feminismo.
Este libro narra en primera persona y a través de distintas miradas y experiencias lo que verdaderamente significa...
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808—1877) was an English author and social reformer. After Norton left her husband in 1836, he sued her friend and Prime Minister Lord Melbourne for adultery. Though the claim was thrown out of court, Norton was denied a divorce and access to her children. In response to this Norton campaigned vehemently, which eventually led to the historic passing of the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act...
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Two women, each intelligent, talented, wealthy, beautiful. What could drive them to kill?These stories take us to Rome and Palermo.Two Boyfriends Too Many is the story of Samantha, who seems interested in nothing beyond her all-consuming career as a writer. Twice she ends up with men she loves, and each one is killed in mysterious circumstances. Following the trails of these murders, a police detective encounters every kind of revelation.The Price...
7) Yet to Love
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To those, Who haven't received the loved yet.
To those, Who don't know love very well.
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While it is generally agreed amongst criminologists that the world of crime is predominantly the domain of men, women played a much larger role than they do today before the twentieth century. "Women and Crime" contains a fascinating collection of three classic essays by various authors on the subject of women and crime, examining the relationship between the two in the nineteenth century and looking at what differences there were in things like urbanisation...
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Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case study and an example for modern Italian American interdisciplinary...
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When it comes to espionage and spying, what often springs to one's mind is a well-groomed English Oxford graduate with a penchant for overly-specific alcoholic beverages and womanising. However, what's most important in these matters is the unlikely, and this is perhaps one of the reasons why some of history's greatest and most successful spies have been women. This volume contains a collection of six biographical sketches of incredible female spies,...
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At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, BOOBS is a diverse collection of stories about the burdens, expectations and pleasures of having breasts. From the agony of puberty and angst of adolescence to the anxiety of aging, these stories and poems go beyond the usual images of breasts found in fashion magazines and movie posters, instead offering dynamic and honest portraits of desire, acceptance and the desire for acceptance. Surrounded by flat-chested...
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“Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine” celebrates the history and evolution of Canadian literature and feminism with some of the most exciting and thought-provoking fiction, poetry, and essays the magazine has published since it was founded in 1975 as Room of One's Own. This collection includes poems about men not to be fallen in love with, trans womanhood, the morning-after pill, the "mind fuck" of being raped by a romantic partner, and...
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Ordinary to Extraordinary, 150 stories as unique as the women who lived them relates life from a woman's point of view. The stories range from a single incident to a full life story; from ordinary life to tragic events; from the horrific to the humorous. There are stories of living as a child in another country, immigration to Canada from various countries, growing up in Ontario, meeting the love of their life, and the struggles of life, fires, floods,...
14) Real Women's Stories 2018: A Powerful, Inspiring Collection of Short Stories by and About Real Women
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The twelve brief chapters in this book reflect the beauty and the burdens of life, the highs and lows of being a woman.
With stories about: mothers and daughters; relocating from a small town in Idaho to a tiny island in the Caribbean; a United States marine adopting a baby girl from an orphanage during the Vietnam War; surviving divorce, alcoholism, and domestic violence; building an empire in exotic jewelry design; trading routine for adventure;...
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Los mejores relatos del "VIII Premio Internacional de Relatos de Mujeres Viajeras 2016", celebrado por la editorial de libros Ediciones Casiopea y la red social Mujeres Viajeras. Una iniciativa premiada con el "International Latino Books Awards" como mejor libro de viajes.
Este año ampliamos a 80 relatos que dan voz a autoras anónimas que comparten con nosotros sus aventuras viajeras, sus soledades, desventuras, anécdotas, descubrimientos y sorpresas....
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It was hard times, French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echoed by the sixteen other women who talk about their lives in Country Women Cope with Hard Times. Born between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, these women grew up on farms, in labor camps, and in remote towns during an era when the region's agricultural system changed dramatically. As daughters and wives, they milked cows, raised livestock,...
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Im glad Im alive. Doris Louise Bailey, a teen in the Prohibition era, writes this sentiment over and over in her diaries as she struggles with a life-threatening bout of scarlet fever. But its also an apt summation of how she lived in the years following her brush with death. Reaching for the Moon: More Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen (1927-1929) contains Doriss true-life adventures as she flirts with boys, sneaks sips of whiskey and bets on racehorses...
18) No Safe Place
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Women and children live in the shadow of violence all the time. Rape, child abuse and sexual assault, pornography, wife battery and sexual harassment are facts of everyday life in our society. In No Safe Place, all of these issues are explored for the fir
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Assembling writers, advocates, and academics, this volume spotlights the sexualization and objectification of girls and women in the media, popular culture, and society. From clothing and music to magazines and toys, this collection explores today's advertising and merchandising techniques and the effects they have on the premature portrayal of girls as sexual beings. Arguing that the sexualization of girls leads to self-destructive behaviors such...
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Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at New York University. She has written widely on women and gender in the Middle East. Her books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society and Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories.
Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously...
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