New World Library - Roar softly and carry a great lipstick: 28 women writers on life, sex, and survival

Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations about Men, Mothers and Mothering

Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations About Men, Mothers, and Mothering thinks from the nexus of gender, essentialism, and care. The authors creatively blend the philosophical and the personal to collectively argue that while gender is essential to our social and theoretical definitions of care, it is dangerously co-opted into naturalized discourses, which limit particular identities and negate certain forms of care.

I Took the Sex Gods to Thailand

This is the true story of a self-confessed sexual zealotwho, while satisfying his lust with bar girls in HongKong, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, is compelled bythe intensity of his libido to find its deeper meaning throughTantra. Tantra teaches that the fast track to enlightenmentand to God, is not celibacy as Buddha and Jesus taught, butMaithuna or sacred sex.

History of Woman Suffrage, volume 2

According to the Preface, this book is "Woven with the threads of this (Woman's suffrage) history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical sketches.

The Woman's Bible

Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution

Backing up theory and critical literature with hard evidence, this book refutes the idea that legalization of prostitution can be anything but a harmful contributor to the commodification of women.

Feminist Literacies, 1968-75

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, ordinary women affiliated with the women's movement were responsible for a veritable explosion of periodicals, poetry, and manifestos, as well as performances designed to support "do-it-yourself" education and consciousness-raising. Kathryn Thoms Flannery discusses this outpouring and the group education, brainstorming, and creative activism it fostered as the manifestation of a feminist literacy quite separate from women's studies programs at universities or the large-scale political workings of second-wave feminism.

Feminine Lost

Feminine Lost explores the premise that all human beings are constructed of two energies, one masculine and one feminine. With the rise of the feminist movement, many women have migrated to their masculine side, some to the extent of losing access to their feminine side altogether.

The XX Factor: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World

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.

History of Woman Suffrage, volume 6

According to the Preface, this book is "Woven with the threads of this (Woman's suffrage) history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical sketches.

God Loves Gay Women

Honest, faithful people are wondering if the Bible is really telling them to hate gay people. This book is a reasoned response to that inquiry.

Be Good, Sweet Maid: The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie

January 21, 1995: Dorothy Joudrie is arrested for attempting to murder her estranged husband. Soon after, Audrey Andrews begins to write her book.

Rank Ladies

A disrobing acrobat, a female Hamlet, and a tuba-playing labor activist-all these women come to life in Rank Ladies. In this comprehensive study of women in vaudeville, Alison Kibler reveals how female performers, patrons, and workers shaped the rise and fall of the most popular live entertainment at the turn of the century.

Women in Computing

Women in Computing presents how the computing industry delivered the opportunities for women. This book identifies the distinct attitudes in companies towards equal opportunities.

A Male President for Mount Holyoke College: The Failed Fight to Maintain Female Leadership, 1934-1937

A struggle arose over who would succeed Mary Emma Woolley as president of Mount Holyoke College in 1937.

Psychological Health of Women of Color: Intersections, Challenges, and Opportunities: Intersections, Challenges, and Opportunities

This work serves to celebrate the strengths of women of color, identify unique opportunities, and examine the specific challenges and issues of this group.

TOTS (Dedicated to the A-Team)

Life as an A cup (Or AAA. is that even on the scale?

Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma. 20th Anniversary Updated Edition.

Les Guerilleres

One of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittig's most popular novel, Les Guerilleres imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women. Among the women's most powerful weapons is laughter, but they also threaten literary and linguistic customs of the patriarchal order with bullets.

The Women of Tomorrow (1911), Illustrated

First published in 1911. 28 illustrations.

Keeping Women and Children Last: America's War on the Poor, Revised Edition

The Flipside of Feminism

Forty years have passed since the so-called women's movement claimed to liberate women from preconceived notions of what it means to be female - and the results are in. The latest statistics show that as women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy.

Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai

Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco

In Morocco today, the idea of female laborers is generally frowned upon. Yet despite this, many women are beginning to find work in factories.

Changing Narratives of Sexuality

Changing Narratives of Sexuality examines the tensions and contradictions in constructions of gender, sexuality and women's empowerment in the various narrations of sexuality told by and about women. From storytelling to women's engagement with state institutions, stories of unmarried women and ageing women, a sex scandal and narrations of religious influence on women's subjectivities and sexualities, this impressive collection explores sexuality in a wide range of national contexts in the global South.

A Bold Vision: Women Leaders Imagining Canada's Future

One hundred and fifty years ago in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 23 men met for the Charlottetown Conference that led to Canadian Confederation. Visions of Canada began before them and continue since.

Ballata delle prugne secche

Pulsatilla sta alla condizione della ragazza d'oggi come la Nutella alla merenda, come Bertinotti al cachemire, come "Babbo" a "Natale". Questa è una guida pratica a tutti gli aspetti più ambigui della vita, dalla messa in piega alla consultazione degli oracoli, dalla lotta ai chili superflui al rimorchio su Internet, con tanto di beceri espedienti a letto.

Go Get Mother's Picket Sign: Crossing Spheres With the Material Culture of Suffrage

Go Get Mother's Picket Sign tells the story of American suffragists who worked to balance their public and private lives as wives, mothers, and homemakers.

Hers: Through Women's Eyes

The Red Headscarf Samsui Women of Singapore

From 1920s to 1949, many Samsui women came to Singapore in search of jobs. Most of them worked in the construction industry.

Book and Film Reviews and Books Received, Femspec double issue v. 8

Book reviews of Daughters of the Great Star by Diana Rivers; Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey and Naomi Mitchison, a Profile of Her Life and Work by Lesley Hall. Review of the film, Fissures.

Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture

Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance.

Wonder Woman: The myth of 'having it all'

It's your choice, right? Whether or not you have a career and children?

Roe v. Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision that Made Abortion Legal

From the back-alley clinics of illegal abortionists to the behind-the scene deliberations of the Supreme Court justices, Roe v. Wade is a riveting history of the thorniest ethical debate ever brought before the Supreme Court.

Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism

""Vintage Lasch. One of the refreshments of reading him is that he states his beliefs outright.

The Maternal Is Political

Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political features more than 40 powerful, hard-hitting literary essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and families - both their own and other women's - in this country and globally. From the mom deconstructing playground "power games" with her first-grade child, to the mother who speaks out against misogyny during an awkward road trip with her college-age daughter and friends, to the mother of sons worrying about the threat of a future military draft, The Maternal Is Political brings together the voices of women who are transforming the political and social: one child, one babysitter, one peace march at a time.

The Story Within Us

This volume features in-depth, oral interviews with eleven incarcerated women, each of whom offers a narrative of her life and her reading experiences within prison walls. The women share powerful stories about their complex and diverse efforts to negotiate difficult relationships, exercise agency in restrictive circumstances, and find meaning and beauty in the midst of pain.

Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France

This far-reaching study of maternal societies in post-Revolutionary France focuses on the philanthropic work of the Society for Maternal Charity, the most prominent organization of its kind. Administered by middle-class and elite women and financed by powerful families and the government, the Society offered support to poor mothers, helping them to nurse and encouraging them not to abandon their children.

Die Hörigkeit der Frau

Dieses eBook: "Die Hörigkeit der Frau" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology

Menstruation provides one of the few shared bodily functions that most women will experience during their lifetimes. Yet, these experiences are anything but common.

Unprotected Labor

Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, Unprotected Labor assesses middle-class women's reform programs as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions.