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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Ladies of the Grand Tour	Brian Dolan	"According to the 1747 publication The Art of Governing a Wife, women in Georgian England were to "lay up and save, look to the house; talk to few and take of all within." However, some women broke f…	OL100267W
Meditations on votes for women	Samuel McChord Crothers	An essay on women's suffrage which also deals with the social and political relationships of men and women.	OL104635W
Anna of the Five Towns	Arnold Bennett,Frank Swinnerton	Set in the Potteries, the region in which Bennett spent much of his youth, this is the story of a miser's daughter who inherits a fortune. She stands out as a spirited, complex modern woman in a stif…	OL109233W
The lady & the Virgin	Penny Schine Gold	Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues tha…	OL120458W
Disorderly conduct	Carroll Smith-Rosenberg	Essays look at feminist history, female friendships, Davy Crockett, sex roles, the feminine cycle, hysteria, abortion, and androgyny in nineteenth-century America.	OL123206W
Trial by fire	J. A. Jance	In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she…	OL13655W
Gender and power in Britain, 1640-1990	Susan Kingsley Kent	Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural a…	OL14864491W
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Lisa See	Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer in Yongming County, and to her family is just another mouth to feed until she can be married off. But when she is six years old she is brought before the ambit…	OL14927217W
Woman's almanac	Kathryn Paulsen	A massive compendium of practical information for women taking control of their lives: venturing into the workforce, exploring independence; raising children; etc. The book won Library Journal's …	OL15164903W
I Still Dream About You	Fannie Flagg	Birmingham real estate agent and former Miss Alabama Maggie Fortenberry learns valuable lessons about the nature of friendship, the challenges of modern life, and the dangers of impossible dreams as …	OL15374108W
American women writers to 1800	Sharon M. Harris	American Women Writers to 1800 advances our knowledge of early American culture. Including works by more than ninety women, many of whom have never before been published, this ambitious anthology cap…	OL16100538W
New women in colonial Korea	Hyaeweol Choi	This book provides the first English translation of some of the central archival material concerning the development of New Woman (sin yosong) in Korea during the late nineteenth century and the firs…	OL16489843W
Between the queen and the cabby	Cole, John R.	"Students of the French Revolution and of women's right are generally familiar with Olympe de Gouges's bold adaptation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. However, her Rights …	OL16562274W
The remembered gate	Barbara J. Berg	"Chronicle of the beginning of woman's emancipation ... Dr. Berg finds its roots in the complex responses to intricate social change that accompanied the urbanization of America, maintaining that the…	OL16578516W
L'Histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles	Marie L. Lavigne,Micheline Dumont-Johnson,Collectif Clio,Michèle Stanton-Jean	Certains diront peut-être : « Encore un livre sur les femmes !» Ils se trompent. C'est un autre livre d'histoire. C'est l'histoire dite autrement. Quatre historiennes ont relevé ce défi. S'appuya…	OL17074221W
Le bleu est une couleur chaude	Julie Maroh	Mon ange de bleu, Bleu du ciel, Bleu des rivières, Source de vie… La vie de Clémentine bascule le jour où elle rencontre Emma, une jeune fille aux cheveux bleus, qui lui fait découvrir toutes…	OL17080793W
The Wild Oats project	Robin Rinaldi	"What if for just one year you explored everything you'd wondered about sex but hadn't tried? The project was simple: An attractive, successful magazine journalist, Robin Rinaldi, would move into a S…	OL17114881W
A history of European women's work	Deborah Simonton	The paid and unpaid work of women in Europe has been and is hugely diverse - from schools to offices, factories to domestic service, dairies to hospitals and much more. The work patterns have fluctua…	OL1836527W
Women in African colonial histories	Nakanyike Musisi,Susan Geiger,Jean Marie Allman	>How did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged f…	OL18540883W
Gifts	Nuruddin Farah	War in Somalia transforms a simple village girl into a self-confident woman who even swims and drives a car. She is Duniya, a widow with three children. By an English-speaking writer, author of Maps.	OL18698W