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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s…	OL1095427W
Women & guerilla movements	Karen Kampwirth	"The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating wha…	OL12060775W
Daisy sisters	Henning Mankell	Henning Mankell (Estocolmo, 1948-Göteborg, 2015) ha sido conocido en todo el mundo por su serie de novelas policiacas protagonizadas por el célebre inspector Kurt Wallander, traducidas a cuarenta y d…	OL14969878W
Love and Louis XIV	Antonia Fraser	The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis's accomplishmen…	OL15838054W
Renegade Poetics	Evie Shockley	Beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as “black”?—Evie Shockley’s <em>Renegade Poetics</em> separates what we think …	OL15916935W
Women & Catholicism	Phyllis Zagano	"Award-winning Catholic scholar Phyllis Zagano investigates three distinct situations in the Catholic Church, each pointing to Catholicism's global weak spot: the role of women in the Church. Each of…	OL16011296W
Selling women short	Liza Featherstone	"Betty Dukes is a devoutly religious African-American woman who didn't know the meaning of sex discrimination until she started working for Wal-Mart. She joined the company to get ahead, hoping to be…	OL16039359W
Ladies of liberty	Cokie Roberts	Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with this blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicli…	OL16066365W
Gender codes	Thomas J. Misa	The computing profession is facing a serious gender crisis. Women are abandoning the computing field. This book explains the complex social and cultural processes at work in gender and computing toda…	OL16241369W
Womanism against socially-constructed matriarchal images	MarKeva Gwendolyn Hill	"This book stems from a concern to assist pastoral counselors in developing a therapeutic alliance with African-American women. It focuses on the social construct of the African-American matriarch, w…	OL16283301W
Women writers and journalists in the nineteenth-century south	Jonathan Daniel Wells	"The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into southern intellectual life, the fight for women's r…	OL16298220W
The round house	Louise Erdrich	A young man is upended after a violent attack on his mother, which leaves his family in turmoil. Well-written page turner that is hard to put down!	OL16532040W
Delusions of gender	Cordelia Fine	Subtitle: How our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, the author criticizes claims about innate biological differences …	OL16991090W
1Q84 [3/3]	村上春樹	W trzecim tomie tej fantastycznej powieści Murakamiego poznajemy dalsze losy Aomame i Tengo rozgrywające się w niezwykłym świecie roku 1Q84. Ona ukrywa się przed zemstą członków sekty za zamordowanie…	OL17534240W
Two friends and other nineteenth-century lesbian stories by American women writers	Susan Koppelman	Koppelman has anthologized a collection of stories that recount love and desire between women, all of which appeared in popular literary magazines during the second half of the 19th century. Though t…	OL17817183W
Engendering development	World Bank	"Engendering Development - Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice brings together existing and new research from several social science disciplines to examine the costs of persistent…	OL17859969W
The XX factor	Alison Wolf	Explores how the growing number of professional women have impacted society, considering controversial perspectives on how the definition of female success has changed in ways that may not be support…	OL18006699W
Women and ordination in the Christian churches	Janet Wootton,Kirsty Thorpe	The growth of women's ordained ministry is one of the most significant developments in the recent history of Christianity. This collection of essays brings together contributors from both academic an…	OL18579833W
Wüstenblume	Cathleen Miller,Waris Dirie,Miller	Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams of the simplicity of life in her native Somalia …	OL1872814W
Women and Islam	Zayn Kassam	A collection of essays to stimulate discussion and help readers achieve a more sober understanding of the lives of Muslim women around the world.	OL20547262W