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Ladies of the Grand Tour 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
Memoirs of a Medieval Woman Memoirs of a Medieval Woman Louise Collis From back cover: This unique biography tells the story of an extraordinary fifteenth-century woman who journeyed all over Europe from England to the Holy Land. A vigorous and passionate woman, Marger… OL101349W
History of Ideas on Woman History of Ideas on Woman Rosemary Agonito Thirty discourses and treatises on the subject of women, by influential thinkers ranging from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Freud, Beauvoir, and Friedan, are accompanied by critical analyses. OL15160926W
Globalizing Feminisms, 1789-1945 Globalizing Feminisms, 1789-1945 Karen Offen This definitive Reader presents a coherent, comprehensive, comparative, and much-needed collective history of women’s activism throughout the world. Including key pieces on the history of feminis… OL15499043W
Why women should rule the world Why women should rule the world Dee Dee Myers What would happen if women ruled the world?Everything could change, according to former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Politics would be more collegial. Businesses would be more productiv… OL15845947W
Dakota Women's Work Dakota Women's Work Colette A. Hyman A tiny pair of beaded deerskin moccasins, given to a baby in 1913, provides the starting point for this thoughtful examination of the work of Dakota women. Mary Eastman Faribault, born in Minnesota, … OL16308338W
The woman reader The woman reader Belinda Jack,Belinda Elizabeth Jack "This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magno… OL16521250W
The remembered gate 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
Stories of women in World War II Stories of women in World War II Andrew Langley "More than 75 million people fought in World War II--nearly all of them men. Who was going to produce the weapons and the food, and do countless other important jobs? The answer was women. Millions s… OL17893176W
Notable American women Notable American women Barbara Sicherman,Carol Hurd Green This fourth volume of biographies of women who have made distinctive contributions to American life includes 442 women who died from 1951 to 1975. OL18138835W
From Eve to Dawn From Eve to Dawn Marilyn French *Origins* is the first of four volumes of a momental, readable, and unprecedented history of women throughout the world. The internationally celebrated author of *The Women's Room*, Marilyn French, s… OL1860049W
Her Brilliant Career Her Brilliant Career Cooke, Rachel (Journalist) Journalist Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s--pioneers whose professional careers and complicated private lives helped to create … OL19670247W
Code girls Code girls Liza Mundy Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, the… OL19716718W
Empress Empress Ruby Lal "In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. While other wives were … OL19748072W
Women of the revolution Women of the revolution Kira Cochrane Includes articles by and interviews of leading figures of the feminist movement that have appeared in the Guardian (London, Eng.) newspaper. OL22627289W
Princess Princess Lilly, Melinda. Presents some of the details of the life of a princess or queen in Europe in the Middle Ages. OL23744740W
Her brilliant career Her brilliant career Rachel Cooke In her apron and rubber gloves, a smile lipsticked permanently across her face, the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful to have sloughed off. A homely c… OL24269266W
Communion Communion Bell Hooks,Montserrat Asensio Fernández Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and… OL277285W
Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance Mary Spongberg "This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has … OL3273146W
A History of the Wife A History of the Wife Marilyn Yalom How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, b… OL3279782W
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