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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The passion according to G.H	Clarice Lispector	The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector's mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, …	OL1002138W
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
Forever Amber	Kathleen Winsor	Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve …	OL100278W
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
El reino de las mujeres	Ricardo Coler	Este libro es un viaje a un mundo desconocido y sorprendente. El prestigioso periodista argentino Ricardo Coler vivió en el último matriarcado que queda en el mundo, la comunidad china de los Mosuo, …	OL10153422W
Benim Adım Kırmızı	Orhan Pamuk	My Name Is Red (Turkish: Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001. The novel, concerning miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of…	OL1019598W
Tang xi hua yue hen	Liming Luo	v. <1 > : 20 cm	OL10202983W
Os Amores de Salazar	Felícia Cabrita	António de Oliveira Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 during the dictatorship, never married. His supporters said that "Salazar married the Nation". But historical research has …	OL10257381W
Amores que matan	Vicente Garrido Genoves	En Amores que matan el autor analiza en detalle la violencia física y emocional contra la mujer, así como el acoso, una experiencia de terror psicológico que en muchas ocasiones puede quedar impune. …	OL10288408W
The Journal of South Asia Women Studies -- 1995-1997	Enrica Garzilli	Contains v.1, no.1 (Nov. 1995), v.2, no.1 (Jan. 1996), v.2, no.2 (May 1996), v.2, no. 3 (Dec. 1996), v.2, no.4 (Dec. 1996), v.3, no.1 (May, 1997), of the electronic journal.	OL10304688W
Eminent missionary women	Annie Ryder Gracey	Biographies of women such as Mary Lyon, Clara Swain, M.D., and Ann Wilkins, were chosen because of their missionary work either in the United States or overseas.	OL10309184W
The sex complex	W. Blair Bell	The female reproductive system remained a mystery to the medical profession even into the 20th century. This physician presents his theory that the ovaries alone do not determine femaleness.	OL10310161W
The story of the women's suffrage movement	Bertha Mason	This historical overview of the British suffrage movement from the mid-17th century through the early 20th century contains a wealth of information on the acts and appeals made for and against women'…	OL10310210W
The encyclopedia of women's health	Christine Ammer	Women in the United States today face a wide range of serious health concerns. More than 8 million women live with heart disease, and 43 percent of American women die from cardiovascular disease. Mor…	OL103308W
Women, womeni lupus	Faruk	Social, cultural, and gender issues in Indonesia; collection of articles.	OL1033585W
Harriet Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad	Ann Lane Petry	A biography of the black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground railroad.	OL10343132W
Profiles in Audacity	Alan Axelrod	In brief, compelling, and inspiring vignettes, bestselling historian Alan Axelrod pinpoints and investigates the make-or-break event in the lives and careers of some of history’s most significant fig…	OL103486W
Mother Teresa	Demi	A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.	OL103639W
Choṭa choṭa duḥkha kathā	Tasalimā Nāsarina	Articles mostly on the social condition of women in Bangladesh; selections from various newspapers.	OL1039034W
Women in black, white, and technicolour	Shoma A. Chatterji	Articles on various issues related to women, chiefly in the Indian context.	OL1041768W