Women's Studies

Woman; Man's Equal
by Thomas Webster
The publishers of WOMAN MAN'S EQUAL conscientiously feel that they are placing before the public the discussion of one of the most important topics of the day; and they indulge the strong conviction that the author of this little volume presents

Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of our early childhood by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted; in a word, they are big children all their life long - a kind of intermediate stage

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women
by George S. Weaver
If the angels look down upon earth and behold any natural object with especial delight, it must be Girlhood. And yet if they are not gifted with prophetic vision, they must tremble with fearful solicitude while they gaze delighted.

Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
by C. Gasquoine Hartley
The sudden collapse of the war left us in a daze. After the years of inhuman strain it was hard to ease off tension to the almost forgotten conditions of peace. I recall that ever to be remembered day, November 11th, 1918 - Victory Day.

American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The authors of this volume, while they sympathize with every honest effort to relieve the disabilities and sufferings of their sex, are confident that the chief cause of these evils is the fact that the honor and duties of the family state are not duly

Health and Education
by Rev. Charles Kingsley
Ladies, - I have chosen for the title of this lecture a practical and prosaic word, because I intend the lecture itself to be as practical and prosaic as I can make it, without becoming altogether dull.

The Girl and Her Religion
by Margaret Slattery
She has certain inalienable rights, regardless of race, color or social state. When it has thought about her at all, society in general has supposed, until recently, that in a free country, a glorious land of opportunity, the girl has her rights

Unstoppable Action: Acknowledge Fear, Prepare, and Then Act
Unstoppable Women: Achieve Any Breakthrough Goal in 30 Days
by Cynthia Kersey
Loreena McKennitt knew that to succeed on her own terms, she needed more than musical talent and passion. She needed to educate herself about the music business. So she developed a step-by-step plan to become a savvy music businessperson: running her fled

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
by Mary Wollstonecraft
M. Wollstonecraft was born in 1759. Her father was so great a wanderer, that the place of her birth is uncertain; she supposed, however, it was London, or Epping Forest: at the latter place she spent the first five years of her life. In early youth she

Why Women Matter
Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World
by Marie C. Wilson
All of my adult life I have preached the virtues of power sharing between men and women. The arrangement seemed not only fair, but also obvious: Women populate half the democracy; we should occupy half the positions of leadership both for gender equity

Founding Mothers
A History of Women in America
by Carol Hymowitz, Michaele Weissman
From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed

Entertaining

Hosting a first shindig is a big step in a virgin's life-even if that shindig is holing up on a Tuesday night with takeout. A virgin's willingness to entertain reveals she inhabits a reasonably presentable living space, one with a refrigerator

Diaries from Women Across America
This Day in the Life
by Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, B.K. Rakhra
Did You Ever Want to Read a Friend's Diary? In suburban neighborhoods and on family farms, in uptown lofts and homeless shelters, women across America chronicled their lives on the same day-June 29, 2004. This Day in the Life shares more than thirty

Men, Boys and Dust
Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
by Cheryl Benard, Ph.D.
Men, boys and dust. That was my initial impression when I first went to the Afghan border area in 1982, an expert in project design sent to assess the efficiency with which aid was being delivered to Afghan refugees by the international community.

The Frailty Myth

Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger? he myth of female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women's health, social status

Forget Rules for Catching a Husband. How 'bout Rules for Catching a Life?
Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess
by Susan Jane Gilman
Smart rules for smart women of all cultures, sexualities, and sizes! Susan Jane Gilman serves up uncommon wisdom and practical advice on everything from sex to politics, from turning shopping skills into a power tool to using man-catching techniques

The Most Popular Girl
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
by Joshua Zeitz
Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep,

Floss: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
A World Apart
by Cristina Rathbone
Fluffy was a surprise. An aging seventies throwback with piles of teased blond hair and too much makeup, she was older than Denise Russell, past her prime perhaps, and sad, but not frightening, not threatening at all.

Who Am I To Be Telling You What To Do?
The Confident Woman: How to Take Charge and Recharge Your Life
by Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz
I can't remember when I didn't want to write this book. After a lifetime of experiencing little confidence, two separate, but related incidents led me to stop thinking about it and sit down to prepare, and eventually write The Confident Woman.

At the Movies
A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
by Jane Juska
'Round-heeled' is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous - someone who nowadays might be called 'easy.' It's a surprising way for a cultured English teacher with a passion for the novels of Anthony Trollope to describe herself