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Considered an early feminist classic, Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes; Or The Loving Huntsman is a fantastical comedy about a middle-aged witch and her search for peace that was selected as the first ever Book of the Month upon publication in 1926.
"When her father died, Laura Willowes went to live in London with her elder brother and his family…[she] was a gentle creature, and the little girls loved her; she would soon fit into her new...
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"A leading thinker's groundbreaking examination of women's economic empowerment"--
"Linda Scott coined the phrase "Double X Economy" to address the systemic exclusion of women from the world financial order. In The Double X Economy, Scott argues on the strength of hard data and on-the-ground experience that removing those barriers to women's success is a win for everyone, regardless of gender. Scott opens our eyes to the myriad economic injustices...
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Alice Mattison was the 1997 recipient of a New York Times Notable Book Award. Like Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, The Book Borrower delicately but powerfully explores the truths behind women's friendships. In 1975 the young, timid Toby Ruben begins a life-long bond with the dynamic, boisterous Deborah Laidlaw.
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"Sue Monk was a 'conventionally religious, churchgoing woman, a traditional wife and mother' with a thriving career as a Christian writer until she began to question her role as a woman in her culture, her family, and her church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore to monastery retreats and rituals in the caves of Crete, Kidd takes readers through the fear, anger, healing, and transformation of her awakening. Retaining a meaningful...
46) The Girls
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From the best-selling author of Giant and So Big, a sweeping look at the lives of three generations of women on Chicago's South Side. Part of Belt's Revivals series and with a new introduction by Kathleen Rooney (Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk).First published in 1921, Edna Ferber's The Girls revolves around the "three Charlottes" of the Thrift family-Great-Aunt Charlotte, her niece Lottie, and Lottie's niece Charley. All single "old maids," as the...
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Most Christians have heard a familiar description of the Samaritan woman in John 4: she was a sinner, an adulteress, even a prostitute. Throughout church history, the woman at the well has been seen narrowly in terms of her gender and marital history. What are we missing in the story? And what difference does our interpretation of this passage make for women and men in the church? Caryn A. Reeder calls us to see the Samaritan woman in a different...
48) Smashers Synched
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There's a secret society of professional women called the Ceiling Smashers.
And Smashers Synched is a brilliant tale that brings into sharp focus what it truly takes to become an extraordinary leader in today's business climate.
Four women are the founders of the Ceiling Smashers society. Who are these amazing women and how will they overcome the hurdles placed in their paths?
Meet Andi. She walks into work one day to learn that her private banking...
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It is the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Grateful Dead is playing on the radio and teenagers are wearing long hair and blue jeans. Jess Leighton, the daughter of a temperamental painter and a proto-feminist Harvard professor, is struggling to make sense of her world amid racial tensions, Vietnam War protests, and anti-government rage. With more options than her mother's generation, but no role model for creating the life she desires,...
50) Ann Veronica
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Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter...
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Feminist Press reprint volume no. 3
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a mesmerizing and unsettling exploration of the female psyche and the stifling constraints of 19th-century society. The story is narrated by a woman suffering from what her husband and physicians diagnose as "nervous depression." She is confined to a room in her home and prescribed a treatment of complete rest.
As the protagonist spends her days in isolation, she becomes increasingly obsessed...
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Me encuentro y me pierdo en los cuentos de Viridiana; al leerlos siento que ella nos presta, a nosotras mujeres, su potente voz. Una voz capaz de decir con humor lo que importa, de contarnos del vacío, de la soledad... la misma voz que nos relata la cartografía de un desamor mientras uno de sus personajes hace la relación de los objetos que olvidó en una casa que ya no es la suya. Viridiana nos presta su voz para hablarle a quien escuche de nuestros...
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At the age of 80, Marion has seen the world change.
It is 2070. Climate change and soaring oil prices have taken their toll. Some countries have adjusted and prospered, while others have sunk into poverty and internal warfare.
Marion has seen Australia change from a free democracy to a repressive society ruled by an autocratic Muslim despot.
She has watched how women have disappeared from the workplace and discovered what can befall women, who no...
55) Maria
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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) is a novel by English writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Intended as a fictional sequel to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), a groundbreaking work of feminism and political philosophy, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously by Wollstonecraft's husband, anarchist philosopher and writer William Godwin.
Denied her autonomy, Maria is sent to an insane asylum by her...
56) Glory box
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Se puede estar atrapado entre cuatro paredes, así como estas pueden dar la libertad necesaria para poner en perspectiva el pasado, y los años venideros.
Se puede estar enjaulado en la inmensidad rígida de una ciudad como Nueva York o Madrid, y en todos los años que conforman una historia.
Uno puede sentir que es preso de infinitas maneras y, sin embargo, solo dos cosas nos liberan: la verdad y el amor.
En Glory Box (caja de gloria) Patricia Valley...
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Presented here are three of the most important feminist novels ever written: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Each of these works is an early, groundbreaking piece of fiction from some of literature's finest female writers as they explore life, love and the struggle of women to find their voices in a time where they were too often silenced and suppressed.
Mrs....
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Presented here is Volume II of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three more of the most important feminist novels ever written: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto and My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin.
The first book in this collection is To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's experimental and brilliant third novel. This semi-autobiographical book was hailed in its time as a...
59) The ReGender App
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What if there was an app that could, cloak you in a cross-gendered hologram? And, it had a voice modulation module? Women could present as men and get better-paying jobs. Men could present as women and get, groped in the subway. Cool.
The ReGender App is a humorous expose of the sexism in our society.
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Quel pouvoir réside dans la virginité? Comment comprendre le concept de parthénos, qui peut à la fois désigner un adolescent, fille ou garçon, une jeune vierge à marier, une figure tragique ou une puissante déesse? Et comment les destins d'Antigone, des Érinyes, de Blanche-Neige, de Susan Salmon — l'héroïne angélique du roman populaire d'Alice Sebold — et de Valentine — la jeune punk imaginée par Virginie Despentes — illustrent-ils...
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