General Women's Studies - Interest | Women's Studies - Interest
Dec.03.2012
From the introduction:
"I performed the character of D.L.D. while writing. Like and actor using Stanislavski's Magic If, I inhabited the mind of the character and played out the scenes, drawing upon my own sense memories --but I have slavishly followed the script, which is a sequence of scene...
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Oct.08.2012
In No Excuses, feminist icon Gloria Feldt argues that the most confounding problem facing women today isn’t that doors aren’t open, but that not enough women are walking through them.
From the boardroom to the bedroom, public office to personal relationships, she asserts that nobody is keeping...
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Oct.02.2012
Elizabeth's retreat to discover who she is outside her responsibilities, routines, and relationships, grabs the reader for their own journey of insights. (Paddington Cove Series)
"Jeanne has an uncanny ability to help people see more clearly what is happening to them."...
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Oct.21.2011
Bestselling author Naomi Wolf was brought up to believe that happiness is something that can be taught -- and learned. In this magical book, Naomi shares the enduring wisdom of her father, Leonard Wolf, a poet and teacher who believes that every person is an artist in their own unique way, and...
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Oct.19.2011
Checkered Fences is a heartwarming romance about a high school student, Diane Jones, who dreams of her independence and becoming the first in her family to complete college, unlike her mother who married at just thirteen years old. However, Diane’s old fashion father has other plans for Diane...
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Jul.25.2011
by Susan Hagen and Mary Carouba.
A powerful collection of first-person stories told by 30 female firefighters, police officers, paramedics, and others who responded to the World Trade Center tragedy on September 11, 2001. In response to the media's portrayal of...
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Jun.18.2011
As described by the then executive editor, Ruth Lisa Schecther:
Regarding the Spring/Summer 1988 Anthology/Awards Issue #11: "Our warm thanks to the many poets, writers and scholars of reputation in this issue who contributed new insights about Anne Sexton and to those whose diverse work...
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Apr.04.2011
Traffic Stop contains some of my best poems written from the 1970s to 2009. Themes include being an assertive nontraditional woman, having close relationships, teaching college English and women's studies, loving nature, traveling, being involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement, mourning my...
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Mar.04.2011
I love you. The meeting ran late. I want a divorce. One little word, one casual lie, one devastating announcement—and our lives are turned upside down forever.
In He Said What?, twenty-six gifted women writers share profoundly personal moments in which a man in their life said something—good or...
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Feb.04.2011
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist implodes the myth of the dumbed-down mom, offering startling scientific evidence that motherhood gives women unexpected mental advantages
Generations of mothers have been told-and believed-that having a baby means checking their own brains at the delivery...
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