Women's Culture | Women's Studies - Interest
May.29.2012
This witch's brew of a book is back in all its tantalizing glory to enchant a new generation of readers. Best-selling author Erica Jong here turns her attention to the fantastical and factual world of witchcraft. In beguiling poetry and prose, she looks at the figure of the witch both as...
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Oct.21.2011
In The Beauty Myth the fearless Naomi Wolf revolutionized the way we think about beauty. In Misconceptions, she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence,...
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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.21.2011
In 1985, when women's poetry was not as prevalent as it is today, Melissa Clark asks men to listen very, very hard to what women say about their own self-perception, and not how men, such as Heathcliff, Mr. Rochester, or Dr. Frankenstein have perceived them. She asks that they listen as though...
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Aug.07.2010
A Culinary Guide to Sizzle with Holly Clegg - Too Hot in the Kitchen
The 14th book in Holly Clegg's trim&TERRIFIC® cookbook series, Too Hot in the Kitchen: Secrets to Sizzle At Any Age, features 200 easy and exciting recipes with 100 color photographs and illustrations, designed for today's...
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Jul.14.2010
“Listen”, takes a reader deep into the conscientious of the socially, economically, and culturally challenged of the world. Confronting the communal stigmas of not fitting in, “LISTEN” is a first person journey into the poignant lives of those who fail to flourish in today’s society. In this...
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Mar.26.2010
Suzanne Frischkorn is a fierce and fearless poet, In Girl on a Bridge, she first upends our dainty notions of girlhood and then leads us into the wilderness of violence, madness, fear, and love -- and does so with beauty and tenderness.
--Julianna Baggott
Good citizens beware: Suzanne...
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Feb.17.2010
“IT CAN BE A ROUGH WORLD OUT THERE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU LET SELF-DOUBT BECOME YOUR BEST FRIEND. BEING TRUE TO YOURSELF MEANS ACCEPTING YOUR DOWNFALLS AND CELEBRATING YOUR STRENGTHS.”
As women, we are blessed with three powerful virtues: being smart, successful, and sexy. These qualities are woven so...
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