Women's Studies
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Paperback
The groundbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.
The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It
Hardback
From the flapper to The Feminine Mystique, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis.
We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
Paperback
"A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free."--Dorothy B. Porter, curator emeritus, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Paperback
World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman