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The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
by Doherty, Maggie
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The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s by Maggie Doherty
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In 1960, Harvard's sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of the Institute for Independent Study, a "messy experiment" in women's education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or "the equivalent" in artistic… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, & the World They Made and Lost
by Westerkamp, Marilyn J.
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- 2021
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The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, & the World They Made and Lost by Marilyn J. Westerkamp
When English colonizers landed in New England in 1630, they When English colonizers landed in New England in 1630, they constructed a godly commonwealth according to precepts gleaned from Scripture. For these 'Puritan' Christians, religion both provided the center… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
by Batalion, Judy
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland -- some still in their teens -- became the nerves of a wide-ranging resistance network that fought the Nazis.
With courage, guile, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers & Revolutionaries
by Sloane, Nan
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- 2022
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Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers & Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist, and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
by Monson, Marianne
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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson
Discover the stories of twelve women who "heard the call" to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey.
As a slave, Clara Brown watched as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by Purnell, Sonia
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- 2019
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
by Blain, Keisha N.
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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blain
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers… Read more about this item Item Price
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Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba
by Huddleston, Vicki
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- 2018
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- 9781468315790
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Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba by Vicki Huddleston
Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird's-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.
After the US embassy in Havana was… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia
by Perry, Alex
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The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry
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The Calabrian mafia -- known as the 'Ndrangheta -- is no myth or movie but one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates ever to exist, with operations from America… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot
by Walton, Mary
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A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot by Mary Walton
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Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she became passionately devoted to the suffrage movement. Upon her return… Read more about this item Item Price
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You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
by Becker, Elizabeth
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- 2021
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You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances Fitzgerald, a blue-blood American intellectual arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were… Read more about this item Item Price
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We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to Covergirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
by Zeisler, Andi
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We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to Covergirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler
Feminism has hit the big time. Once a dirty word brushed away with a grimace, "feminist" has been rebranded as a shiny label sported by movie and pop stars, fashion designers, and multi-hyphenate powerhouses like Beyonce. It drives advertising and marketing… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
by Moore, Kate
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife, and mother of six is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans -- A Story of Love and War
by Katz, Catherine Grace
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The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans -- A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz
Tensions at Yalta threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three daughters who were chosen by their… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
by DeJean, Joan
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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast by Joan DeJean
In 1719, a ship named La Mutine sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the place the French called "the Mississippi." It was loaded with urgently needed goods for the fledgling French colony, but its principal commodity was a new kind of export:… Read more about this item Item Price
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Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father
by Stuart, Nancy Rubin
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Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father by Nancy Rubin Stuart
We can't seem to get enough of Ben Franklin -- the thrifty inventor-statesman of the revolutionary era with remarkable achievements in publishing, business, politics, diplomacy, and invention. A man so confident in his own immortality that he tempted lightning to strike the same… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis
by Mazzeo, Tilar J.
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Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo
In 1944, news of secret diaries kept by Italy's foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano had permeated the public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women -- a fascist leader's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite -- risked their… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France
by Ottaway, Susan
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A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France by Susan Ottaway
The death of an eccentric recluse is rarely an event for international headlines. But when police were called to the tiny apartment of the elderly Eileen Nearne, they found a small bundle of possessions that told an amazing story.
It was soon discovered that Eileen… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
by Adlington, Lucy
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
At the height of the Holocaust, twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp -- mainly Jewish women and girls -- were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions in a dedicated salon for elite Nazi women. It was work that they… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lost Girls: Love & Literature in Wartime London
by Taylor, D.J.
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The Lost Girls: Love & Literature in Wartime London by D.J. Taylor
Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II.
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