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A forgotten heroine of the women's rights movement is rescued from obscurity in this biography of Caroline Norton, a respected...

These forty-eight powerful stories and poems etch in vivid detail the breakthrough moments experienced by women during the life-changing era...

This autobiography by the "mother of the American environmental movement" is compelling, and insightful into the long 101 year life...

Helene Schweitzer's dramatic life conceals deeper questions of how memory is influenced by gender assumptions and how biography is shaped...

This is the first book to examine the life and career of Dr. Joyce Brothers, a nearly ubiquitous figure who...

On November 5, 1917, Taylorville, Illinois native Clara Taylor stepped off a Trans-Siberian Railway train into a city then called...

In 1912, Norland children’s nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on...

Kath Williams was a trade unionist, and communist, before taking on the mantle of feminist after World War II. Her...

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"You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as...

It starts with heavy legs and shaking hands. Ketchup bottles almost drop to the supermarket floor; shampoo drips down my...

What does becoming unchained meant to you?     What does it mean to really be free from your...

Daniels, author of Caleb, My Son, here tells of her troubled childhood, which included bouts of anorexia and mental illness....

A commemoration of the brave yet largely forgotten women who served in America’s War of Independence   Every...

Jeannie Cheatham is a living legend in jazz and blues. A pianist, singer, songwriter, and co-leader of the Sweet Baby...

A pair of silver Regency candlesticks.Pieces of well-worn family jewelry.More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographsLotte Meyerhoff's best friends...

When nineteen-year-old Dorit Sasson realized she had no choice but to distance herself from her neurotic, worrywart of a mother...

When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn't know she would be...

"Ms. Thompson takes a clear-eyed look at work as well as love, intertwining the success story of her journalistic career...

This fascinating and comprehensive collection surveys the life of an extraordinary medieval woman. Christina of Markyate made a vow of...