women's history
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell by Regina Marler
The letters of the British Post-Impressionist painter Vanessa Bell, the sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of critic Clive Bell, lover...
Bodies of Subversion: A Secret... by Margot S. Mifflin
Chronicles the history of women and tattoo in Western society from the early 1880s to the present.
After the Flag has been... by Karen Spears Zacharias
From Publishers Weekly
Mrs. Ziegfeld: The Public and... by Grant Hayter-Menzies
"In almost 80 movies," wrote Hollywood biographer Donald Spoto, "she was a pixie with a canny charm.
Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of... by Grant Hayter-Menzies
Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized...
Our Mothers' War: American Women... by Emily Yellin
Acclaimed by The New York Times as an “important new book,” and an example of “first-rate research and reporting,” and...
Fighting for Equality: A Life... by Ray E. Boomhower
Famed Indiana author Booth Tarkington once took on the task of naming three of Indianapolis's most outstanding citizens.
Fighting for Equality: A Life... by Ray E. Boomhower
Famed Indiana author Booth Tarkington once took on the task of naming three of Indianapolis's most outstanding citizens.
The Women Outside: Meanings and... by Stephanie Golden
Based on my four years' experience as a volunteer in a homeless women’s shelter, The Women Outside examines the social...
Slaying the Mermaid: Women and... by Stephanie Golden
Why do so many women feel obliged to put other people's needs first, even when they don't want to? The...


