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Marriage, a History

How Love Conquered Marriage

par Stephanie Coontz ...

Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed ... En savoir plus

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Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed
... En savoir plus
In Defense of Witches

The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

par Mona Chollet ...

Traduit par Sophie R. Lewis ...

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, ... En savoir plus

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Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains,
... En savoir plus
Adult Braces

Driving Myself Sane

par Lindy West ...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AN AMAZON BEST MEMOIR OF 2026In New York Times bestselling author Lindy West’s ambitious memoir, she brings readers along on an uproarious cross-country road trip as she unpacks her last few tumultuous years, rediscovers herself, and reinvents her marriage in the process.Through *Shrill—*the book and then the Hulu series—Lindy West became an inspiration. To this day she is ... En savoir plus

Prix courant $20.99 CAD Maintenant $4.99 CAD

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AN AMAZON BEST MEMOIR OF 2026In New York Times bestselling author Lindy West’s ambitious memoir, she brings readers along on an uproarious cross-country road trip as she unpacks her last few tumultuous years, rediscovers herself, and reinvents her marriage in the process.Through *Shrill—*the book and then the Hulu series—Lindy West became an inspiration. To this day she is
... En savoir plus
An Unexpected Life

A Memoir

par Gloria Steinem ...

In her final memoir, Gloria Steinem offers a candid, inspiring portrait of her early life and journey as an activist, while looking ahead to the next chapters of the fight for equality—a rare opportunity to learn directly from one of feminism’s most enduring voices.“In revisiting the equal-rights movements Steinem helped build, she offers wisdom to new generations.”—Vanity Fair“An Unexpected Life ... En savoir plus

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In her final memoir, Gloria Steinem offers a candid, inspiring portrait of her early life and journey as an activist, while looking ahead to the next chapters of the fight for equality—a rare opportunity to learn directly from one of feminism’s most enduring voices.“In revisiting the equal-rights movements Steinem helped build, she offers wisdom to new generations.”—Vanity Fair“An Unexpected Life
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Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

A Book of Self-Esteem

par Gloria Steinem ...

“Without self-esteem, the only change is an exchange of masters; with it, there is no need for masters.” —Gloria SteinemWhen trying to find books to give to “the countless brave and smart women I met who didn’t think of themselves as either brave or smart,” Gloria Steinem realized that books either supposed that external political change would cure everything or that internal change would. None ... En savoir plus

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“Without self-esteem, the only change is an exchange of masters; with it, there is no need for masters.” —Gloria SteinemWhen trying to find books to give to “the countless brave and smart women I met who didn’t think of themselves as either brave or smart,” Gloria Steinem realized that books either supposed that external political change would cure everything or that internal change would. None
... En savoir plus
How to Kill a Witch

The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

par Zoe Venditozzi, Claire Mitchell ...

"Terrifying, fascinating, and important." —Sara Sheridan, author of Where Are the Women? and The Fair BotanistsNothing brings people together like a common enemy, and witches were the greatest enemy of all.Scotland, 1563: Crops failed. People starved. And the Devil's influence was stronger than ever—at least, that's what everyone believed. If you were a woman living in Scotland during this ... En savoir plus

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"Terrifying, fascinating, and important." —Sara Sheridan, author of Where Are the Women? and The Fair BotanistsNothing brings people together like a common enemy, and witches were the greatest enemy of all.Scotland, 1563: Crops failed. People starved. And the Devil's influence was stronger than ever—at least, that's what everyone believed. If you were a woman living in Scotland during this
... En savoir plus
Doing Sixty & Seventy

par Gloria Steinem ...

Reflections on women's aging from the New York Times –bestselling author and feminist icon.One day I woke up and there was a seventy-year-old woman in my bed . . .Gloria Steinem was an eloquent and outspoken voice for women's rights and equality for more than four decades. In Doing Sixty & Seventy she addressed an essential concern of people everywhere—and especially of women: the issue of aging. ... En savoir plus

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Reflections on women's aging from the New York Times –bestselling author and feminist icon.One day I woke up and there was a seventy-year-old woman in my bed . . .Gloria Steinem was an eloquent and outspoken voice for women's rights and equality for more than four decades. In Doing Sixty & Seventy she addressed an essential concern of people everywhere—and especially of women: the issue of aging.
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The Soul of a Woman

par Isabel Allende ...

**From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle**“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her ... En savoir plus

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**From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle**“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her
... En savoir plus
A Physical Education

How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

par Casey Johnston ...

A SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN STAFF FAVORITEA MARKETPLACE BEST BOOK OF 2025A BOOKSHOP BESTSELLERA TOP 40 MEMOIR ON AMAZON“A really smart memoir about getting strong, inside and out… this book inspired me to take it up a notch and start power-lifting (and I love it).” —Cheryl StrayedAfter an abusive relationship, the death of her father, and a running injury that left her limpin... ... En savoir plus

Prix courant $19.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

A SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN STAFF FAVORITEA MARKETPLACE BEST BOOK OF 2025A BOOKSHOP BESTSELLERA TOP 40 MEMOIR ON AMAZON“A really smart memoir about getting strong, inside and out… this book inspired me to take it up a notch and start power-lifting (and I love it).” —Cheryl StrayedAfter an abusive relationship, the death of her father, and a running injury that left her limpin...
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Want

Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

par Gillian Anderson ...

**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA collection of women's sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?**What do you want when no one is watching?Who do you fantasize ... En savoir plus

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**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA collection of women's sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?**What do you want when no one is watching?Who do you fantasize
... En savoir plus
Émergence insoumise

Réflexions sur la persistance du racisme systémique envers les femmes autochtones

par Cyndy Wylde ...

Émergence insoumise s’ouvre sur un souvenir de l’autrice qui attend un taxi après un cours : « Non, mais croyez-vous vraiment que moi, une femme des Premières Nations, je vais aller attendre seule le soir, à Val-d’Or? » Ces mots, adressés au gardien qui lui indique que les portes de l’université sont sur le point de fermer, seront le catalyseur d’une réflexion sur le sort réservé aux femmes ... En savoir plus

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Émergence insoumise s’ouvre sur un souvenir de l’autrice qui attend un taxi après un cours : « Non, mais croyez-vous vraiment que moi, une femme des Premières Nations, je vais aller attendre seule le soir, à Val-d’Or? » Ces mots, adressés au gardien qui lui indique que les portes de l’université sont sur le point de fermer, seront le catalyseur d’une réflexion sur le sort réservé aux femmes
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More

par Gillian Anderson ...

The daring follow-up to the #1 national bestseller Want, presenting an extraordinary new collection of letters that reveal the unfiltered desires and sexual fantasies of anonymous women across the globe."Am I a bad person? Or am I allowed to wonder 'what if'?""Is this kind of desire simply something people feel but don’t speak about?""What is a woman without fantasy?"</e... ... En savoir plus

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The daring follow-up to the #1 national bestseller Want, presenting an extraordinary new collection of letters that reveal the unfiltered desires and sexual fantasies of anonymous women across the globe."Am I a bad person? Or am I allowed to wonder 'what if'?""Is this kind of desire simply something people feel but don’t speak about?""What is a woman without fantasy?"</e...
... En savoir plus
Vice Patrol

Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall

par Anna Lvovsky ...

Lambda Literary Award Winner: The history of the tactics used by US law enforcement to harass and attack gay communities across the country.In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice ... En savoir plus

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Lambda Literary Award Winner: The history of the tactics used by US law enforcement to harass and attack gay communities across the country.In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice
... En savoir plus
Women Who Love Men Who Kill

35 True Stories of Prison Passion

par Sheila Isenberg ...

The "engrossing, thoroughly researched look at women who are in romantic relationships with incarcerated men"—fully updated with twenty-first-century cases ( Publishers Weekly).In 1991, Sheila Isenberg's classic study Women Who Love Men Who Kill asked the provocative question, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?" Now, Isenberg returns to the same question in the age of smart ... En savoir plus

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The "engrossing, thoroughly researched look at women who are in romantic relationships with incarcerated men"—fully updated with twenty-first-century cases ( Publishers Weekly).In 1991, Sheila Isenberg's classic study Women Who Love Men Who Kill asked the provocative question, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?" Now, Isenberg returns to the same question in the age of smart
... En savoir plus
About Canada: Women’s Rights

par Penni Mitchell ...

Collections Livre 12 - About Canada
This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever — but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the ... En savoir plus

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This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada. Four and a half decades after the report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, the feminist struggle is as necessary as ever — but thanks to the hard work of activist women, many forms of discrimination are a thing of the
... En savoir plus
Burnout

The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

par Emily Nagoski PhD, Amelia Nagoski DMA ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead“A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its intersectionality.”—BustleThis groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout ... En savoir plus

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead“A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its intersectionality.”—BustleThis groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout
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Come As You Are: Revised and Updated

The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

par Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. ...

A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently—and far less seriously—than its male counterpart ... En savoir plus

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A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently—and far less seriously—than its male counterpart
... En savoir plus
Our Women on the Ground

Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Modifié par Zahra Hankir ...

**Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour“A stirring, provocative and well-made new anthology . . . that rewrites the hoary rules of the foreign correspondent playbook, deactivating the old clichés.” —Dwight Garner, ... En savoir plus

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**Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour“A stirring, provocative and well-made new anthology . . . that rewrites the hoary rules of the foreign correspondent playbook, deactivating the old clichés.” —Dwight Garner,
... En savoir plus
On My Own

The Art of Being a Woman Alone

par Florence Falk ...

At some point over the course of the average American woman’s life, she will find herself alone, whether she is divorced, widowed, single, or in a loveless, isolating relationship. And when that time comes, it is likely that she will be at a loss as to how to handle it. As a society, we have an unspoken but omnipresent belief that a woman alone is an outcast, inherently flawed in some way. In this ... En savoir plus

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At some point over the course of the average American woman’s life, she will find herself alone, whether she is divorced, widowed, single, or in a loveless, isolating relationship. And when that time comes, it is likely that she will be at a loss as to how to handle it. As a society, we have an unspoken but omnipresent belief that a woman alone is an outcast, inherently flawed in some way. In this
... En savoir plus
The Great Stewardess Rebellion

How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

par Nell McShane Wulfhart ...

The empowering true story of a group of spirited stewardesses who “stood up to huge corporations and won, creating momentous change for all working women.” (Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. magazine)**It was the Golden Age of Travel, and everyone wanted in. As flying boomed in the 1960s, women from across the United States applied for jobs as stewardesses. They were drawn to the promise of ... En savoir plus

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The empowering true story of a group of spirited stewardesses who “stood up to huge corporations and won, creating momentous change for all working women.” (Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. magazine)**It was the Golden Age of Travel, and everyone wanted in. As flying boomed in the 1960s, women from across the United States applied for jobs as stewardesses. They were drawn to the promise of
... En savoir plus
LGBTQ Politics

A Critical Reader

par Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, Christine Keating ...

A definitive collection of original essays on queer politics in the U.S. and around the world.From Harvey Milk to Barney Frank to ACT UP to Proposition 8, in the last few decades, no political change has been more significant than the civil rights advancements of LGBTQ citizens. LGBTQ Politics is the first authoritative reader to approach the complexity of queer politics from a political science ... En savoir plus

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A definitive collection of original essays on queer politics in the U.S. and around the world.From Harvey Milk to Barney Frank to ACT UP to Proposition 8, in the last few decades, no political change has been more significant than the civil rights advancements of LGBTQ citizens. LGBTQ Politics is the first authoritative reader to approach the complexity of queer politics from a political science
... En savoir plus
Rebel Girl

My Life as a Feminist Punk

par Kathleen Hanna ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you wantKathleen Hanna’s band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like “Rebel Girl” and “Double Dare Ya” are ... En savoir plus

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you wantKathleen Hanna’s band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like “Rebel Girl” and “Double Dare Ya” are
... En savoir plus
Roaring Girls

The extraordinary lives of history’s unsung heroines

par Holly Kyte ...

‘Extraordinary’ Woman&HomeA Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, ‘masculine’ when she should be ‘feminine’.Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules.Roaring Girls tells the game-changing life stories of eight formidable women whose grit, determination and radical ... En savoir plus

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‘Extraordinary’ Woman&HomeA Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, ‘masculine’ when she should be ‘feminine’.Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules.Roaring Girls tells the game-changing life stories of eight formidable women whose grit, determination and radical
... En savoir plus
The Will to Change

Men, Masculinity, and Love

par bell hooks ...

From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, an evergreen treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men.Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding ... En savoir plus

$12.99 CAD

From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, an evergreen treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men.Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding
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