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All About Love

New Visions

de bell hooks ...

Series Libro 1 - Love Song to the Nation
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and ... Leer más

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A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and
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Marriage, a History

How Love Conquered Marriage

de 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 ... Leer más

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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
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In Defense of Witches

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

de Mona Chollet ...

Traducido por 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, ... Leer más

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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,
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How to Kill a Witch

The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women

de 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 ... Leer más

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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
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Our Women on the Ground

Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Edición de 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, ... Leer más

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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,
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Economica

A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power

de Victoria Bateman ...

**Acclaimed economic historian Victoria Bateman tells the story of how women made the world rich“A must-read for anyone interested in women’s history and economic justice.” —Amanda Foreman, author of The DuchessA Financial Times Best Book of the Year**How many female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries, merchants, and industrialists can you name? You would be forgiven for thinking that, until ... Leer más

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**Acclaimed economic historian Victoria Bateman tells the story of how women made the world rich“A must-read for anyone interested in women’s history and economic justice.” —Amanda Foreman, author of The DuchessA Financial Times Best Book of the Year**How many female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries, merchants, and industrialists can you name? You would be forgiven for thinking that, until
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The Portable Feminist Reader

Edición de Roxane Gay ...

**A New York Times BestsellerA dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitiveA Penguin Classic**One of Library Journal's Best Books of the YearFor Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is subjective and always evolving. A feminist canon represents a long history of feminist scholarship, embraces skepticism, and invites robust discussion and debate. Selected ... Leer más

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**A New York Times BestsellerA dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitiveA Penguin Classic**One of Library Journal's Best Books of the YearFor Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is subjective and always evolving. A feminist canon represents a long history of feminist scholarship, embraces skepticism, and invites robust discussion and debate. Selected
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Women, Culture & Politics

de Angela Y. Davis ...

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality. ... Leer más

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A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.
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Big Sister

Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland

de Erin M. Kempker ...

Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
The mid-Seventies represented a watershed era for feminism. A historic National Women's Conference convened in Houston in 1977. The Equal Rights Amendment inched toward passage. Conservative women in the Midwest, however, saw an event like the International Year of the Woman not as a celebration, but as part of a conspiracy that would lead to radicalism and one-world government. Erin M. Kempker ... Leer más

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The mid-Seventies represented a watershed era for feminism. A historic National Women's Conference convened in Houston in 1977. The Equal Rights Amendment inched toward passage. Conservative women in the Midwest, however, saw an event like the International Year of the Woman not as a celebration, but as part of a conspiracy that would lead to radicalism and one-world government. Erin M. Kempker
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Asexual Erotics

Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality

de Ela Przybylo ...

Series series Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment
Challenging what she sees as an obsession with sex and sexuality, Ela Przybylo examines the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking—turning to Audre Lorde’s work on erotics to propose instead an approach she calls asexual erotics, an alternative language for discussing forms of intimacy that are not reducible to sex and sexuality. Beginning with the late 1960s as a time ... Leer más

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Challenging what she sees as an obsession with sex and sexuality, Ela Przybylo examines the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking—turning to Audre Lorde’s work on erotics to propose instead an approach she calls asexual erotics, an alternative language for discussing forms of intimacy that are not reducible to sex and sexuality. Beginning with the late 1960s as a time
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Beyond Respectability

The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

de Brittney C. Cooper ...

Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia ... Leer más

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Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

de Saidiya Hartman ...

**Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismWinner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/BiographyNamed one of the Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times Book Review"Exhilarating…A rich resurrection of a forgotten history." —Parul ... Leer más

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**Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismWinner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/BiographyNamed one of the Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times Book Review"Exhilarating…A rich resurrection of a forgotten history." —Parul
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A Strange Stirring

The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

de Stephanie Coontz ...

**A brilliant examination of how Betty Friedan’s revolutionary book The Feminine Mystique liberated women in the 1960s—and what it means to women today.“An illuminating analysis of the book that helped launch the movement that freed women to participate more fully in American society.” —Wall Street Journal**In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The ... Leer más

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**A brilliant examination of how Betty Friedan’s revolutionary book The Feminine Mystique liberated women in the 1960s—and what it means to women today.“An illuminating analysis of the book that helped launch the movement that freed women to participate more fully in American society.” —Wall Street Journal**In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The
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Untrue

Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free

de Wednesday Martin, PhD ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue, a bold, timely reconsideration of female infidelity that will upend everything you thought you knew about women and sex.What do straight, married female revelers at an all-women's sex club in LA have in common with nomadic pastoralists in Namibia who bear children by men not their husbands? Like women worldwide, they crave ... Leer más

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue, a bold, timely reconsideration of female infidelity that will upend everything you thought you knew about women and sex.What do straight, married female revelers at an all-women's sex club in LA have in common with nomadic pastoralists in Namibia who bear children by men not their husbands? Like women worldwide, they crave
... Leer más
Beyond the Veil

Male-female Dynamics in Muslim Society

de Fatema Mernissi ...

Series Libro 0 - Saqi Essentials S.
Does Islam as a religion oppress women? Is Islam against democracy? In this classic study, internationally renowned sociologist Fatema Mernissi argues that women's oppression is not due to Islam because this religion celebrates women's power. Women's oppression, she maintains, is due to political manipulation of religion by power-seeking, archaic Muslim male elites. Mernissi explains that early ... Leer más

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Does Islam as a religion oppress women? Is Islam against democracy? In this classic study, internationally renowned sociologist Fatema Mernissi argues that women's oppression is not due to Islam because this religion celebrates women's power. Women's oppression, she maintains, is due to political manipulation of religion by power-seeking, archaic Muslim male elites. Mernissi explains that early
... Leer más
Intercourse

de Andrea Dworkin ...

From one of the boldest, "most shocking" (Germaine Greer), and "uncompromising" (Mary Daly) feminist writers of the 20th century, Intercourse is the book that enraged, inspired, and ultimately split apart the feminist movement when it first published in 1987In Intercourse, Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of women's ... Leer más

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From one of the boldest, "most shocking" (Germaine Greer), and "uncompromising" (Mary Daly) feminist writers of the 20th century, Intercourse is the book that enraged, inspired, and ultimately split apart the feminist movement when it first published in 1987In Intercourse, Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of women's
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The Family

A World History

de Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner ...

Series series New Oxford World History
People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules ... Leer más

$25.10 USD

People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules
... Leer más
Empire of Purity

The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution

de Eva Payne ...

Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empireBetween the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and trafficking, they promoted sexual self-control for both men and women as a cornerstone of civilization ... Leer más

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How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empireBetween the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and trafficking, they promoted sexual self-control for both men and women as a cornerstone of civilization
... Leer más
Liberty and Sexuality

The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade

de David J. Garrow ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author David J. Garrow's stirring and essential history of the politics of abortion and America's battle for the right to chooseIn 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and more than forty years later the issue continues to spark controversy and divisiveness. But behind this historic legal case lie the battles women fought ... Leer más

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Pulitzer Prize–winning author David J. Garrow's stirring and essential history of the politics of abortion and America's battle for the right to chooseIn 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and more than forty years later the issue continues to spark controversy and divisiveness. But behind this historic legal case lie the battles women fought
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Within the Plantation Household

Black and White Women of the Old South

de Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ...

Series series Gender and American Culture
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women’s experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of ... Leer más

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Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women’s experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of
... Leer más
Disreputable Women

Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego

de Christina Jessica Carney ...

Series Libro 3 - New Sexual Worlds
ASALH Book Prize Finalist 2026, Association for the Study of African American Life and HistoryDisreputable Women is a deeply transdisciplinary study of how black women use sex work and place making to claim economic, bodily, and sexual autonomy in a militarized city that is intent on displacing and caging them. Christina Jessica Carney distills the production of these "disreputable women" during ... Leer más

$25.64 USD

ASALH Book Prize Finalist 2026, Association for the Study of African American Life and HistoryDisreputable Women is a deeply transdisciplinary study of how black women use sex work and place making to claim economic, bodily, and sexual autonomy in a militarized city that is intent on displacing and caging them. Christina Jessica Carney distills the production of these "disreputable women" during
... Leer más
City of Dreadful Delight

Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

de Judith R. Walkowitz ...

Series series Women in Culture and Society
From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the ... Leer más

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From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the
... Leer más
Lust

Pleasure, Performance, Power

de Erika Lust ...

A bold look at the unexpected ways porn shapes our lives, with a feminist defense, drawn from Erika Lust’s decades in adult filmmaking, that argues for a more ethical porn that can transform sexual politicsFor more than two decades, Erika Lust has been pushing back against shame and stereotypes, building a new kind of adult cinema—one that is feminist, ethical, and deeply human. In Lust: Pleasure, ... Leer más

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PEDIDO ANTICIPADO

A bold look at the unexpected ways porn shapes our lives, with a feminist defense, drawn from Erika Lust’s decades in adult filmmaking, that argues for a more ethical porn that can transform sexual politicsFor more than two decades, Erika Lust has been pushing back against shame and stereotypes, building a new kind of adult cinema—one that is feminist, ethical, and deeply human. In Lust: Pleasure,
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Women's Lives

Researching Women's Social History, 1800–1939

de Jennifer Newby ...

Series series How Your Ancestors Lived
"Helps you put those in your female line into context, whether they were factory workers, Land Girls, aristocrats, or even criminals!" — Family History MonthlyWomen's lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore.Jennifer Newby's guide to ... Leer más

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"Helps you put those in your female line into context, whether they were factory workers, Land Girls, aristocrats, or even criminals!" — Family History MonthlyWomen's lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore.Jennifer Newby's guide to
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