From her first strip search to her final release, Piper Kerman learns to navigate this strange world of the American prison system, with its strictly enforced codes of behavior and arbitrary rules.
This book demonstrates how women's history has consistently been hidden and distorted by 200 years of official government statistics.
In the 1940s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians, it recruited an elite group of young women -- known as human computers - who helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles.
Chanel Miller was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus.
Portraits of brave women from the late 1800s through today--role models who are passionate about important issues.
Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of today's violence - historic and intimate, public and private - as they spread throughout our social fabric, offering a new, provocative account of violence in our time.
Sociologist Anthony J. Cortese offers an up-to-date, critical analysis of modern advertising.
At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon.
Part cultural analysis, part memoir, Pam Grossman opens up about her own journey on the path to witchcraft, and how her personal embrace of the witch helped her find strength, self-empowerment, and a deeper purpose.
Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and "liking."
Dorothy Wickenden traces the second American revolution Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Frances A. Seward fought to bring about, the toll it took on their families, and its lasting effects on the country.
In this poetic memoir Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War, Cuba and Los Angleles.
Marcy Heidish's debut novel is a fictionalized presentation of the early life of the black American abolitionist, Harriet Tubman.
This is the true story of a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack. Blackjack survived being marooned in the Arctic on the uninhabited Wrangel Island.
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon.
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover's quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University.
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
In Jennifer Clement’s powerful new novel, Ladydi Garcia Martinez tells the story of how she grew up in a remote Mexican mountain village disguised as a boy.
Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces.
Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists.
Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women's activism.
Depicts the courage, intelligence, and dedication of American women who did not ask for, but demanded, equality.
Coverage of notable American women who have been proven leaders and activists in both the political and social realms.
This A-Z reference contains 275 biographical entries on Native American women, past and present, from many different walks of life.
A Black Women's History of the United States is a critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America, as it takes into account their exploitation and victimization as well as their undeniable and substantial contributions to the country since its inception"
Hidden Human Computers discusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth.
As the Wishram people recount, when men replaced women in positions of power, Tsagaglalal was turned to stone by Coyote so that she could forever guide her community and guard its development.
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