Gender studies: women books

""Modern Daughters: Conversations with various American girls and one man"" by Alexander Black offers a fascinating...  Read More >>

Discover the remarkable life of Frances Power Cobbe, a leading voice for social change in Victorian England, in...  Read More >>

""The Sexes in Science and History: An inquiry into the dogma of woman's inferiority to man"" by Eliza Burt Gamble...  Read More >>

""Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life"" offers a captivating glimpse into the world of a 19th-century British...  Read More >>

Delve into the extraordinary life of a pioneering figure with ""The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1 of 2,""...  Read More >>

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women is the story of Elizabeth Blackwell's groundbreaking struggle...  Read More >>

""Daughter of the Sky: The Story of Amelia Earhart"" by Paul L. Briand offers a compelling biography of one of aviation's...  Read More >>

Astonishing bestseller from a Butte, Montana, teenager in 1902; major influence on modern writers.  Read More >>

It was Saturday morning that I became an inmate of the Penitentiary. I was conducted to the kitchen, where I was...  Read More >>

Delve into the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Florence Nightingale with the second volume of this meticulously...  Read More >>

""A Daughter of the Samurai"" offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of a woman growing up in Japan during...  Read More >>

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: H.Holt  Read More >>

""14000 Miles, a Carriage and Two Women"" recounts an extraordinary journey through 19th-century New England. Frances...  Read More >>

Journey into the heart of the Byzantine Empire and discover the lives of its most powerful women in Joseph McCabe's...  Read More >>

One of the most important documents in southern history, this is a day-by-day diary of the Civil War years. It rings...  Read More >>

""Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner, Vol. 2 of 2: The Records of an Eventful Life"" offers a rare and intimate glimpse...  Read More >>

""Six Modern Women: Psychological Sketches"" by Laura Marholm Hansson offers a compelling glimpse into the lives...  Read More >>

""Woman Triumphant: The Story of Her Struggles for Freedom, Education and Political Rights"" by R. Cronau offers...  Read More >>

""A Life Unveiled: By a Child of the Drumlins"" presents a fascinating anonymous autobiography, a personal memoir...  Read More >>

Delve into the captivating world of the French Empire with ""Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 2 of 2,"" a...  Read More >>

A spontaneous and irrepressibly humourous view of life in Burma a century ago. Devoid of all statistics and political...  Read More >>

""Pen-portraits of Literary Women, Volume 2 of 2: By themselves and others"" offers a fascinating glimpse into the...  Read More >>

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Physicians...  Read More >>

Discover the remarkable life of ""Florence Nightingale"" in this meticulously prepared biography by Annie Matheson....  Read More >>

Delve into the heart of the Napoleonic Era with ""Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 1 of 2,"" a fascinating...  Read More >>