The Good Women of China
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When Deng Xiaoping's efforts to 'open up' China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognised an...
China Asia Non-Fiction History Women's Memoir
Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History Through Biography in Finde-Siecle Egypt
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This book explores the writing and influence of the first Arabic language global biographical...
Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland
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This book offers important new insights into the relationship between crime and gender in Scotland...
Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
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Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating...
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
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Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion,...
Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Conversations with Amelia in Books
Jan 12, 2018
I have been looking forward to reading this book because Amelia Earhart is one of my favorite figures in history. I was not disappointed. It is well written and interweaves the history with the events happening in the story so that it has a really nice flow. I highly recommend reading this book.
The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbruck: Who Were They
Judith Buber Agassi and Sigrid Jacobeit
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Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the...
Women in Asian Performance: Aesthetics and Politics
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Women in Asian Performance offers a vital re-assessment of women's contributions to Asian...
Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
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In Band of Angels, Kate Cooper tells the surprising story of early Christianity from the woman's...
Female Enterprise Behind the Discursive Veil in Nineteenth-Century Northern France: 2017
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This volume explores the role of women in business in nineteenth-century Northern French textile...