Kategoria BISAC: History >> Women

A Thinking Girl's Guide to Sexual Identity : Navigating Heartbreak, Survival, and the Media Matrix is the college and high school student edition of Vol. 1, the Lipstick and War Crimes Book Series by Ray Songtree and introduces us to the mind boggling reality of gender sculpting, using some of the female icons of the last 70 years. From Gloria Steinem to BeyoncE and Miley Cyrus, we discover who was behind the creation of our values and why. All readers will find this exposE personally valuable.

The true history of Marilyn Monroe, Katherine...

The #1 New York Times bestseller

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.

Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and...

In Bahia, Brazil, the decades following emancipation saw the rise of reformers who sought to reshape the citizenry by educating Bahian women in methods for raising "better babies." The idealized Brazilian would be better equipped to contribute to the labor and organizational needs of a modern nation. Backed by many physicians, politicians, and intellectuals, the resulting welfare programs for mothers and children mirrored complex debates about Brazilian nationality. Examining the local and national contours of this movement, Progressive Mothers, Better Babies investigates...

In Bahia, Brazil, the decades following emancipation saw the rise of reformers who sought to reshape the citizenry by educating Bahian women in methods for raising "better babies." The idealized Brazilian would be better equipped to contribute to the labor and organizational needs of a modern nation. Backed by many physicians, politicians, and intellectuals, the resulting welfare programs for mothers and children mirrored complex debates about Brazilian nationality. Examining the local and national contours of this movement, Progressive Mothers, Better Babies investigates...

Travelling into some distant, challenging and at times dangerous regions of the world during episodes of political unrest, these autobiographical memoirs from diaries written at the time follow the author's role in the process of preparing and supporting the population of several countries on the eve of their formation of independence.

The details of the conditions and worries of the local population during the period of Military Occupation and Administration in Eritrea are fascinating, as is the author and her husband's adaptation to this new way...

Meet one Arkansas woman who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, and three Grammys. Learn about a female presidential candidate whose initials...

Begging Faith: The Assault on Virtue and Family is the Christian edition of Vol. 1 of the Lipstick and War Crimes Series. Vol 1 introduces us to the mind boggling reality of gender sculpting, using some of the female icons of the last 70 years, and shows that the assault on family values is not random. Yes, there is a reason there is so much experimentation and confusion What we thought was independent creative talent ends up being organized programming. Who is trying to change our idea of "normal" and why?

The true history of Marilyn Monroe, Katherine Hepburn,...

The image of rural Sussex is often formed from behind car windows as folk speed by quaint cottages, wooded vales or the rolling Downs. Add to that glossy brochure pictures of the natural beauty of the countryside and it all seems rather idyllic. Appearances can be deceptive though. Onwards and Downwards is the story of a daughter of Sussex whose native stubbornness and pragmatism saw her through the ups-and-downs of life. She didn't always keep her calm but she certainly carried on as is related in a tale which mixes the smiles and tears as well as the hopes and fears which constitute a...

In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this momentous period of American history.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, D.C. found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States.

After the...

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color; in the midst of a white urban household in sexual chaos; to the gallows where enslaved people were executed; and within violent scenes of enslaved women's punishments. In the process,...