Women's Studies

Picture this: You walk into a room and heads turn. Men can't help but be drawn to your magnetic presence. Your confidence radiates, your sensuality captivates, and your allure is undeniable....

How to Be an Elder presents the culmination of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés' masterwork....

Nancy Friday's taboo-shattering best seller My Secret Garden is the most popular and controversial book of women's sexual fantasies ever published. Women who feared their erotic fantasies called it scandalous. Women who recognized their own fantasies in its pages, rejoiced....

Louise's goal is to see that all women experience self-love, self-worth, self-esteem, and a powerful place in society....

First published three years ago before the print edition of Women Who Run with the Wolves made publishing history, this original audio edition quickly became an underground best seller....

As the world's attention traces the reluctant social advances in the Middle East, Princess Sultana and her female friends and family have stepped forward....

The moving story of a woman's lifelong fight to do what she loves—despite repeatedly being told no or treated as less-than—Whistleblower is both a riveting listen and a source of inspiration for anyone seeking to stand up against inequality in their own workplace....

This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home....

Get ready to encounter a book that will change your experience as a woman in a powerful new way....

This path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer....

In this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting, moving...a wonderful book" The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling....

Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood....

What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa. Here’s what it’s really about.... 

The Bengalis are the third largest ethno-linguistic group in the world, after the Han Chinese and the Arabs. A quarter of a billion strong and growing, the community has produced three Nobel laureates, world-class scientists, legendary political leaders and revolutionaries....

This is the better-than-ever sequel to My Secret Garden, the first time in print that American women told their honest sexual fantasies without apology or shame. Nancy Friday got thousands of women to tell her what they'd never confided to their best friends, lovers, or husbands....

An empowering audiobook about standing your ground in dating, in marriage, in your career, and anywhere else....

Incisive, eclectic and politically engaged, Seeing like a Feminist is a bold and wide-ranging book that reorders contemporary society....

What is feminism?

In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her....

Simone de Beauvoir affranca la donna dallo status di minore che la obbliga a essere l’Altro dall’uomo, senza avere a sua volta il diritto né...

Radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to help us shape the futures we want....

Women confront fear every day: fear of appearing foolish, fear of being assertive, fear of looking fat, fear of getting sick, fear of going broke....

Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history....

It's time to take control of your life and get the love you deserve. This isn't about online dating gimmicks, how to submit to male techniques, or any nonsense that publishers push down your throat....

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women is the story of Brooks’ intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils.....

>"Each one of us is a triumvirate being - at once the union of the body, soul, and all that lies within." For any that exprience disharmony amongst these three vital aspects....

Molti uomini sono soggetti a pesanti condizionamenti sociali, e il primo e forse più pesante di tutti è quello che li illude di essere fuori da ogni condizionamento, liberi di agire e di decidere grazie al loro libero arbitrio. Nel sistema educativo occidentale già ai bambini viene raccontato che nella vita possono fare tutto, essere ciò che vogliono, a patto di ‘credere nei propri sogni’, o espressioni simili dal tipico valore di luogo comune.

Fortes, intrigantes, resistentes. Os mitos femininos ao longo dos séculos contam um pouco acerca de todas as mulheres. Suas histórias não são diferentes do que vemos hoje: são contos de amor, beleza, ciúme, dominação, revolta. Em mundos governados por homens, as divindades e personagens míticas femininas levantaram as vozes para se impor e conquistar seus espaços.

Mit den Mädchen hat es die Natur auf Das, was man im dramaturgischen Sinne, einen Knalleffekt nennt, abgesehen, indem sie dieselben, auf wenige Jahre, mit überreichlicher Schönheit, Reiz und Fülle ausstattet, auf Kosten ihrer ganzen übrigen Lebenszeit, damit sie nämlich, während jener Jahre, der Phantasie eines Mannes sich in dem Maße bemächtigen könnten, dass er hingerissen wird, die Sorge für sie auf Zeit Lebens, in irgend einer Form, ehrlich zu übernehmen; zu welchem Schritte ihn zu vermögen, die bloße vernünftige Überlegung keine hinlänglich sichere Bürgschaft zu geben schien.

Oggi a un'adolescente basta aprire Instagram per imbattersi in riflessioni femministe (o pseudofemministe), risparmiandosi la necessità di unirsi a un collettivo o a un gruppo di autocoscienza. Brand di abbigliamento si improvvisano femministi e producono magliette in serie con frasi inneggianti al girl power. Pagine social e piattaforme digitali graficamente accurate alternano post o storie motivazionali a inserzioni pubblicitarie. Innumerevoli servizi immateriali propongono corsi sull'empowerment, sulla valorizzazione femminile, su come rendere piú women friendly il proprio business.

Franziska Setare Koohestani bezeichnet sich selbst als »Hairy Queen«. Und zwar nicht nur, weil sie seit jeher mit starkem Haarwuchs zu kämpfen hat, sondern weil sie erhobenen Hauptes aus diesem Kampf hervortritt. Schon in der Grundschule schickten ihre iranischen Tanten ihr Bleichcreme nach Deutschland, um den Oberlippenbart zu beseitigen. Seitdem folgten etliche Versuche sowohl der Haarentfernung als auch der Haarwuchs-Akzeptanz.

In The Time of My Life, celebrated music journalist Andrea Warner excavates the layers of Dirty Dancing, from its anachronistic, chart-topping soundtrack, to Baby and Johnny’s chemistry, to Bergstein’s political intentions, to the abortion subplot that is more relevant today than ever. The film’s remarkable longevity would never have been possible if it was just a throwaway summer fling story. It is precisely because of its themes—deeply feminist, sensitively written—that we, over 30 years later, are still holding our breath during that last, exhilarating lift.

Un nuevo libro de la autora de Los hombres me explican cosas y Wanderlust, que ilumina, entre otras cosas, la manera en que se entretejen la historia del silencio y la historia de las mujeres. Solnit nos ofrece un nuevo e indispensable repertorio de ensayos que analizan diferentes cuestiones, como por qué la historia del silencio está indisolublemente ligada a la historia de la mujer, o por qué a los niños de cinco años no les justan los juguetes de color rosa. También escribe sobre hombres que son feministas y hombres que son violadores, rehuyendo el estereotipo.

Every mom wants to be a good parent—but if you’ve found yourself burned out and overwhelmed trying to be “the perfect mom,” you’re not alone. “We get handed a rulebook of motherhood without realizing it,” says Erica Djossa. “That rulebook comes with an invisible load—a world of mental and physical tasks that keeps us pushing toward perfection while barely being able to breathe.” With Releasing the Mother Load, this renowned parenting specialist shares a guide to help you break free from the crushing burden of unrealistic expectations and reclaim the joy of motherhood.

In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness.

A harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China’s first women’s bank.

"Delitto passionale. Raptus. Gelosia. Depressione. Scatto d'ira. Tragedia familiare. Perché lei lo ha lasciato, chattava su Facebook, non lo amava più, non cucinava bene, lavorava, non lavorava. Nascondendo la vittima, le cronache finiscono con l'assolvere l'omicida: una vecchia storia, nata in tempi lontani e ancora viva fra noi. Per questo bisogna imparare a parlare di femminicidio. Tutti, non solo media. Dobbiamo farlo noi. Dobbiamo trovare le parole." Con un’introduzione inedita di Loredana Lipperini.

Emmeline Clein's own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women – famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved – she traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia and binge eating disorder.

Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fourteen years older than Jack. They met in 1909, fell in love, lived together, and became public faces of the suffragette movement, enduring prison and doing everything they could for the cause.

Le parole di un padre che ha scelto di non restare in silenzio. Un appello potente alle famiglie, alle scuole e alle istituzioni. Il libro è parte di un progetto più ampio a sostegno delle vittime di violenza di genere. Dal giorno dei funerali della figlia Giulia, Gino Cecchettin ha scelto di condividere il proprio dolore cercando di affrontarlo e renderlo costruttivo perché possa essere di aiuto alle giovani e ai giovani del nostro Paese. In questo libro, attraverso la storia di Giulia, si interroga sulle radici profonde della cultura patriarcale della nostra società.

This book gives listeners access to the wide world of sex-specific medical issues as they play out in the research labs and doctor’s offices—and how women pay the price, with a close look at the impact that has on minority populations. It has been challenging to get individual researchers and practitioners to accept this, as well as research and medical institutions and manufacturers of medications and devices. The journey towards equal treatment and the understanding of sex and gender differences in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment is still unfolding.