Women's Studies

Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman", and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness....

A gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the gospels that the Christian bible contains, was buried deep in the Egyptian desert after an edict was sent out in the 4th century to have all copies of it destroyed....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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.... 

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...

This is the story of Tenzin Palmo, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End who became a Tibetan nun....

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....

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....

Sita, the beloved princess of Mithila, is one of the most revered women in Indian history; so well known, yet probably the least understood. At every crossroad of her life, she chose acceptance and grace over self-pity....

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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.....

What if you could live your life in partnership with divinity, using your intuition as your guide? According to Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD and Caroline Myss - such a life is possible....

The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of Nancy Jo Sales' American Girls....

 The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values....

>"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....

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.

By addressing the perennial human issues at the heart of witchcraft - construction of enmity and intertwined fate - these narrative accounts also illuminate older witch beliefs revealed in witchcraft trial documents. Making Witches shows that in storytelling communities with a rich legacy of witch lore, witch tradition has endured well into the twentieth century.

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.

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 l’opportunità di costruirsi come Altra. Con veemenza passa in rassegna i ruoli attribuiti dal pensiero maschile alla donna – sposa, madre, prostituta, vecchia – e i relativi attributi – narcisista, innamorata, mistica.

"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.

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.

Pearl K. Ford Dowe argues that ambition for Black women cannot be measured only by political candidacies and ascents of the political chain of power. Black women are uniquely positioned within their communities to influence politics and public policy, which stems from unique variables of socialization, gender and racial identity, and marginalization that shape the political attitudes of Black women. Thus, Dowe asserts that Black women's political ambition often manifests outside formal politics, in activism and community building, a process that is linked to a wider radical vision.

Doce autoras que han triunfado en diversos géneros literarios se unen en este audiolibro que suma 12 ensayos alrededor del cuestionamiento de ser mujer en este momento histórico con tanta luz y oscuridad sobre nosotras: Bárbara Anderson, Blanca Rosa Gutiérrez, Cynthia Zak, Edmée Pardo, Emily Atallah, Fermina Ponce, Gabriela Fonseca, Gina Goldfeder, María de Alva, Paola Gasca, Paulina Vieitez, Sofía Segovia y Yareli Arizmendi.

Von Adele Schopenhauer über Shulamith Firestone ins 21. Jahrhundert: Kinderfreie sind eine verkannte Größe in un-serer Welt. Es geht in diesem Buch nicht darum zu behaupten, dass kinderfreie Frauen und Männer immer und überall die besseren Menschen sind. Es geht aber sehr wohl darum zu zeigen, dass es eine unsagbar anmaßende Position ist, Menschen mit Kindern zu bevorzugen und sie als Helden zu feiern.

Com o advento da internet e a ascensão das redes sociais, que estão cada vez mais; evidência, diversos assuntos surgem e ganham espaço para discussões. O feminismo, apesar de não ser recente, tem crescido na internet e quase sempre intrínseco nos assuntos mais comentados do Twitter, mas até que ponto essas discussões realmente abordam pautas necessárias? Até onde vai o recorte social da briga de egos e likes?