Women

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health - from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases - brought together in a fascinating, sweeping narrative....

Bringing Lenin to life for the first time as a complex human being, Sebestyen casts a new light on the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history....

Classicist Daisy Dunn tells the dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history.

A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine....

A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, The Art Spy uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world's most treasured masterpieces.

In her first book, popular TikTok historian J Draper uses her characteristic wit and intellect to introduce us to extraordinary figures marginalized by history, and the lessons we can learn from them.

A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia....

As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.....

From the moment Teddy Roosevelt's outrageous and charming teenage daughter strode into the White House—carrying a snake and dangling a cigarette—the outspoken Alice began to put her imprint on the whole of the twentieth-century political scene....

The heart-pounding true story of the daring American women who piloted the most dangerous aircraft of World War II through the treacherous skies of Britain.

The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus—a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history....

A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza.

The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

Journalist Elise Loehnen explores the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considered “good,” revealing how the Seven Deadly Sins still control and distort our lives and illuminating a path toward a more balanced, spiritually complete way to live....

A dazzling and lyrical look at the making of one of America’s most remarkable presidents, The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt celebrates five extraordinary yet unsung women who opened the door to the American Century and pushed Theodore Roosevelt through it....

It was the Golden Age of Travel, and everyone wanted in. As flying boomed in the 1960s, women from across the United States applied for jobs as stewardesses. They were drawn to the promise of glamorous jet-setting, the chance to see the world....

In this epic examination of one of the most infamous murders of the twentieth century, bestselling author of The Five, Hallie Rubenhold, gives voice to those who were never properly heard—the women.

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, 12 have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade....

One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters....

Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets.

In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy.

Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Capote’s Women comes an astonishing account of the revolutionary artist Andy Warhol and his scandalous relationships with the ten women he deemed his “Superstars”.

At the height of World War II, LOOK Magazine profiled a small American community for a series of articles portraying it as the wholesome, patriotic model of life on the home front.

They were crop dusters and debutantes, college girls and performers in flying circuses—all of them trained as pilots. Because they were women, they were denied the opportunity to fly for their country when the United States entered the Second World War. But Great Britain, desperately fighting for survival, would let anyone—even Americans, even women—transport warplanes. Thus, twenty-five daring young aviators bolted for England in 1942, becoming the first American women to command military aircraft.

Across the world, patriarchy has oppressed women and denied their contributions, but every nation has its own unique gendered hierarchy. Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs applies her signature approachable yet rigorous analysis to define American patriarchy in this definitive and groundbreaking history. Humanity in the United States is determined by gender in a limited and flawed binary logic that is also always tied to whiteness. Tubbs shows how a fabricated hierarchy became so deeply ingrained in the country over time that it now goes unnoticed, along with everything it intentionally conceals.

On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and ultimately spied, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume, co-opted by Nazi leadership, was now the Germans’ final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the truth—a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity’s cultural inheritance?

Rosemary Woodruff Leary has been known only as the wife of Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor-turned-psychedelic high priest, whose jailbreak captivated the counterculture and whose life on the run with Rosemary inflamed the government. But Rosemary was more than a mere accessory. She was a beatnik, a psychonaut, and a true believer who tested the limits of her mind and the expectations for women of her time.

From underground soldiers to intrepid spies, Women of War unearths the hidden history of the brave women who risked their lives to overthrow the Nazi occupation and liberate Italy. Using primary sources and brand new scholarship, historian Suzanne Cope illuminates the roles played by women while Italians struggled under dual foes: Nazi invaders and Italian fascist loyalists.

Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every power in Europe. In this engrossing biography, Richard Bassett traces Maria Theresa's life and complex legacy. Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources, Bassett reveals her keen sense of moderation and tolerance, innovative ideas on free trade and finance, and studied reluctance to resort to policies of territorial expansion.

The daughter of Irish immigrants, Margaret Heckler represented the American dream. She served as a congresswoman, a presidential cabinet secretary, and an ambassador—all groundbreaking achievements for a woman of her era. The fiery Irish Republican (R-MA) mastered the seemingly unbeatable game of being a woman in a man's world and a Republican in a Democratic state, becoming a champion for others against all odds.

This book explores the attitudes throughout history of the human vagina.

SYNOPSIS: In 1920, a blind baby is found in a convent chapel. Adopted by the nuns of St. Clare, at 14 she becomes a sensation with her unorthodox gift of healing. She can ‘see’ failing organs, sometimes before doctors can detect the illness, and cure them with chants. The media is all over her, yet soon someone wants her killed because her existence contradicts their secular worldview and bitter postwar politics. (This standalone version is also available in print as part of the Starcall Anthology, Vol.6, illustrated by the author.)

Doing It All is a personal quest for empowerment, a fierce critique of the systems that leave single moms marginalized and exhausted, and a call to reclaim mothering as the life force of sustainable, connected, and radically responsible communities.

The family saga of Johann Gehring, who at sixteen years old, travels to America. He begins his new life in the prairies of Nebraska. There he learns to dig a well and exist amid nature’s foes: tornados, prairie fires, and freezing winters. Johann changes his name to John and finds love with Helena. Together they build a home and raise five independent children including the head-strong, Berta. Helena teaches her children to be as strong as the prairie cottonwood. She warns that someday they will need to bend in the wind and support each other. Berta vow to be as formidable as the ...

En mayo de 2024, diez monjas clarisas del convento de Belorado desafiaron la estructura más antigua del cristianismo: decidieron romper con Roma, renunciar a la obediencia impuesta y quedarse fieles a su conciencia. Este libro reconstruye el viaje silencioso de estas mujeres desde la clausura hacia una libertad que no pidieron, pero eligieron sostener. Es el testimonio de una disidencia espiritual que no busca destruir, sino recordar: que la fe verdadera no siempre se ajusta al reglamento, y que algunas voces, aunque no se escuchen en misa, siguen sosteniendo la esperanza del mundo. Un ...

Este libro no busca hacer justicia. Llega tarde para eso. Pero sí quiere contar bien lo que la historia contó mal. Lise Meitner pensó la fisión nuclear mientras escapaba del nazismo. Emmy Noether reformuló las bases de la física moderna sin sueldo ni cargo. Rosalind Franklin tomó la foto del ADN y la firmaron otros. Las tres vivieron lo mismo con distintos nombres: fueron brillantes, incómodas y necesarias. Pero no fueron reconocidas. Lo que vas a leer acá no es una lección, ni un manual de fechas. Es una narrativa que se mete en los márgenes de la historia para mostrarte cómo ...

Mata Hari: No pedí ser perdonada forma parte de la Colección Trolas, una serie de biografías apasionadas y crudas sobre mujeres que desafiaron su época y escribieron su propio destino. Desde su infancia en la gris Holanda hasta su reinvención como leyenda en los escenarios de París, este libro recorre el viaje de Margaretha Zelle: una mujer que eligió la libertad aún sabiendo que el precio sería altísimo. Atrévete a conocer a la mujer detrás del mito. Mata Hari no pidió ser perdonada. Pidió ser recordada.

En español neutro, narrado por un humano-En este ensayo, Wollstonecraft defiende la igualdad de derechos entre hombres y mujeres, especialmente en lo referente a la educación. Argumenta que las mujeres no son naturalmente inferiores, sino que su aparente debilidad proviene de la falta de oportunidades para desarrollarse intelectual y moralmente. La autora reclama una educación racional para las mujeres, que les permita ser independientes, ejercer su razón y participar plenamente en la sociedad.