Science History Women

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 702 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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    • White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
    • By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 677 ratings
    • A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy....

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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession....

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    • The Women's History of the World
    • By: Rosalind Miles
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Who Cooked the Last Supper? overturns the phallusy of history and gives voice to the untold history of the world: the contributions of millions of unsung women....

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    • The Riveting Saga of World War II's Daredevil Women Correspondents
    • By: Nancy Caldwell Sorel
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The compelling tale of a hundred brave American women who after leaving their families joined combat-zone fighting during World War II to chronicle and report faithfully back to the States....

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    • How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years
    • By: Rosalind Miles
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Now is the time for a new women’s history - for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due - from the Enlightenment to the #MeToo movement....

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    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 798 ratings
    • A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origins of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story - and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism....

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    • The Long History of Not Being a Mother
    • By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood....

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    • How Love Conquered Marriage
    • By: Stephanie Coontz
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes listeners from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers....

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    • The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 535 ratings
    • The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil....

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    • The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
    • By: Marilynne K. Roach
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials....

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    • Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
    • By: Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • From the North African and Italian campaigns to the liberation of France and the conquest of Germany, Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the front lines with grit, humor, and great heroism. And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy....

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    • A Thursday Next Novel, Book 7
    • By: Jasper Fforde
    • Narrated by: Emily Gray
    • Series: Thursday Next Novels, Book 7
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 820 ratings
    • Jasper Fforde's delightfully zany Thursday Next series shows no signs of slowing down with its seventh entry, The Woman Who Died a Lot....

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    • The Conflict Between Word and Image
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations....

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    • The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
    • By: Laura Sook Duncombe
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • This book tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside - and sometimes in command of - their male counterparts....

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    • The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
    • By: Ann Fessler
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 470 ratings
    • Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure....

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