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Johnette Downing, Scott Billington
Irma Thomas

Irma Thomas is a beloved New Orleans icon with a career that now spans sixty years. Her self-penned "Wish Someone Would Care" was a national hit in 1964, though she did not win her first Grammy …

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Susan J. Eischeid
Mistress of Life and Death

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing machine and one of the few female perpetrators of the Holocaust. With new details and previously unpublish…

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Douglas Boin
Clodia of Rome

A pioneering political voice, with charisma and power that rivalled many of her male contemporaries, Clodia of Rome was a pivotal figure in the late Roman Republic until a murder trial, rife with corrupti…

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Elisa Maria Hiemer
Sexuality and Abortion in Interwar Poland

Women's rights activism and the reformation of the legal thought in early twentieth-century Poland were deeply intertwined-sometimes contradictory, yet mutually dependent-shaping debates around the 1932 a…

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Susan Ware
Speaking Louder Than I Can

Feminist biography burst on the scene in the 1970s dedicated to discovering and reclaiming female characters whose lives had been ignored or overlooked. Recovering women's lives wasn't enough. Feminist bi…

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Sharon Ann Musher
Promised Lands

"Drawing on the records of Hadassah Kaplan, a daughter of Mordecai Kaplan - founder of Reconstructionism -- this work shows how travel to Palestine in the Interwar period shaped a cohort of American …

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Liza Bennett
Georgia and Anita

Liza Bennett tells the little-known story of the friendship between Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer, and their relationship's history-making consequences.

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Susana M Morris
Positive Obsession

A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.As the first Black woman to consist…

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Douglas Boin
Clodia of Rome

A pioneering political voice, with charisma and power that rivalled many of her male contemporaries, Clodia of Rome was a pivotal figure in the late Roman Republic until a murder trial, rife with corrupti…

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Celeste Headlee
Freedom's Daughters

From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything to ensure a generation of Black Americans had the right to read.In the waning days of the antebe…

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Amy Erdman Farrell
Intrepid Girls

When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days a…

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An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women

This anthology showcases Neo-Latin texts produced by women across Europe between circa 1400 and 1800, highlighting their contributions in both poetry and prose. Each chapter offers excerpts alongside acce…

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Markus Eldegard Mindrebø
Women, Politics, and Social Networks in the Sagas of Norwegian Kings

This book explores elite women's distinctive roles as power brokers binding together aristocratic networks, as described in the Old Norse-Icelandic kings' sagas. Inspired by recent medieval network theory…

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Micki Mcelya
Liberation Summer

A sweeping, definitive work of history exploring the road to the September 1968 protests of the Miss American Pageant---one led by women's liberationists and the other organized by the emergent Miss Black…

lieferbar ab 28.7.2026.

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Matthew Goodman
Paris Undercover

Two women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one still in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about it---a memoir built on fabricat…

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Peter J Cohen
Snapshots of Dangerous Women

Snapshots of Dangerous Womenshowcases unknown yet adventurous women in candid photographs taken in the '30s, '40s, and '50s.For the awesomely daring women in our lives comes the perfect gift: A jewel of a…

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Letters of English Women Philosophers 1902-1951

This volume, with an introduction and notes by Emily Thomas, comprises over two hundred selected letters from six philosophers: E. E. Constance Jones, May Sinclair, Karin Costelloe-Stephen, Hilda Oakeley,…

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Peter L Twohig
The Labour of Care

The Labour of Care is the first national, comparative history of health care work. In this book, historian Peter L. Twohig analyses the responses of governments, employers, professional groups, training p…

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Betty Boyd Caroli
A Slumless America

Discover the extraordinary legacy of Mary K. Simkhovitch, a trailblazing advocate for public housing and urban reform, in this first-ever compelling biography.Betty Boyd Caroli's biography of Mary Kingsbu…

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Lia Levi,
Just a Girl

WINNER OF THE MILDRED L. BATCHELDER AWARD!NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!In this award-winning memoir translated from Italian to English, a Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discriminatio…

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