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Inventing the Real
Henry James, Edith Wharton
2008 Edition
Using shades of irony to capture moments of surprise and sadness, Edith Wharton and Henry James play with reality—in the work of a portrait artist and in the secret love of a "fallen" woman for her daughter.
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Witness
Volume 36, Numbers 1&2
2008 Edition
Feminism was born of acts of witness, from Jeanne d'Arc to Mary Wollstonecraft to the Guerilla Girls. Witness exposes inequalities of power and how the act of witnessing has enabled women to reconceive themselves and challenge their societies.
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Zubaida's Window
A Novel of Iraqi Exile
Iqbal Al-Qazwini
2008 Edition
In the first novel by an Iraqi exile available in English that focuses on the catastrophic U.S. invasion of 2003, Iqbal Al-Qazwini dissects the traumatized psyche of a woman who fled Iraq decades earlier but still longs for her homeland.
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Dearest Anne
A Tale of Impossible Love
Judith Katzir
2008 Edition
Best-selling, internationally recognized Israeli novelist Judith Katzir recreates an artist's coming-of-age during the 1970s as she explores the concealed, erotic relationship between a teenager and her married teacher Michaela.
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From Eve To Dawn, A History of Women in the World, Volume I
Origins: From Prehistory to the First Millennium
Marilyn French
2008 Edition
In her powerful and bold writing style, bestselling author Marilyn French synthesizes women's history from our pre-historical roots through the rise of states across the globe to the onset of state-backed religions in this first of four volumes.
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From Eve To Dawn, A History of Women in the World, Volume II
The Masculine Mystique: From Feudalism to the French Revolution
Marilyn French
2008 Edition
Covering feualism in Europe and Japan and european appropriation of lands across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family unit and their own culture?
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Arguing With The Storm
Stories By Yiddish Women Writers
2008 Edition
From the superstitions and conviviality of the shtetl to the mysteries of the New World; from rebellion in Russia to the Holocaust, these stories show what it meant to be a woman, a Jew, and a writer in turbulent times.
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Mistress of Herself
Speeches and Letters of Ernestine Rose, Early Women's Rights Leader
2008 Edition
Nineteenth-century orator Ernestine Rose won the title “Queen of the Platform” for her speeches advocating women’s rights, abolition of slavery, and religious freedom. This first collection of her extant papers reclaims her place next to Susan B. Anthony.
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Rites of Compassion
"Old Mrs. Harris" and "A Simple Heart"
Willa Cather, Gustave Flaubert
2007 Edition
Personally selected and introduced by Mary Gordon, these two paired stories ask questions about self and the demands of family. Both Cather and Flaubert show how families, whether created by birth or by a person’s choices, treat their aging members.
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The Circle of Empowerment
Twenty-five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
2007 Edition
This readable collection introduces the most important international human rights treaty for women and shows how the CEDAW Committee is working to eliminate world-wide discrimination against women—despite U.S. refusal to ratify it.
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