The Contemporary Woman

Reducere. DescriptionA compelling and haunting exploration of the secrets and shadows that can be hidden within a marriage from the New York Times bestsellin...

Description The Nasty Woman and the Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema puts forward the theoretical notion of the 'nasty woman' as a means of ...

DescriptionIn this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find a selection of the best contemporary scenes for two actors, one man and one woman.

Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. I...

Reducere. Eighty-six-year-old Mattie Snorgenson has had enoughShe's spent most of her life caring for family and fitting into polite society. Now, she is rea...

Reducere. Drawing on personal experiences and her research of the transformative changes in a woman's life, Anderson illuminates the rewards of nurturing lon...

Description"In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, refle...

Reducere. This long-lost novel recounts a passionate triangle of love and loss among three of the most daring women of belle epoque Paris. In this barely dis...

Reducere. Extraordinary characters spring from extraordinary minds. See the history that inspired comic book's first major female super-hero in this American...

Reducere. Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the ...

Reducere. When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, w...

Reducere. DescriptionBertha von Suttner was a pioneer in the peace movement at the end of the 19th century, while Alfred Nobel earned his fortune on the inve...

Reducere. Independent Publisher Book AwardsToo drastic, too crazy, too "out there, " too early, too late, too damaged, too much--Valerie Solanas has been dis...

Reducere. Description A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Excellent...This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down." -- The New York Times Book...

DescriptionThis is an unconventional biography of an unconventional woman who did not care for children, but dedicated her life to establishing Sav...

Reducere. Award NameEdgar Allan Poe AwardsAward categoryCritical/BiographicalDescription"But down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, w...

DescriptionA Dangerous Woman is Susan Ronald's revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid ...

Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument cont...

Reducere. "Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century--the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual id...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Jewel Babb, from her early years as a tenderfoot ranch wife to her elder years as a desert healing woman, has enthralled re...

Reducere. She was the first woman to run for president. She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. ...