Women and Madness

Reducere. Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publicat...

A vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is often a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female ...

Reducere. A serial killer "makes" perfect women by amputating their legs. A troubled girl walks knowingly into the killer's arms. An ambitious college presid...

Reducere. Non fiction account of thirteen true murder mysteries that occurred in 19th century New York including the Tourture Tree, the Batavia women who mur...

Reducere. This fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients probes the ways in which madness, badness, and sadness have been understood over the la...

Reducere. How to Understand Women The Secret Behind How They Think and What They Really Want Do you struggle with understanding your lady, or just women in g...

Benjamin Powell believes he has begun an empire. He has three sons and owns a successful construction company. But it all begins to crumble when he...

DescriptionWhen first published in 1977, A Literature of Their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies th...

Reducere. A "New York Times "Notable BookDaring and fiercely original, "The Women" is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, an...

Reducere. When Bolloxinion, King of Sodom, authorises same sex relations the women of his kingdom bereft of attention fall into the arms of each other and up...

Reducere. This is the story of a man who shot his wife's lover and thus created a memory which wrecked his own life. Arnold Dudley loved his wife and killed ...

Reducere. Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly danger...

Reducere. Oregon Book AwardsThe historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalit...

DescriptionIn the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over co...

Reducere. Almost a generation ago, a small school from the Northwest made its first noise in college basketball. For the first time, the Gonzaga Bulldogs won...

Description"Woman 99 is a gorgeous ode to the power of female courage."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkA vivid ...

Reducere. A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about...

Reducere. Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in...

Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more tha...

DescriptionIn 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer./>/>In 1968, the RUC was catapulte...

The central theme of the novel is the sexual jealousy of Louis Trevelyan who unjustly accuses his wife Emily of a liaison with a friend of her fath...

Reducere. In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her sto...

Reducere. WITH PHOTOS Three complete short stories by Investigation Discovery's Dark Minds show host M. Williams with an introduction to the collection by Ne...

Reducere. Go ahead, run. Hide, even. No matter. There's no place you can go that she won't find you.A woman scorned. The sanctity of her sanctuary threatened...

DescriptionTwelve women. Twelve horrors disguised as love. In Anya Martin's new collection of horror tales: a teenage girl faces the consequences o...

Reducere. ONCE PINED is book #6 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with the #1 bestseller ONCE GONE (Book #1)--a free download with ...

This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy (and the dark motives behind them...) in the Victorian ...

Contributor(s): Author: Kerri ManiscalcoThe #1 New York Times bestselling series that started with Stalking Jack the Ripper and Hunting Prince Drac...

In centuries past it was a common Catholic custom to invoke the spiritual assistance of 14 ancient Catholic Saints-mostly martyrs-for help in a hos...

Reducere. DescriptionCollected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles ...

Reducere. "You see, even after all these years, I wonder if you really loved me." Vanessa and Virginia are sisters, best friends, bitter rivals, and artistic...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean SassonThis is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait dur...

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND...

Reducere. "Jacques Fréhel" was the pseudonym of Alice Télot (1861-1918), and the stories in the present volume were published between 1 June 1888 and 18 Febr...

Reducere. When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room...

Description2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY ENTE...

Reducere. Anarchy Rising is the second book in Dr. Bradley's Survivalist series. It features eleven full-page illustrations. Book 1: The Survivalist (Frontie...

Reducere. Shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize for Historical Fiction Award-winning author Sarah Moss's most recent work of historical fiction is a portrait of...

Reducere. Calm down. You're overreacting. Make me a sammich. Don't get so emotional. What, are you on your period or something? Nice tits. You should smile m...

Reducere. Spellbinding and intricate, The Painted Bridge is a tale of secrets, lost lives, and a woman seizing her own destiny: "A chilling page-turner about...

Reducere. There's a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, an electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It's an energy that longtim...

This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean isl...

Reducere. When the host of a popular radio talk show is murdered, the suspects almost outnumber his millions of listeners.Outspoken radio talk show host Jim ...

Freezing temperatures can kill...Winter storm Holly is the worst in eighty years bringing high winds, subzero temperatures and snowfall better meas...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Muriel SparkIntroduction by: Frank Kermode The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These ...