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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts  Publisher Comments In Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the heroic women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation. Now the number one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator—praised in USA Today as a...
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Collected Letters
by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments Glimpse into the life of a passionate and influential figure in history....
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Women in the Classical World: Image and Text
by Elaine Fantham Publisher Comments Bits of information about women are scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history. The vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus, riddled with gaps. The inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. grave...
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts Publisher Comments Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day...
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Women's Work: The First Twenty-Thousand Years
by Elizabeth Wayland Barber Publisher Comments 2500 years ago, the women of Athens slaved at home, virtual prisoners of their husbands, expected to provide the cloth and clothing for their family. 4000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, there was a very different picture: respectable women were in...
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Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
by Lyndall Gordon Publisher Comments The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family, work, and personal relationships, she nevertheless...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, the Wollstonecraft Debate, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Publisher Comments This second edition offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976, providing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document in English....
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Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution
by Melissa Bohrer Publisher Comments Much has been written of the brave deeds, acts of heroism, and intellectual prowess of the men who drafted the Declaration of Independence over two hundred years ago, yet almost no attention has been paid to the extraordinary women of that time -- women...
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Uppity Women of Ancient Times
by Vicki Leon Publisher Comments In a witty and informative way, Vicki Leon profiles 150 women who made their mark around the Mediterranean between 2800 B.C. and 450 A.D.--3,200 years of history from a female vantage point. Among those featured are the Assyrian queen of Babylon who is...
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The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty
by Jean Zimmerman Publisher Comments The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, and promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate. Zimmerman deftly traces the astonishing rise of Margaret and the Philipse women who...
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Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650-1800
by Ruth Bloch Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-215) and index....
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Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
by Betsy Prioleau Publisher Comments In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the worldfrom such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to...
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California World History Library #07: Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History
by Anne Walthall Synopsis Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that...
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Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves
by Sarah B. Pomeroy Publisher Comments "The first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism. Though much debated, its position as the basic textbook on women's history in Greece and Rome has hardly been challenged."--Mary Beard, Times...
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Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland
by Lisa Bitel 
Publisher Comments In Land of Women, Lisa M. Bitel systematically recovers the almost-lost society that women and men created together in Ireland. Europe between the coming of Christianity and the year 1000 has been portrayed as a world where women were either subservient...
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Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America
by Martha Saxton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-375) and index....
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Liberty, a Better Husband
by L Chambers Schiller Publisher Comments This sensitive account focuses on the women who chose to remain single in antebellum America. Based on a study of the lives and writings of over one hundred Northeastern women, it describes the reasons why they rejected marriage and the joys and...
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Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present
by Marilyn J Boxer Publisher Comments In Connecting Spheres, Boxer and Quataert, along with an array of eminent contributors, examine the social history of women within western civilization over the past 500 years. Expanded and updated, this new edition addresses both long-standing and more...
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Women on the Margins : Three Seventeenth-century Lives (95 Edition)
by Natalie Zemon Davis Publisher Comments As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the seventeenth century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and...
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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
by Caroline Walk Bynum Publisher Comments These seven essays by noted historian Caroline Walker Bynum exemplify her argument that historians must write in a andquot;comicandquot; mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion. Exploring a diverse array of medieval texts, the essays...
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