In a sparkling social history, Skirts traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth century through the era's most iconic and influential dresses. While the story of women's liberation has often been framed by the...
Women--Social conditions
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Author:Renzetti, ElizabethSummary:Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it's the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan's...
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Author:Ready, CaseySummary:Shelter in a Storm brings together the personal and the political to ask: What is neoliberalism? How does it harm women? And what can be done about it? The book looks at how three YWCA women’s shelters in Ontario were affected by the...
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Author:Kern, LeslieSummary:When a recent wave of condominium development overtook Toronto, women emerged as powerful consumers, and reports claimed that home ownership was offering young, single women freedom, financial independence, and personal security. Sex...
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Author:Delvaux, Martine, De Lotbinière-Harwood, SusanneSummary:Everywhere you look patriarchal society reduces women to a series of repeating symbols: serial girls. On TV and in film, on the internet and in magazines, pop culture and ancient architecture, serial girls are all around us, moving in...
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Author:Armstrong, SallySummary:The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:The second book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is Parvana. A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country....
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Author:Sangster, JoanSummary:The achievement of the vote in 1918 is often celebrated as a triumphant moment in the onward, upward advancement of Canadian women. Acclaimed historian Joan Sangster looks beyond the shiny rhetoric of anniversary celebrations and...
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful...
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Author:Mukhopadhyay, SamhitaSummary:When fifty-three percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and ninety-four percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump's America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of...
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Author:Turtschaninoff, MariaSummary:This thrilling prequel to the award-winning Maresi explores the founding of the Red Abbey Booklist called Maresi "utterly satisfying and completely different from standard YA fantasy." Now, Naondel goes back to establish the world of...
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Set in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s, Matadora tells the story of Luna Caballero Garcia, an impoverished and intrepid servant attempting to make her name in the bullring at a time when it was illegal for a girl to do so.
- Author:Younes, MilaSummary:
Ma mère, ma fille, ma sœur nous plonge au cœur du drame personnel d’une adolescente d’origine kabyle vivant en France, déchirée entre les valeurs traditionnelles berbères et celles de son pays d’accueil. Ce récit autobiographique nous...
- Author:Feraoun, MouloudSummary:
Dans ce roman, Mouloud Feraoun raconte sa propre enfance, au sein de son village et de sa famille en Kabylie, ainsi que son itinéraire atypique dʹenfant destiné à devenir berger et qui, au lieu de cela a eu lʹimmense opportunité de...
- Author:Pelley, Rhonda, O'Leary, SheilaghSummary:
Sheilagh O’Leary and Rhonda Pelley spent two summers travelling from Bonavista Bay to the Great Northern Peninsula and to the communities of the south coast. The women they interviewed shared unique life stories filled with hard work,...
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In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of...
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Author:Mazigh, Monia, Reed, Fred A.Summary:Unwilling to endure a culture of silence and submission, and disowned by her family, Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and rioting brought on by rising food costs, eventually emigrating to Canada to...
- Author:Kendall, MikkiSummary:
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "One of the most important books of the current moment."- Time "A rousing call to action... It should be required reading for everyone."-Gabrielle Union, author of We're Going to Need More Wine. "A brutally...
- Author:Umrigar, ThritySummary:
When Indian American journalist Smita returns to India to write the story of a young widow Meena and the murder of her husband, it's Smita's first time back since her family left when she was a child. Both Smita and Meena were...
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Author:Ibsen, HenrikSummary:Hedda Gabler, daughter of a deceased general, marries dull George Tesman and looks forward to a life of middle class tedium. Judge Brack, who admires Hedda, wants to establish a ménage à trois. Then, a former admirer comes to vie for...
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